YuJa provides automatic voice-to-text captioning with an approximately 80-90% accuracy rate. The automated voice-to-text captioning process also creates transcripts that can be downloaded by the viewer, as well as edited by the Content Owner.
Instructors can set permissions to allow students to publish to a specific course in YuJa.
How to create a link in your Blackboard course to other users' public or shared YuJa videos.
For instructors and students: How to launch the YuJa Software Capture application from within Blackboard, set up and create a recording, and share it in any Content Area, assignment, discussion board, or any other area with a text editor inside of your Blackboard course.
You can create a YuJa recording in Blackboard or directly through YuJa. The following steps are to create a recording in YuJa.
After your video has been created, you will need to deploy it to your Blackboard course. There are several options for deploying your recording: YuJa Media Chooser, CIM Tool, Course Channel, & Embed Code/Direct Link URL.
How to download and install the YuJa app for Mac, PC, and mobile devices.
Downloading Media in YuJa
Links to various tutorials on how to edit Yuja videos.
YuJa has the ability for the recording owner to allow created content, such as video recordings, as well as uploaded media to be made available for download. The download option must be enabled for each individual recording or media file.
Information on allowing downloads for all recordings published in a Course Media Channel, removing the need to individually activate downloads on recordings.
Exam Proctoring ensures the security of student exams taken from remote locations. Exam Proctoring also allows the instructor to provide tools to record video. The Proctor Recorder also ensures that the recording is only securely allocated to a centralized instructor folder which will avoid distribution of the exam recording by the student.
This guide explains how to set up a YuJa Proctoring session, with step-by-step instructions for recording your exam.
YuJa is a video platform that allows users to host video content and record video lectures that can be used as part of curriculum deployment.
Audience: Instructors
How to identify and bulk download your videos and media currently housed on YuJa – archive on OneDrive or save locally for later use.
Insert a video in the video editor in Yuja.
Inserting a Slide in the Video Editor
Inserting a Text Overlay in the Video Editor.
YuJa recordings are stored in the recording owner's folder in YuJa instead of being tied to a specific course. There are multiple ways to link YuJa recordings within a Blackboard course, you add a Course Channel and then Publish the videos to the appropriate course channel.
Instructions for students on how to publish YuJa recordings to a course channel.
Trim Start and Trim End allow Content Owners to easily remove the start and end portion of uploaded or captured media content.
Troubleshooting steps to use if you are unable to view a YuJa video in full screen.
YuJa is a great tool for students and instructors to upload video lectures/assignments to share with the rest of the class.
How to use Respondus LockDown Browser and YuJa Proctoring simultaneously to administer or take a Blackboard exam. Use of both tools concurrently helps to ensure the integrity of the exam.
Using Undo and Save in the video editor
Archived YuJa recordings can be restored by accessing the video under My Archive in the left navigation of YuJa's My Media area. Users can hover their cursor over the desired video and click Restore. Recordings should be accessible after the restoration process completes in 2-4 days, depending on current processing load of the archive storage service.
A guide to content management for YuJa users: upload content, edit existing content, manage available storage space (downloading & deleting content), and view storage quotas.
You can manage a variety of media content in the YuJa Platform. Management tools within Manage Media allow you to handle a variety of administrative tasks, including editing, sharing, deleting and publishing video content.
Common issues with YuJa can be addressed using common troubleshooting steps.
YuJa Proctoring requires a webcam to function. Users may encounter an error message if they do not have one connected.
If student results for a YuJa quiz embedded in Blackboard are being listed under Anonymous, they will need to enable third-party cookies and take the quiz again.
The YuJa Software Center may encounter an error where the underlying services stop running. This error requires the services to be restarted to allow a YuJa recording to upload.
Helpful tutorials on using YuJa.
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is an all-in-one video experience to securely create, manage, discover, collaborate, and deliver video content across any device, at any time. This article contains resources for faculty getting started with YuJa.
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is an all-in-one video experience to securely create, manage, discover, collaborate, and live stream video content across any device, at any time. This article contains instructions and resources for students to get started using YuJa.
YuJa automatically generates an index (text-based outline) for every video by scanning its audio and visual content. The video's index is made available to viewers during playback to help them navigate directly to desired topics. Because the index is automatically-generated, it is always a good idea to review and manually edit it before sharing your video.
YuJa’s Video Editor features three different image-related tools: watermark/overlay, blur/black out, and virtual background.
Audience: students & instructors
How to use YuJa's picture-in-picture mode (stacking the primary and secondary video feeds within one player window).