Can I control what students can and can't view on VoiceThread.com?
Yes, there are several ways to set up your local network to control what your students can see when they're browsing VoiceThread from school.
Below are our recommendations for configuring your local proxy server or machine to customize your students' ability to browse and view content on VoiceThread. You must allow the following URLs regardless of the configuration that you use to restrict student access:
- Allow: http://cdn.voicethread.com (for browsing content)
- Allow: https://cdn.voicethread.com (for browsing content)
- Allow: http://media.voicethread.com (for recording audio and video)
- Allow: https://media.voicethread.com (for recording audio and video)
- Allow: http://d25wzyo6b5ic8t.cloudfront.net (for browsing content)
- Allow: https://d25wzyo6b5ic8t.cloudfront.net (for browsing content)
- Allow: http://prod-streams-vt.s3.amazonaws.com/ (for playback of recordings)
- Allow: https://prod-streams-vt.s3.amazonaws.com/ (for playback of recordings)
- Allow: http://prod-export-vt.s3.amazonaws.com/ (for exporting)
- Allow: https://prod-export-vt.s3.amazonaws.com/ (for exporting)
Open browsing:
This is the most open option and allows users to view all public content on VoiceThread. To enable this option, allow access to the following domains:
- Allow: http://voicethread.com
- Allow: https://voicethread.com
- Allow: http://ed.voicethread.com
- Allow: https://ed.voicethread.com
- Allow: http://myclass.ed.voicethread.com (for your classroom site)
- Allow:https://myclass.ed.voicethread.com (for your classroom site)
Restricted to Ed.VoiceThread:
This will restrict users to interacting only with other users on the Ed.VoiceThread
network. Please make sure that you have a qualifying Ed.VoiceThread product (Classroom, School, or District) before changing these settings on your local network. Students will still be able to explore and interact with a worldwide community, but there are no Free or anonymous users on the Ed.VoiceThread network.
- Block: http://voicethread.com
- Block: https://voicethread.com
- Allow: http://ed.voicethread.com
- Allow: https://ed.voicethread.com
- Allow: http://myclass.ed.voicethread.com (for your classroom site)
- Allow: https://myclass.ed.voicethread.com (for your classroom site)
Restricted to your Class domain:
This will restrict users to interacting and collaborating only with other users within your Class's custom domain (e.g., http://myclass.ed.voicethread.com).
- Block: http://voicethread.com
- Block: https://voicethread.com
- Block: http://ed.voicethread.com
- Block: https://ed.voicethread.com
- Allow: http://myclass.ed.voicethread.com (for your classroom site)
- Allow: https://myclass.ed.voicethread.com (for your classroom site)
Remember that these blocking options only control use of VoiceThread within your school's local network and do not have an effect on use of VoiceThread at home or on other networks.
