Evaluation

Seeking a Media Management Partner

Johnson County Community College is no stranger to online learning, but as instructors started incorporating more video, administrators realized they needed a central place to store and manage media. While the tools they were using worked, it could be difficult to access content and edit video, including adding captions. Because the college uses Canvas as its Learning Management System (LMS), finding a video partner that easily integrated with Canvas also was a priority.

When the college sent out an RFP, “YuJa caught our attention,” said Ed Lovitt, Ph.D., Director of Educational Technology and Distance Learning at Johnson County Community College. Dr. Lovitt was part of a committee comprised of numerous faculty groups that helped evaluate RFP submissions. “As we started the evaluation process we kept coming back to YuJa because it offered the functionality and features we were looking for at an extremely competitive price.”

YuJa provided a sandbox for testing, and Lovitt, along with each of the five analysts who work in his department set to work testing YuJa. “We tried knocking holes in it and we couldn’t find anything that wasn’t working the way we wanted it to,” Dr. Lovitt said. YuJa was awarded the contract in 2019 and largely replaced YouTube and TechSmith Relay for video recording and hosting. Because many at the college used Zoom, the college added Zoom integration to the Video Platform.