Open Canvas Studio by clicking the Studio icon in the Canvas Global Navigation (the black bar on the far left). 


  • Click on the video to be captioned 
  • Click on the Captions tab below the video/audio file. 

 

  • No Captions Added will appear. Click the blue Request button at the bottom. 

 

  • In the window that opens, click Professional>select language (English US) 
  • If you are in the primary Canvas instance, click Service type>Two day 
  • If you are in HSC Learning Plus (Canvas Catalog), click Service type>Caption-3 Business Day 
  • A variable as to the amount of time that it will take to generate captions depends on the length of the file.  
  • If users are adding YouTube or Venmo video (the second option on adding multimedia files), please note that Canvas Studio does not provide closed captions, but you can upload the text file with .srt or .vtt extension. 

 

If you have any questions or issues regarding this process, please contact canvas@unthsc.edu.