Real-Time Captioning for Higher Education:

Simplify your live captioning process.

Overwhelmed by the complexity of coordinating live captioning with limited support? Our solution simplifies real-time captioning, ensuring accurate and accessible content for all students—without the hassle.

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Why WORK with 3Play?

Educators Choose 3Play for:

Scheduling Simplicity

Easily schedule recurring classes and your entire semester in minutes.

Subject Expertise & Punctuality

Our captioners consistently arrive early to every class and are expertly familiar with a wide range of subjects.

Live Summarization

Students can toggle between both verbatim and summarized transcripts in real-time at no extra cost.

AIM Integration

Integrates with AIM to streamline the scheduling and delivery of real-time captioning services.

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“Integrations with platforms like AIM and Panopto have been game-changers for our team’s efficiency and effectiveness in managing live captioning. With AIM, we can streamline scheduling, making it simple to coordinate captioning requests directly with 3Play Media. This saves time and minimizes errors, allowing us to meet student needs reliably.”

Chad Jurica, Ed.D

Disability Specialist

University of Pittsburgh

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FAQ

Real-Time Captioning in the College Classroom

A seamless workflow from scheduling to delivering a post-event transcript directly to the student.

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How does captioning work in a college classroom?

Real-time captions in a live classroom setting can be delivered to a student through different mechanisms. If the student is present in person, they are usually receiving captions on a second screen, such as a tablet or laptop, using a solution known as Communication Access Realtime Translation, or CART.

For on-demand or remote classes that are not live, closed captions are usually provided in a sidecar file alongside the video recording, which can be toggled on or off by the user.

Who is captioning college classes?

For student accommodations in a live classroom, real-time captions are usually transcribed by a live professional captioner. Traditionally, CART utilized a stenographer or in-person captioner and displayed captions on a large screen.

Nowadays, remote CART captioning options and alternatives have become very common, with a remote captioner connecting to the classroom’s audio source, such as a clip-on microphone worn by a professor. The captioner then transcribes the lecture or discussion word-for-word, with live captions populating on a second screen or streaming link to the text.

What kinds of qualifications do live professional captioners have?

Real-time captions for college classrooms require a high degree of accuracy to provide an equivalent experience for students requesting accommodations. Live professional captioners should be experienced in providing accurate captions and following best practices for real-time captioning.

At 3Play, live professional captioners undergo a rigorous certification process and use 3Play’s innovative proprietary voice writing technology to produce accurate and comprehensive real-time captions.

How do real-time accommodation professionals order and pay for captions?

Higher education professionals usually have a wide range of needs for live accommodations: lectures, meetings, conferences, webinars, and more.

Ordering and billing needs are going to be different at every institution. 3Play takes a flexible approach to these aspects by giving professionals exactly what they need to track spending and budget, whether it’s full visibility into how the institution is spending on accessibility services like real-time captioning, or small-scale, single projects with specific purchase orders (P.O.s) attached.

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