Note Taking Support Options/Apps
The purpose of note taking is to capture lecture or reading information effectively. Notes are an important tool for learning. Reviewing effective notes after class enables students to cement their learning.
- Audio record lectures with sound being linked to your notes
- Organize all your notes in one place
- Able to import/insert documents and pictures
- Use highlighters to annotate notes
- Access your notes from any device or operating system
- Free to Radford Students
- To start using go to Microsoft OneNote
- Use in class or for online learning
- Collect audio recordings, text notes and slides in one place
- Quickly navigate audio recordings to locate important information
- Become an active learner in class
- to begin using to to GLEAN
- Provides a live transcript of lectures
- Capture your thoughts, ideas as you walk or drive to classes
- Free verions provides 300 monthly transcription minutes; 30 minutes per conversation
- Paid version
Notability (Apple Store)
- Free and paid versions available
- Works on iPad, Macbook, and iPhone
- Record lectures, handwrite notes using a stylus, incorporate pictures
- Note taking and PDF annotation
- Type notes, create sketches, and add tasks with Evernote software anywhere
- Has a free plan, also offers free trials of their premium subscriptions
- Provides templates for different types of notes
- Ability to customize notes (sizes, fonts, colors, etc.)
- Detailed directions on how to use
- Share notes with others
- Livescribe smartpen audio records lectures and meetings.
- Audio synced to the handwritten notes taken on the Livescribe notebook.
- Upload, organize recordings, handwritten notes through the Livescribe app.
- Livescribe II pen costs about $140. Livescribe notebooks 4 for $25.
Zoom Auto Generated Captions/Transcription
- Free with Zoom meeting accounts.
- Students can request the host to turn on the auto captions.
- Not a substitute for CART or ASL interpeters as needed by Deaf/Hard of Hearing students.
- Free version available
- Available on all devices
- Structure notes, search notes and create flashcards all in one app.
- Real-time transcription of Google Meet, Zoom, MS Teams and Webex.
- Free and for purchase options available.
- Includes speaker identification, save chats, highlighting.
