Lecture Capture

Concordia offers Yuja as a service to Concordians. Subject to the applicable collective agreements and policies, videos belong to the person who recorded them.  

For more information, please consult your applicable collective agreement and Concordia’s Policy on Intellectual Property, VPRGS-9.

Normally, each website has its terms of use posted on it (usually in the header or footer of the page). You should review these terms to confirm if you are giving up any of your intellectual property rights before posting your videos.

Please note that, for videos recorded in-class, you are responsible for ensuring that Concordia’s Educational Technology Guidelines for Faculty and Students are respected and for ensuring that you have secured all rights required to post any third party content that may appear in your video (see the Policy on Copyright Compliance, SG-2 for further information).

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Yes, Yuja can work as a web-based solution if you are not administrator on your computer. However, if you are not a local administrator and want to install the software client, contact the IT Service Desk.

Recording live lectures is especially useful for large lectures with many students. Furthermore, it is best suited to classes that primarily rely on instructor-led lectures accompanied by slides or documents. Because the microphone is limited to the instructor, highly interactive classes do not lend themselves well to this software because it could miss many of the comments. Similarly, classes that involve much writing on a chalkboard or white board need to be adapted to a document camera for easiest recording.

The technology is also suited for creating videos segments before class that students can watch in advance so they can come to class prepared to engage in active learning, this is what we call the flipped classroom. Recorded videos of labs and experiments can also be used as learning objects.

The recordings provide students who have difficulty following the original lecture with an opportunity to review the class session. When reviewing the recordings, second-language learners have stated that they can catch points missed in the original lecture.  Other students have commented that the recordings are useful resources when studying for quizzes and exams. 

To record lectures, professors use the Yuja Enterprise Video Platform available on all classroom computers.

The professor may start the recordings at the beginning of class sessions or beforehand in the case of a flipped course. Immediately after stopping the recording, the video is uploaded to the cloud, allowing the professor to add a link to Moodle for use by his/her students. 

• For technical assistance with Yuja, contact the IT Service Desk.
• For immediate technical classroom support, phone or visit the closest Service Centre for assistance over the phone or to have a technician dispatched to the classroom.
• For course planning support, contact Concordia’s Centre for Teaching and Learning.