Studio should pull in native captions from YouTube

[dj_hawkins]

I know that this is possible in general as PlayPosit and TechSmith Knowmia do this. When will Canvas Studio have this feature?

[ProfMartin]

I agree. Studio needs to have this functionality. 

For those not using PlayPosit or TechSmith Knowmia, we are left with having to use other apps to download the captions. 

[Stef_retired]

@dj_hawkins 

Thanks for sharing this idea. YouTube would need to remove certain restrictions from the API they provide us before we could accommodate this, so with that in mind, we’ll move the conversation forward as a partnership enhancement request.

[dj_hawkins]

Stefanie--

Thank you! You might also reach out to PlayPosit and TechSmith Knowmia to see how they handle this handshake. *smile* Maybe there's a workaround?

DJ

[Stef_retired]

@dj_hawkins 

Thanks for the advice!

[ashleyhurst]

Please add this function!  We have students who need the captioning, and it is very challenging to get the captioning into studio from a YouTube video. 

[cmpn]

Is there any update on this? This is a big accessibility challenge that severely limits the usefulness of Canvas Studio's media management features.

The fact that we lose existing captions from third-party YouTube videos when incorporating them into Studio means that using this feature actually creates accessibility barriers. I can't recommend a feature to faculty or designers that makes videos less accessible.

This is a shame, because Studio is otherwise pretty good on this front.

[bcalnan]

I would love for this to become a reality.

[Hildi_Pardo]

I would like to add support for this idea.   As mentioned before, other products (including EdPuzzle), do allow the captions from YouTube.  It's a huge accessibility issue.    Please address this.  Thank you!!

[tyler_witman]

This is such an important accessibility feature. Without this, we're forced to find other resources. 

[katherine_leon]

Please address this accessibility feature issue. 

[jfribush]

We would love to have all our videos go through Studio, both ones we've made and ones we're using through YouTube.  Right now there's no way to do this with YouTube without losing captions, so we're not able to put them in Studio.  Many of our parents are concerned about the additional links that are available when we embed a YouTube video directly.  Having Studio pull captions from the YouTube video would solve this access problem for us.    

[dj_hawkins]

@Stef_retired 

Has there been any movement on this API handshake issue? So many other tools can do this? And now, more than ever, I would to be able to tell my faculty that Studio can pull in YouTube captions. 

DJ

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