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Urgent Improvements Needed
Dear VoiceThread Team,
I am compelled to provide feedback following my recent experience with your platform, which was nothing short of disastrous. As a user who relied on VoiceThread for a critical educational assignment, I found your application to be: - Unreliable: The assignment I submitted was confirmed as received, yet it was inaccessible to both myself and my professor. This failure directly impacted my academic standing.
- Frustratingly Buggy: Technical issues abound, from playback failures to submissions not appearing, which are unacceptable for a tool meant for serious educational purposes.
- User-Unfriendly: The interface and technical support failed at a crucial moment, leaving users like me stranded without recourse or timely assistance. Your platform, unfortunately, stands out as an exemplary case of everything wrong with educational technology today
- where functionality and reliability take a backseat to novelty. Recommendations for Improvement: - Robustness: Ensure that once an assignment is submitted, it is securely saved and accessible without fail.
- Support: Implement real-time support for users facing issues, especially during assignment deadlines.
- Testing: Conduct thorough testing under various network conditions to mimic real-world usage. I sincerely hope this feedback prompts immediate action. The current state of VoiceThread is not just disappointing but educationally detrimental.Show lessRefundRant
Potential App Improvements/Upgrade
I believe with this app could benefit from some functional improvements/upgrades, as I stand with a list of others who most likely think the same way. The application has potential, at least through the iPad version, it can benefit from enabling split screen, PiP (picture in picture) mode, background audio after leaving application, and/or web app preference instead of being coerced to download from store. I believe this can be translated to the mobile version also, with the exception of iPad/tablet exclusive multitasking features. More times than not, I don’t always have the convenience to access my personal computer, where the desktop web interface is friendlier. When on the go, a more mobile devices such as my smartphone or tablet is preferred. With being the main platform for many professors to lecture through, it shouldn’t inconvenient to operate, which in turn, leads to a lackluster learning experience for busy modern students.Show lessTechboy135
Horrible
This app isn’t functional or easy to navigate. You have to sign in with your university every time and even then, it’s a hiccup. Doesn’t show assignments. Considering dropping my class because of it to be honest.Reviewed by Her
Horrible
My university uses VoiceThread for lecture videos. And OMG, I might just fail my program because of it. I cannot get any videos to load on my iPad. And on my MacBook, they’ll load, but they are constantly stopping, needed info to be refreshed. Can take hours to get though a 30 minute video. It’s not my internet. Other classmates are experiencing the same problems. Absolutely HORRIBLE.Show lessNavylime
Useless
I would like to be able to use it when I don’t have my laptop or a computer available. This app is useless. You click on the page you wanna go to and just a gray blank page comes up.swtfilipina
Please schools stop making this app a mandatory part of class
It doesn’t work. I get logged off every time and takes 20 minutes to log back in. Even when I am logged in, nothing works. There is a 5% chance this app functions correctly for more than 10 minutes.Jimmy James Jordan Johnson Jr
Worst app or service
I literally had to drop a course because it was heavily based on using this service. I don’t even know why educational institutions are using this service. It doesn’t work with canvas and was the biggest hassle trying to submit my assignment. Horrible application and service in general.Kemar36
This app is SO BAD
So inconvenient, why do I have to log in everytime I open the app first of all, second, it’s incredibly annoying that you cannot have sound running in the background and HAVE to keep open the app to listen to a thread, overall this is so annoying to useme8493
The Worst Scholarly App I Have Ever Used
I have taken multiple online asynchronous college courses in which required me to utilize VoiceThread. Unfortunately, this app is beyond unusable and makes it near impossible to get my work done. The audio decides not to work half of the time when listening back, the reply button does not work 90% of the time, and it crashes CONSTANTLY. This is so frustrating please do something to fix this horrible app that I am forced to use to participate it class….Show lessThe boss 2999
Does not work.
It deleted my whole project for class that I spent so much time on after i posted it. I have to redo it now. Slow app. Many technical difficulties.fnfbbd
