Hi there.

This video is going to show you how to record lectures while using Zoom and the audio transcript feature for maximum accessibility.

First you're going to go to myusf.usfca.edu/ETS to access your USF Zoom account.

On the left hand side of the screen it says instructional technologies and training, which will bring you to a screen that has a number of different technologies and training tools for teaching remotely.

For the purposes of this video, we're going to click on login to Zoom.

This will bring into your Zoom login through your USF account.

On the left hand side you will see a link that says recordings.

Once you're in the recording section of your Zoom profile. Click Settings in the upper right hand corner.

There are a number of different features and settings to use while recording a video using Zoom.

For this video, we're just going to make sure that the audio transcript feature is turned on.

So click that box and save it.

Next, you're going to start your Zoom meeting, you can do that directly from here or you can start a meeting in your Zoom app.

Once you started a meeting, you're going to click record.

You can either record it directly to your computer or record it to the cloud.

Best practice, according to ETS, is to record it to the cloud.

Because depending on how many videos you may or may not be recording throughout the course of the semester, recording onto your computer could eat up a lot of memory in your hard drive so recording it to the cloud tends to be the best way to manage multiple videos.

Go ahead and click record to the cloud, record your video go through your meeting, whether it's a screen share of a PowerPoint presentation or a recording of yourself, talking to your students or giving a lecture.

Once you're done, you can go ahead and hit stop recording or you can just end the meeting, and it will stop recording automatically.

Once you're done with the meeting return to the Zoom settings in your my USF account, you will see that your recorded Zoom meeting is listed there in your cloud recordings.

If you click on the Zoom meeting, it will bring you to a screen that looks like this.

Which will play back the recording and show you an audio transcript on the right hand side of the screen.

From here you can actually edit the transcript.

This feature works best for single speaker recordings, as long as there's only one speaker and minimal background noise, the transcript should be fairly accurate.

It will still need editing, but shouldn't take too much time.

Generally, the higher number of speakers and the more background noise there is the less accurate the transcript is going to be.

Obviously, the less accurate the transcript is the less useful, this tool is.

But in terms of recording a single speaker lecture that will actually be quite a useful tool that requires minimal editing in post production.

So as you can see your recording of your meeting is going to have three different files. It's going to have an audio only file.

A video file and it's going to have the file for the audio transcript.

Depending on where you're going to house this video, whether it is an echo 360 or on a YouTube channel or if you're going to just send the MP4 directly to students.

You're going to need the audio transcript file. You can either download all three files or you can download them one at a time.

But you'll see here that there are three different files that you'll have available to you.

This is what an audio transcript file looks like, it's called the VTT file.

If you use echo 360 or YouTube to host any of your videos you'll be able to add this transcript using these platforms.

Typically these types of video sharing platforms have a feature to add captions or add subtitles and you'll be able to upload a VTT file directly and it will automatically caption the video for you.

If you're planning on sending your video directly to students as an MP4, you may want to embed the VTT file and video somehow.

I would recommend contacting SDS or contacting ETS directly and they can help you with embedding captions directly into an MP4 file.

Okay, so that's recording an asynchronous lecture in Zoom and how to use the audio transcript feature in your Zoom profile.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at SDS@usfca.edu or give us a call at 415-422-2613.

Thanks.