Long-term, the solution might just be integrating with another video platform that provides valuable educational content and doesn't apply so strict ToS about the captions. I believe Gregory's solutions seems to be a great one to display captions for YouTube media and enjoy Studio's features at the same time. Short-term, we don't have a recommended solution, there are workarounds as you can see from the responses. Therefore working towards a set of media where we have prior permissions would not be ideal. We are not allowed to do so or officially integrate with them, and in best case we would only have a very limited set of media where we have prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders ( ToS.) Our understanding around using YouTube media in course building is that Youtube gives teachers opportunity and freedom to quickly find any content they need. What out is accurate, we embed YouTube media instead of uploading them (therefore those don't count to any storage).Įven though there are services existing to download media and/or its captions, they exist only for personal use. Hi pulling YouTube captions to Studio is merely a matter of YouTube's Terms of Use rather than the tech. I hope this information will be of help to you. If the captions appear in blocks of text where it's not generating text word by word, then those captions have been added by the owner. If the captions are being generated almost word by word 'on the fly' as you watch the video, then they are auto-generated. When you watch YouTube videos.you can usually tell if the captions have been auto-generated or if the captions have been thoroughly reviewed by the owner. Another option is to just send your students out to YouTube to watch the video and turn on the captions there.

I've heard that if you absolutely need captions, you can try to contact the owner of that video to see if they have the caption file (SRT or VTT file) that they would be willing to send you, or you may need to create captions on your own. It's my understanding that auto-captioning is not possible because of some legal/'Terms of Service' reasons. Good evening, are correct that Canvas Studio does not allow you to auto-generate closed captioning text for YouTube videos you add to your Studio library.

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