Video: OLC Faculty Workshop on “Assigning, Creating, and Assessing Podcasting in Courses” hosted by the Brian Hughes and Joe Seijo on Monday, October 27, 2025.
Podcasting can be a great hands-on learning opportunity, and courses benefit from creative and engaging activities. In this webinar, we explored several use cases for podcasting, which can add multimodal and hands-on learning to any course. Use or modify our production guides and rubrics for use in your courses:
Podcasting (Production Ideas) (a student handout)
Transcription
Your students submitted 10+ hours of podcasts… now what!?! Transcription. There are several options available for students and faculty to create transcriptions from audio files. The main options are Panopto and YouTube, depending on preference. In both applications, it is the text file used in Closed Captioning that provides the owner with a timecode text file.
In Panopto, after uploading you audio file (and waiting a minute or two for the system to process it), go to Settings > Captions > Available Captions > English to download a .txt file.
In YouTube, after uploading you audio file (and waiting a minute or two for the system to process it), go to YouTube Studio > Content > (click the Edit icon on a video) > Language > (click the Edit button by English) > select “Download .srt” under the “Automatic subtitles” menu.
Student Facilities
The OLC is for Pace faculty and staff. But students have access to multimedia facilities on both NYC and PLV campuses:
In NYC, the CMS Podcast Lab (512 Park Row) has several podcasting workstations available to all Pace students. Find the sign-up calendar here.
In Pleasantville, the Media and Communication Arts Department makes a podcast recording facility available to students. Learn how to book the studio here.
On both campuses, ITS computer labs with Macs have Adobe CC applications including Audition, Adobe’s professional audio editing application. This may be useful for more advanced students, or students looking to take editing seriously!
Production Tip of the month: You can do a lot with a great audio recording. Try recording your lecture first, then adding graphics afterwards.
Please contact OLC staff to reserve studio time or collaborate with us.
