Captioning
Captioning Rules & Options
Captioning My Own VideosIf you create your own videos and use them in your courses make sure to caption them. |
Use of video and/or audio in online and/or hybrid classes can be a powerful way to engage students with course content. However, some students may not be able to benefit from the use of rich multimedia due to physical disability, language barriers, and/or technical issues.
Benefits of Captioning
Improves retention for all learners given the multimodal learning mediums of sight and sound.
Provides content appropriate for different learning styles.
Supports students with varied comprehension levels (ESL, DSS).
Compliance with the law - section 508, 504 and some state and local laws that state material must be accessible to all.
Online and hybrid courses may be audited for accessibility compliance under at least three circumstances:
- Office of Civil Rights receives a complaint.
- Accreditation visits.
- Accessibility reviews contracted by the State Chancellor's Office.
Required
- If a video includes both audio and visuals and will be archived for repeated use, it must be captioned. A transcript alone is not enough.
- Any video shown in class—whether created by the instructor or owned by the college—must be captioned if a student enrolled in the course requires captioning as an accommodation.
- If you take clips from longer works, combine them, and archive the final video, that video must be captioned.
- Any video produced by the college and posted on a public website must be captioned.
- Transcript: If the material is audio only, no video, and is archived, then a transcript is all you need.
- Most required instructional video used more than once for online and hybrid courses MUST be captioned and audio must be transcribed.
Optional
- If a video is used for just one term and the class has restricted access (for example, it’s password-protected and only enrolled students can view it), then captioning or a transcript is only required if a student requests it as an accommodation.
- If the material is on YouTube or other online video site and you are just providing a link to content that is not required, then you only need to caption if a student requests an accommodation.
- If the material is student work or other raw footage that will not be archived for repeated use.
- There is no need to caption longer works if you are just pulling clips from it. Wait and caption the montage that you create.
- If the video already has foreign language subtitles, do not caption unless requested to do so as an accommodation.
Canvas Studio Media
If you use Studio to create your videos, you may caption them within Studio. It does machine captioning, which are fairly accurate. You must ensure that the captions are completely accurate.
YouTube
- Upload your videos to your YouTube channel
- YouTube will add auto-captioning and you must edit the captions to ensure they are accurate.
Note that if your videos are hosted in Studio, you will not be able to access them outside of Foothill. If you want to access your videos outside of Foothill, you might consider hosting your videos on YouTube.
Captioning Videos I Don't OwnThe DRC can help you caption videos that you do not own. Before contacting them make sure you have received copyrights to the video. Contact the Accommodations Coordinator at the DRC. |
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