Providing (AUDIO) Student Feedback

Check out these three options from tech guru/blogger Richard Byrne on how to provide AUDIO feedback to your students. 

This is a great option for all teachers, but especially World Language teachers who want students to practice even more in the target language. Plus two of them allow you to archive "canned replies" so you can use similar text and audio replies over and over.

Mote is a Chrome extension that can be used to record voice notes directly within Gmail, Google Classroom, Google Slides, and Google Documents. One of its many convenient features is that students do not need to have the extension installed in order to listen to your voice notes. This video shows you how to add audio notes to Google Documents and this one shows you how to add audio notes to Google Slides.

e-Comments is a Chrome extension that lets you add canned comments to Google Docs, Word documents (when opened in your web browser), Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, and just about any page that has a commenting feature. e-Comments provides a huge bank of pre-made comments arranged by grade level and skill. You can also create your own canned comments in e-Comments. Those comments can include your own audio recordings. Watch this video for a complete overview of how to use e-Comments.

Kaizena is a tool that I've used at various points over the last four years. Kaizena can be used as a Chrome extension or you can simply go to the website and import documents (Word, PDF, and Google Docs are supported) to add voice comments to them. The nice thing is that much like e-Comments, audio comments in Kaizena are saved in your account and can be re-used across multiple documents with just a click or two. Here's a short video overview of how to use Kaizena to add voice comments to a document.

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