How to Caption: Using Yuja

YuJa is VCSU’s video platform for creating, captioning, and sharing instructional videos directly within your Blackboard course. Whether you're recording a lecture, a demonstration, or a quick update for your students, YuJa makes it easy to capture, edit, and publish content with built-in accessibility features like auto-generated captions.

Follow the steps below to access YuJa through your course, start a recording, and manage your video after it's saved.

In your course, go to Books & Tools > Yuja - VCSU.

Books and Tools menu Yuja- VCSU link screenshot

Click Create Recording.

Create recording screenshot

Choose Browser or Software Capture, and click Launch Application. Note: This example uses the desktop application.

Launch application screenshot

Set your camera and microphone settings. Click Start to begin recording.

Start button screen shot

When finished, click the gray square Stop button. Save the video. Yuja will process the video, auto generate captions and save it the course > My Media.

stop button screen shot capture process screenshot

Play
Share: Select other Yuja users to share with.
Publish: Publish to specific course/location.
Delete
Edit: Opens Video Editor to cut, trim, add text, edit and sync captions.
More: Media Details:
- General: Edit title, description and tags (tags help make it easier to search for the video)
- Links: Direct link and embed code to share the video
- Accessibility: Review captions, audio descriptions, and access captioning/transcript files.

Explore more on using YuJa: Creating a Video using YuJa