Closed Captioning YouTube Videos

Aug 20, 2020

In the past, I've always been able to turn Closed Captioning to on when using the cc_load_policy=1 in the web object.

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Bret Jorgensen

Hello Caryn, 

Displaying closed captioning via cc_load_policy=1 depends on how it was uploaded and the configuration of the video on YouTube. 

From my research,  cc_load_policy=1 will not enable automatically generated closed captions, it will only enable closed captions that are manually added by the author. 

For example, this works:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/kTvHIDKLFqc?rel=0&cc_load_policy=1

…but this doesn’t:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Scbu24iHal4?rel=0&cc_load_policy=1

Here's a course I published that includes these two URL's as embedded web objects,

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