Instructional Design & Tecnology

IMPORTANT: It's vital that you review & edit video captions before you share the video link or post your video to Joule/Moodle. A quick note about YouTube auto captions: Auto-captions generally take up to 1 hour (or longer, depending on the duration of your upload) to show up. It's usually fairly quick, but as so many more educators are using this tool right now, you should expect a bit of a delay. Please remember that providing students with (at least) text closed captions to the videos we share with them is a legal requirement. Upload Your video to our YouTube Channel, and select the correct Playlist. Playlists for your team or class are pre-set to make all videos "Unlisted". When the video processes, it may open a new browser window on your computer and auto-play. In YouTube Studio > select Videos and click on the thumbnail of the video that you want to edit When the details page appears, select "More Options and scroll down to "Sub...

Embedding Videos in our LMS: 1 minute tutorial on embedding your finished videos on a page in the Learning Management System By sharing the video from Youtube or another streaming service--rather than uploading the video directly to the LMS, you ensure the inclusion of closed-captions that accompany the video. 

Closed Captions on YouTube can either be provided by the owner of the video or are automated captions which use speech recognition software to transcribe the video. For a video to have the options of auto-captions, the video owner must have first requested auto-captions on a video. The speech recognition track can take a few days to become available to viewers. Video owners can also disable auto-captions once they’re activated. How to search closed captioned videos on YouTube To search YouTube for videos with closed captions: Search the key terms of the video or type of video you want to watch. From the search results page, click on ‘Filter’. Under ‘Features’ select the ‘Subtitles/CC’ option. The results will now be filtered to display all videos with closed captions. Any video with captions provided by the video owner is indicated by the CC symbol in search results and a CC icon in the bottom right of the video player. How to turn closed captions on/off on YouTube ...