by Christine Monnier | May 20, 2025 | Accessibility, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Panorama, Qwickly, YuJa
As I finish this first year as Faculty Chair of Online Quality and Learning Technologies, I just thought I’d offer a recap of all the content I created over this academic year. The Foundations courses The very first thing I did was redesign entirely the LT...
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...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 18, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
You don’t have to restart shooting an entire video because you made a mistake. Just stop talking for a couple of seconds, take a break, and resume talking. Then, in editing, remove the segment with the error. Repeat as needed. Trust me, it’s quicker and...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 13, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
One of the nice things about YuJa is that it generates automatic captions for your videos but no caption-generation system is perfect (especially if you have an accent). Therefore, you should always double-check that your captions are accurate because, frankly, it...
