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Creating a Sonus activity

Learn how to send an audio or video file to students and record their answers in a Sonus activity.

Background

A Sonus activity uses Televic's Sonus software to record students' voices on top of an audio/video source file.
​Example: As a teacher, you can record a set of questions (with just a microphone or with a webcam) at home and bring this audio/video file with you to class on a flash drive.
Launch a Sonus activity and send the audio/video file to your students (optionally, you can add an attachment with instructions). You can select Restricted mode; this allows the students to pause the source file after every question and insert their answers. Collect the files at the end of the activity, and evaluate the results (at home).

Procedure

Proceed as follows to send an audio or video file to the students’ computers:

  1. In the Class view, select the students you want to send the file to.
    Skip this step to include the whole class.

  2. Under File Activities, click Sonus

    .

  3. Click the first

    to add the audio/video file.
    ​Result: The Windows directory opens in a new window.

  4. Navigate to the file you want to send and double-click the file.
    Optionally, you can add an attachment by clicking the second

    and repeating this step.

  5. Click Options for this activity... to change settings such as automatic collecting, restricted playback,…

  6. Click Start activity

    in the top left to send and open the file on the students’ computers.

    Tip: With these control buttons, you control the file on every student computer at the same time.

  7. Click

    to close Sonus on the students’ PCs.

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