I recently tried my hand at adding captions to the War trailer on the Doc Film website.
I originally thought a plain text file with the transcription would be
enough, but as I learned, good captioning falls more under the area of
copy editing than technical coding or programming.
Basically, captioning is an editorial task and should not be treated
as a web-specific task.
With that in mind, I would suggest:
1) Provide a basic captioning style guide for the College.
2) Hire or train captioners to use the NCAM Media Access
Generator (MAGpie).
Captioning FAQ from WGBHNCAM Media Access Generator (MAGpie)Captioner Job Descriptions