by Christine Monnier | Apr 24, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Guest Blogger
A while back, I wrote a post about what, exactly, the plan was for our transition to Ultra. It all started with a pilot only a year ago. Then a lot of training from the Learning Technologies department. And, for some of us, a progressive transition to Ultra. The key...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 22, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development
A couple of weeks ago, I presented on mind-mapping to some of you. In case anyone is interested, you can find the video and materials I used for the presentation in YuJa. Note that the video is indexed for searchability. You can also find my mind mapping video...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 17, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Guest Blogger
Accessibility matters. For some years, now, we have been using Ally to check the accessibility of our course content and provide alternative formats. We have now switched to YuJa Panorama, a tool that fulfills the same purpose. But from what I can tell, has expanded...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 15, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
Sometimes, you have a video that’s on the long-ish side. When that happens, you can do different things. First, you can slide your long video into shorter, individual ones, and then post them together as a playlist. Another option is to divide your video into...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 25, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video
That’s a good idea. There are lots of ways you can use videos to enhance your courses and there are a lot of different video types you can choose from. But where should you start? If it were me, I would start with a chat with Dan McCallum, from Learning Technologies....
by Christine Monnier | Mar 20, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
So, you’ve created a playlist in YuJa but now you want to delete it. So you go into YuJa, and then, you start scratching your head because where the heck is the delete / remove button?? Even when you right-click or hover over the playlists, nothing shows up and...
