Students may be granted permission to record classroom activities including lectures and discussions either with the instructor's permission or as reasonable accommodation for students with disabilities.

Glean is an interactive lecture capture program and study tool designed to make classroom learning more accessible and effective. Currently used by 750 insitutions, Glean has features such as:

  • Importing slides and pictures
  • Audio transcription
  • Marking important information in the lecture to be revisited
  • Quiz Me! feature that creates a transcript into a quiz for studying

...and much more!

Glean is available to students receiving Accommodations through Disability Services. If you are interested in using this program, please call our front office at (406) 994-2824 to schedule an appointment.

Glean Procedure

Students receiving Recorded Lecture with the use of Glean must:

  1. Meet with their faculty and inform them about their Glean accommodation.
  2. Complete the Glean Qualtrics Survey sent to their email. (Please Note: if this step is not completed, the student will NOT receive a Glean license).
  3. Read through the email sent from Glean and accept the Glean invite.
  4. View the Glean Notetaking Demo and FAQ list on Glean's website. Attend a Live tutorial and work through the Skills Portal videos within Glean.
  5. Practice using Glean on a movie or TV show to get familiar with the program.
  6. If you have any issues with this program, please contact our front office at (406)994-2824 or disabilityservices@montana.edu. 

Recorded Classroom Activities Agreement

Students wanting to record lectures, discussions, and other classroom activities must agree to our recorded classroom activities agreement below:

  1. Students will provide their instructor with documentation from Disability Services supporting their accommodation to record Classroom Activities prior to making any recordings.
  2. The instructor may inform other students in the class that classroom activities may be recorded. Any such announcement will not identify the student(s) making the recording.
  3. Students' ability to record classroom activities is solely for their academic benefit and intended to aid them in the personal study. Students agree not to use the recordings for any other purpose.
  4. Students will not share the recordings with any other individual without permission from the instructor or Disability Services.
  5. Students will not copy, upload, or otherwise share recorded classroom activities with anyone, including on the internet or any other medium, without prior permission from the instructor.
  6. Students understand that these recordings are the intellectual property of the instructor and that they do not own any underlying rights in or to the content. Sharing any of these recordings (through any medium) is a violation of the Code of Student Conduct and federal copywrite laws.
  7. Students agree to immediately stop recording class activities at the request of the instructor. This should only be used in cases where the particular classroom activities for that day are likely to include discussions or material that may be sensitive or private in nature and where recording poses a privacy risk or is likely to hinder classroom discussions.
  8. At the instructor's request, Students will delete or destroy the recordings upon completion of the academic term for which the recordings were made.

*Student understands that violating this agreement may result in the withdrawal of the authorization to continue the accommodation for their recording material and/or disciplinary action.

*ALL faculty questions and concerns should be directed back to Disability Services.