Captions help expand the accessibility of your course, making your content easier to engage with by a wider, more diverse audience. You can add caption files to your videos and audio to provide closed captions for learners who are hard of hearing or subtitles for learners who may not understand the language being spoken.
You can add multiple caption files at once to a video or audio, allowing your users to choose the captions that will assist them best. The captions can be toggled on or off using the CC button on the video or audio container.
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Before you begin
Captions can be added to video or audio but you must upload them to your course first before you can add captions to them. See these articles for more guidance:
We support the upload of caption files in either VTT or SRT format.
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Note: It is only possible to add captions to videos that you have uploaded to Elucidat. To enable or add captions to a video embedded from a third-party service like Youtube, you will need to set it up at the provider's side. |
Adding captions to a video
1. In your Project, open the page with the video you'd like to add captions to
2. In the Author view, select the Edit menu icon on the top right corner of the video player to open the editing options
3. Select Video to reveal the video settings
You have two options:
- Choose from library—add captions that have already been uploaded to your Asset Library
- Upload—upload a caption file directly from your computer
Choosing captions from your library
1. Select Choose from library
2. Choose Captions/subtitles
3. Search your Asset Library for the caption file
4. Select Use this Text to add the captions to your video
5. Select Save to save your changes
Uploading captions directly
1. Select Upload
2. Choose the caption file you'd like to add from your computer's files
3. Select the Save button to save your changes
Adding captions to audio
1. In your Project, open the page with the audio you'd like to add captions to
2. In the Author view, select the Edit menu icon on the top right corner of the audio player to open the editing options.
3. Select Audio to reveal the video settings
You have two options:
- Choose from library—add captions that have already been uploaded to your Asset Library
- Upload—upload a caption file directly from your computer
Choosing captions from your library
1. Select Choose from library
2. Choose Captions/subtitles
3. Search your Asset Library for the caption file
4. Select Use this Text to add the captions to your video
5. Select Save to save your changes
Repeat as many times as needed.
Uploading captions directly
1. Select Upload
2. Choose the caption file you'd like to add from your computer's files
3. Select the Save button to save your changes