Digital Toolkit

YuJa is a content management system for uploading and sharing videos. It is used to store and share video files, similar to other video sharing services like YouTube or Vimeo. Users can upload individual videos and/or create collections to group related content together. The platform offers the option for videos to either be streamed via its HTML5 media player or downloaded. YuJa also allows for videos to be made publicly available or limited to campus users only.

YuJa also has several tools for making videos accessible. Most notably, these include tools for uploading transcripts and auto-generating closed captions. This captioning technology also allows for users to edit auto-generated scripts.

In contrast to other services like YouTube, YuJa is ad-free, which makes for a more seamless experience for end users and has a “search inside” function that allows users to search for specific moments or phrases during videos.

YuJa also helps support the online learning experience at the campuses that use it by allowing integration to Blackboard via LTI. This feature allows faculty to upload videos from YuJa directly to courses and make it easier for students to discover and access relevant video course materials.

YuJa is subscription-base and is presently being utilized by several CUNY institutions. For those not yet subscribing but who are considering this service, you can request a quote here. 

• Welcome to YuJa (Kingsborough Community College)

  • Guide from Kingsborough Community College for using Yuja at their campus. Includes information about accessing the tool via Blackboard, managing content, publishing content, and more.

• Adding YuJa videos to Blackboard (Lehman College)

  • Guide from Lehman College focusing on using Yuja in combination with Blackboard. Includes information about customizing how Yuja is displayed in courses, as well as uploading, embedding, and linking videos in Blackboard courses.

• YuJa Closed Captioning Checklist (Lehman College)

  • Yuja offers both automatic and manual captioning options. This checklist is designed to facilitate the process of uploading videos with closed-captioning.

• YuJa Instructor Guide (Mayville State University)

  • ​​​​​​​This guide contains information about a variety of Yuja features such as publishing and sharing a video, allowing students to publish videos, creating a video quiz, and accessing analytics.

YuJa's Enterprise Video Platform is accessible for content creators and for end users.

Several guides related to how to integrate accessibilty tools are available:. Yuja publishes an overview of accessibility features, and has a guide to accessibility features in their media player. A third-party guide from Reading University also has good information about Yuja's accessibility features.

YuJa also publishes a report with detailed information about its accessibility conformance and additional information about accessibility tools and options on their website.