In order to better support the needs of students with disabilities, Sonocent have developed a ‘Teacher’s Edition’ of Audio Notetaker. In a recent survey of our users, over 70% of students said they would find it useful if their teachers could automatically produce and make available an Audio Notetaker file containing a recording of the lecture and slides, rather than them having to manually construct one.
Audio Notetaker Teacher’s Edition automates the recording process, so once installed there is no work involved. In addition to supporting the needs of students with disabilities, it also gives teachers/lecturers the ability to easily edit their recording, in case something was said they don’t want on record. The control is now back in the hands of the teacher!
How does it work?
Bring up the automatic recording tool and Audio Notetaker will go into listening mode: Audio Notetaker will start recording into a new document when it detects a running PowerPoint presentation. Open PowerPoint and, when you are ready, run your slide show in the normal way. Once you have finished, come back to Audio Notetaker and press “Finish”. Every slide will have started a new section in your Audio Notetaker document. You can now edit your recorded document if you need to, add metadata and then save.
If you know ahead of time that you won’t want to include some part of your presentation in your final Audio Notetaker document, add an extra slide(s) to display during this part so you can easily find the section afterwards and delete it, or at least delete the audio. Likewise, you could add an extra slide to the start of your presentation if you don’t want to include the period before you start your presentation in the final document.