Educational Translation for Classes, Meetings & Events

Educational & Academic Translations Provides and Inclusive School Experience

Most schools, colleges, and universities provide services for a diverse community of students, parents, teachers, and staff. The diverse community members often speak a large range of first languages which can lead to communication barriers, lower education, and reduced learning. Providing interpreters can help, but the cost and logistical complexity make this hard to implement widely.
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Wordly solved the problem with AI education translation - providing a groundbreaking solution that increases inclusivity and engagement by providing an affordable, on-demand, easy to use solution.

Now you can offer live education translation for a wide range of use cases - enabling you to provide a more language inclusive educational experience for everyone.

Education Translation Use Cases Include:

• Classroom lectures
• Student tutoring sessions
• School board meetings
• Parent teacher conferences
• Commencement ceremonies
• PTA meetings
• Staff training
• Course videos

Top Reasons to Offer Educational Translation

In a translation research study conducted by Dimensional Research, 76% of respondents reported their use of translation at multilingual events is increasing. The business benefits to offering live translation included:

‍Global Reach - Live translation gives courses global appeal. Allow students to participate in their preferred language. Make attending your classes more comfortable and enjoyable for all participants.

‍Student Engagement - Live translation adds another layer of excitement to a course which delights and captivates participants as it continuously renders transcripts before their eyes. This heightened engagement is crucial when it is so easy for students to become distracted.

‍Translated Transcripts - Automated translation transcripts can be offered after the class to provide another learning aid.

How Wordly Solves Translation Challenges in Education and Academics

Wordly solved the education and school translation problem by developing the industry's first 100% AI-powered live translation platform - providing a fast, easy, and affordable solution for today's global, multilingual, virtual world. Wordly is powered by AI and does not require human interpreters or special equipment.
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A summary of how Wordly works in the classroom is provided below. The process is similar for other use cases. You can use one Wordly account for multiple use cases, or create different accounts for each use case to fit your budgeting process.

1. The school sets up a Wordly account - and purchases a package of translation hours. The time can be shared across your school and is usable for up to one year.
2. A designated school administrator sets up a translation session in the Wordly portal and sends students the link to the Wordly session. There is no need for special hardware or sound booths to manage Wordly AI-powered translation.
3. Instructors join the session and select the language they want to speak in from a drop down menu. All languages are interpreted in real-time and always available on demand at your fingertips.
4. Course attendees join the session and select the language they want to participate in - they can listen to the live audio translation or read live translated captions - every attendee can select their preferred language from over dozens of options. Participants can access real-time translation and interpretation on their own personal devices in their preferred language.

Why Wordly For Education Translation

Quality - High quality is critical to delivering a great education experience. Wordly provides high quality live translation and captions for dozens of languages. We do extensive testing and benchmarking before and after launching a language to make sure the quality meets high standards. We also support the creation of customizable glossaries which can be used to tune the results for each subject.

‍Experience - You have established a great reputation and want to ensure your service providers will meet your standards. Wordly has over 5 years of experience and millions of users worldwide. We have used this experience to continuously improve our product - higher quality, more features, and ease of use.

‍Flexibility - You have an established set of processes for your educational institution and need new solutions to support your organization. Wordly can work with you to develop a plan to ensure you can deploy our solution in a way that fits within your existing infrastructure. Our team will review you needs and help you build a plan that is easy to implement and manage on an ongoing basis.

For more reasons why Wordly is your #1 choice for conference translation, see audio translation.

Wordly also supports multilingual Training Translation. Increase attendance, engagement and inclusivity by allowing all training participants to select their preferred language. Increase language accessibility and satisfaction for employees, prospects and customers.

Educational Translation FAQs

1. Does it work in lecture halls and Zoom/Teams
‍Yes. Wordly works in large lecture halls, hybrid rooms, and virtual classes. Students can join a session from the room via QR code or link, and it also works alongside Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and other platforms.

‍2. How many languages are supported?
‍Wordly supports dozens of languages and dialects for captions and translation, including Spanish, French, Mandarin, Arabic, Portuguese, and more.

‍3. Is FERPA compliant data handling supported?
‍Wordly is designed to support FERPA-aligned practices. It does not require storing personally identifiable student information to deliver live captions and translation, and it can be configured to meet institutional privacy and retention policies. Your legal and IT teams should confirm final FERPA compliance for your deployment.

‍4. Can students access translation on phones?
‍Yes. Students can view live captions and translation on any modern device through a browser. No app is required. They can join by scanning a QR code or using a short link.

‍5. Can we export transcripts after class?
‍Yes. Instructors or admins can export transcripts after a session and share them with students or upload them to your LMS. Common file formats are available for download.