Module 3 Book: Formatting Course Media So It’s Accessible
Topic 5: How do I?
Before we get into the “How to” let’s consider some important design decisions. One thing to consider when creating videos for students is that audio is more important than video so if you are considering recording your lecture or creating a short tutorial you do not necessarily need yourself on video or even need high-definition video. Go easy on yourself, focus on making your video viewable, making your audio as audible as you can and focus on creating really good content. Good audio allows students to hear your change of intonation and pitch which is interesting and vivid to listen to. Trying to make the perfect video is onerous and almost unachievable, let there be mistakes so students know you are human and relatable.
Machine Captions
Closed captions in Kaltura are automatically generated but please know that they are machine generated so there will be errors due to mispronunciations, background noise and accents, as examples. Closed captions can also be automatically generated in YouTube but they will have the same mistakes for the same reasons. It is important to review and edit your captions, if you do not you will end up with craptions! Also, your transcript file is created based on your captions so the better your captions the better your transcript will be.
Kaltura Instructions
Learn how to edit captions and download transcripts in Kaltura videos.
You will find comprehensive written instructions for editing captions in Kaltura at Accessibility and Enrichment: Editing Captions.
YouTube Instructions
Below are quick links to YouTube instructions for adding and editing transcripts and captions.
Note
These links are included for your convenience, TRU does not offer technical support for YouTube.
Other Screen Recording Softwares
If you are on a MAC you may choose to use QuickTime and if you are on a Windows computer you can check out iSpring Free Cam. You could also use Loom which works on any device or you could use paid softwares such as Snagit or Camtasia.
For audio editing we recommend Audacity. Audacity is a free, open source software that works on Windows, macOS and many other operating systems.