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- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Teams
Explains how the owner of a video recorded in Microsoft Teams can download that video from Microsoft Stream to share it on another platform or keep a personal archive. Covers signing in to Microsoft 365, opening the Stream app, and downloading a video. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students who own recorded Teams content.
- Knowledge Base
- Chat, Communication, & Collaboration
- Zoom
- Getting Started with Zoom
Details about Bowdoin's Zoom site license — what's included, meeting capacity limits, how to request a webinar license, where cloud recordings are stored, and the dial-in audio policy.
- Knowledge Base
- Teaching & Learning
- Accessibility
- Captioning and Subtitles
How faculty can request caption editing for course videos in Panopto and Zoom. Explains that Bowdoin's caption editors correct the automatic (ASR) captions directly in Panopto within 48 hours after a request is submitted, and why captions benefit all students. Applies to faculty who use video in their courses.
- Knowledge Base
- Website Management
- Digital Accessibility
- Web Accessibility
Bowdoin's captioning policy (effective July 1, 2020) and the tools for meeting it: video should be captioned to at least 99% accuracy and audio-only content should have a transcript. Covers editing YouTube auto-captions, captioning Panopto videos (contact Paul Benham), professional captioning through Rev (contact Juli Haugen, ~5 business days), and transcribing Zoom cloud recordings. For Bowdoin website editors and content publishers.
- Knowledge Base
- Website Management
- Digital Accessibility
- Social Media
How to make Bowdoin Instagram content accessible: add your own alternative text on new posts (Advanced Settings > Accessibility > Write Alt Text) and on existing posts (the three-dot menu > Add Alt Text), since Instagram's automatic alt-text is not always accurate; and caption videos, remembering that Instagram supports only open (burned-in) captions. Lists captioning software by platform and links the DCMP Captioning Key. For Bowdoin staff managing Instagram accounts.
- Knowledge Base
- Chat, Communication, & Collaboration
- Zoom
- Hosting & Managing Meetings
Recommended Zoom meeting settings for faculty and staff hosting synchronous meetings or classes, covering meeting ID, security, audio, video, and participant options.
- Knowledge Base
- Teaching & Learning
- Accessibility
- Captioning and Subtitles
How Panopto automatically captions uploaded videos, how to turn captions on while watching, how to set a folder's captioning language before uploading, and how video owners can edit captions for accuracy. Applies to all Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff using Panopto.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- General Software & Tools
- Web Browsers
Explains why clearing the browser cache is a common troubleshooting step and provides a short video walkthrough for clearing the cache in Google Chrome. Applies to all Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff using Chrome.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Panopto
Explains why Panopto videos get archived and provides step-by-step instructions for restoring an archived video from the Panopto website, from within a Canvas course, from a web page, or from a direct link.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Panopto
Explains how Panopto video owners can download a video from their media library as an MP4 file to share elsewhere or keep as a personal archive. Includes a walkthrough video and a note that videos must be downloaded one at a time.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Panopto
Step-by-step instructions for faculty to create an interactive quiz embedded within a Panopto video and add it to a Canvas assignment, including quiz settings and grading options.
- Knowledge Base
- Teaching & Learning
- Learning and Teaching Tools
Overview of Padlet for instructors at Bowdoin, covering how to access Padlet using Bowdoin SSO, how students access Padlets through Canvas, and where to find Padlet training resources for classroom use.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Panopto
Instructions for downloading a plain text transcript from a Panopto video using the interactive viewer, the embedded viewer, or video settings. Applies to all Bowdoin users with access to a captioned Panopto video.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Panopto
Explains how to make quick edits to a video in your Panopto media library using the web-based Panopto editor, including trimming the start and end and cutting out sections from the middle. Edits are non-destructive and can be undone.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Panopto
Step-by-step instructions for uploading video and audio files to the Panopto media library from a computer, either directly through the Panopto website or through a Canvas course page.