Turning Captions on/off & Deleting Automatic Captions in Panopto

Automatic Captions are not 100% accurate and require some editing by the creator of the video. We highly encourage you to make use of closed captions in your videos, there are numerous reasons why closed captioning your videos is important.

You have other options around automatic captions.

These are some options you have with Panopto Automatic Captions: viewers can turn them off while watching, creators can delete automatic captions, and stop Panopto from adding automatic captions in your videos.

Turning Closed Captions Off while Watching

Whether you are watching a video in the Panopto viewer or embedded in a Canvas page, viewers can turn off/on closed captions by clicking on the closed caption symbol found at the bottom of the playback area.

Deleting Automatic Captions for a Single Panopto Video

As a Panopto creator (usually the instructor), you can delete the automatic closed captions in a single Panopto video by going to the settings area:

Click on settings

Select captions
Click on Default at the top
Click on Delete Captions.

Stopping Panopto’s Automatic Captions in a Folder

As a Panopto creator (usually the instructor), you can stop Panopto from adding automatic closed captions into videos at the folder level. When you stop automatic captions in a folder, all the videos inside the folder will be affected by that change.

Click on the folder settings

Click on the settings tab to the left
In the Captions area in the middle of the page, select None