Creating Live Captions and Viewer Capabilities with Big Blue Button

Creating Live Captions

A moderator first selects Closed Caption layout.

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and then selects the language to provide captions

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and then selects the first tab (it will have the name of the selected language).

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Once selected, the moderator clicks Take Ownership (this ensures only one moderator at a time is entering captions for the given language).

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At this point, the moderator can begin typing text (or using a stenography machine to inject text) into the text area.

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As they type, the text is visible to viewers (see below).

Viewer Capabilities

When a viewer (student) selects the Closed Captioning layout, The Closed Captioning dialog will display the active language streams.

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Clicking a language opens a new tab. Clicking on the first tab shows the live captions as they are typed.

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Viewing captions in PlaybackAnchor link for: viewing captions in playback

Later, when viewing the recording, the playback bar will have a ‘CC’ button. Clicking on the ‘CC’ button will show the available captions.

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