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Dedicated caption editors
Richard Browne
Crackerjack
Good morning,
Is there a way to assign a role to a user which allows them to edit the ASR captions on a video without having the capacity to change anything else on that video?
If not, can I suggest this role be considered as a feature request?
Kind regards,
Richard
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Right now, only the owner can use Panopto's native captioning tools to "fix" captions that didn't come out right. We'd love the ability to delegate this capability to someone else. We have many deaf/hard of hearing students that would benefit, as it's much faster to use the native editing tool
Hello,
We have been working to set up some permissions to fit such a need. The custom roles function that is still in beta is looking to be a great addition from what I can see. Assuming that these custom roles can be assigned from the LMS, it will really simplify our current workflow.
As far as what is available now, anyone with "Creator" access to the folder/media should be able to open the Panopto editor and update the captions.
If you need to give rolling access across a group of folders, the "Departments" feature can work well for this. Otherwise, setting the individual that will be editing as a creator in the folder in question should do what you need. (https://support.panopto.com/s/article/ASR-Generated-Captions)
Hopefully this helps, but let me know if I missed the mark.
-Michael
@Michael Espey I'm not sure I completely understand. We are not using Departments (will have to look that one up).
Yes, what is available now and we see is the Creator can edit captions. It seems also that if we create a subfolder (under MyFolder, which everyone has), then we can add other Creators. But cannot add a Creator to a file at the MyFolder level. Can I change that? Add creators to MyFolder?
You aren't able to add other individuals to your My Folder, but that is by design. How we market the My Folder on our campus is as a "holding area" of sorts. You might record there, edit the session, then drop it in the course folder.
When we have a need for multiple people to work on sessions we set them up with a folder within their department that they can use as a holding area. If it is for a course, specifically, we usually set up a sub-folder within the course folder that students don't have access to (remove their group from the access list) so the instructors (Teachers, TAs, Instructional Designers, etc.) can access all of the materials. It works quite well.
Once the custom roles are released, it seems like you will be able to give individuals "creator-ish" access to an individual session, but I haven't done much testing with that yet.
Thanks. Your process makes sense to me. I'll pass it along to our training folks and keep it in mind as we get this all going. Fall term, here we come!
I requested this at least a year ago. Roles did not help. I hope we can get this solved soon. They just need to add a new role that will allow that person to edit captions only. Nothing else. They may need to create a module just for that out of the editor.
@Richard Browne Currently, there isn't a role that just allows editing the ASR captions. We can definitely add this as a feature request, so I'm going to move this post to the feature request section.
Hey @Kathryn do you know if this is in the dev pipeline? I think it would a great and popular feature to have.
This is a much-needed feature. Automated captions have a sub-optimal accuracy, we need a scalable way of implementing captions corrections. So, roles for a caption correctors, and ideally a workflow for prioritising, assigning for correction, verification/approval of corrections etc. Many institutions are likely to share this requirement.
@Louis Pliskin I confirmed that this is not currently planned for the first half of this year. However, this item will be considered for future development - we agree that it would be useful!
Just to reinforce the other comments, this is definitely needed. In order to comply with accessibility legislation, we need a feasible way of correcting captions. The ability to enable students or support staff to correct captions by assigning them a specific role would be really valuable.
@Kathryn do you know if there is an actionable timeline for this feature?
@Jimmy Wade Apologies for the long wait for a response - I was out of the office on leave. This feature request does not currently have a timeline assigned.
Hi @Richard Browne
Can I ask what options you have selected/deselected under the 'Role permissions'?
The role description and the permissions also make it look like it only has global rights.
Thanks