Captioning at Gally

Most of the classroom lectures at Gallaudet University are not captioned. That's because most of the lectures are delivered in sign language without spoken English. In order to offer captioning, lectures must be interpreted after they are given and then sent off for transcription. However, there are 11 classrooms at the Washington, DC school that are hooked up with the Echo360 caption software. A professor only has to hit a button and a file is sent to the software maker where the lecture is transcribed and sent back to the professor for distribution to the students. The school also has two self-service lecture capture studios on campus where faculty and students create learning objects, video-based projects, and online lectures for distance-learning courses.