Panopto, Inc. and Automatic Sync Technologies announced today the integration of Panopto’s lecture, presentation and meeting capture system with Automatic Sync’s closed captioning service.

The two companies jointly developed an integrated solution on behalf of CalPoly in San Luis Obispo, CA, providing a simple and seamless workflow for capturing, captioning, and publishing classroom lectures in one simple step. Panopto has also leveraged the resulting captioning data to enable advanced navigation and search features. Viewers can rapidly navigate through the transcript, clicking on any word in the transcript to begin playing the lecture at that exact point, or using text searches to get directly to the point of interest in the lecture.

For colleges and universities charged with meeting federal and state accessibility mandates, CourseCast’s elegant and simple workflow makes compliance a breeze. CalPoly in San Luis Obispo, CA is an early adopter of captioning with CourseCast. Dan Mull, Coordinator for Media Distribution and Services at CalPoly said, “At Cal Poly we recognize the potential benefits of lecture capture technology for our students. To deliver these benefits, it is critical that the solution be simple, fast, scalable and accessible to all of our students. Panopto and Automatic Sync are addressing these challenges. By leveraging caption data to provide lecture navigation and search features, the CourseCast platform allows us to create content that is both accessible and helpful to our users.”

Compliance with Section 508 and other accessibility mandates is an important component to ensuring continued adoption of Panopto’s CourseCast system. “The partnership between Automatic Sync and Panopto serves to address market demand for video delivered over the web that is both compliant with accessibility standards and is accessible to viewers in the deaf and hard of hearing community; we are looking forward to working with CourseCast users to meet these needs and help deliver a higher quality experience to the end viewers,” said Kevin Erler, President of Automatic Sync Technologies.

Brad Winney, Panopto’s President and CEO added: “Panopto’s lecture capture system has enjoyed widespread adoption by colleges and universities across the globe. Panopto offers tremendous benefits to all users, but one important user segment receives particularly significant advantages: Panopto allows students with disabilities to access lecture material when they want, where they want, and how they want. Panopto has long recognized the significance of lecture capture for this population and is pleased to work with Automatic Sync and CalPoly in raising the bar for accessibility even further with the announcement of integrated support for closed captioning.”

The full Panopto press release can be found here.