GSA eLearning News

 This week's Student Tech Tip demonstrates how to install and use Grammarly. Grammarly is a writing assistant app that can help you and your students to eliminate grammar errors and make written text clear and engaging. You can choose to use Grammarly on the web, or install one of the Grammarly apps to use from your device. The video below demonstrates both options.  If you have any questions about this topic or learning technology in general, please contact 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...

This week's 2 Minute Tech Tip demonstrates how to add subtitles to a video that you have uploaded directly to Canvas. By following the steps in this video, you can make sure that any videos you upload to Canvas are accessible.  For more information about producing transcripts and subtitles, please take look at our guidance on Canvas.   If you have any questions about this topic, or any others in our 2 Minute Tech Tips series, please contact LTHelp@gsa.ac.uk