We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. This update includes integrated live proctoring session within proctoring setup wizard, updated Verity results page with easy switch between a test-takers in proctor assessment reviewing, redesigned institution report and course report to provide more in-depth insights, centralized proctoring analytics in the new assessment report, and more.

1. Integration of Live Proctoring Session Within Proctoring Setup Wizard
   Verity now offers a unified workflow for live and non-live proctoring setup. Previously, as an instructor, you could only create a live assessment after setting up a proctored assessment within Verity. Now, we’ve simplified the process by integrating steps for creating a live assessment within our Setup Proctoring wizard.
   
2. New “Speed-Grader” Results Page Features Ability to Flip Through All Test-Takers in a Single View
   When reviewing proctored assessments, you can now quickly switch between a test-taker’s attempts and those of others all within the same view. Simply select a test-taker from the drop-down list and their attempts to begin reviewing recordings and relevant information, including room scans, ID photos, and configuration details. Additionally, you can also filter test-taker events by flag level, allowing you to analyze the most concerning issues.
   
3. The Institution Report Offers More In-Depth Analytics to Track Verity’s Usage
   We’ve improved our institution report to offer more key metrics that administrators can utilize to track Verity’s usage over time, along with Course Analytics showcasing an overview of Verity’s usage in particular courses. Some of the analytics include:
   • A graph illustrating the attempts associated with each proctoring method. 
   • The total number of times that test-takers have attempted assessments. 
   • The total number of assessments proctored. 
   • The total number of hours proctored.

   

4. Improved Course Report Provides New Data Representations to Assess Test-Taker Performance
   The new course report offers insights into flag levels within your course, helping you assess the frequency of severe, major, and minor events flagged in assessments. Additionally, Assessment Analytics provides an overview of each assessment, showing the total number of test-takers, the number of flagged events, and the highest flag level recorded.
   
5. Centralized Proctoring Analytics in the New Assessment Report
   The new Assessment Report offers proctoring analytics for any assessment you wish to review. It summarizes the status of completed assessments, the number of test-takers marked with Severe, Major, or Minor events, and access detailed analytics for individual test-takers.
   
6. Modernized Video Player Interface with Redesigned Progress Bar and Icons
   With the modernized video player, you can now view test-takers’ recordings with a redesigned progress bar and icons, making it easier to navigate through the content and quickly access key moments in the recordings.
7. Verity Mobile Lockdown App Support for Blackboard
   Building on our support for proctored assessments on mobile devices in D2L Brightspace and Moodle, test-takers can now take proctored assessments in Blackboard on their mobile devices.
   
8. Enhanced Guidance for Screen Sharing in the Verity Lockdown App
   We’ve added a how-to video in the Verity Lockdown app setup process to help test-takers resolve issues related to screen setup for assessments.
   
9. Resolved Session Time-Outs During Assessments in Blackboard
   Previously, test-takers experienced session time-outs when accessing assessments on Blackboard. Now, we’ve resolved this issue, and test-takers can expect questions to appear within a few seconds.
10. System Check No longer Required for Exempted Test-Takers
    Previously, exempted test-takers were required to undergo a system check before taking an assessment in the Lockdown app. Now, we’ve resolved this issue, and they can proceed to an assessment without any restriction.
    
11. Canvas Instructors Can Grade Proctored Assessments Without Requiring the Verity Browser Extension
    Canvas instructors no longer need to download the Verity Browser Extension to grade proctored assessments. They can directly click on their assessment within the Verity Platform, allowing them to grade results on a wider range of browsers and devices, including Safari and iPads.
    

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Engage Student Response System instances residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. This release includes multiple rich-text styling options for question titles, new activity reports for creators, and geofence location configuration in administrator accounts.

1. Add Rich-Text Styling to Question Titles
   With our new rich-text editor, you can now customize the styling of question titles for a unique appearance across both web and mobile versions of Engage. Some of these styles include:
   
   • Bold, underline, and italicize words
   • Adjust the font color
   • Highlight text

   

2. New Creator’s Activity Report – View Analytics of Your Activities
   As a creator, you can now access detailed reports of your personal activities, including analytics for standalone activities and those published in courses. Additionally, you can gain insights into participant engagement by reviewing reports for individual activities.
   
3. Set Up the Default Geofence Locations for Your Institution
   As an administrator, you can now set up multiple geofence locations for your entire institution, allowing attendance creators to select from a predefined list of locations.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all Enterprise Video Platform instances residing in the European Union, Australia, the Middle East, Canada, and Asia. The United States geographic zone will be updated later this week. The highlights for this update include a redesigned Accessibility dashboard, the option to bulk archive courses, a redesigned My Account, more in-depth activity tracking for courses, the Multi-Select metadata type, and more.

1. Redesigned Accessibility Dashboard with the Admin Panel
   The Accessibility Dashboard has been redesigned from the ground up to provide actionable insights into video accessibility within the enterprise. New capabilities include:
   • Summary Cards highlighting key aspects of video accessibility.
   • Filterable tables detailing On-Demand and Live ASR Captioning Activity, Pending Requests, and Accessibility Settings.
   • Visibility on use of Generative AI capabilities in enhancing accessibility.
     

   

2. Bulk Archive or Restore Courses in Courses & Groups
   If you’re an admin or an instructor managing dozens or even thousands of courses on the Video Platform, you can now Bulk Archive and Bulk Restore multiple courses.
   
3. Redesigned My Account, Including Tab Unification, Workflow Improvements, and Refreshed Design
   The My Account page has been refreshed with a new design, consolidating multiple sections into a few easy-to-navigate pages.
   • New Configurations Page to Manage Personal Settings – The new Configurations page lets you manage your settings for notifications, downloads, integrations, and the media player in one place.
   • Upgraded Recycle Bin and Watch History Pages With a New Interface – The Recycle Bin and Watch History pages have been updated with our new branding, making it easier to view deleted content or videos you’ve previously watched.
   • Improved Accessibility – A number of screens with overlays have been re-designed to be more screen-reader and keyboard-navigation friendly.

   

4. In-Depth Activity Tracking for Courses
   The Activity panel now offers enhanced audit log tracking for course channel management, allowing you to see whether a course was successfully copied or if any errors were encountered.
   
5. New Set of APIs for NL-LOM Metadata Harvesting
   As an administrator, you can now use our NL-LOM APIs for your metadata harvesting, a standardized format designed for educational institutions in the Netherlands to ensure consistency in managing resources.
6. New Metadata Type – Multi-Select
   The new Multi-Select metadata type allows you to create a list of values and choose one or more to apply to your content.
7. Improved the Underlying Infrastructure of Our Generative AI Capabilities for Multi-Language Audio Dubbing
   You can now automatically generate more precise audio tracks for videos originally in English with our improved multi-language dubbing capabilities. Simply choose from over 25 languages to dub your video, allowing your viewers to select their preferred listening experience.
   
8. Usability Improvement in Platform-Level Settings with Clearer Explanations of Each Option
   With increased settings and configurations, we have introduced a new user interface style to explain each of the options more clearly.
   
9. Faster Processing Speeds for Generating Content Reports
   Previously, generating a Content report may have taken almost two minutes for results to appear. Now, you can expect results to appear in under a minute.
   

We have successfully pushed an update for Software Capture for PC and Mac to all Enterprise Video Platform instances residing in Canada, the European Union, Australia, the Middle East, and Asia. The United States will be updated later this week.

For the YuJa Software Capture for PC, this update includes the option to remotely uninstall Software Capture and the option to deploy Software Capture to multiple devices using Microsoft Software Installer.

1. Fleet Management Capabilities – Remotely Uninstall Software Capture
   Building on our existing ability to remotely deploy Software Capture, we’ve now added the option to remotely uninstall it from any computer through the Device panel.
   
2. Fleet Management Capabilities – Large-Scale Software Capture Deployment to Devices Using Microsoft Software Installer
   Administrators can now download Software Capture as an MSI file in addition to the existing formats. If you’re a network administrator, this will allow you to configure and deploy Software Capture across your entire institution.
   

For the YuJa Software Capture for Apple, this update includes significantly reduced times for processing recordings, the option to resize selected screen areas for recordings, real-time status updates for sessions, and a new setting to enable or disable your iPhone’s camera as a video source.

1. Significantly Reduced the Processing Times of Recordings
   We’ve reduced the processing time for Software Capture recordings, enabling video playback in just a few seconds.
   
2. Resize the Selected Screen Area for Recordings
   Previously, you could select a capture area on your screen for recording, but adjustments were not possible once it was set. Now, you have the flexibility to modify the size of the capture area right up until you start recording, allowing you to fine-tune it to your preference.
   
3. Real-Time Status Updates for Active Software Captures
   The Devices panel now provides real-time updates to the activity status of Software Capture sessions, letting you know when it is actively recording and paused.
   
4. New Setting to Enable or Disable Your iPhone’s Camera as a Video Source
   With Apple’s latest updates, your iPhone can now connect to Software Capture, using its camera as a video feed. If you prefer not to use this feature, simply uncheck the new Continuity Camera setting in Software Capture.
   

For the YuJa Hardware Hub, this update includes a new modal to configure peripheral devices, customize the frame rate of video sources, and imporved offline resilience to start scheduled sessions.

1. Better Offline Resilience to Start Scheduled Sessions During Unreliable Internet Connectivity
   Previously, scheduled Hub sessions would be delayed if there were repeated connectivity issues. We’ve enhanced this feature so sessions can begin immediately, even when the network connection is unstable (repeatedly connects and disconnects).
   
   
2. Configure Peripheral Devices for the Hardware Hub in Our Enhanced Modal
   We’ve updated the Hardware Hub’s configuration modal to offer a more intuitive layout that displays all sources, such as NDI cameras, and their connection status.
   
3. Customize the Frame Rate of Video Sources for Recordings
   Video sources connected to the Hardware Hub can now be configured through the Devices panel, allowing frame rates to be adjusted from 30 fps to 60 fps.
   

The release provides real-time accessibility integration with WordPress and Drupal, comprehensive insights into accessibility issues, a new Performance Report metric, use AutoPilot.AI to propose fixes for entire web pages, disable websites from being scanned, at-a-glance accessibility scores for documents, and assign one-time credits to scan pages.

1. Real-Time Accessibility Integration for WordPress and Drupal CMS Including AutoPilot.AI
   If you’re an administrator, you can now integrate your EqualGround Platform into WordPress and Drupal to detect accessibility issues in real time as you create websites. In addition, you will have complete access to AutoPilot to help suggest fixes for issues as they’re found.
   
2. Comprehensive Insights on Issues: What They Mean and Why They Matter
   EqualGround scans for over 100 potential issues, and we understand that you may not be familiar with each one. To simplify things, when an issue is detected, we now provide concise summaries explaining its significance and why resolving it is important.
   
3. New Performance Report Metric: Speed Index
   We’ve introduced a new Performance Report metric, the Speed Index, which measures how quickly content becomes visually available during page load.
   
4. Use AutoPilot.AI to Help Propose Fixes for Entire Web Pages
   In our previous release, we introduced the option to select an issue and for AutoPilot.AI to suggest how to fix it. Now, you can streamline the process by running AutoPilot.AI across an entire web page, allowing you to review all proposed fixes for accessibility issues at once.
   
5. Disable Websites from Being Scanned
   If you’re looking to pause recurring scans for specific websites, you can now disable those sites from being scanned by EqualGround.
   
6. At-a-Glance Accessibility Scores for Documents Detected on Web Pages
   When reviewing a document scan of a web page, detected files will display an accessibility score next to them, allowing you to prioritize and address the most concerning documents first.
   
7. Assign One-Time Credits to Page Scans
   In one-off cases where you require more credits than your monthly limit for page scans, you can contact your Client Success Manager to add additional credits that will remain on EqualGround until used.

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa AccessNotes.AI Notetaking Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes a new report for AccessNotes, the option to create tags, minimize background noise, record the audio of browser tabs, use Gen AI to create a text-based summary of audio notes, and the option to enable captions.

1. New In-Depth Reporting for AccessNotes to View Key Analytics
   AccessNotes Report allows administrators to track key analytics and provides insights into the number of uploads, transcripts generated, and summaries created.
   
2. Create Tags to Highlight Significant Moments
   Content Creators can add descriptive tags to their notes, highlighting key areas of interest and expanding on important points while reviewing their notes. Tags are also timestamped and can be color-coded to help organize notes.
   
3. Minimize Background Audio Using AI-Powered Noise Reduction
   AccessNotes uses an AI noise reduction algorithm to help reduce unwanted background noise from your notes, ensuring clear audio playback.
   
4. Record the Audio Output of Browser Tabs
   Content creators now have the option to select a browser tab and capture its audio. This feature can also be paired with external microphones, allowing audio capture from both the browser tab and the microphone.
   
5. Use Gen AI to Create a Text-Based Summary of Your Notes
   Gen AI can be used to turn long-form audio notes into a text-based summary to highlight key moments.
   
6. Enable Captions to Follow Along with Audio Notes
   AccessNotes can now convert its AI-generated transcriptions into captions, providing an easier experience for following along with audio content.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Accessibility AutoPilot.AI instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes a new wizard to customize the scope of AutoPilot.AI, the option to see a history of past scans, and a new accessibility check to resolve reading order issues.

1. New Wizard to Customize Depth and Scope of Accessibility AutoPilot.AI
   In previous updates, we enhanced Accessibility AutoPilot.AI with the ability to remediate entire courses. We’ve now taken this functionality a step further by introducing a dedicated wizard setup page where administrators and instructors will be able to select specific file types and issues to address before running AutoPilot. Once AutoPilot runs, a real-time view of the issues being resolved will be shown.
   
2. View a History of Courses Accessibility AutoPilot.AI Has Remediated
   Accessibility AutoPilot.AI now features a new History tab, allowing administrators to review all previously remediated courses. This tab provides detailed insights, showing the number of files remediated in each course and offering a comparison between the original and updated scores after remediation.
   
3. New Accessibility Check for Remediating the Reading Order of PDF Documents
   We’ve enhanced Accessibility AutoPilot.AI’s capabilities to remediate the reading order of PDF documents to ensure accessibility tools, such as screen readers, can understand the flow of content.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Website Accessibility Widget instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes a redesigned Website Accessibility installation page.

1. Redesigned Website Accessibility Installation Page 
   The Website Accessibility Widget installation page now offers a new visual interface with clearer step-by-step instructions, making it easier for Content Creators to install the widget on their website. We have also included a tutorial video directly on the installation page for those who would like to listen and follow along.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa SmartSpeaker.AI instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes the option to summarize long-form text with Gen AI and a redesigned installation page for SmartSpeaker.

1. Summarize Articles and Other Long-Form Text into a Few Key Sentences With Gen AI
   Using our latest Gen AI capabilities, SmartSpeaker now features the option to take selected text on any website and condense it into a few easy-to-read sentences.
   
2. Redesigned Installation Page for SmartSpeaker
   The installation page now offers a new visual interface with clearer step-by-step instructions, making it easier for Content Creators to install SmartSpeaker. We have also included a tutorial video directly on the installation pages for those who would like to listen and follow along.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes the Unified English Braille Alternative Format, an upgraded accessible DocHub, the option to set the default landing page per role, filter items in the To-Do List, a redesigned installation page for users, and the option to assign one-time credits for Gen AI.

1. Support for Unified English Braille Alternative Format
   To align with the latest standards for Braille, Panorama now supports the Unified English Braille format alongside our existing BRF format.
   
2. Upgraded Accessible DocHub with Improved User Interface
   We have rebranded the My Content tab to “DocHub,” which features new UI components to match our branding, an expandable view of all folders and files, and improved functionality to sort content by name or creation date.
   
3. Set the Default Landing Page on Panorama for Each Role
   Administrators can configure the default landing page for users in Panorama, automatically directing them to specific pages based on their user role.
   
4. Filter Items in the To-Do List by File Type
   Content Creators who have a large number of files on their to-do list now have the option to filter results based on the file type.
   
5. Redesigned Installation Page for User Setup
   The installation page now offers a new visual interface with clearer step-by-step instructions, making it easier for Content Creators to install the Panorama Browser Extension on their device. We have also included a tutorial video directly on the installation pages for those who would like to listen and follow along.
   
6. Assign One-Time Credits to Panorama’s Gen AI
   In one-off cases where an institution requires more credits than their monthly limit for Gen AI, they can contact their Client Success Manager to add additional credits that will remain on their platform until used.