When uploading your videos to YuJa you are met with a variety of options as to where to store and share your media.
This guide is designed to help you understand the various features you can use to share video content with your students within Blackboard and YuJa.
- Publising your videos for a module or organisation channel
- Using Sub-Channels within a module or organisation channel
- Using Playlists to share and embed within any Blackboard content area
Publish
Publish your media to a module Course Channel. This remains the principal way to share classroom capture videos with your modules. You can also directly upload to this channel either in the classroom settings or uploading personal capture and other media when in the YuJa channel.
Sub-channels
Within a channel it is possible to create sub-channels. Media can be published here directly, or moved from the main module channel. This allows you to organise your Course Channel so students are able to find videos easily.
How to Create and Share to a Sub-Channel
Access the relevant module channel.
Click New Sub-Channel and name it.
Click Save
Drag and Drop existing channel media if you wish to store the media exclusively in this sub-channel.
Alternatively click Publish and select the relevant sub-channel to publish to.
If you wish your media to be located in various module channels and sub-channels, use the Publish option and select the various channels and sub-channels. You can use the crosses to remove any selected channels you don't wish the use.
Playlists
A playlist allows you to bring together any of your videos in a collated playlist. You can control the order the videos appear in. You can share the playlist link directly to students or embed the playlist within a Blackboard module.
Videos in a playlist do not necessarily have to be published to Course Channels.
How to Create a Playlist
You can create a new Playlist from the My Media area or the Playlists tab in the menu.
Select New Playlist, name the playlist and click Save.
How to Add Content to a Playlist
To add content to a Playlist you can choose videos from within an existing content area - My Media or a folder. Select the videos and then Bulk Add to Playlist in the More actions tab.
You can then rearrange your videos so that they play in the desired order. This order is fixed for any viewer of the playlist.
You can add individual videos to the Playlist using the Add to Playlist option in the Actions Menu.
Select More on a video > Actions > Add to Playlist. Choose the playlist and then Save.
How to Share a Playlist
There are two main ways to share a playlist:
Direct Sharing
Open the playlist > More Actions > Get Link
From the link window copy the Direct Link and add to Blackboard Content. Anyone within the University who has the link will be able to view this, so this is suitable for sharing content within Blackboard Organisations so that any student can access the information.
You can also use the embed code to embed the content in a Blackboard content area.
Using the YuJa Media Chooser
A better option to embed content is using the YuJa media chooser.
Open the YuJa Media chooser in a Blackboard and Select the Playlists option.
Select the Playlist to be embedded and click Insert Content.
Further Help
You can get further help and information through the YuJa support site:
YuJa Help: Manage Media
YuJa Help: Create and Share Playlists
Guide last updated on August 29, 2023
