Learning and Educational Center
Welcome and Happy New Year! The LEC is excited to kick off 2022 with a variety of professional development events and resources. In this issue, we begin with a Year in Review and highlight many of the LEC initiatives from 2021. We are grateful for your interest in using our resources to support NSU’s Vision 2025 and our path toward preeminence.
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Check out our latest video in our Learning with LEC Video Series on using the Canvas attendance tool to create and use Seating Charts.
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Our Instructional Design team has been working hard to create new, visually appealing templates for you to use when designing your Fall Semester courses. These new templates continue a tradition of providing an organized structure for faculty and students while also being visually appealing. Stay connected with the LEC to learn more about these templates and be sure to watch for our release of the templates next week.
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This week in Zoom news, we don’t have an official update from Zoom, but it does appear that Zoom during its most recent update to version (5.5.2) has enabled the long awaited feature of Live Transcription. There is now an option that allows hosts to enable transcription in their Zoom sessions. With this option enabled by the host, students are given the ability to view a live transcript of the zoom session. Full live Automated Transcripts from the session can viewed and are searchable during the session. This is helpful if a student needs to look back to review something discussed earlier in the session. The Full transcripts also separates the text by the user that made the comments. One important thing to note is that these automated live transcripts are not entirely accurate and can vary depending on the clarity and volume of the speakers voice and background noise. It may not accurately represent lexicons and dialects specific to a geography or community. Although it is not an ADA compliant Closed Caption solution primarily because of the potential for inaccuracy, it does make it easier for students who may have trouble hearing the zoom session to be able to […]
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