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Lecshare:

Problem

Lectures: Take notes, listen to the professor, and do them both well if you want to get a good grade. What if you can’t hear what the professor is saying, can’t take notes, or can’t see the lecture slides due to visual or hearing impairments, or a learning disability? Current solutions are reactive at best, we need a scalable system to accommodate the needs of these students while enhancing the lecture-based learning experience for all students.

The way the world learns is changing. Online learning platforms are exploding in popularity for good reason: they’re effective. Content sharing platforms like Youtube allow us to access material from the world's leading academics, control the speed at which we listen to the lecture, and see related content that helps up build up a richer, deeper understanding of the course content. Students expect a similar experience in the classroom. Why isn’t learning and reviewing lectures in your own class (that you paid a lot of money for) as easy learning on the internet for free?

Because it’s a pain for professors to create that content. Their time should be spent on lecturing, not creating content, that’s where Lecshare comes in. We take the content that is naturally generated during a lecture and repackage into a format that allows students of all abilities to easily review lecture content and build up a deep understanding of course concepts.

Here’s how it works:

• The professor wears a microphone and records their lecture using our mobile or desktop application.
• We generate a transcription of the lecture.
• The professor can view and alter the transcription or recording, embed content, or sync slides.
• Once ready, the professor can publish the lecshure to the students in their class, who access the content through a University identity management system.

Here’s what it looks like for students:

• Access to the audio and transcripts of all your course lectures.
• The ability to control the speed at which you listen to a lecture.
• Ask questions about lecture content for your professor or classmates to answer.
• The ability to comment on a certain timestamp in the recording.
• See youtube video content that is related to lecture content

Additional Details

MVP Definition: By the end of the semester, We should address these wants:

As a professor, I want to Record lectures from my laptop or mobile device Upload course content in a secure way so that only students in my class can see it. Add comments to the lecture

As a student I want to Review lectures Control the playback speed of lectures See the text highlighted as the audio play over that section so that I can follow along with the lecture.