Google Meet for Teachers Adds Automatic Transcription Feature, Other Updates

Google Meet has obtained an automated transcription characteristic for educators signed as much as Google’s Workspace for Education Plus and Teaching and Learning Upgrade plans.

After the most recent replace, the text-based paperwork ought to take up much less house than a full recording for educators trying to retailer or share their previous classes and might also make it simpler to overview, search by way of, and ship classes to college students.

Google has additionally introduced polls and Q&A periods to lecturers who use Google Meet to livestream their classes, doubtlessly opening up extra alternatives for interactivity. These options had been already accessible in customary conferences however not throughout livestreams, acknowledged the corporate in a blog post.

The firm has expanded the attain of Meet livestreams as effectively, as a result of it now permits colleges to livestream occasions, like faculty board conferences or assemblies, on to YouTube. Previously, Google gave Workspace customers two choices for creating livestreams.

While one limits the viewers to solely 500 folks inside a corporation, one other provides customers the power to create reside stream occasions for as much as 1 lakh people who find themselves part of the identical Workspace. This replace ought to give extra folks the prospect to tune in since livestreaming to YouTube means anybody can watch (except the video’s made non-public).

Outside of Meet, there’s additionally a brand new Screencast app that Google has stated is constructed into ChromeOS as a part of its M103 replace. This permits lecturers to file, trim, transcribe, and share on-screen classes whereas giving college students the chance to re-watch classes from Google Drive and create their very own movies with the screen-recording device.

Google famous that lecturers may use Screencast to attract or write on the video in the event that they’re utilizing a Chromebook with a touchscreen. There’s an replace coming to Gmail, too, which is able to let customers add alt-text to their photographs. This shall be useful for folks utilizing display screen readers, because it lets them know what’s included of their e-mail.