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Adding captions to videos used in your class is helpful for all students. It helps those who learn better through reading, those needing to watch videos in noisy environments, or in spaces where sound needs to be turned off.
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The Catchbox is a soft foam throw able microphone that can help amplify student and instructor voices and be a teaching tool to increase discussion and interactive participation activities in medium to large classroom spaces. There are Catchboxes set up in a various classrooms that are connected through the room's sound system.
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Word documents have a set of properties or metadata such as author, title, and subject. Filling in the document title field is helpful for those using a screen reader and helps to organize and identify information about the file.
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Do you want to make your presentations better understood for everyone in the room? People may have difficulty hearing from the back row or with other noise in the room or be a native speaker in another language. Live Subtitles are available in PowerPoint and can provide captions for your presentation or on a blank slide on the screen to show captions.
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Live captioning (called live transcription) in Zoom is available to all faculty, staff, and students. Live transcriptions show text to speech on the lower part of the Zoom window or in a full transcript window. Live transcripts are machine-generated and while they are not as accurate as a person, they can be helpful for participants in a loud or public space, do not have access to headphones or speakers, are English language learners, or benefit from hearing and reading content simultaneously.
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The Office of Communications and Public Affairs created a set of Bowdoin Zoom backgrounds to use during classes and meetings. Backgrounds are useful for blocking distractions happening behind you like your cat wanting attention!
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