Ultra: YuJa Media Chooser

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This guide relates to Blackboard Learn ULTRA 

YuJa is a Learning Capture tool used to record in-class lectures, making screencasts and to provide video storage for teaching and learning.

In Blackboard Learn Ultra there are two YuJa LTI tools

YuJa Media Chooser

If you wish for specific personal capture or non-recorded video content to be embeded within the course content you can use the YuJa Media Chooser:

YuJa Media Chooser within Course Content

To add your YuJa area to the course content area click the plus sign and select Content Market

Create Content plus button menu . Select Content Market.

Select YuJa Media Chooser

YuJa media chooser tile highlighted in Content Market.

Select the video from the list. Or search for the video if not immediatly visible.

You can also upload the video at this point if you wish to upload content this way.

Click Insert Content

YuJa media chooser interface, with a video selected and the Insert Content button highlighted.

Your video will present as a named link in the content area. When opened it will present a full page video.

Chosen YuJa Media shown in the content area.

When adding videos to the Course Content via YuJa media chooser you will have some edit options such as changing the name of the item and whether to set it to open in a new window or not.   You can also add a Class Conversation to the item to allow students to discuss the item or as questions.

screenshot of editing options for a video inserted in the Course Content

YuJa Media Chooser in a Document

You may wish to present a video as part of a document alongside other content.

Create a Document and choose Add Content – See our guide on creating a document

In the content editor select the Plus Menu and Content Market

The Blackboard content editor showing the insert content menu and Content Market.

Select YuJa Media Chooser

YuJa media chooser tile highlighted in Content Market.

Select the video from the list. Or search for the video if not immediatly visible. You can also upload the video at this point if you wish to upload content this way.

Video chosen in YuJa and Insert Content button

A pop up will ask you to confirm or change the display name for the video in the item. You can then select Insert.

Content Market Item name and Insert pop up.

The video will present as displayed and you can add any further text around the video. Click Save when done.

Displaying the chosen video embedded in the Blackboard content editor. Click Save.

 

We recommend that any further text or documents can be added in other areas of the document to make a more comprehensive learning item.

A Blackboard Ultra Document shown with an embeded YuJa Video and some further text and document as a seperate addition.

Page last updated on August 22, 2023 by taralehane