Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 23:24     Subject: Lecture Recording App
I’m OP- she will go through the disability office, but she is in a one party consent state so I think legally she is allowed. That said, I didn’t ask here as a way to create issues. I was just trying to help her and was asking for advice. No need to lecture!
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 23:06     Subject: Lecture Recording App
I am a professor. I would penalize any student who violates our school’s well-publicized recording policy. And I would fail any student who publicly distributed or posted all or part of a recording.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 23:01     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Most states are one party consent for recordings
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 22:52     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The days of not being recorded without explicit permission are long gone. Every meeting at work is recorded and transcribed these days - it drives productivity and results. No one really cares to listen to a recording of someone else teaching a class, it’s about the auto summarization of notes. I know lawyers are still nervous about the constant recording but I can tell you, it's here to stay.


This may be true in your industry but I can assure you it is not true across all industries.

My experience is that as soon as someone pushes "record" everyone gets a notice that the meeting is being recorded and their permission is assumed if they stay in the meeting.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 22:50     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Anonymous wrote:That’s illegal in many states so go through the disability office.

This. You need to go through the disability office. My daughter used and it was somewhat helpful as her processing speed in 15%.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 22:33     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Anonymous wrote:Blablablablablabla

Professors here are a joke. Burying their head in the sand as if thy can stop this. Please.

True is, you can use Otter in your phone and NOBODY will know you are recording anything. I attend an Ivy and every student is doing this. Every single one. I’ll be a senior next year. This is just std protocol. It has helped me study much better. I’m much better prepared now studying with my AI notes than ever before. Stop pretending this is not happening.


You certainly don’t write like an Ivy student.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 21:49     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Anonymous wrote:The days of not being recorded without explicit permission are long gone. Every meeting at work is recorded and transcribed these days - it drives productivity and results. No one really cares to listen to a recording of someone else teaching a class, it’s about the auto summarization of notes. I know lawyers are still nervous about the constant recording but I can tell you, it's here to stay.


This may be true in your industry but I can assure you it is not true across all industries.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 20:54     Subject: Lecture Recording App
I am OP. She has made an appointment with her disabilities specialist. She gets other accommodations, so I don't think it will be hard to add. However, from other threads (and even an earlier PP), it does sound like it is already being utilized by students without an explicit accommodation.

For the immediate PP, her (with our help) finding strategies that work for her is not a sign of weakness. She has to work harder than most, and yet is doing amazing in college. She is growing and figuring out the best strategies for her brain. A company is going to be very lucky to have her one day.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 20:53     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:PP again - I am a professor and I require my intro students to handwrite notes for credit (unless they have a specific typing accommodation). They grumble and some try to submit typed notes and I give them zeros until they rewrite them. Many of them tell me mid-way through the semester that they are really learning and that the handwritten notes actually help!


You are a college professor? That seems very hand-holding for college.

Don’t get me wrong, the science is on your side as far as handwriting is the way to reinforce the knowledge. I’m just surprised a college professor would require this and give credit for it. Seems like a middle/high school thing.


Yup - it is hand holding and crazy, I agree. FWIW - this is a community college, so some of my students are coming in without study skills, but some are high performers. By the time they get to my advanced classes, I expect them to know how to take good notes without me telling them to. Took years for me to break down to this level, but I eventually came to the decision that my goal was for my students to learn, and I do whatever I can to facilitate that. The points only add up to about 1% of their grade, but it's an incentive to do the work. Too many kids are not learning basic note-taking skills in high school anymore, so it's pushed off to the college profs to deal with the repercussions. It's not only an issue at community colleges, as you can tell from the kids/parents posting about it on DCUM.


I’m the person who asked if it was college. Makes more sense for community college and good for you. They have to learn study skills somewhere so it’s great that you do that. If you were at a top college I’d roll my eyes with all of the bragging parents do on here about what great students their kids are. Both of my kids take handwritten notes, but one has dysgraphia so sometimes cannot later read their notes and has to go back to class recordings or ask classmates.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 20:17     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Anonymous wrote:It was mentioned in the special needs board and the comment was that many students use it without official accommodations.

My sophomore with ADHD has trouble keeping up with lectures and I was thinking this could be perfect. She could listen to the lectures without stressing about capturing every word. Maybe I am romanticizing the idea, but thought it was worth a try!


If your 20 year old has a problem then she should be researching tools to help herself and talking to her teacher.

I don't know how you think you are helping her by romanticizing the idea, when she's 26 are you going to go to meetings for her to and take notes and ask questions?

Can I get her name now so I can remove her from my hiring pool?

I am very serious.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 20:06     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Blablablablablabla

Professors here are a joke. Burying their head in the sand as if thy can stop this. Please.

True is, you can use Otter in your phone and NOBODY will know you are recording anything. I attend an Ivy and every student is doing this. Every single one. I’ll be a senior next year. This is just std protocol. It has helped me study much better. I’m much better prepared now studying with my AI notes than ever before. Stop pretending this is not happening.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 17:01     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Be careful with this, OP. I am a college professor and I allow this if requested, but I have noticed that students who use AI note-taking apps often don't process the information as well as students who take their own notes. They perform worse on exams as a result. It takes mental effort to summarize a lecture into its main points, and this is an important part of the learning process. The shortcut hurts the kids rather than helping, and that's why I encourage the students to take their own notes.

I've also had students who have used AI to complete the study guides that I release to help them prepare for exams. This has lead to some really bad misunderstandings of the material as well, so next semester I will have to warn them not to do this.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 16:35     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:PP again - I am a professor and I require my intro students to handwrite notes for credit (unless they have a specific typing accommodation). They grumble and some try to submit typed notes and I give them zeros until they rewrite them. Many of them tell me mid-way through the semester that they are really learning and that the handwritten notes actually help!


You are a college professor? That seems very hand-holding for college.

Don’t get me wrong, the science is on your side as far as handwriting is the way to reinforce the knowledge. I’m just surprised a college professor would require this and give credit for it. Seems like a middle/high school thing.


Those guys abjectly failed. Props to the prof above for guiding his students.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 16:21     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:PP again - I am a professor and I require my intro students to handwrite notes for credit (unless they have a specific typing accommodation). They grumble and some try to submit typed notes and I give them zeros until they rewrite them. Many of them tell me mid-way through the semester that they are really learning and that the handwritten notes actually help!


You are a college professor? That seems very hand-holding for college.

Don’t get me wrong, the science is on your side as far as handwriting is the way to reinforce the knowledge. I’m just surprised a college professor would require this and give credit for it. Seems like a middle/high school thing.


Yup - it is hand holding and crazy, I agree. FWIW - this is a community college, so some of my students are coming in without study skills, but some are high performers. By the time they get to my advanced classes, I expect them to know how to take good notes without me telling them to. Took years for me to break down to this level, but I eventually came to the decision that my goal was for my students to learn, and I do whatever I can to facilitate that. The points only add up to about 1% of their grade, but it's an incentive to do the work. Too many kids are not learning basic note-taking skills in high school anymore, so it's pushed off to the college profs to deal with the repercussions. It's not only an issue at community colleges, as you can tell from the kids/parents posting about it on DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 16:08     Subject: Lecture Recording App
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It was mentioned in the special needs board and the comment was that many students use it without official accommodations.

My sophomore with ADHD has trouble keeping up with lectures and I was thinking this could be perfect. She could listen to the lectures without stressing about capturing every word. Maybe I am romanticizing the idea, but thought it was worth a try!


Your child should request this as an accommodation through disability services. Most schools have their own platform that they use (eg Glean) and they will provide it free of charge as part of the accommodation.


Yes mine was just told about Glean.
T10.