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Brightspace Student Support

Closed Captions on Video Content

The University of Suffolk is committed to providing, where possible, accessible content for all our students. This includes video content that is either produced by university staff, and content from third-party websites. 

Videos from sites such as YouTube and Vimeo will usually have captions already available and you can control this yourself within the video.

Your lecturers will make every effort to make sure content is accessible, including the use of closed captions on any video content if possible. If you have any specific requirements or any issues with accessible content please raise this with your course team directly.

To find out how to enabled a more generic approach to enabling Closed Captions please follow the guidance below.


Enabling Live Captions in Google Chrome Browser

When using the Google Chrome browser you can enable live captioning, this will work on most webpages that have audio.  This means you can receive live captions, for example on video embedded into Brightspace. You can find guidance from Google on how to set this up, and we have a quick guide below.