Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020.
In order to make video content as accessible to all learners as possible, it is important to include closed captioning whenever possible. Included below are links to information about how to add captions, including automatic captions, to different videos depending on what technology you are using to generate your videos and upload them to.
Closed Captioning on Youtube:
Closed Captioning on SCOM:
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- Videos are automatically captioned upon upload to Panopto. If you have a customized transcription in Screencast-O-Matic that you would prefer to use, it can be downloaded and uploaded to your videos in Panopto.
- See also: How to edit captions for a Panopto video in the editor
Image Attribution: “Closed captioning symbol” by WGBH, Wikimedia is in the Public Domain