1 00:00:01,650 --> 00:00:05,670 Welcome to the EZ Universal Design series. I'm 2 00:00:05,670 --> 00:00:08,730 Suzanne Delahanty. As the alternative media and 3 00:00:08,730 --> 00:00:11,370 assistive technology specialist, I want to share 4 00:00:11,370 --> 00:00:14,700 some of my favorite universal design secrets in my 5 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:17,550 easy universal design series. I'm going to demo 6 00:00:17,550 --> 00:00:20,430 some great ways to quickly make your courses more 7 00:00:20,430 --> 00:00:22,800 accessible and equitable for everyone. 8 00:00:23,370 --> 00:00:25,890 Periodically, I'll be introducing you all to some 9 00:00:25,890 --> 00:00:28,830 of the best tools you can easily implement right 10 00:00:28,830 --> 00:00:29,130 now. 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,770 Today, I'll be sharing a new tool with you, called 12 00:00:33,780 --> 00:00:37,490 Ava, which allows you to add free live captioning to your Zoom 13 00:00:37,530 --> 00:00:40,890 meetings for free. How would you like to do that? 14 00:00:41,460 --> 00:00:44,040 Well, let me show you how easy it is with this 15 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,220 free live captioning tool. Ava allows you to 16 00:00:47,220 --> 00:00:50,310 instantly add live streaming captions to any live 17 00:00:50,310 --> 00:00:52,740 video meeting. And it will also let you save your 18 00:00:52,740 --> 00:00:56,760 spoken words as a text file when you're done. This 19 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,850 simple tool helps not only deaf or hard of hearing 20 00:00:59,850 --> 00:01:04,560 students, but also help students who are ESL, ADHD, 21 00:01:04,770 --> 00:01:07,800 dyslexic, as well as students with writing or 22 00:01:07,830 --> 00:01:10,950 mobility issues. When taking notes, it takes less 23 00:01:10,950 --> 00:01:13,230 than one minute to get up and running and add 24 00:01:13,230 --> 00:01:16,230 captions to your streaming Zoom videos. Let me 25 00:01:16,230 --> 00:01:19,230 demonstrate how easy it is to get up and running 26 00:01:19,230 --> 00:01:23,550 using AVA. So I am actually in a zoom meeting, 27 00:01:23,550 --> 00:01:25,290 I've already launched it, and I'm going to share 28 00:01:25,290 --> 00:01:28,740 my screen and show you AVA. I'm going to go 29 00:01:28,740 --> 00:01:32,160 ahead and click on my desktop and here I am on the 30 00:01:32,170 --> 00:01:35,390 AVA homepage. It is very, very simple to get to. 31 00:01:35,670 --> 00:01:41,130 It is simply AVA.ME ;then you should see all of 32 00:01:41,130 --> 00:01:43,650 this right here. I'm going to go ahead and 33 00:01:43,650 --> 00:01:46,560 move my Zoom toolbar. What you see is 34 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,380 basically this green bar on the top and all you 35 00:01:49,380 --> 00:01:52,380 need to do to actually start using AVA is click 36 00:01:52,380 --> 00:01:55,890 on the "get started button" or "caption now". I'm 37 00:01:55,890 --> 00:01:59,430 going to go ahead and log in on my main login page 38 00:01:59,460 --> 00:02:02,100 here, which I've already logged into. You can log 39 00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:04,320 in as a guest, or you can create an account with 40 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,130 your school e-mail. It is entirely free either way. 41 00:02:07,590 --> 00:02:10,470 I'm going to go ahead and start my captions now. 42 00:02:10,470 --> 00:02:13,590 But as you can see, there is a a toolbar area 43 00:02:13,590 --> 00:02:17,070 where you can set your visibility. Most people 44 00:02:17,070 --> 00:02:19,530 like dark mode for visibility, but you can also 45 00:02:19,530 --> 00:02:22,140 change the font size, which is very, very helpful. 46 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,080 All of those settings are hiding in here. 47 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:29,490 I'm going to go ahead and start captions now. And 48 00:02:29,490 --> 00:02:32,400 what you can see is it will immediately start 49 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,430 captioning for me. I also have a font size which I 50 00:02:35,430 --> 00:02:39,360 can change on the fly, or actually change languages, 51 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,430 or my input of my audio. That's all very simple, 52 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,840 easy access on the left hand side. And you can collapse 53 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,140 this as you see fit. As you can see, it is 54 00:02:49,140 --> 00:02:51,600 following all my words. Now, how do you get the 55 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,540 captioning on your Zoom window? What you need 56 00:02:54,540 --> 00:02:57,120 to do is just go to the little button here. As you 57 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,730 can see, my microphone is on. It is recording me 58 00:02:59,730 --> 00:03:02,370 automatically. If you go to this window on the 59 00:03:02,370 --> 00:03:06,000 web and you can actually turn this off if you need 60 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,460 to have a break or pause. Then you can come 61 00:03:08,460 --> 00:03:11,130 back here. If you have something you'd like to 62 00:03:11,130 --> 00:03:14,550 CC caption onto, you can click here {on CC} and it will open 63 00:03:14,550 --> 00:03:17,160 up a separate window while it's transcribing in 64 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,570 the background, that you can put in front of your 65 00:03:19,590 --> 00:03:22,320 Zoom presentation or your whiteboard. So I do need 66 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,830 to log in here and say "start captioning". What 67 00:03:25,830 --> 00:03:30,240 it will do is show me captions in a very nice 68 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,200 floating closed-captioning bar. The size of 69 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,600 this font in the background are set by the 70 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,180 original settings that you set up in the 71 00:03:39,570 --> 00:03:42,440 transcription box in the window we just looked at. 72 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,830 I'm going to go ahead and show you that I can 73 00:03:46,830 --> 00:03:50,270 resize it so that it matches your screen or your 74 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,800 Zoom window. You can actually add people to the 75 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,700 conversation to join in, and you can pause it as 76 00:03:56,700 --> 00:04:00,660 well on this closed captioning box. So, this is how it 77 00:04:00,660 --> 00:04:04,470 works. If I wanted to bring up my 78 00:04:04,590 --> 00:04:07,290 whiteboard, for instance, or annotate, you can 79 00:04:07,290 --> 00:04:10,590 also have that at the same time. So, it's a very 80 00:04:10,590 --> 00:04:14,130 useful tool. What's really cool: when 81 00:04:14,130 --> 00:04:16,440 you're all done speaking, whether it be an hour or 82 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,440 three hours, it's completely free and unlimited 83 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,720 for as long as you'd like to speak. It's about 84 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:24,300 85% accurate and you can edit it 85 00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:27,720 with this keyboard tool if you'd like to go in and 86 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,110 type. You can also make corrections on the fly 87 00:04:31,410 --> 00:04:36,750 by just clicking on this, so you can Hyper focus on 88 00:04:36,750 --> 00:04:39,150 a word and just typing over it, correcting it 89 00:04:39,150 --> 00:04:43,140 yourself on the fly. Once you hit the "close" 90 00:04:43,140 --> 00:04:45,840 button, whether it be here, on the "scribe" window 91 00:04:46,020 --> 00:04:49,470 or on the captioning window, it automatically asks 92 00:04:49,470 --> 00:04:53,180 you if you'd like to save the transcript. I'm 93 00:04:53,190 --> 00:04:55,680 going to say "save transcribe", & it automatically 94 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,230 names it by the date; I'm going to put it on my 95 00:04:58,230 --> 00:05:01,650 desktop by default. I'm going to save, and I'll 96 00:05:01,650 --> 00:05:03,450 show you what that looks like. I'm going to go 97 00:05:03,450 --> 00:05:06,650 ahead and minimize all this. It is still 98 00:05:06,650 --> 00:05:10,400 working, by the way, as you wait to open your 99 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,030 transcript; but here is the transcript. All 100 00:05:14,030 --> 00:05:16,250 cleaned up and everything is there. And you 101 00:05:16,250 --> 00:05:19,850 actually go in there and you can see that there's 102 00:05:19,850 --> 00:05:22,850 some typos there. So it will hint to you to fix text 103 00:05:22,850 --> 00:05:24,710 with the red highlights. But it is an excellent 104 00:05:24,710 --> 00:05:28,910 tool for transcribing things for videos. 105 00:05:28,910 --> 00:05:31,160 Students can use this as a study tool on their 106 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,320 end too. But, I think every instructor should know 107 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,840 about this because it's a great tool to get you 108 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:39,140 started with captioning for free and very easily. 109 00:05:39,710 --> 00:05:41,900 I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any 110 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:45,110 questions at all, feel free to reach out to me. My 111 00:05:45,110 --> 00:05:47,990 email will be on the last slide here, and you can 112 00:05:47,990 --> 00:05:51,140 always call me when our campus is back up and 113 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:55,010 running. Thank you. And look for my next video on 114 00:05:55,010 --> 00:05:58,580 another accessible universal design technique that 115 00:05:58,580 --> 00:06:00,170 I want to share with you. Bye!