Media Creation
Learning Technologies can help you design, create, and share multimedia content for your courses. Learn more about the resources and services we have to offer:
Recording Studio
Learning Technologies has a recording studio that faculty can reserve and use to create content for their courses. Don’t worry, we do all the technical parts, so you can just focus on delivering your content for your students.
Watch this short video to see some of the amazing things you can create in the studio:
If you’d like to use the studio, please submit a request using this form:
Lightboard
Our recording studio has a lightboard, which is a glass panel that acts as a whiteboard – the glass doesn’t show up in the video, so it appears that the text is floating in space!
For more information on creating a lightboard video, check out the Lightboard Best Practices Guide.
Lightboard Uses
Here are a few ideas to get you started, but don’t be afraid to get creative!
Record Short Lectures
The lightboard is ideal for creating short lectures! Choose a topic and use the lightboard to illustrate ideas and write down key concepts as you go. Creating several shorter videos can help keep students engaged, especially in online courses.
Create Focused Tutorials
You can use the lightboard to create video tutorials for solving difficult problems or to give explanations of complex topics that might otherwise take up a significant amount of class time. Plus, they look cool!
Illustrate Key Course Concepts
For those hard-to-understand course concepts, the lightboard can offer a space for you to illustrate and talk about the ideas. Even better, you can keep and reuse the videos from term to term
YuJa
YuJa is the College’s enterprise media platform. Through YuJa, you can create, edit, upload, and share audio and video content. You can use YuJa as a place to store video and audio-based course content, freeing up room on Blackboard (your YuJa account has unlimited storage!). It’s also very easy to share links to that content with students, and your content will never be deleted – once it’s in YuJa, you can re-use it every semester.
Get Started with YuJa
It’s easy to upload a video to YuJa and then embed it into Blackboard. This can be especially useful when you’re teaching remotely and need to provide recordings of lectures or live sessions. When you upload a video to YuJa the built-in AI will automatically caption it, though you may need to make a few edits. Here are a couple of walkthroughs to help get you started with the basics like uploading, creating content, and captioning:
Still Have Questions?
Got an idea for a video or other media project, but you don’t know where to start? Reach out to us and we can help you figure out the best tools and resources to get your project going!
