Greetings C-term and Spring semester instructors! During the 1/6/22 Student/Family Town Hall, there were several inquiries from webinar attendees asking when information about individual course delivery intentions for the first two weeks of the term would be made available to enrolled students. I know many instructors are still working on building out their C-term Canvas…Continue Reading Making Course Logistics Available to Students While Still Working on your Canvas Site
Accessibility Improvements with Canvas & Microsoft Immersive Reader Integration
To bring awareness to Invisible Disabilities Week (10/17-10/23), I wanted to share an exciting Canvas update to our Microsoft Immersive Reader integration. Accessibility tools like Immersive Reader can help remove systemic barriers and ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful learning opportunities. What is Microsoft Immersive Reader? Immersive Reader is a full…Continue Reading Accessibility Improvements with Canvas & Microsoft Immersive Reader Integration
Compelling Reasons to Caption Video
“When students are able to access their accommodations, without barriers, this is a wonderful thing,” says Amy Curran, Director of Accessibility Services at WPI. In the education field, an accommodation refers to a modification that has been put in place in order to enable students to access the curriculum in both an in-person and virtual classroom setting. …Continue Reading Compelling Reasons to Caption Video
Changing your Display Name in Zoom
Even though your WPI account is used to log into Zoom, you are free to change your first, last, and display names however you would like. Note that if you have not entered a name in Zoom, it will simply display your e-mail address in meetings. Here’s how to change how your name is displayed:…Continue Reading Changing your Display Name in Zoom
Live AI-Captioning Now Available for All Zoom Meetings!
As of 2/24/2021, we are now able to offer full AI-generated captions and transcripts for every Zoom meeting, for free! Here’s how to enable captions on any meeting that you have Host-level access to. Click on the Live Transcript button within the Zoom meeting menu. Click on the Enable Auto-Transcription button. Zoom will begin to…Continue Reading Live AI-Captioning Now Available for All Zoom Meetings!
Creating Closed Captions with WPI’s Video Systems
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination in the places of public accommodation – such as schools – and failing to transcribe or provide closed captions for your educational videos can be seen as a violation of the ADA. So transcripts and captions have legal significance. But beyond that, they help your students access your…Continue Reading Creating Closed Captions with WPI’s Video Systems