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The options below assume that students will need to present a large enough web camera image for students who sign. These responses also take into consideration that for web camera use, some students may be limited to their phones while others may have access to a laptop or desktop with a web camera.
OPTION 1 - "performance" and slides separate: This is the easiest option and works well if the student only has a phone. You can use this option for a live or a recorded presentation. Students use https://rit.zoom.us/ to cloud record or live-present the ASL and/or verbal portion of their presentation only. They send their slides to you separately. If it is a live presentation, they will need to send you their slides in advance of their presentation time so you can download them. Students who are presenting must tell their viewers when to advance the slides so that the viewers can be in sync with the presenter.
OPTION 2 - "performance" and slides together: This option works best if the student has a laptop or desktop with a web camera. If presenting on a phone, the documents display only the width of portrait mode on the phone, making the documents not useful to the viewer. You can use this option for a live or a recorded presentation. Students use the same technique in Zoom as if you had an interpreter and a screen share (see Enabling ASL Interpretation in Zoom). The student just becomes the "instructor" in that case. Students start/schedule the meeting from https://rit.zoom.us/ and record to the cloud. They don't need to have anyone else in the meeting, but they could if they wanted (e.g. a classmate could be the one sharing the PPT and advancing their slides for them).
OPTION 3 - slides only: The annotated slide deck becomes the sole deliverable, with no performance of the presentation. This option does not allow for ASL, only written text. The slides communicate the main ideas, and the presenter's notes can be the space in which the student provides additional understanding or explanation of the main ideas. You may wish to have students create an annotated slide deck as described in this Option 3 to accompany the "performance only" presentation described in Option 1, above. The additional annotations in the presenter's notes may help viewers to follow along with the presentation in Option 1.
Captioning: If a student did a verbal Zoom cloud recording, the student should wait for the auto-generated captioning process to complete and edit the auto-generated captions for accuracy before submitting their assignment. Review details about auto-captioning and editing these auto-captions. If a student did an ASL Zoom cloud recording, the instructor can complete a media request form to have the videos voiced and captioned.
Submitting: For submitting the assignment, students can paste the Zoom cloud recording URL into the text box in the assignment submission area in myCourses. Slide decks can be uploaded like any other file to the assignment submission area in myCourses. When done as part of the same assignment submission, the instructor will receive both the video recording link and the slide deck in one submission.