Note: This article is how to download captions for existing videos within My Media. To learn how to upload and edit videos please see the related articles: 

Moodle My Media - Ordering Video Captions

Moodle My Media - How to edit and enable video captions

Introduction

My Media offers automatic caption creation for your videos. This enables any video uploaded to My Media to have a text alternative to the video audio. Once complete the captions can be edited manually to fix any errors or add descriptions as needed

How to download Video Captions / Transcripts

If you are the creator of the video we recommend you write a script as this can be used as a transcript as well.

1. Select your Video in MyMedia

• From Moodle, in the navigation drawer on the left, select My Media.

• Select one of your videos by clicking the thumbnail or video title

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2. Download Caption texts

• Select Actions then Edit

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• Select the attachments tab and select the far right

  To the right of the video that you would like to download captions for select the Edit button.

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• Select the Attachments tab and, and on the far right, select the download button for the transcript_en.txt file. This is the best format to download, but will require some editing.

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• Alternatively, you can download the SRT file under the Captions Tab wit the far right download button. This format is a little messier, but an extra option if needed. 

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• . This format has the text split into smaller parts with more specific timestamps.

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