Collaborative faculty development
Using Closed Captions in YuJa.
Each year, our team contributes to LEAD, a larger faculty-development presentation system. This object is team-developed work, so I am presenting it as collaborative practice rather than as a solo artifact.
The public files linked here have teammate names removed. The presentation remains a collaborative faculty-development artifact.
What was happening
Faculty were being asked to use YuJa captions as part of recorded instruction, but the work needed to feel practical rather than abstract. Accessibility matters, but people also need to know where to click, what to check, and when to ask for help.
What the team built
The session combines a short rationale for captioning with a Canvas/YuJa workflow, live-demo points, troubleshooting guidance, and a quick-reference handout. That mix matters. A presentation can explain why captions are important, but the handout gives instructors something to return to when they are back inside the course.
What it demonstrates
My connection to the work
This belongs in the portfolio because it shows the kind of team-based faculty-development work I participate in, support, and help bring into a usable form. It is not here as a claim that every slide, note, or handout line is mine. The useful signal is the collaborative practice: turning a required institutional topic into something instructors can understand and act on.