Learn@UW Newsletter, week of Aug 28
What’s happening
Kaltura – New captioning features
Beginning August 24, 2026, Kaltura began adding human-generated captions and computer-generated extended audio descriptions for all videos if you:
- Embed a video in your Canvas course.
- Add a video to the Kaltura Media Gallery in Canvas.
- Change a video’s publication setting in Kaltura MediaSpace from Private to Unlisted or Published.
Turnaround for these captions and extended audio descriptions is four days. For more details and to learn about exceptions to this process, refer to How Human Captioning and Machine Extended Audio Descriptions Work.
In addition, all media uploaded to Kaltura will still receive automatic machine captions to bridge the gap until human captions are available. To edit captions, refer to How to Edit Captions in Kaltura MediaSpace.
Blue – Latest project updates
The university is continuing its transition to a new digital course evaluation tool called Blue. The transition timeline on the Course Evaluation Tool Transition Project pagehas been updated with more details about schools and colleges moving to Blue this fall, as well as with milestones from now until the project end in May of 2027.
Upcoming events
Learn@UW – Fall 2026 Training Blitz
There are two days left in Learn@UW’s Fall 2026 Training Blitz. Listed below are the remaining sessions. All sessions are facilitated by your friendly Learn@UW team, remotely, via Zoom. The sessions are open to all UW-Madison faculty and staff. We look forward to seeing you there.