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February 27th, 2025 – Canvas Studio Video and YouTube Captions Detection
We’re excited to introduce two anticipated features, YouTube Caption Detection and Canvas Studio Video Caption Detection.
Review the updates below or the release notes for more information and other fixes.
YouTube Caption Detection Beta
The YouTube Caption Detection feature means you get more detailed information about your YouTube video’s captions.
With this feature turned on, a scan that detects a YouTube video will come back with one of the following results:
- YouTube captions (Feature)
- YouTube automated captions (Alert)
- YouTube video missing captions (Error)
- YouTube video not found (Alert)
If you’d like to include these results in your dashboards and reports you can turn them on in your Admin Settings.
Canvas Studio integration for Caption Detection
Once set up the integration with Canvas Studio will detect if videos in your courses added through Canvas Studio have a caption track added. This helps prioritize results. If the integration is not set up in your account Canvas Studio videos are still detected but show up as an Alert for all videos.
To set this up follow the steps in the Canvas Studio Integration documentation.
In progress: Dismissed results
The highly requested feature to be able to dismiss results such as No heading structure when the content doesn’t need a heading or a YouTube video that is determined to have accurate captions is almost ready and is in the final stages of QA.