Captioning

Many of the online programs that ITDS works with have Panopto videos embedded throughout the course that exist in an external folder. To edit the captioning of these videos, or any video that you may have already directly embedded into a page, follow the steps below.

1. Locate the video within your course.
2. Once there, click on the ↗, highlighted below, to open the video within Panopto.

3. Within the Panopto Viewer, follow the instructions below on how to create and edit captions on a video.

Automatic captions can be added to a video after it is recorded and published.

To create automatic captions:

1. For a video recorded within your course, head over to the Panopto Video Library and select My Folder. (For videos already embedded within a page or hosted by ITDS, please see the instructions above.)
2. Hover over the video and click Settings.
3. Select Captions.
4. Make sure Automatic Machine Captions is selected.
5. Click Order.

   

6. A window will open with information regarding the order details.
7. Close the window.

Once this process has finished, the captions will be accessible.

To View or Edit the Captions:

1. Hover over the Video in the Panopto Library and select Edit.
2. Click on the Captions tab.

Captions that are auto generated need to be edited and reviewed carefully.

To edit a captions text or start time:

1. Play the video in the timeline.
2. Go to the caption you would like to edit.
3. Click the More icon to the left of the time stamp.
4. Select Edit.
5. Edit the caption as needed.
6. Click Save.
7. Repeat the process until all captions are corrected.

To delete a caption:

1. Click the More icon to the left of the time stamp.
2. Click Delete.

To add a caption:

1. Click on the timeline where you would like the caption to begin.
2. Click where is says Enter a Caption (beneath your current captions).
3. Type the text for the caption.
4. Press Enter.
5. Publish the video.

For information on manually uploading a caption file, visit the Panopto Support Website.

Google Slides – Present with Captions

When using the Chrome browser, Google Slides allows presenters to turn on automatic captions to display a speaker’s words in real-time. Using your device’s microphone or an external microphone, you can use automatic closed captions that will populate and allow you to adjust the sizing and position.

Step 1: Set up your microphone

• To use captions with Google Slides, your computer microphone needs to be on.
• Google Slides uses the computer’s microphone or an external microphone.

Step 2: Present with captions

• Connect to the Internet.
• Open your presentation in Google Slides. If you don’t have content slides, consider using a blank Google Slide to generate your audio input to transcriptions
• To start presenting, click Present
  
• At the bottom left of the Present screen, click More options –
  Captions preferences and then Toggle captions
  
• To change the location of the captions, click Text position. it is suggested you choose Top.
• To change the size of the caption text, click Text Size.

As you speak, captions appear at the bottom or top of the screen.

• To turn off captions, click More options at the bottom left of the Present screen, Captions preferences and then Toggle captions.

Notes on captions

• Captions are not stored
• Captions don’t include punctuation.
• Captions and your microphone automatically turn off if there’s no activity on your computer for 30 minutes.

Using Zoom’s Live Captions

Step 1: From within a Zoom meeting, click the Live Transcript icon on the HOST’s toolbar.

Step 2: Click the Enable Auto-Transcription option from the options box.

Step 3: Select the up arrow on the Live Transcript icon and click Enable Subtitle.

Click Subtitle Settings… to change the size of the caption text.

Click and drag the caption box to change the location of the displayed text.