All are invited to an information session on April 7th @ 4pm, to learn how you can take advantage of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) at UNC Greensboro, including research, teaching, and student use cases. This session is sponsored by the UNC Greensboro’s Cloud Cyberinfrastructure Innovation (CCI) Lab.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing connection details and instructions on how to join the meeting.
UNC Greensboro Information Technology Services (ITS) is aware of an issue affecting Canvas. Instructure (Canvas vendor) is working to correct the problem.
Check the ITS News Article, Canvas Outage, for more information and updates as they become available.
As part of Zoom’s commitment to connecting users across the world, they are focused on continually enhancing their features to provide a platform that is accessible to all of the diverse communities they serve. So it is important that you frequently check for updates to get the most out of this tool.
A recent addition to the many Zoom features available to us is the ability to enable automatic closed captioning during your meeting, along with a live transcript offering that can show up on a side panel during your meetings.
Now while this feature is helpful for those of us unable to provide captioning manually or with a third-party service, it is important to understand that it does have limitations. Live transcription currently only supports English and the accuracy of the feature depends on many variables, such as but not limited to:
Because of these limitations, if you are required to use speech-to-text support for any compliance or accessibility needs, we do recommend using a manual captioner or service that may be able to guarantee a specific accuracy.
In this video, we quickly show you how to turn on Live Transcript during a meeting, by clicking on the Live Transcript button. We also show you how to click the caret symbol (^) next to the Live Transcript button to show a full transcript in a side panel during your session.
To utilize these new features, you may need to update your Zoom client. Zoom updates do not happen automatically by UNC Greensboro, occasionally Zoom may do a push, but this is something you should consider checking occasionally. Review the Upgrade/update to the latest version article from the Zoom Help Center or view the video below to see how you can update your version.
The evaluation of macOS Big Sur, announced on September 22, 2020, is complete. The upgrade is now available for UNCG Mac users.
Known Issue with Printing on macOS Big Sur
Read more in this UNCG ITS News Article.
Interested in developing a course that incorporates intercultural skill development and awareness through facilitated communication and sustained interaction with other students around the world? Apply for the new Virtual Global Collaborations Grant!
These awards are for faculty to modify an existing course OR create a new course that incorporates virtual exchange components. For the purposes of this award call, a Virtual Global Collaboration is defined as: Peer to peer, technology-enabled, facilitated experiences with deliberate learning objectives associated with intercultural skills and awareness in which sustained communication and interaction takes place among people in a global context. Awards for modifying existing courses are $500. Awards for creating a new course are $1000. Awards will be distributed as add-pay for the 2020-21 academic year in the month of the award. Awards will be made two different times in the Spring 2021.
You can learn more and access the application from the IPC website.
Click here to read more about the award from Campus Weekly.