Student Accessibility Services eLearning Suite Tools Information

Do it yourself: Correcting the automatic closed captions in Panopto

Panopto now automatically adds the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captions to your newly created Panopto videos. If you have an older video, you have the ability to add ASR generated captions to your previously recorded Panopto sessions.

Speechify is UNI's official text-to-speech application. UNI has a Speechify site wide license that allows any faculty, staff, or student to download and use the application as needed. All you need to do is sign in with your UNI credentials to get a Speechify Premium Account. Click on this link to get started. 

Note, this is ONLY available to faculty with a student that REQUIRES captioning through Student Accessibility Services. If you'd like to add captions to your videos, we suggest using the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) function within Panopto. For more information about this process, please visit our page How Do I Add Panopto's Automatic Closed Captions to My Panopto Video?

Product VPATs (Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates)

UNI Information Technology requires vendors for each of our products to provide a VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template). A VPAT is a document that explains how information and communication technology products such as software, hardware, electronic content, and support documentation meet the Revised 508 Standards for IT accessibility. Learn more at the Section508.gov website.

To launch Ally in an Ultra course.

• Go to the Details and Action area of your course and select View Course and Institutional Tools.

•  Click on Ally Accessibility Report LTI 1.3

You can set accommodations for individual students to exempt them from assessment due dates or time limits. Use accommodations to help students progress in the course even though they may have difficulty with some requirements.

You can also give an individual student an exception on a specific test or assignment to provide additional attempts or extended access, even if the assessment is hidden from other students. 

Closed Captioning through the use of AI has been enabled by default for all Zoom meetings at UNI. This feature has been available for several years but previously required each user to manually enable the feature.

All UNI Zoom hosts will now automatically have closed captioning available during their meetings. This will ensure that captions can be provided immediately if requested by any participant. This can also be disabled by each host should there be a need to do so.

• How do I launch the Ally report in an Ultra course?
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• How Do I Fix the Accessibility Issues Blackboard Ally Identifies?