FIT is committed to using the Blackboard LMS for delivery of all online and blended learning courses. The LMS constrains faculty-student interactions to text-based communication inhibiting them from projecting their presence in way that interactive audio and video tools provide. Without sound, inflection and presence the online space remains a silent text based space where words define the impressions that are created in the minds of the students and faculty, denying them a more fully formed presence. VoiceThread offers a solution that we have effectively explored at FIT.