How To Download & Edit Transcripts from Panopto

Transcripts provide an accessible, customizable text-based alternative to audio or visual materials, helping all students review, search, and adapt content to suit their learning needs.

Downloading Transcripts from Panopto

1. Log in to Canvas and click your course
2. On the left-hand side of the screen, click on Panopto Recordings (if you don't see this, please reach out to your instructor)
3. Click on the title of the video you would like a transcript for and it should open up in the panopto view and play the video like show below: 
4. Click on Captions on the left-hand side of the screen and then click the downward arrow that appears above the text
5. This will download the Transcript of the video with no time stamps into a .txt file

Editing Transcripts to Get Rid of Spaces

1. Open up the .txt file that you download from Panopto (see above)
2. This will open the file in Notepad with No Time Stamps but there will be large gaps between each sentence line
3. To get rid of the gaps, copy all the text in the file by holding Ctrl+A on a PC or Command+A on a Mac to highlight the text and then hold down Ctrl+C or Command+C to copy it
4. Open up a Microsoft Office word document and paste the test into it by holding Ctrl+V on a PC or Command+V on a Mac
5. Open up Find and Replace in the word document by holding down Ctrl+G on a PC or Command+G on a Mac and click the Replace tab as shown below:
6. In the "Find what:" box, type ^p into it and in the "Replace with:" box put a space as shown in the above picture (you cannot see the space in the image but make sure you put it in the "Replace with:" box)
7. Click Replace All and all the large gaps in the document will disappear
8. Edit the document if needed if you would like a different font, text size, etc.
9. Click File-> Save As and save the document with a name in the folder of your choosing

This process will make your transcript easier to read, edit, and print.

Need Help?

If you have questions or need assistance with downloading or editing transcripts, or if you have accessibility concerns, please reach out to eLearning Support at:
📧 eLearning@shoreline.edu