Dear Faculty,
The state chancellor’s office recently delivered a memo to all CCCs prioritizing how it will pay for closed captioning. For LPC, this mainly concerns the use of 3C Media for captioning because that is the only paid service used here. If you do not use 3C Media and instead use the auto captioning feature in either Canvas Studio or YouTube to generate captions and edit them for accuracy, only the last paragraph of this email might impact you.
Because the pandemic has driven up the demand for video captioning, and because the state chancellor’s office is forecasting budget problems, the state is prioritizing the requests for captioning of videos submitted through 3C Media. If you have a student in your class with a documented Academic Accommodation Plan (AAP) through DSPS who requires closed captioning services, your request will receive the highest priority in 3C Media. To receive this priority, you will need to clearly state that the captioning request is to allow an academic accommodation per the AAP of a student enrolled in your course. Please mention this in the Notes section of the 3C Media captioning form.
Conversely, if you do not have a student with an AAP, your request will receive a lower priority in 3C Media. In the latter case, you might be better off using Canvas Studio (or even YouTube). Needless to say, all videos—whether you have students with an AAP or not—still have to be captioned and edited to ensure accuracy.
If live captioning or an ASL interpreter is needed for a synchronous class per a student's AAP, please contact the DSPS staff immediately so that they can help arrange for the needed accommodation.
Scott
