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.
Log in to YuJa
- If you have not used YuJa before or you don’t know if you have an account, follow the steps in our guide Set up YuJa for first-time use (opens in a new tab). These steps will log you in, if an account already exists.
- Once you’ve set up your account, or if you’ve used YuJa before, you can log in to your account at reading.yuja.com
Upload your videos
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- Choose Upload from the top options
- 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.
- 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:
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- Your video will begin to upload and process immediately, and progress is shown bottom right of the screen:
- Your video will begin to upload and process immediately, and progress is shown bottom right of the screen:
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- When the file has finished uploading, the video will begin processing in YuJa – this may take some while to complete.
- When the file has finished uploading, the video will begin processing in YuJa – this may take some while to complete.
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
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- 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.
- 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.
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- From this menu you can publish the video to your module so it’s easy for your students to find in their Blackboard menu:
- From this menu you can publish the video to your module so it’s easy for your students to find in their Blackboard 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 December 3, 2025
