As part of Udemy’s plan to expand the global reach of instructors, and help make course content more accessible to students around the world, Udemy provides auto-generated captions in English for English video lectures. If you wish to improve and edit the auto-generated captions that were generated for your course, you can do so by using Udemy’s caption editing tool. In addition, you can also use the tool to edit captions that you’ve created and uploaded yourself.
Please note: over the coming months Udemy will also be creating auto-generated Spanish and Portuguese captions for courses with videos that are instructed in these respective languages. If you're working on a new course in one of these languages, it will be automatically captioned when it’s published. Spanish and Portuguese courses that are already published will gradually receive auto-captions over the coming months.
Please note that the caption editing tool cannot be used to create new captions for your course. For steps on how to create new captions for your video lectures, please click here.
For additional information on our auto-generated captions program, please review this article.
How to Use The Captions Editing Tool
If you would like to use the captions editing tool to improve the captions that have been added to your course, please follow the steps below:
1) Click Captions on the left hand side of the Course Management page.
2) On the captions page, click Edit on the right hand side of the lecture you wish to edit the captions for. You will be directed to the caption editing tool.
3) Navigate between the caption entries by clicking the text in the right column of the editing tool, or by clicking around the progress bar of the video player, which corresponds with the timestamp.
4) As you watch the lecture video, you can make edits to the captions in each timestamp entry, by clicking on the entry and typing in the change. As you type your edits in the caption entry on the right, you will also be able to see the changes on the lecture player screen.
5) Once you’re done editing the captions, click Save and Publish at the top right of the page
Please note: after clicking Save and Publish, the changes to the course captions will become live in your course. If you exit the captions editing tool without publishing the changes you’ve made, any changes you’ve made will be discarded.
Resetting Captions
If you decide you would like to reset any changes you've made to auto-generated captions with the editing tool, you can do so by using the reset function.
Please note: taking this action will restore auto-generated captions to their original state, as they were when they were first uploaded by Udemy.
1) Click Captions on the left hand side of the Course Management page.
2) On the captions page, click the ellipses on the right hand side of the lecture you wish to reset the captions for.
3) Click Reset. The captions will be reset to the original auto-generated text.
Deleting Captions
If you wish to delete a caption file you created and uploaded to a lecture, then click on the ellipses on the right hand side, and select Delete. Please note that deleting a caption file cannot be undone.
Auto-generated caption files cannot be deleted. They can either be edited, by following the steps outlined above, replaced with a caption file you’ve created and uploaded, or disabled in bulk by clicking the “Disable” button on your Captions page.