Quick Tip: Captioning Your Kaltura Videos
Course accessibility is a time-sensitive activity. Throughout the course's development, you can take small steps to make course materials accessible, so when a student needs accommodation, it is available. Captioning videos can even help students who do not have an accommodation, for instance, if they do not know how to spell a term, cannot have the volume on, or simply learn better by reading.
- Step 1: Upload the Video to Kaltura
Start by uploading the video to Kaltura if it is not already uploaded. If you have a recorded lecture in PowerPoint, you can export the presentation as an mp4, and then upload it to Kaltura.
- Step 2: Use Kaltura Reach to add captions
The software that does the captioning within Kaltura is called Kaltura Reach. Learn more about Kaltura Reach, and how you can use it to make your videos more accessible.
Important Note: If there is a student in your course with closed captioning accommodations from Student Accessibility Services, you will still need to contact SAS to ensure full accessibility. When you receive a course accessibility letter that includes closed captioning, submit your course information to SAS. SAS will provide accessible captions as needed and upload the captioned version into your Kaltura account.