Add subtitles to a video

Admins, editors, and contributors can generate or upload subtitles to the following video types:

• Document: Video that you uploaded
• Record yourself or record your screen

Learners who play a video with subtitles can activate them on the bottom right of the player. When Subtitles on is selected, the option remains activated for future videos.

Add subtitles to a video

Add subtitles automatically

The platform automatically generates subtitles on videos added to courses. You don’t have to do anything.

• The generated subtitles correspond only to the language of the video. We do not provide automatic translation of subtitles. If you wish to add subtitles in a different language, you must manually add the subtitles file.
• Subtitles generation works best for videos under 15 minutes.
• If there are more than 30 seconds of silence at some point in the video, the platform will stop generating subtitles.

Add subtitles manually

Admins, editors, and contributors can also manually add different subtitles via upload (you can use free online tools like clideo.com to create subtitle files):

1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
2. On the right of a course, click Edit.
3. Select the activity with the video.
4. In the middle of the screen, on the top right of the video, click .
5. Click Upload subtitles (.srt or .vtt file).
6. Select the subtitle file.
7. Click Save.

To update or replace the subtitles, repeat the above steps with your new file.

If your course is available in several languages, you can add localized subtitles.

Correct the subtitles language

Subtitles are generated based on the assumption that the video contains only one language.

If your video contains multiple languages, or if the generated subtitles appear to be in the wrong language, you can manually select the correct language.

1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
2. On the right of a course, click Edit.
3. Select the activity with the video.
4. At the top right of the video, click Settings.
   • If you cannot see the settings button, make sure the video was added as a document. If the video is in a cheat sheet, create instead a new document activity and reuse the video.
5. On the right of Automatic subtitles, click Change subtitles language.
6. Select the language.
7. Click Generate subtitles.

Display or download transcripts

Learners can display or download transcripts from videos with subtitles by clicking Download transcript or Show transcript below the video.

You can open the .vtt subtitles file with any text application (such as TextEdit on macOS, or Notepad on Windows).

Remove subtitles from a video

You can remove manually added subtitles.

1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
2. On the right of a course, click Edit.
3. Select the activity with the video.
4. At the top right of the video, click Settings.
5. Click Remove subtitles (.srt or .vtt format).
6. At the bottom right, click Save.

The subtitle button selection remains visible for iOS mobile users due to native iOS components.

Hide subtitles from a video

1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
2. On the right of a course, click Edit.
3. Select the activity with the video.
4. At the top right of the video, click Settings.
5. Uncheck Show subtitles.
6. At the bottom right, click Save.

Hide subtitles from a video in a cheat sheet

When adding a video to a cheat sheet, you don’t have access to its settings, and therefore cannot uncheck the option to show subtitles. But you can work around it, by using the properties of the Reuse feature.

1. Create a new course.
2. Add the video as a document.
3. At the top right of the video, click Settings.
4. Uncheck Show subtitles.
5. At the bottom right, click Save.
   • This setting will apply to all courses that reuse this video.
6. Go back to your original course.
7. In the cheat sheet, click Insert a document.
8. At the top, click Reuse.
9. Select the video.

You can optionally archive your newly created course to prevent it from appearing in search results. The uploaded video will still exist.