Please note: videos embedded in courses before March 2025 have not been converted to the new player yet. The following instructions are for the new V7 player. See below for new player ID number.

Introduction

The transcript window displays captions in a window next to to the video being played. Viewers can follow along or search and jump to a specific point in the video where a word was spoken.

Open Transcript Window for a Video

To open and view the transcript, first click play on the video and then the transcript icon will show up.

Look in the top right for the transcript icon. Click the transcript icon to open the transcript window and it will display on the right side of the video player.

Pop-out transcript

The pop-out transcript feature lets you pop out the transcript into a floating, draggable, and resizable window, allowing for full-size video viewing. The side panel closes automatically when you pop out the transcript. All the usual transcript features are available in the popped out window, for example, words are highlighted, clicking on a word navigates to that point in the video, and you can use the search function.

If the player is large enough, a pop-out icon will appear at the top right of the player. Click this icon to pop out the transcript.

• If you don't see the pop-out icon, click the three dots menu. 

• Select Popout transcript.

• You can drag the transcript to a different area of your screen.

• To cancel the pop out, click the X at the top right of the pop out, or click blue button Bring it back.
  
  

Features

• Captions are displayed during playback. 

• Fast-forward or rewind to search for a particular point in the video.

• Play the video and follow the transcript, with the text highlighted as it plays.

• Pop-out the transcript and follow the video in a separate, resizable window (click the 3 dots to open the menu).

• Download or print the transcript file (read more below).

• Search for specific words in the transcript by entering a search term in the 'Search in Transcript' field (as shown in the image below).

Download and Print a Video Transcript

The transcript file can be downloaded or printed as a plain text file. For videos you have uploaded into My Media, go to your My Media to find the transcripts. For videos embedded in a course, look in the video player that is on the Moodle page for the transcript.

1. Videos uploaded into My Media

In the top menu, click on My Media.

Go to your video and click on either the thumbnail picture, title or the Edit (pencil icon) to open the video.

Click on the video to start playing the video. 

Look for the transcript icon in the top right corner.

Click the three dots in the top-right corner of the player, or in the pop-out window if the transcript has been popped out.

Select Download current transcript or Print current transcript. 

Your browser will save the text file to your Downloads folder on your computer.

2. Videos embedded in a course

Go to a Moodle page, click on the video to start playing the video.

Look for the transcript icon in the top right corner.

Click the three dots in the top-right corner of the player, or in the pop-out window if the transcript has been popped out.

Select Download current transcript or Print current transcript. 

Updating Older Videos to the New Video Player in Moodle

*Instructions for faculty and staff - if you don't see the transcript icon for the transcript window the video player will need to be updated. There are two ways to update the video player:

1. Re-embed the video, see Moodle My Media - How to share a video or audio file in Moodle.

2. Or, change the video player ID number. Here are the steps to update the new player ID number:

   1. In the Moodle editor, click the </> HTML button to view the HTML code.

   2. Then in the HTML code, change /playerSkin/23449618 to /playerSkin/23451001.
      The recommended player window size is 720x435 so the window doesn’t need to be popped out of the Moodle page.
      Adjust the numbers between the bars so it look like this 720||435. See screenshot below.

Screenshot of code with the old video player number, 23449618:

Open

Below is a screenshot of the code with the new video player number, 23451001 with new size 720x435 and 720||435:

Open

The html code:

Click Save when done. Then play the video and look for the transcript icon.