Hi, this is Suzanne Delahanty. I am going to do a
quick demo on how to actually use Canvas Studio as
a captioning tool and it's super easy to use. So
this demo assumes that you already know how to
use Studio and you can access it and you've
already logged into your Dashboard on Canvas. On
the left side, you'll see a menu with lots of
items. In there you should see Canvas Studio.
So if you go ahead and click on that, that will
take you right into your Studio account, which
everybody at our college now has for free. I'm
going to find a video that I need to caption. So
whatever video you've already created, we're
assuming you've already created a video, but you
haven't captioned it. We going to find one. I
made a really short demo video to sample. First
thing you're going to do is you're going to hit
the "view" button so you can get into the main
controls for that video. What you see here is my
45 second clip, a very boring video, but I
love to use it because it is so short. You'll
see all the controls, details, and comments inside. But
the one we're interested in here is "captions". So
you're going to go ahead and click that. But
notice above, you see no close captions available because
none have been generated, either via automated or
professionally (human) captioned. We're going to go ahead
and click on the "caption" menu item here right
below your video, and then you're going to go down
under caption request, and you'll need to first select
a language. So in this case, it's English. But if
you are teaching Spanish, maybe you'd select
another language like Spanish. But in this case,
obviously English. So I'm going to request it.
What this will do is it'll auto generate captions
for you; and in this case, it's much easier to go
ahead and edit pre-captioned auto computer generated
captions that helps you get to about 85%
accurate captions. But that is not good
enough for the ADA. For people that are deaf or
hard of hearing, we are required to make sure all
of our videos before our classes start, are
actually 99% accurate. And that's
not only if you happen to know you have a deaf student,
that's for every video we publish, that's a
regular instructional online video for a class
course. So good to know. But if you have a short
video, this is super easy now to begin, now that we've auto
generated (most the text). You'll get an email, by the way, saying,
"your auto generated captions are ready" and
I'll show you what that looks like. You should see
that under your main unread emails; and here it
is, I have a Studio email that says your automated
captions are ready to be retrieved and you can
actually go right into the video from here, so
that's very convenient. I'm going to go back
to Studio here. Just know that this option is
quite nice if you have a longer video to let you
know when it's done(processing). Now that it is done,
you're going to go in and say "Review and Publish".
You have to check it out and then publish it. Before
you publish it, it is a good idea to go through
and edit any typos. We're going to look for
words that are misspelled. Obviously, this is a
brand name. I'm going to capitalize that and put a
hyphen there. So that is something that is
specific to Xerox, so I'll go ahead and copy paste
this to save myself some time. It looks like the
rest of it is pretty good, but if you find any
words that are misspelled based on any special
terminology in your class, you can go ahead and
correct those by clicking on any of these. If
it's a longer video, you can go ahead and jump
around and hear parts of it
then that will help make sure it's
accurate,
and that will guide you through
hearing the words if you need a little help with
that. Anyway, if I go ahead and check on my
words in here and I'm happy with them, then I hit
"Publish". At this point I now have a published
edit captioned, not an auto-generated captioned video, but a
"human" fine tuned captioned video, which is
much more accurate. And if you have a longer video
that is over 15 minutes, I highly recommend you
letting me know and I will be happy to get that
close-captioned for you professionally for free
through our grant with the distance and captioning
and transcription grant. (DECT) Just let me know.
Email me; I can show you how to do it, or I'm
happy to do it for you if you need assistance.
Anyway, that's how this is done. I hope you find
it helpful and have a wonderful day.