It is best practice to caption every video that you plan to add to your class. In the event that a student enrolls in your course with a captioning accommodation, you are already set and prepared for that student to succeed in your course.

However, hard of hearing or deaf students are not the only community who uses captions. Students use captions:

  • When they’re studying at the library and forgot their headphones at home 
  • When the video includes technical jargon where reading the words will contribute to learning 
  • When they are late night studying while their family is asleep and shouldn’t be disturbed by sound 
  • When the language you are instructing in is not the student’s first language
  • When students feel the need to concentrate and can easily be distracted by background noise 

Adding captions to your videos within VidGrid is extremely user friendly. Use this tutorial on how to request machine captioning and use this resource to learn how to edit captions.  

For questions about captions, contact Christie Bundy at christie_bundy@davidsonccc.edu and for any questions about digital accessibility, contact your Digital Accessibility Coordinator, Kate Moss at katelin_moss@davidsonccc.edu.