Author: Kathryn Zawisza

Contingency Planning: Creating Content and Assignments When Classes are Cancelled

Sometimes we are unable to hold our face-to-face classes. In some cases there is an outbreak of the flu or measles, in other cases, there is inclement weather, conferences, and illness. In all of these instances there are technologies and assignments available that can help you deliver content to your students or have your students work together even if they cannot attend physical classes. Included here are some ideas for recording lectures that students can later view, holding synchronous lectures with video conferencing, and assignments that students can do either independently or collaboratively over the web.

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Collaborate: Sharing Content

One great feature of Class Collaborate is the ability to share content such as documents and files, your computer screen or an application on your computer, web pages, or a blank “whiteboard.” You can also conduct polling of participants and place them into breakout groups.  Read here for details on how to share a File in Collaborate.

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Kaltura: Video Captions

Automatic English-language closed captioning is now available directly in Kaltura. Here you can see how to request, verify, edit, and delete captions.

Fully automatic (mechanical) captions will be created by default for any new media loaded into Kaltura. All videos uploaded into Kaltura after July 11, 2017 are automatically captioned, using Kaltura REACH, powered by cielo24. For CEA requests, please contact tips@uark.edu to request human-edited (professional) captions.

Media owners can request mechanical captioning added to previously uploaded media.

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