Select Copy the API Token and a special token will be copied to your clipboard.

In a Zoom meeting or webinar that you are hosting, click the Closed Caption button.

Zoom requires that you do this for every new meeting. Step 2: Link your Zoom meeting to Web Captioner

Optionally, you can also turn on the Save captions setting if you want participants to be able to save transcripts from Zoom.

Scroll down to the Closed captioning setting and turn it on.

You'll only need to follow these steps once.

Step 2: Link your Zoom meeting to Web Captioner.

Step 1: Enable closed captioning in Zoom.

Participating in a Zoom meeting where the host may not be doing captioningįollow instructions for rerouting Zoom's audio into Web Captioner. Hosting a Zoom meeting and want to make captions available for all participants' voicesĬontinue with the instructions on this page, and then follow instructions for routing Zoom's audio into Web Captioner. Hosting a Zoom meeting and want to make captions available for just your own voiceĬontinue with the instructions on this page. Add captions to Zoom with Web Captioner (old method - not recommended) Learn more about setting up closed captioning in Zoom. For the best results in adding live captions to your Zoom meeting, and due to an issue with Zoom's captioning API, I now recommend you use Zoom's closed captioning feature instead of the Zoom channel in Web Captioner. Zoom now supports closed captions and live transcription natively. Use Zoom's new closed captioning feature (recommended)

If you are utilizing breakout rooms, you will need to note which room the deaf/hard-of-hearing individual is in and assign the captioner to that room to provide captioning.Send real-time captions from Web Captioner to a Zoom meeting.

All participants will have the ability to turn captions on or off on their computer screen by using the “CC” or “more” button in the Zoom toolbar.

Captions will appear on the bottom of your screen.

Select on “Closed Captions are available” in the bottom of the Zoom window to enable captions.

To confirm you’ve assigned the captioner, look for a blue “CC” icon on the right-hand side of the participant list, next to the captioner’s name.

Select “assign to type Closed Captions”.

Hover over the captioner’s name in the participant list.

Once you have started your Zoom meeting and the captioner is in the room, open the participant list.

Please log into the meeting at least 10 minutes prior to class starting and follow these instructions to assign them.

The captioner will need to be assigned as captioner prior to class beginning.

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