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This Student Tech Tip shows GSA students (and staff) how to apply for a free Miro Education account.  This procedure has recently changed, so GSA students and staff no longer need to supply evidence of their status with their application. Simply fill in the form on Miro.com  using your GSA email address and wait for Miro to activate your account.  Stay tuned for more Miro tips, but in the meantime, visit the LT Help for Students Miro page , or to boost your Miro skills with interactive Miro workshops, check out the Miro Academy offerings. For further help or advice, remember you always can contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

 This week's Two Minute Tech Tip demonstrates how to add automatic, live captions to your Zoom meetings in real-time. That means your participants will be able to turn closed captions on and off during your meeting.  There are two different methods for providing automatic, live captions in Zoom. You can use Zoom's live transcription service or Otter.ai's live transcription service. There may be errors in the captions provided by either service as they are both provided by an AI program. Choosing between Zoom Automatic Live Transcription and Otter.ai Live Notes Transcription Whether you choose to use Zoom's live transcription service or Otter.ai's live transcription service will depend on whether you are recording your Zoom meeting in order to upload it to Planet eStream or Canvas.  If you're recording your event, you'll need to provide a closed caption file (.SRT) to upload alongside your video, as captions will not be captured in your Zoom recording. You ca...

  In this Two Minute Tech Tip we show you how to add student extensions to Assignments in Canvas. Canvas takes care of the admin, making adding new dates easy. Extensions can be added for any number of individuals, groups and sections, each with their own unique dates.  For further information on setting up assignments, please see this step-by-step guide on the Using Canvas for Staff course .  If you are managing many assignment dates, Canvas also has a useful bulk update function. Details of this can be found on the Canvas Guides.  For help with setting up or editing assignments, remember you can contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

 This week's tech tip demonstrates how to set up a Canvas assignment so that students will be able to submit both an embedded version of their Padlet, as well as a PDF version of their Padlet. By submitting the PDF version of their Padlet alongside the embedded one, you'll be able to check that the Padlet has not changed since the due date of your assignment.  Students will need guidance on how to embed their Padlet into a Canvas assignment, and how to export their Padlet as a PDF. To help with this, we've created a Student Tech Tip video that you can embed in your assignment instructions, which demonstrates how to embed a Padlet into an assignment, and how to export their Padlet as a PDF: You can grab the embed code for this video in Planet eStream . If you have questions related to setting up assignments or any other learning technology related topics, please contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk  

This week's tech tip shows staff how to generate attendance reports for your Zoom sessions.  For a step by step by step guide to the process you can also see this guide on the Using Canvas for Staff course. For help with Zoom or any other of GSA's learning technology services, please contact us at LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

Did you know that you can set up a Canvas assignment so that peer review can be automatically assigned? In this week's 2 Minute Tech Tip, we'll show you how. If you have any questions about this or any other learning technology topic, please contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk

In this week's 2 Minute Tech Tip video you can find out how to set up a rubric and add it to your assignment to Canvas. Rubrics make your grading criteria clear to students, and can be used to provide feedback in Speedgrader. For more information about setting up assignments and using Speedgrader in Canvas, please take a look at our guidance on Canvas . If you have questions about this video or any other questions related to learning technology, please contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk