Teaching Tip: Scripts help to make videos accessible

April 18, 2016

Marissa Carl

It’s always a good idea to use a script or an outline when shooting a video for your online course. Using a script can do more than simply improve your delivery. It can accompany your video as a transcript, and thanks to YouTube’s auto-timing caption feature, it can also serve as closed captions.

Watch instructional designer Sean Holland explain how instructors can easily add captions to their videos: http://elearning.uaf.edu/go/tt-videoscript

Screenshot of video about using captions in video.

— Teaching Tip by Sean Holland, a UAF eLearning instructional designer who has a background in foreign language education and motion graphics and is a Google certified education trainer.