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Professional captions are provided by a third-party service where a human provides the captions to deliver higher levels of accuracy than automated captions. This is critical for students who have captioning as an access requirement. You will receive a notification from the Accessibility Service when you have a student...
Professional captions are provided by a third-party service where a human provides the captions to deliver higher levels of accuracy than automated captions. This is critical for students who have captioning as an access requirement. The Accessibility Service uses two services for captioning, one where the captioner will be...
All audio and video produced at UTS receive automated captioning in Kaltura, which uses machine learning to produce captions synced to the audio track on playback and has an accuracy rate of around 90-95%. While this is a good starting point for general situations and can be manually edited...
The Live Transcription feature in Zoom enables participants to turn on (or request) automated captions in the form of subtitles or a transcript. Important terms Closed Captions: the CC button on the Zoom floating toolbar allows closed captions to be requested and enabled. Subtitle: in the floating toolbar in...
Microsoft Teams has an automated captions feature that presents real-time captions during meetings/classes scheduled in Teams. It can detect what’s said and if you turn on the new meeting experience, your captions will include speaker attribution – so you’ll know exactly who is speaking at the time and so...
Student Learning Hub is a central hub for all student enquiries related to academic, social, wellbeing, financial and careers support. They run technology training sessions and study groups for students. Higher Education Language and Presentation Support (HELPS) provide academic literacy and English language support to students at UTS. Mathematics...
There are a number of learning and teaching platforms used at UTS for different purposes. These are some of the main platforms that we encourage you to become familiar with, but bear in mind that different subjects may include other platforms, including those not supported at UTS. Your subject...
This resource collection is for casual tutors who are new to UTS or have started recently. Some of the material may also be useful for more experienced tutors, or those who have been at UTS for some time. Consider this collection a toolkit that contains some of the important...
LX.lab The LX.lab is a unit within the Institute for Interactive Media & Learning (IML). We provide a range of learning and teaching support, with a specialisation in blended learning and technologies for learning. Check out LX Resources, where you can find guides and instructions on how to use...
There are a few things that will make your life a lot easier if you ensure that they’re set up before you’re due to start teaching. This allows you to get the admin out of the way and focus on your students and your content once classes start. Some...
