VoiceThread: How can I turn on captions for a VoiceThread?

How To

Question:

How can I turn on captions for a VoiceThread?

Answer:

Note: VoiceThread audio and video comments made within D2L using our site license will be captioned automatically shortly after creation, typically in about 3 minutes. To ensure accessibility of their content, users should manually edit the automatically generated comments.

  1. In the upper-right corner of the VoiceThread window, click on the “CC” button.

  2. From the dropdown menu select “On”.

Captions should now display automatically whenever audio content is playing.

Details

Article ID: 101235
Created
Fri 3/13/20 3:13 PM
Modified
Wed 6/14/23 2:51 PM

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