You know that short video increases student engagement, however you do not have the finances or time to purchase complex video creation software. Getting a video production crew on a teacher’s salary is just not possible. How can one take advantage of video in their online courses?
What if I told you that there is a tool that can easily
create short video clips for your online course, embed the clips, and
automatically generate closed captions? Ensuring that the experience is accessible, the
tool generates transcripts automatically.
How to use Video Note
Video Note can be accessed by using the “Insert Stuff” icon.
When selected you have to option to:
- Record live using your web camera or
- Upload a premade video.
Remember to keep the video short, or you will lose the
attention of the viewers.
Remember to give the video:
- a name,
- description,
- select the video’s language and
- select “Automatically generate captions from audio”.
Select next to review and insert (or re-record). The video will be in embedding into the web
page. Video Note will even keep your video in your course – so there is no
commercial access or issues with social media!
There are so many uses! Video Note can be used in any editor
in Brightspace and is excellent for giving feedback when grading. Use it in the feedback section so students
will then be able to easily click on the video with one click when viewing
their grades – increasing their likeliness to review the feedback!
Other video editing tools and transcript tools can cost you
thousands of dollars. Video Note cost
nothing – and can be paid in four small payments of $0.
I only want Audio
What if you do not want video, but only want audio, can you
embed that with Video Note? Yes.
Whatever your reason, be it being an international spy or that you just want to
remain faceless, you can use Video Note to upload audio. Simply select the audio only feature or
upload the audio file, and Video Note can create an interactive player that
proves captioning and transcripts.
