Making Arrangements for Students Approved for ASL/CART/FM or Captioning Services Services
Students approved through the Office of Disabilities Services (ODS) will provide professors with a Letter of Accommodation (LOA) indicating they require American Sign Language (ASL), CART captioning, an FM System or closed captioning for their lectures. Typically, you will receive an email from the ODS prior to this, asking for information to enable you to make appropriate arrangements for your course.
Getting started? Learn more about how to best accommodate students with ASL/CART Captioning accommodations via the following LOA’s :
Below is information instructors need to ensure things are set up appropriately, based on their course needs.
Live Conferencing with live captioning
Regardless of the conferencing tool you are using (i.e. Zoom, WebEx, BigBlueButton, etc), our agencies will be able to provide live captions. This is done through a third-party site which the student and captionist will communicate on. You will not see the live captions appear on the conferencing tool you are using.
Once the captionist has been arranged, they will be provided with a guest NETID. This guest NETID will allow the captioner access to your canvas portal to review class material and prepare for class. As well as access to RU zoom meetings.
Live Conferencing with a Live ASL Interpreter
Not all conferencing tools (i.e Zoom, WebEx, etc) has the ability to integrate a Live ASL Interpreter. Below are the most commonly used live conferencing tools and the instructions for how to set up this service. Regardless of which platform you are using, please let ODS know so we can coordinate effectively with our agency. As with Live Captions (see above), we will provide you with the NETID of the interpreter.
- Setting up ASL in Zoom- Recommended
- WebEx- There isn't an easy way to provide this. If you are utilizing WebEx, please let us know.
- BigBlueButton- You are unable to provide an ASL Interpreter in BigBlueButton. If you are utilizing this, please let us know.
Closed Captioning for Video Content
(i.e. recorded lectures, YouTube Videos, etc. )
- Professors may edit their video captioning content via Canvas: How to Edit Closed Captions in Canvas