Uploading to YuJa

What can you upload to YuJa?

  • Videos you’ve made in another program, such as Teams, PowerPoint or Camtasia.
  • Items from previous years which are useful to this year’s students

Locate your recordings
Upload your videos
Publishing your video to your module

How to upload to YuJa

Locate your recordings

  • Locate the video file on your device.
    • You will need to export Recorded Powerpoints as MP4 files to then upload to YuJa. MS Teams recordings and other videos stored elsewhere may need to be downloaded in order to be then uploaded to YuJa. For help exporting from PowerPoint see Microsoft’s help guide Turn your presentation into a video.
    • For help with Ms Teams teaching recordings see Transfer your Teams recordings to YuJa
    • Resources such as Word documents or PDFs should not be uploaded to  YuJa – there is a risk that these files may be auto-deleted if they’re stored in YuJa. Students should continue to access non-video learning resources from Blackboard.

 

Upload your videos

  • Log in to YuJa with your University of Reading credentials (logging in via Blackboard is recommended).
  • Choose Upload from the top options
Upload button in YuJa
  • Before transferring your video, you must assign it a ‘Schema Tag’. This ensures that the content is allocated the correct retention period in YuJa. Choose Add Schema Tags
  • Choosing the correct tag from the drop-down list:
    • If your videos has no students present (e.g. a screencast), choose Personal capture.
    • If your video is a recording of a student assessment (e.g. recording made of an in-class assessed presentation), choose Assessment.
    • If your video is a recording of a teaching session with students present choose Uncategorised.Add Schema Tags menu showing the Value dropdown Personal Capture, Assessment, Uncategorised
    • When you have chosen the correct tag, click Save.

Important:
Recorded teaching sessions featuring students from a previous academic year must not be shared with students from new cohorts.

  • Choose Browse to choose the video from your device. You can also drag and drop multiple files from your device into the Add Media window:
  • Your video will begin to upload and process immediately, and progress is shown bottom right of the screen:
    Yuja video upload in progressYuja video upload complete
  • When the file has finished uploading, the video will begin processing in YuJa – this may take some while to complete.
    Uploaded video now processing

Important:
Do not close the YuJa window while the video is uploading or the process will fail.
Once the upload is complete you can close the browser – YuJa will continue to process the video in the background.

Publishing your video to your module

  • Your videos can take a while to process, depending on the quality and length of the recording. You can however publish your video while it’s processing.
    Choose from the hover-over menu on the video thumbnail.
  • From this menu you can publish the video to your module so it’s easy for your students to find in their Blackboard menu:
    Screenshot from reading.yuja.com showing the Publishing option in the video menu

Always check copyright permissions before uploading commercially published or other third-party content to university systems; you can get advice from IMPS or the Library.


Guide last updated on October 17, 2025

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