The VDEI Caption Centre offers a fully subsidised captioning service for deaf and hard of hearing primary and secondary students in Years Foundation to Year 12. This service is available to all Victorian government, Catholic and Independent schools.
Captioning is available for:
- ClickView media (Exchange content section)
- YouTube clips
- Victorian Virtual Learning Network Lessons
- Film
- Educational videos
- TV broadcasts
- Teacher and student-produced media
The aim of the VDEI Caption Centre is to caption educational media being used by schools to ensure deaf and hard of hearing students have full access to the curriculum and support materials.
The VDEI Caption Centre also captions all digital resources in VDEI's Professional Learning catalogue, which features a wide range of blended learning opportunities, including On-Demand presentations, eLearning modules and short courses.
Submit a request
To submit a request, please complete the VDEI Caption Centre request form(opens in a new window). Your school will receive a reply email from VDEI confirming the timeline for completion of your captioned materials.
Please provide media to the VDEI Caption Centre as either a link to the project or shared via Google Drive. These can be included on the request form.
All captioned media will be returned via email as an MP4 file, ready for schools to download.
Copyright exemptions
To comply with copyright legislation, there are requirements that must be met before submitting media for captioning. For full details, please refer to Making Content Accessible - A Guide to Navigating Australian Copyright Law for Disability Access(opens in a new window).
The VDEI Caption Centre staff will happily provide assistance/advice to assist in complying with copyright legislation.
Contact
If you have a question about the VDEI Caption Centre, please email caption.centre@education.vic.gov.au(opens in a new window)
VDEI Caption Centre Library
The VDEI Caption Centre Library hosts captioned educational media supporting various Victorian Curriculum areas, including English, The Arts, Health and Physical Education, The Humanities, Languages, Mathematics, Science, and Technologies. This fully-subsidised service is available to all Victorian Government, Catholic and Independent schools.
Victorian schools are invited to submit a request to download these resources to assist deaf and hard of hearing students in years Foundation – 12 in the classroom.
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