Adding ASR Closed Captions to Panopto Recordings

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In accordance with Section 508 of the American Disability Act, Instructional videos at Salisbury University are to include closed captions. The benefits of captions goes beyond this act and are beneficial for ALL viewers:

Ensures a diverse audience can view your video, including deaf and hearing impaired and individuals for whom English is a second language.
Increases comprehension and retention as viewers are engaged in multiple senses, visual and auditory. Seeing text and hearing audio tougher reinforces learning concepts, provides clarity to vocabulary, fosters understanding and helps those with learning disabilities.

Faculty are encouraged to include closed captioning for all of their Panopto instructional recordings. As such, faculty can use the automated speech recognition (ASR) service to add and modify captions.

Note: This service is machine-generated and should be reviewed by the instructor for accuracy. Faculty can edit the captions, including grammar. The goal of any closed caption is 98.5% accuracy.

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Adding Captions to a Recording Step-by-Step Guide

Login to MyClasses Canvas and select the desired course.
From the course navigation, select Panopto Recordings.
Hover the cursor to the desired recording. Select the three dots that appear and then select the edit icon.
On the left of the screen, select Captions.
From the Import captions drop-down, select Import automatic captions.
Captions will display on the left with time coding. Creators of the videos should review all captions for accuracy. Corrections for terminology and grammar can be made by clicking on the text that needs to be modified.
Automated Captions Edit Menu
In the top right corner, click Apply to save your changes.