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[Filomeno Robles]

Ithas been a long day, you are commuting back home and would like to watch some videos on Facebook, but do not have your headphones with you? Most videos on Facebook are watched with the sound turned off, according to several studies. In the following article we list several reasons why captions are necessary in the modern era.

Online video consumption has seen a tremendous growth over the last decade. Cisco predicts that in 2022, videos will account for more than 82 % of all Internet traffic, which is 15 times more than just five years ago. Watching audiovisual content, a combination of audio and video, is simply more engaging to the human eye than when the two formats are presented separately.

The increase in demand relates to the fact that Internet video has gotten much more sophisticated in the last years and has a diverse set of uses. In addition to entertainment and news, videos are now used to present products, services, and companies. The video has also become a popular format for tutorials, expert reviews, blogs, etc., not to mention all the workshops, conferences and lectures that have moved online due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

We turn to videos more and more every day as an effective tool for communicating information. But how to make a video as clear and accessible as possible? Several independent studies from the United States suggest that captions play an irreplaceable role in this regard.

The survey involved 5616 American consumers aged 18-54. The results showed that 69 % people view video with sound off in public places and 25 % watch with sound off on private places. As many as 80% of consumers said they were more likely to watch a video to completion if captions were available. Half of the respondents then emphasized that subtitles were important to them because they usually watch videos with the sound turned off.

Adding subtitles to your videos does not have to be complicated nor expensive. Thanks to the technology of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the online application Beey.io offers a fast and easy way to transcribe videos, interviews, podcasts and other audio or video files into text.

All you need is three steps: upload your video, correct the mistakes in the automatic transcription and download the captions in the SRT or VTT format. For more information, visit the official website of the application or create an account in the trial version for free.

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When universities went online in response to Covid-19, so did the tests their students took. But one of the people who logged on to take an exam in a pre-med chemistry class at a well-known mid-Atlantic university turned out not to be a student at all.

But he was in Qatar, beyond the reach of any attempts to hold him accountable, according to proctors familiar with the situation. They could not say what happened to the students who allegedly hired him.

It was a dramatic case, but far from unique. Universal online testing has created a documented increase in cheating, often because universities, colleges and testing companies were unprepared for the scale of the transformation or unable or unwilling to pay for safeguards, according to faculty and testing experts.

Even with trained proctors watching test-takers and checking their IDs, cheating is up. Before Covid-19 forced millions of students online, one of the companies that provides that service, ProctorU, caught people cheating on fewer than 1 percent of the 340,000 exams it administered from January through March. During the height of remote testing, the company says, the number of exams it supervised jumped to 1.3 million from April through June, and the cheating rate rose above 8 percent.

And for most online test-takers, no one has been watching. One reason is that, as demand for online testing spiked, proctoring capacity was overwhelmed. One company, Examity, suspended its live proctoring services during the demand surge when its 1,000 proctors in India were locked down to curb the spread of the coronavirus there.

Ninety-three percent of instructors think students are more likely to cheat online than in person, according to a survey conducted in May by the publishing and digital education company Wiley. Only a third said they were using some type of proctoring to prevent it. Many colleges and universities moved ahead with online testing without supervision to save money. Others opted instead for less expensive, scaled-down kinds of test security, such as software that can lock a web browser while a student takes a test.

ProctorU, which provides proctors to be sure online test-takers follow the rules, caught people cheating on fewer than 1 percent of exams it administered before the Covid-19 outbreak. Since then the number has jumped to more than 8 percent.

Though these sites have been around since before the pandemic, their use appears to have exploded as more tests are given online. Students used Chegg to allegedly cheat on online exams and tests in the spring at schools including Georgia Tech, Boston University, North Carolina State and Purdue, according to faculty at those institutions and news reports. Universities prefer not to talk about cheating incidents, and federal privacy law limits how much detail they can provide.

At North Carolina State, more than 200 of the 800 students in a single Statistics 311 class were referred for disciplinary action for getting answers to exam questions from a company that offers online tutoring services.

After the exam, Johnson said, he asked his university to get Chegg to remove the questions, citing copyright law. Chegg did, and furnished a report of users who had either posted or accessed the exam materials.

The number of students who are cheating is almost certainly higher than the number being caught or reported. Research has shown that instructors believe cheating happens much less often than students do, which means they may not be looking for it. When they do find it, many choose to simply give cheaters an F, without reporting the incidents further.

Colleges were not the only institutions to rush examinations online. Advanced placement and other tests also went virtual in the spring and the parent College Board said it was prepared to move the SAT online in the fall if necessary but then reversed itself.* So did law school entrance and placement exams, professional certification tests for financial managers and food handlers and many others.

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