Following a successful pilot during the Spring 2022 semester, the University of Nebraska System selected YuJa to replace VidGrid as our academic video content management system. YuJa allows faculty to record, edit, upload and share video content easily. Thank you to the UNO faculty members who participated in the pilot – faculty feedback was critical to this project.
We encourage you to start using YuJa today!
YuJa is now available in Canvas; look for the YuJa Video button in the navigation bar of your Canvas courses. YuJa can also be accessed directly through the UNO YuJa portal.
Transition to YuJa
UNO is transitioning to YuJa throughout the 2022-2023 academic year. Please note that VidGrid will be available through the end of the Spring 2023 semester as we work through the transition and migration process. Although VidGrid is available, we encourage you to begin using YuJa whenever you are comfortable. In order to best optimize the migration of data from VidGrid to YuJa, please minimize the use of VidGrid starting in December of this year. Now is a great time to look through, organize, and remove any unneeded videos from VidGrid; this will help clean-up your own collection of content and make the migration process go quicker.
Content Migration Process
Don't worry; we're going to do all the work! All videos in VidGrid will be moved to YuJa as part of an 10-week migration process, beginning on October 31st, 2022. During the first part of the migration process your videos will be copied from VidGrid to YuJa; during the second second part of the migration process VidGrid video links and embeds in your Canvas courses will be replaced with the new videos in YuJa. In addition to moving the videos, all existing closed captioning, folder structures, and video quizzes from VidGrid will be migrated as well. For video quizzes, the only work you'll need to do is re-add them to Canvas as assignments, once the migration process is completed.
A second "catch up" migration will begin at the end of the Spring 2023 semester for videos added to VidGrid on and after October 31st, 2022. This second migration will only consist of copying videos from VidGrid to YuJa and will NOT update links in Canvas. No videos will be removed from VidGrid until the end of our contract on June 30th, 2023.
Action Items
- Log into YuJa to claim your account by the end of business on October 30th, 2022;
- Review video content in your VidGrid account, deleting any content you do not want migrated to YuJa by the end of business on October 30th, 2022.
- Starting on October 31st, 2022, and moving forward, we suggest creating new video content in YuJa for the smoothest transition.
Workshops
Many individuals have already begun to use YuJa and have attended training sessions during August or September. To make sure all people have the opportunity to receive training on YuJa, Digital Learning will continue to offer a YuJa training session every week through the month of December. Training sessions are listed below.
YuJa Basics - YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is an all-in-one video experience empowering faculty and students to securely create, manage, discover, collaborate and live stream video content across any device, with a smooth integration into existing enterprise systems including Canvas. This session will introduce the new video platform and deliver an overview of the features in order for you to get started creating your own academic videos.
- Thursday, November 17 | 1:00-2:00pm
- Friday, December 2 | 10:00-11:00am
- Tuesday, December 6 | 10:00-11:00am
- Wednesday, December 14 | 2:00-3:00pm
- Monday, January 9 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm
- Tuesday, January 17 | 10:00 – 11:00am
- Wednesday, February 8 | 10:00 – 11:00am
- Wednesday, March 8 | 10:00 – 11:00am
- Thursday, April 13 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Adding Video Quizzes with YuJa - YuJa Video Quiz allows instructors to enhance a lecture video by embedding interactive questions. Instructors can add prompted questions to guide student learning and/or self-practice to pause, think and reflect while watching the video. In this session participants will learn how to create and distribute videos with embedded quiz questions and quizzes where students receive a grade based on the percentage of the video watched as well as how video quiz grades seamlessly feed from YuJa into the Canvas gradebook.
- Friday, December 9 | 10:00am – 11:00am
- Monday, December 19 | 11:00am – 12:00pm
- Friday, January 13 | 10:00am – 11:00am
- Thursday, January 19 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm
- Wednesday, February 15 | 9:00 – 10:00am
- Tuesday, March 21 | 2:00 – 3:00pm
- Monday, April 17 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Editing Videos with YuJa - Sometimes, when you record a video, you want to make adjustments. Maybe you want to cut out a few seconds of silence or add a text overlay to a few seconds of the video. YuJa offers video editing capabilities and allows you to improve your media content. In this session participants will learn how to use the video editing tools in YuJa.
- Wednesday, January 11 | 10:00am – 11:00am
- Wednesday, February 22 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm
- Thursday, March 30 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm
- Tuesday, April 25 | 10:00am – 11:00am
One-On-One Training
Struggling with YuJa or can't make our training sessions? Set-up a 30 minute one-on-one meeting with one of our Instructional Technologists or Instructional Designers! We can help with your specific questions or use cases and provide smart strategies for video in your instruction.
Book a one-on-one help session
Zoom Virtual Support
You can also drop into our virtual support room with your YuJa questions anytime between 9:00a.m. and 4:00p.m., Monday through Friday. Access our virtual drop-in room through Canvas by clicking on the help icon in the global navigation bar, or click the button below.
Contact Rick Murch-Shafer, Director of Academic Technology at rmurch-shafer@nebraska.edu with any questions about the YuJa migration process.
For more information about YuJa, please visit our page of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)