The Victorian Deaf Education Institute (VDEI) manages program to support deaf and hard of hearing students to have full access to their curriculum and support materials.
This includes closed caption services available through the VDEI and professional learning about assistive technology such as real-time captioning tools.
Live captioning tools are available in Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft 365 software to all Victorian government teachers and students, enabling them to collaborate anytime and anywhere with a suite of trusted, reliable tools designed specifically for education.
VDEI Caption Centre
The VDEI Caption Centre supports schools in captioning their educational media resources.
The fully subsidised service is available to all government, Catholic and independent Victorian primary and secondary schools.
The VDEI Caption Centre also captions all digital resources in VDEI's professional learning catalogue, which which features a wide range of blended learning opportunities, including online On-Demand presentations, elearning modules and short courses.
Captioning is available for:
- ClickView media (exchange content section)
- YouTube clips
- Victorian Virtual Learning Network Captivate Lessons
- film
- educational videos
- TV broadcasts
- teacher- and student-produced media.
All captioned media is returned by email as downloadable MP4 files.
To apply to use the VDEI Caption Centre services, please go to the VEDI Caption Centre. Your school will receive a reply email from VDEI confirming the timeline for completion of your captioned materials.
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.
Explore the collection and submit a request please visit the Caption Centre Library.
Find out more
More information can be found on the Victorian Deaf Education Institute website.
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