{"id":7210,"date":"2021-02-11T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=7210"},"modified":"2021-02-11T16:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T21:19:41","slug":"avoiding-awkwardness-student-name-pronunciations-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2021\/02\/11\/avoiding-awkwardness-student-name-pronunciations-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding awkwardness: student name pronunciations now available!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It can be awkward addressing a someone in your class when you don&#8217;t know how to properly say their name.  In cooperation with the Dean&#8217;s Office, ITS has developed a system to allow students and professors to make an audio recording of their names in Moodle and allow others to listen to the pronunciation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructions on how to record your name and listen to other&#8217;s names is available on our <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu\/display\/MOODLE\/Record+your+name+pronunciation+in+Moodle\">Record your name pronunciation in Moodle<\/a> help page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a student or professor has recorded their name,  you can listen to the pronunciation by logging in your Moodle course and selecting the Participants list in the left-hand navigation column.  Click on a person&#8217;s name to bring up their profile and play the audio located under their name and photo.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For employees with access to Faculty Services, student name pronunciations from Moodle are available in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Each student\u2019s individual record<\/li><li>Course rosters<\/li><li>Class photo list (linked from course roster page)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Liz Derickson in the Dean&#8217;s Office and Frank Milewski in ITS for the efforts in making this project successful.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions or encounter any problems with name pronunciations, please let us know at support@swarthmore.edu or <a href=\"https:\/\/support.swarthmore.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support.swarthmore.edu<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image based on speak by Kiran Shastry from the Noun Project<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be awkward addressing a someone in your class when you don&#8217;t know how to properly say their name. In cooperation with the Dean&#8217;s Office, ITS has developed a system to allow students and professors to make an audio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2021\/02\/11\/avoiding-awkwardness-student-name-pronunciations-now-available\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avoiding awkwardness: student name pronunciations now available!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":7212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,113,80,114],"tags":[426,90,154,425,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-7210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-facultystaff","9":"category-moodle","10":"category-students","11":"tag-faculty-services","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-moodle","14":"tag-name","15":"tag-pronunciation","17":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pronunciation-e1613078160267.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1Si","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}