For accommodation purposes, videos used in courses must contain high-quality captions. If you create videos yourself (i.e. video lectures), this is a fairly straightforward process that capitalizes on Butler’s Panopto content capture system. Please contact the Center for Academic Technology (CAT) at 317-940-8575 or by email at cat@butler.edu for more information on this process.
Teaching with Accessible Video: A resource from the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials that provides an overview of why to use accessible video in teaching, the benefits to students of all abilities, and tips for teaching with video.
WebAIM: Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Descriptions: Brief training document on best practices for captions, transcriptions, audio descriptions
Panopto Captions: Add automatic captions to your Panopto videos.
YouTube Captions and Subtitles: Use one of four methods to add captions to your YouTube videos.
This is an overview of the elements that require special consideration when using video content. Please review one of the Additional Resources for detailed instructions on any of the following.
*Optimizing Video for Learning from UDL On Campus by CAST is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Butler Libraries subscribe to the following video databases that cover educational, documentary content as well as some independent/foreign feature films. In addition to Butler having licenses to use video content from these services which will mitigate copyright concerns, the vast majority of the clips are already captioned and/or transcribed. Your subject liaison librarian is willing to assist you with searching these and additional resources for content that meets your subject needs and has captioning included. Feel free to reach out to your liaison librarian.
Consult the Find Images & Media: Butler Streaming Video for additional information on the Library's subscription streaming services.
For accommodation purposes, videos used in courses must contain high-quality captions. If you create videos yourself (i.e. video lectures), this is a fairly straightforward process that capitalizes on Butler’s Panopto content capture system. Please contact the Center for Academic Technology (CAT) at 317-940-8575 or by email at cat@butler.edu for more information on this process.
Third party owned videos (e.g. found on streaming databases, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) used in your courses must also contain high-quality captions. To assist you in this process, CAT and the Library have developed a sequence of steps to help you determine that the best captioned video content is sourced and being used for your course.
If you already have written permission from the copyright owner, this last step will be greatly aided. For more information about requesting captioning for 3rd party videos, contact CAT at 317-940-8575 or by email at cat@butler.edu.
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