Case Study Higher Education McAllen, TX

“Phenomenal” Experiences With Video and Accessibility

South Texas College adopted YuJa Lumina and YuJa Panorama to give its students and faculty a single, all-in-one platform for video, captioning, and accessible course content.

South Texas College campus
About South Texas College

A community college built for scale and diversity

South Texas College is a public community college based in McAllen, Texas, with five in-person campuses, two higher education centers, and one virtual campus. Founded in 1993, the college offers a broad catalog of degree and certificate options to students across the Rio Grande Valley.

With fully online programs at its virtual campus and a majority Latino/Hispanic student body, the college needed a digital presence that could keep pace with its size and diversity. That is where YuJa’s Lumina Video Platform and Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform came in.

“The experiences here with the faculty, staff, and students have been phenomenal.”

David Torres Jr., Instructional Technician
  • 1993Founded
  • 26,000+Students
  • 131+Programs
Highlights

The Impact of YuJa at South Texas College

  • Migrated Without Losing a Thing

    Videos and quizzes moved across into Panorama, inside the college’s own LMS.
  • Captions in Every Student’s Language

    Lumina translates captioning — an outstanding fit for a diverse student body.
  • One Login, No Friction

    Single sign-on takes students straight to their LMS accounts.
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The story

YuJa is an “all-in-one solution”

Multifaceted Technology

“YuJa has a lot of tools bundled into one,” Ledesma said. “These systems don’t typically have everything we need together in one package. YuJa was that for us.”

Amanda Ledesma · Instructional Support Manager, Educational Technologies
  • Comprehensive solution
    Access multiple functions from a singular platform.
  • Multifaceted toolkit
    Record videos, add captions, and deploy video quizzes.
  • Complementary services
    Empower both LMS and video accessibility.
Ease of Integration
A Simple Solution That “Empowers” Students

“It greatly simplifies our onboarding for students because we can keep them together in the same area,” Ledesma said. “It empowers them, and it makes life for us easier when it comes to instructing them how to get to those tools and how to log in.”

Amanda Ledesma · Instructional Support Manager, Educational Technologies
  • LMS integration
    Access the platform straight from familiar LMS workflows.
  • Effortless migration
    Relink video content to be hosted on YuJa Lumina automatically.
  • Swift onboarding
    Enables institutions to go live after only a few weeks.
South Texas College
Accessibility and Translation Capabilities

“Being able to caption in different languages was a really big one for us,” Ledesma said. “Some of our previous solutions had captioning, but did not have something that allowed our faculty, staff, or students to translate that captioning into other languages.”

Amanda Ledesma · Instructional Support Manager, Educational Technologies
  • Multi-language captions
    Add captions from over 100 supported languages.
  • Accessible captions
    Generate captions that are 99%+ ADA-compliant.
  • Edit captions
    Edit captions manually for increased accuracy directly in the platform.

One of the things that we really enjoy working with YuJa on is that it has a lot of features and capabilities that we haven’t seen with a lot of other solutions. It really is an all-in-one solution for us. It incorporates recording, storage, captioning, editing, quizzing, even interactivity.

Amanda Ledesma Instructional Support Manager, Educational Technologies Department, South Texas College

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