Your Canvas Course most likely already includes multiple videos to help increase student engagement and understanding of the course concept, and if not, view our spotlight, Incorporate YuJa into your Course, to help you get started. It’s easy to assume a video is doing its job by simply embedding it into a Canvas page. However, […]
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Including videos in your course is a great way to increase student engagement and instructor presence. The Comment feature in YuJa videos can help expand on this by adding an interactive component to your regular course videos, allowing students to pose questions, comment on specific timestamps, and reply to each other directly in the video […]
Using YuJa videos in your Canvas Course is a great way to increase student engagement. With YuJa’s Branching Video feature, you can now create video pathways by connecting multiple videos together. These branches allow students to make decisions, observe the consequences, and choose what to do next. Including Branching Videos in your course adds interactivity […]
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Use Indexes in YuJa
Indexes serve as bookmarks for a video. You can think of them as custom video chapters for your videos. They allow the viewer to skip through the video to locate sections or topics you create. These are particularly helpful for longer videos or lectures that cover a variety of topics. They can also be helpful […]
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How do I Enable Captions in YuJa?
All multimedia resources available in your Canvas course should have closed captions to comply with federal law and accessibility guidelines. It is important to create videos that are accessible for all users regardless of ability. Luckily, there is an auto-caption feature built into YuJa that you can enable to have closed captions generated automatically for […]
Lecturing in class is a live performance. With your students in front of you, you can immediately gauge their understanding of the material by asking them questions or pausing to give them time to reflect. The feedback from students to the instructor, and vice versa, is a valuable part of ensuring learner comprehension. But, how […]
Learners may often feel frustrated when navigating multimedia presentations such as lectures or module overviews where they receive irrelevant, incomplete, or excessive information. What students need from multimedia presentations is the right amount of relevant, coherent material. The way you deliver your content via YuJa can do this through the use of advanced instructional techniques […]
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Multimedia Assignments
What if your favorite restaurant only prepared and served one dish, regardless of the time or occasion? No matter the quality of the dish, the expertise of the chef, or type of cuisine, all parties involved will eventually find themselves disinterested and unengaged from the food. Maybe worse than becoming disinterested in your favorite restaurant […]
Like Frankenstein needed electricity to bring his creation alive, we too need to energize our content to bring it to life. No matter how fascinating a subject material is, it’s your unique presence as an instructor and use of multimedia that makes it appealing, relevant, and genuine. As our world continues adjusting to online learning […]
Microsoft Teams is a great tool for synchronous meetings with your online class. It’s easy to set up a recurring meeting and invite your students, but it’s not always easy for every student to attend every class. This is particularly likely when an in-person class moves online in the event of campus closure, for example […]