Many faculty are returning to campus to teach in-person classes for the first time in quite a while. That means most people have not connected their laptop to the campus network nor to a classroom multimedia system in a while. There are also some reported […]
You can now put all your students’ videos together into one background in Zoom, with Immersive View! There are several backgrounds available; choose one based on your number of attendees. You can change it whenever you like, move people around, put everyone into one large […]
See what recordings you have saved in Zoom’s cloud Go to zoom.us in your browser and sign in with your WFU account Click Recordings and make sure you are on the Cloud Recordings Archiving your recordings Information Systems has provided instructions for downloading files […]
Do you find yourself distracted by modern webpages’ complex layout? Microsoft’s new Immersive Reader tool may help you. It strips off most of the unnecessary items from your screen. Multiple columns – gone. Video – gone. Fancy background – gone. Try Microsoft’s Immersive Reader option, in […]
WFU’s Kaltura has the ability to auto-caption videos if the language spoken in the video is one of the following: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian or Spanish. Captions are done in English by default. (So if you upload a video in which […]
Zoom Reports allows you to determine who was on a Zoom session after the fact. If you ensure your students use their real names by turning on the meeting setting Require authentication to join , you can dispense with taking roll and use the Zoom […]
Although Wolfram Alpha appears to be a tool used exclusively by the STEM community, it might become your secret weapon in finding real answers to questions you or your students might have. Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine per se, but a “knowledge and […]
Our friends in Information Systems who work with Technology Accessibility are now offering sessions on working with the captioning tools in Kaltura.
One advantage to uploading your videos to Kaltura instead of Google Drive is that Closed Captioning (CC) text is automatically created and applied. For the most part, Kaltura does a good job of recognizing your pronunciation and transcribing the words correctly. However, the transcription is […]