Media, streaming and recording

Our University has several platforms to meet your media requirements and inspire you to use media in our learning and teaching:

Webinars and online meetings: Microsoft Teams

Upload, capture, share, stream, edit, quizzes: YuJa Media

Television and radio: Box of Broadcasts (BoB)


Webinars and online meetings - Microsoft Teams

MS Teams

Microsoft Teams is our online meeting and webinar tool. 

Tools and Functionality:

  • Students and staff can run/attend MS Teams meetings and webinars from home, on a tablet, in the classroom or on a computer and mobile devices
  • Screen share your presentation
  • Share documents
  • Live text chat
  • Breakout rooms
  • Record the session
  • Automatically upload to your One Drive for sharing.  

NB: We are also looking to add the ability to upload recordings directly to YuJa, our media enterprise system, which has enhanced sharing, editing, quiz making and statistical tools.

Support and development:

Webinars to get you started on Using MS Teams in Canvas for online teaching, and to take you further: book on to our webinars here

MS Teams online resource - including ‘Getting Started’

ARU Teaching Toolkits on The Heron

Online Meeting Tools and Security Guidance document

Upload, capture, share, stream, edit, quizzes - YuJa Media

YuJa Media is our enterprise media system, which is fully integrated with our LMS system Canvas. 

Tools and Functionality:

Tools available for ALL students and staff

  • Submit Formative and Summative media related assessment through Canvas
  • Upload audio and video files
  • Screen capture, with audio and camera inputs
  • Share with anyone in the world, privately or publicly
  • Edit suite
  • Quiz tool with several quiz question types
  • Embed into Canvas pages 
  • Share through Canvas discussion area
  • Embed into webpages
  • Audio only capture
  • Capture learning activities in teaching spaces
  • Rss capabilities
  • Playback tools include time stamped note taking, comment tool, clip making, and much more

Staff only tools

  • Scheduled classroom capture
  • Enhanced Statistics 

Support and development:

Visit out Yuja Media page which contains news, and links to resources and CPD.

Television and Radio - Box of Broadcasts 'BoB'

BoB (Box of Broadcasts) is a comprehensive service from the British Film and Video Council (BUFVC) that includes millions of TV and radio programmes that are aired on terrestrial and Freeview stations.
Tools and Functionality:
All tools available to staff and students 

  • Students and staff can share and use for learning, teaching, and research
  • Create and edit your own programme from content on BoB
  • Create and share playlists
  • Request content 
  • BoB provides citation for use of programmes and clips

Support and development:

Library link to BoB.

Also contact Jason Williams directly for help with BoB. BoB is mentioned in Jason’s Copyright Course.