Proposal

Narrative

This proposal requests funding for Glean to provide accommodations for students registered with Student Accessibility Services (SAS) who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Learning Disabilities. Glean provides live captioning and audio/transcripts for students with learning disabilities, lectures. This provides Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Learning Disabilities students with an equal level of accessibility and substantially saves FAU funds. Live captioning, audio files and transcripts provide access to students in classes that are online or in person for courses where SAS is unable to recruit paid or volunteer notetakers. This is a crucial accessibility accommodation especially as our population of SAS student has grown to 1511 and still growing for the Fall 2023 semester. Glean is a Google Chrome browser-based app that can be used online or offline to help students take better notes, pinpoint important information, and keep a recording of class meetings It allows students to annotate different parts of the recording either while they are participating the first time or listening back after the class meeting so that you can come back to those most essential pieces of information.

Facilities

N/A

Hardware Requirements

N/A

Software Requirements

Online App that we will have licenses for up to 150 students which SAS will assign and maintain.

Personnel Costs

None

Other Costs

n/A

Timeline

Fall 2024

Sustainability

This pilot program we will survey students using it so we can see if this would be a great tool to have available for all students as part of the Student Success Initiative. To help students be successful, stay and graduate on time.

Resource Matching

N/A

Implementing Organization

SAS staff working with SAIT and OIT