Audio & Video
Check your Zoom application version now to make sure you are using Zoom version 5.2 or greater and, if you use Zoom with Outlook Calendar, have installed the Microsoft Office Zoom Add-in.Read more
Cornell IT staff will be making several important changes to default settings in Zoom starting January 25, 2021, affecting live transcriptions of meetings, hosts ability to change the layout of cloud recordings, and the management of high-quality video in meetings.Read more
Cornell has chosen 3Play Media as the preferred vendor for human captioning and transcription of video content. After thoughtful review, the university determined that 3Play provided the best fit for a wide range of the campus community’s captioning and transcription needs.Read more
Over the next two years (late 2020-2022), Cornell will roll out a new cloud-based phone system, RingCentral, to replace the existing campus telephone service. Cornell Information Technologies will be working with each college, school, and unit to determine an appropriate timeline for...Read more
The university Committee on Teaching Reactivation Options has recommended that in-person courses provide a hybrid of in-person teaching and remote accessibility for students and faculty who are in quarantine or have not returned to campus because of health risks or inability to travel....Read more
Zoom has released version 5.0 this week as the next step in its continuing efforts to improve meeting video and data security. Most notably, the update adds support for improved encryption, which Zoom plans to activate on its networks May 30, 2020. In preparation for this important change, CIT...Read more
Certain users of Cornell’s Video on Demand (VoD) service can purchase captioning services for their media. Human captioning is created by a human transcriptionist rather than a computer program.
In addition to this paid human captioning service, no-cost...Read moreThe Webcam Recording feature of Cornell’s Video on Demand service was recently upgraded, and now provides wider browser compatibility and an overall better user experience.Read more
Cornell faculty, staff, students, and affiliates can now host a Zoom meeting of up to 300 attendees, triple the previous number.Read more