Infographic: The Importance of Captions with TechSmith Knowmia
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Infographic: The Importance of Captions with TechSmith Knowmia
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Title: The importance of videos captions with TechSmith
Description: Have you ever considered how captions can help with reading comprehension? Check out how the caption capability in TechSmith Knowmia can help your students be successful!
- Sound Restrictions - By having captions, students who may be in an environment where they are unable to have their video sound on can still follow along with the video via captions.
- English as a second language.- Students who have English as their second language can benefit from reading the text on the screen in conjunction with seeing and hearing the spoken word.
- Accessibility - Captions are legally necessary for any students requiring this type of accommodation.
- Searchable transcript - Setting up captioning creates a transcript that allow students to reference as they study the material and can quickly search text to find what they need.
- Likely to watch to completion - Data has shown that when videos are captioned, users are more likely to watch to completion compared to when videos are not captioned.
- Reading comprehension - captions help all students with their reading comprehension.
- Resources: 10 reasons to caption your videos in education: https://cielo24.com/2017/02/10-reasons-why-closed-captioning-for-education-must/
- Resources: Adding captions to your TechSmith videos: https://kb.mc3.edu/article/10/faculty-and-students-adding-captions-to-techsmith-knowmia-videos-7132.html