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 modify captions created by the faculty member, by the automated speech recognition (ASR) service or by the 3PlayMedia service.
Please Note
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Editing Captions to a Recording Step-by-Step Guide
- Login to MyClasses Canvas and select the desired course.
- From the course navigation, select Panopto Recordings.
- Move the cursor to the desired recording and select Edit.
- On the left of the screen, select Captions.
Captions will display on the left with time coding. To correct or modify terminology or grammar, highlight the text area and make your modifications. Continue this process throughout the entire video.
Note: Creators of the videos should review all captions for accuracy. Faculty are creators be default and are highly encouraged to review the closed captioning for accuracy.
- Once all modifications have been made. Select Publish in the top right corner to save your changes. To cancel changes, click Revert.
