Name recording and pronunciation tool?

Kim Ashcraft

@Gretchen Amigon
Hi Gretchen, Yes, you are correct. When I did my initial testing (and also video), I had tested as a teacher who is also a parent. I subsequently found out that it doesn't work. You can only set the profile publish access to a relationship status of parent/guardian. Thus, we decided we would need to tackle it differently. Essentially, we decided there would be a short window of time when I would turn on the student access, and the homeroom teachers would have students with difficult names record them during that period (or day). Then I would turn student access back off.

Gretchen Amigon

@Kim Ashcraft Thank you!

Kim Ashcraft

@Barbara Glass
Hi Barbara, I'm sorry for the delays. I got sick with a terrible cold and have been out for days - my speaking voice still isn't video-ready. I actually posted my doc for you earlier today and then deleted it because when I reviewed it, I realized I had student personal data visible on it, so now I need to blur that out and create a new doc before I send it outside our organization. I'm working on it now and will try to send in a few minutes. Name Pronunciation Document.pdf

Barbara V Glass

@Kim Ashcraft
Thank you. I was just working on my recording last night and the recording feature was offline and not recording. I see that it is back up again. Hope you are feeling better. Thank you.

Annemarie Merow

@Kim Ashcraft

We were one of the last schools to have the feature enabled, so I just started working with it. We want advisors to sit with their advisees and have them record but advisors don't have editing rights to their advisees. We have already determined that we don't want students recording their names unsupervised so that option is off. Our turnaround for parents is not timely if forms is any indication.

Any suggestions since you've been up and running for a month? I'm discouraged because this was such a great opportunity but with no test group from schools it doesn't function in a way that makes sense for our school.

David Gillespie

@Annemarie Merow
Consider setting the audience differently to allay most of the concerns about the students recording it themselves. In our Upper School, students and teachers can hear the name pronunciations, but in our Middle School only teachers have access. This cuts down on the playing around that could happen. Something similar comes up if you allow students to set their own Preferred Name (which we do). There's often a little “fun” at the start of the year when a handful of students decide to be cute so the attendance has some silly name. It's like a rite of passage. Some students do it, we cut their access to change it until 10th grade, and we move on. ? Note that we more finely control that access by using a role cloned from Friend called “Student with Edit Access”. We can then remove that from a student who shouldn't be able to make changes, and that also shows up in the “Profile Publish Access” area so you can make different ones for Upper vs. Middle to control who can see what.

Annemarie Merow

@David Gillespie
Thanks David! I've already used the cloned Friend role for testing by admin, so I'll make that concept work for the students as well. Enjoy!