You have taught the same ideas many times, and some of your best explanations are buried in lectures from years ago. Students ask the same questions, and you answer from memory. Transcribe the whole teaching channel and every lesson becomes text you can search, quote and reshape into study material.
What changes for students
- They can find things. Search across the entire course instead of scrubbing through videos.
- They can skim. Reading is faster than watching when reviewing before an exam.
- They can annotate. Text can be highlighted, copied and summarised.
- More people can learn. Written text helps students who are deaf or hard of hearing, or who are learning in a second language.
Step 1: Collect the channel
Paste your channel URL or @handle into the dashboard. Scriptube collects the whole channel in one batch: regular lessons, Shorts and past live streams, which for teachers often means recorded classes and Q&A sessions. If your lessons are organised in playlists, you can submit those instead, or mix playlists, channels and single videos in one request.
Step 2: Check the estimate
You see the cost before you confirm. It shows video counts and credits, so you can decide between the whole channel and just the current course. There are no caps on batch size or videos per day: credits are the only limit. If credits run out mid-batch, you keep everything already done and the rest is cancelled without charge.
Step 3: Organise by course and date
Your library keeps every transcript in one place. Filter by channel, search by topic, and sort by posted date, oldest first, to see lessons in teaching order. Each transcript includes title, publish date, duration, views, likes, comment count and thumbnail. Views and comments help you spot the lessons students come back to, which are often the ones that deserve the best study guide.
Step 4: Turn lectures into study material
Start with one lesson and build a template you can reuse:
- Summary. Five to eight sentences covering the key idea.
- Key terms. Definitions in your own words, taken from what you said.
- Worked examples. Pull the examples you walked through and write out each step.
- Check questions. Three to five questions students should be able to answer afterwards.
- Link back. The video link for the full explanation.
For a deeper walkthrough, see lecture transcripts as searchable course notes.
Step 5: Build a course companion
- Glossary. Search the channel for each term and collect your clearest definitions.
- FAQ. Search for "does anyone", "why do we" and "how do I" in Q&A recordings to find real student questions.
- Revision packs. Group lessons by unit and export a ZIP of TXT files per unit.
- Subtitles. Export SRT or VTT for captioned versions. See accessible transcripts for course sites.
Languages
Scriptube returns native captions in the requested language when the video has them, and translation to English is available as an option. That makes it easier to share materials with a wider group of students. Read how to translate a transcript to English for the details.
Be realistic about gaps
Not every video has captions on YouTube. Long live streams and older recordings are the usual exceptions. In one real channel of 3,199 videos, 99.2% came back with a transcript. Videos without captions are not charged, and you will see them listed so you can handle them separately. AI transcription for videos without captions is coming soon.
Also proofread technical terms and names before handing materials to students, since auto-captions can get them wrong.
Respect your sources
If your channel includes guest lecturers or third-party material, make sure you are free to republish it. See is downloading YouTube transcripts legal for general background; this is not legal advice.
Start with one unit
Paste a playlist or your whole channel into the dashboard, look at the estimate, and see how much study material is already waiting in your lessons. Plans are on pricing.