Voces Digital - Auburn Hills, Michigan

Mayha De la Cruz Martinez

Voices is great in some aspects but it’s not the best. I’m a student and I'm from a Spanish speaking county, sometimes i spell something and it tells me im wrong when i know im right. This is super frustrating since Spanish is my first language!! I wish it wasn’t so closed minded.

Deborah Jourdan

I am looking forward to using Voces Digital this fall with my Spanish 1 and 2 students. Our corporation had already decided to go that direction in the fall, so I had a curriculum ready. However, when we went to e-learning in March of 2020, I decided to switch at that moment. I loved how responsive and positive the company has been to my questions and concerns, and my students loved the parts of the program that I used. I also love how customizable the program is and how well it integrates with Google Classroom. My students said that it was very easy to navigate.

Lisa Foster

Voces digital has allowed me as a teacher to integrate technology into my classes. Students are highly engaged with the language which makes acquisition fun and easy. The topics and themes are relevant to teens today. Our old textbooks just do not measure up anymore. Voces has completely and thoroughly done the work of organizing instruction online for the teacher and for the students. I love using Voces Digital and I highly recommend it.

Ernesto Hernandez

I absolutely LOVE the French program from Voces! It is very well-done and provides tons of flexible ways to integrate its material with my own original curriculum for class. This completely digital program has been nothing short of brilliant and lifesaving in our current need for online teaching and learning.

Madalina Popescu

I’m new to Voces and, so far, has eased my life as a Spanish teacher. I’m using the Nuestra Historia 1 and kids and I love it. It has it all, the story lessons, activities, games, videos and so on.
My students have their own voces accounts which came with the yearly subscription for 1 teacher and they can access their assigned activities with no stress. Voces staff is very responsive if you have any questions or concerns and all in all, the service is great! I definitely recommend it!

Martha Sellers

I like Voces as a teacher because of several things - the students can actually hear the vocab they're studying, and they can read all kinds of pertinent, interesting stories about the people and places they are studying. I especially appreciate that they have both grammar/vocab resources and Comprehensible Input texts. I combine the two, and I find the students that I teach in a rural area appreciate the combination. They don't realize they appreciate it, but I've been teaching for over 20 years, and I can tell they respond to it better than traditional texts and audio programs.

Anne Campagnet-Reed

I just started using Voces's CI-based Notre Histoire 1 & 2 for teaching French this year. There are a lot of good things about using the program, although it does take a while to understand how everything works.
Pluses: Good story-based lessons that have interactive listening & speaking as well as reading activities; use of native speaker voices & videos, allows for learning of new vocabulary & structures through context-based repetition and reinforcement, and creative storytelling.
There seems to be no end of lessons, that build well on one another from unit to unit. My students seem to really like the platform. Assignments and student sign-ins are linked to my LMS (Canvas), so it is easy to get to and use.
The underlying lesson design is solid, created by experienced language teachers who know what they are doing, and who manage to make the program fun as well as instructive.
Another big plus is the dedicated customer support--webinars and individual help directly from the company at any time. Erin is a fantastic trainer and support person, who answers emailed questions immediately. There are also lots of training videos to refer to.
Some things that are a little rough around the edges: At least at the beginning of this school year, there has been faulty syncing of scores between Voces and Canvas; when giving the sync command, only one assignments scores can be sent over at a time, and at least until recently, not all of the student scores made the trip. I had to open up the scores window in Voces and the Grades window in Canvas and fill in some of the scores that were missing. The tech director, however, is actively working to improve the program, and lets customers (teachers) know what is being improved and how.
Voces is a very powerful program, with so much customizability and versatility that it does take a while to get to know how to fully implement all of its features. But overall, I am super happy to have this teaching tool in my Distance Learning bag of tricks--it is a great backbone to my curriculum, and makes me feel a little less like Atlas holding up the world. I am so glad I discovered Voces, and plan to use it for a while to come.

Mireya Marroquin-Dunn

I just started using VOCES Digital back a few months ago. I had seen YouTube videos and links from Teacher's Discovery website about this online curriculum. I thought it was worth a try and thought the cost was very reasonable. I give it a "THUMBS UP". I teach Spanish 1 to a very small group of homes school students at a local Tutorial Co-Op setting only once a week for one hour. I had been looking for a Spanish curriculum that would offer a variety of interactive activities (especially that provided "culture/traditions"). This allows my students to also learn on their own, when we don't meet about what each country has to offer. I love that on the Spanish Novice it offers its chapters on learning about each Spanish speaking country. I also enjoy the fact that "you as a teacher" can customize it too. I am not very tech savvy, but I am learning along the way. I plan to try out the "Nuestra Historia" for next year. This the first year Spanish is being offered and I can tell they are learning a lot in a short time.

Keep doing what you do best and look forward to new features. *One thing I love is the VOCES Digital tutorial videos. Those are really helpful.* Just the fact you can use it with any electronic device with an internet connection, is well worth it.

GRACIAS.

Mireya Marroquin Dunn