In this video I am going to show you how to
download Sonocent to your computer as well
as how to use it. If your Accessibility Counselor
gives you access to Soncent as one of your
accommodations, you will receive an email
directly from Sonocent. In this email you'll
have this box here and it will be a link to
download as well as license key. This long
number right here. So you are going to go
ahead and click the download now button. So
when you click that link it will take you
here and you will be able to download Sonocent
for Windows or for Mac. Once you download
the application and open it up, you will have
to active your account. So as you can see
the license key goes right here, that is that
long number from your email. You will just
go ahead and paste that in there if it does
not automatically appear when you open the
app. You then have to put your full name,
make sure you mark you are a student, and
then you will put your West GA email in here.
Also make sure to click you have read the
user agreement and then you'll be good to
go just click activate. Once you activate
the software, this is what the Sonocent application
will look like. The first thing that will
happen is a pop up right here, where you can
take a tour of the application. I definitely
suggest you do this, it is very helpful. Alright
so I am going to give you a quick rundown
of how Sonocent works, let's go ahead and
click on blank project and open it up. So
when you open up a blank project this is what
it will look like. You can go ahead and go
into your own application and play around
with all the buttons. But it's important to
note the record button right here, um, the
important button, and then you can also look
over here to the right and you have all of
these tools to color-code the audio and text
while you're using the note taker. So if you
have a professor that posts their slides for
you to use, you can download the slides and
then import them into Sonocent. That way when
you upload the audio file of the lecture you
can have it right next to the slides that
the professor was using. When you click import
slides, you'll just download the PDF version
of the Powerpoint presentation and you would
open that. And then as you can see on the
left over here the Powerpoints have all come
in, and they are all ready to be synced with
the audio. Alright so next we can import the
audio from the lecture. Note that you can
record on Sonocent, but I have found most
students like to record on their phone and
then import the audio after the lecture. When
you click import audio you would then just
select the audio and click open. Now you can
see the audio has been downloaded and is synced
with the Powerpoint presentation. These bars
are the audio. A cool aspect of Sonocent is
that you can color-code the audio as well
as the notes you are taking. Right here you
can see I color-coded this as blue, and over
here on the (right), blue means to go back
and review. I also wrote in the text box that
I need to go review this section. Down here
we have some green audio cut out and that
is a task, and followed by it is pink, which
means it's important. So I know to go back
and listen to this audio later. I also wrote
on the side that I need to take a quiz by
a certain date. So I can have that to go back
and look at later. If the audio doesn't line
up correctly, or you want to put certain audio
into different sections, you can go here to
this button right here. Select the drop down,
and then you can see I selected to put this
audio in its own section. So I can go back
and review it as important. While you are
working on Sonocent, one of the most important
buttons is the save button. Make sure you
are saving your project as you go along. You
wouldn't want to lose all your hard work as
you're highlighting, uploading, and typing
out your notes. If you want to learn more
about Sonocent, be sure to go to their Skills
Portal. You can find that over here when you're
in the Home page. You can go to the Learn
option down here. And you can go to their
Skills Portal. They have a bunch of tips and
tricks and tutorials on how to use Sonocent
to its fullest extent.
