Real-Time Alerts

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the European Union and Canada. Next week, we will perform the same update to United States-based instances.

1. Video Editor Offers a Simple Mode and Advanced Mode
   The Video Editor now supports a Simple Mode and Advanced Mode making it easier for novice and experienced users alike to locate the editing tools they needed to get their recording ready for viewers. The Video Editor starts off in Simple Mode, and more experienced users can toggle the Video Editor to Advanced Mode if they prefer. The mode selection is saved for future video editing sessions. Click here to learn more about the Video Platform Video Editor.
    
   
2. Redesigned Media Chooser with More Intuitive Workflows to Share, Upload and Record Content
   We are introducing a redesigned Media Chooser that provides users with a more structured set of workflows to: share media content in the LMS, upload content, and create a new recording.
   
   
    
   • Choose and Embed Media From Existing Collections
      
     

   
   

   • Upload Content Directly and Embed It
      
     

   
   

   • Record Content Using the Capture Tools
      
     
3. Support for Multi-Embed in D2L Via On-The-Fly Playlist Generation
   Similar to the multiple-embed capabilities added to the Media Chooser for non-D2L LMS’s, we are now adding support for D2L. Instructors can create on-the-fly video playlists by selecting multiple videos at the same time in the Video Platform’s Media Chooser. Users can select up to 12 video at-a-time to create their playlist in any D2L Content Item. Click here to learn more.
    
   
4. Comprehensive Video Watch History
   Ever wanted to find a video you watched before, but weren’t able to locate it? Our new Watch History feature helps viewers keep track of what they’ve watched before. Click here to learn more about Watch History.
    
   
5. Data Management Archiving Now Supports the Creation of Recurring Policies and Actions
   As storage continues to grow for our customers, creating data policies and archiving content can be time consuming for Administrators during the busy school term. We’ve added recurring policies to our Data Management tools to help with that. Administrators can now schedule archiving policies to identify and take specific actions on data. This could include a policy to automatically delete unused transcodes. Click here to learn more about the Video Platform’s Data Archiving features.
    
   
6. Blackboard Collaborate Enterprise Connector
   By popular demand, we’re releasing our Blackboard Collaborate Enterprise Connector to make your Video Platform the central repository for all media content generated in the Video Platform or outside using products like Zoom, WebEx, Microsoft Teams and Blackboard Collaborate. Content from Blackboard Collaborate will automatically import into the Video Platform before being optionally deleted (to free up your Collaborate storage and reduce costs). Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn how to deploy this new SKU. Click here to learn more about the Blackboard Collaborate Connector.
    
   
7. Personal Auto-Caption Dictionaries
   A new Personal Auto-Caption Dictionary is available for users – that complements the existing Organization-wide Auto-Caption Dictionary – to help users improve the accuracy of their video’s auto-captions for irregular or uncommon words. The AI Captioning engine uses the dictionary to improve the identification and spelling of words defined by the user. Click here to learn more about populating the Personal Auto-captioning Dictionary for individual users.
    
   
8. Notifications and Alerts
   With so many new notifications for Video Conferences, Live Streams, Video Quizzes and more, it can be difficult for users to keep track of what’s completed and what’s outstanding. Now users are able to mark those notifications as read to help prioritize remaining events that require the user’s attention.
    
   
9. Archiving Event Notification Toggling
   In our previous Video Platform release, we added a new notification to alert users when their content was archived by a System Administrator using the Data Management tools. In this release, Administrators can disable the notification if they do not want to alert users of the archiving event. Click here to learn more about all of the Video Platform’s email notifications.
    
   
10. Geo-Location Analytics Now Available in Content Analytics
    To help Content Creators track the usage of their videos, we’ve added Locations to our comprehensive Content Analytics report available under Usage & Analytics. Previously only available in User Analytics, the geo-location analytics data helps inform Content Owners where in the world users are watching a specific video. Click here to learn more about Content Analytics.
     
    
11. Admin Panel Responsiveness for Small Screens
    With Administrators constantly on the go and using devices with smaller displays, navigating through the Admin Panel can be frustrating as text and charts don’t always auto-resize when the user zooms in and out of the web browser. We’ve added additional support so that the Admin Panel remains responsive for all users regardless of the size of the display or the amount of zoom. Please note that this is an ongoing project with additional improvement being delivered in upcoming releases.
     
    
12. Better Color Accessibility for Charts and Graphs
    As we continue to drive improvements to the accessibility of the Video Platform for every person, we’re refining the UI so that users with visual impairments can more easily review charts and graphs. We’ve updated the color of text, icons and charts so that they offer more contrast along with additional improvements to the legiblity of text and images .
     
    
13. New ASR Language Support Packs including Vietnamese
    We’re adding Vietnamese as an available language for auto-captioning videos spoken in Vietnamese. This adds to our growing list of support language including English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese and more. Click here to learn how to request auto-captions for your video.
     
    
14. More Accessible Inline Dialog Titles
    To assist users who use screen readers to navigate in the Video Platform, a new menu title is visible at the top of the Media Details panel and other inline dialogs. This text can be “picked up” by industry-standard screen readers.
     
    
15. Additional Third-Party Hardware and Application Integration APIs
    New APIs allow third-party tools to pull video thumbnail images, individual video streams, check for Device statuses and more. These new APIs were released to support our partnership with Epiphan, Extron, PlayPosit and others. Click here to learn more about available Video Platform APIs.
16. Enable LTI 1.3 For Specific LMS Courses
    We now make it possible to enable Video Platform integration for specific LMS courses using unique Deployment IDs. Previously, Organizations were only able to enable LMS-wide integration using LTI 1.3. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to learn more.
17. Blackboard Media Chooser LMS Extension Integration Improvements
    Recent structural changes to Blackboard have required that we update our Blackboard Media Chooser LMS Extension to continue supporting a seamless integration experience during specific actions such as Course Copy. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to download the newest LMS Extension.
18. Refined Support of Canvas Media Chooser for Multiple-Embed Scenarios
    The Canvas Media Chooser LMS Extension can now “sense” which Canvas rich-text boxes support multiple-embeds and which ones do not. This ensures instructors correctly embed videos in a way that aligns with Canvas’s capabilities. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to coordinate the update of your Canvas Media Chooser LMS Extension.

We have successfully published a Firmware update for Hardware Hubs available to all customers in the United States, Canada and the European Union. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to schedule your firmware update.

1. Device Profile Management
   As Organizations continue to expand their usage of the hybrid learning model, remote management of lecture capture devices becomes a linchpin to the model’s success. With new remote Device Profile Management tools for YuJa Hardware Appliances, Administrators can now define their room types and configure recording sources all from the Video Platform’s Admin Panel. Click here to learn more about creating a Device Profile.
   
   

   

2. Real-Time Local HDMI Source Preview
   A new local preview of most sources connected to the Hardware Hub is now available for Organizations who use the YuJa Hardware Appliance to record lecture room connector. View a preview of available screen and webcam sources by connecting a display to the Hardware device’s HDMI output. Click here to learn more more about the Hardware Appliance’s Local HDMI source preview capabilities.
   
   
3. Smaller Bug Fixes and Improvements
   Multiple improvements have been made to improve device stability, management of network disconnect situations, consistency of device previews and more.

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the US, European Union and Canada.

1. A Brand New Browser Capture User Experience
   We redesigned the user experience of the Browser Capture to focus on a more intuitive interface, better control of source recording, and previewing of active sources. We also implemented 15+ stability and firewall traversal improvements. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to learn how to enable Browser Capture for your Organization. We’ve got plenty more in store for the Browser Capture as we continue to enhance and extend this tool’s capabilities in future releases. Click here to learn more about Browser Capture.
    
   
2. New Media Player Viewing Options for Multi-Stream Content
   User now have more flexible viewing options for multi-streamed content with the ability to hover over the multi-stream content in the Media Player to select from a Side-by-Side, Picture-in-Picture or Single Source view. Click here to learn more about configuring default settings for Multi-Stream viewing.
    
   
3. Improved Media Player Accessibility with the Ability to Dynamically Move the Caption Bar
   Viewers can now dynamically move the caption bar around to suit their personal preferences. Click here to learn more about Media Player Accessibility tools.
    
   
4. Better Messaging When Captions are Being Processed
   The “No Captions Available” when ASR-based captions are being generated has been replaced with the message “Captions are being processed and should be available soon.”. Further, when no captions are pending, a more prescriptive message of “No captions available. To request captions, please contact the Video Owner.” shows. Click here to learn more about Media Player Accessibility tools.
    
   
5. Media Detail Advanced Capabilities Tucked Under “More Options”
   As the Video Platform expands, we’re constantly adding new features under the Media Details panel. We didn’t want to overwhelm the novice user and as such, we’ve tucked away advanced media tools under More Options.
    
   
6. Editable Embed Code for Advanced Configurations
   We’ve added the ability to edit a video’s Embed Code elements to give power users more control over embed code behavior. Click here to learn more about editing a video’s embed code.
    
   
7. Quick-Click for Direct Links and Embed Codes
   Copy a direct link or embed code in a single click using the new Copy button now available for all media content. Click here to learn more about sharing content using a Direct Link or Embed Code.
    
   
8. Improved Publish Dialog Layout for Smaller Screens
   We’ve made changes to the Publish dialog to optimize the space for smaller viewports. Click here to learn more about publishing media in the Video Platform.
    
   
9. Ability to Manage Video Quiz Open and Close Dates within the Media Chooser
   We’re continuing to improve our Video Quiz tools for Instructors who post video quizzes directly within their LMS. Now, Instructors can set the Video Quiz’s Open and Close dates directly within the Media Chooser. Click here to learn more about Video Quizzes.
    
   
10. Additional Security for the Zoom Enterprise Connector
    A new Verification Code is now required when changing the email address associated with a Video Platform account. This was done to ensure that Zoom-mapped accounts are mapped securely to the correct Video Platform account.
     
    
11. New Bulk Actions Options for Bulk Security
    Set the security of a group of videos from Private to Public, or enable Portal Authentication at the same time using our new Bulk Security feature. Content Owners managing large media collections can now set video security in bulk. Click here to learn more about Bulk Media Management options.
     
    
12. Improved the Accessibility and Navigability of Charts and Graphs
    In our drive to improve digital accessibility for all users, we’ve added additional screen reader support for graphs and charts in the Video Platform which includes adding data tables to complement graphical chart elements.
     
    
13. 24/7 RTMP Live Streaming
    We’ve more formally added 24/7 RTMP Live Streaming as we previously deprecated this capability only to release the ever-growing use cases our users had for 24/7 live streaming of content. Administrators can now start a non-recorded 24/7 RTMP Live Stream that can be used for permanent digital signage. Click here to learn more about RTMP Live Streaming.
     
    
14. Archiving Notifications
    New archiving notifications alert users when their content has been archived by their Administrators. As organizations ramp up archiving media content using YuJa Himalayas, we will continue to roll out new Video Platform notification capabilities.
     
    
15. Zoom Metadata
    New Zoom metadata like the Zoom Meeting ID, Name of the Organizer and List of Participants makes it easier for Content Creators and Administrators to search for Zoom recordings imported automatically using the Zoom Connector. Click here to learn more about the Zoom Connector.
     
    
16. Additional Third-Party Hardware Integration APIs
    Added improved Device API error handling and new API to retrieve Device Status and Audit Logs. Click here to learn more about available Video Platform APIs.

We have released a new Software Capture for PC version (version v10.11.3.0) to all instances located in the United States, Canada and the European Union. This release is specifically targeted at updating the Software Capture UI and improving software stability across more rare scenarios.

1. Clean-and-Crisp UI
   We’ve given the application an updated look to make improve the intuitive feel of the application and better use of the available space on the screen.
    
   
2. Software Stability Improvements
   We’ve added over 10 smaller improvements and fixes including resolving audit log inconsistencies, improving load times and more.

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States. For a summary of the release, please refer to the corresponding tag for the most recent Canadian and EU zones release.

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the European Union and Canada. Next week, we will perform the same update to United States-based instances.

1. New Storage Management Capabilities Including Download Archive and Additional Policy Rules
   With more users creating content and storing media assets on the Video Platform, storage management is a priority concern for many organizations. We’ve introduced new tools to our Data Management toolset to help Administrators identify archivable media content and manage their ever growing storage. Click here to learn more about data archiving.
   • We’ve added two new features to the Data Management toolset found under the Admin Panel. Administrators can add Bulk Tags to matching media content, and a Download Zip capability for selected media.
      
     
   • New Rules (matching criteria) can be added within the Policy Editor to identify content by Role Type and Content Type. For example, an Administrator could use these rules to easily identify Exam Proctoring Sessions created by Students that should be archived to free storage.
      
     
   • More detailed audit tracking gives organizations transparency into archival events, making it easier for them to monitor the archive folder generation and total amount of storage archived.
      
     
2. Advanced Transcode Management and Admin Bitrate Selection Capabilities
   Content Owners and Administrators can now manage the available transcodes within a video. This including adding specific transcodes for a particular resolution and bitrate, as well as removing an existing transcode. Transcodes provide alternative variants to provide more customizable adaptive bitrate capabilities settings but do occupy additional storage space. Click here to learn more about managing transcodes on a per-video basis.
    
   
3. Advanced Transcode Management Custom Video Qualities Capabilities within Admin Panel
   Administrators can now select which transcode qualities they wish to make available to specific roles. For example, Admins could provide the ability for Content Owners to generate a 480p adaptive bitrate transcode, however permit themselves to generate 2160p transcodes. Click here to learn more about managing transcode generation.
    
   
4. Microsoft Teams Enterprise Connector
   Complementing our Zoom and Webex Video Conferencing Enterprise Connectors, we now offer a Microsoft Teams Enterprise Connector. This provides the ability to automatically or manually ingest Microsoft Teams video conference recordings. Click here to learn more about our Microsoft Teams connector.
    
   
5. Itemized Storage Report
   The Itemized Storage Report is a downloadable report that provides storage metrics for all media content accessible in the Video Platform including the Title, Owner, Date of the Upload, Size, and number of Views. Click here to learn more about the storage analytic reporting.
    
   
6. Bulk Download Support for Multi-Stream Content
   Before, multi-stream video content could only be Bulk Downloaded as separate files which produced separate MP4 files for each stream. Now, users can Bulk Download multi-stream content as a single file allowing all available streams to merge into a single MP4. Click here to learn more about Bulk Downloading media content.
    
   
7. Ingested RTMP Streams Can Be Recorded, Stream with Adaptive Bitrate Streaming and Use the Live Chat Capability
   RTMP-ingested streams can now be recorded by the Video Platform, as well as utilize the same adaptive bitrate streaming infrastructure previously deployed for live streams originating from YuJa Software Capture and Hardware Hub-originating live streams. The Live Chat capability has now been extended to RTMP-originating streams. The resulting recording can also be assigned a session owner, saved to a specific Media Collection, and optionally published to a particular location. Click here to learn more about about RTMP Live Streaming in the Video Platform.
    
   
8. RTMP-Based Events Now Offer a Stream Preview Capability to Monitor the Event
   To enable Event Services teams to better manage RTMP-based Live Stream Events, the Video Platform now offers the ability to preview an active stream and monitor the outgoing audience feed. Click here to learn more about about RTMP Live Streaming in the Video Platform.
    
   
9. RTMP-Based Live Stream Real-Time Event Statistics
   Live stream events, including RTMP-originating events, now offer real-time event statistics including the total number of viewers, active viewers, attendance length, as well as geo-location information on attendees. Future releases will deepen the available statistics, as well as introduce new data visualizations. Click here to learn more about RTMP Live Stream statistics.
    
   
10. New Video Quiz Delivery Options Including “View After Submission” and “Permit Student Resubmission”
    Video Quizzes now support two additional settings available to Video Quiz creators. Instructors can specify if Students should be allowed to resubmit their answers after submission or if a Student can continue to access the video of a Video Quiz after the quiz’s Close Date. Click here to learn more about advanced Video Quiz settings.
     
    
11. Redesigned Gradebook Analytics with Color-Coded, Single Pane Results View
    With a cleaner UI and a list of new features, we’ve given the YuJa Gradebook a whole new look-and-feel to provide an at-a-glance look for Instructors as they monitor their Students comprehension of course content. Instructors can grade each of their students’ Video Quiz short answer responses in a single click, view all attempts, the scores received and the answers selected. Click here to learn more about Video Quizzes and the Gradebook.
     
    
12. Improvements to Keyboard Level Accessibility with Platform-Level Highlight Selection on All Keyboard Navigations
    As part of an initiative to deepen the accessibility capabilities of the Video Platform, we have introduced both improved the keyboard navigation visual element, refined the screen-reader support, and transitioned some UI panels into a more Universal Design. Over the coming quarters, we will continue to broaden and improve additional UI screens.
     
    
13. XML Scheduling Upload Now Provides Collection-Level Specification Capabilities
    As more and more organizations move to remote scheduling for classroom lecture capture, we’ve made bulk scheduling even easier. Administrators can bulk schedule lecture capture sessions through the Devices page under the Admin Panel using an XML and can now specify the location to save the recording. Click here to learn more about uploading an XML schedule for automated recording.
     
    
14. Added 10 New Auto-Captioning Languages including Finnish
    As YuJa continues to expands internationally, our user base has become increasingly diverse and English is no longer the only primary language spoken by Video Platform users. We’ve added 10+ new languages to our AI auto-caption toolset to support organizations including Finnish, Farsi, Danish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, and Traditional Mandarin. Click here to learn more about requesting auto-captions on a per-video basis.
     
    
15. Transcript Downloading from within the Media Player
    With our initiative to improve digital accessibility for all users, we’ve added the ability to download the video transcript directly though the Media Player’s Sidebar so viewers who are watching an embedded video can download the transcript. Click here to learn more about downloading resources through the Video Platform Media Player.
     
    
16. Prioritizing Proctor Session Initiation for Students Enrolled in Proctored Courses
    We know that students can make mistakes when trying to initiate a proctoring session on their device so we’ve made it easier to launch the tool by prioritizing proctor sessions for students when they click Create Recording. Students are now less likely to accidentally create a standalone recording instead of a proctoring session. Click here to learn more about enabling prioritization of proctoring sessions for students.
     
    
17. Customizable Terms and Conditions Prompt for New Video Platform Users
    Video Platform security and transparency has always been our top concern. Organizations can now require all users to accept their organization’s custom Terms and Conditions before accessing the Video Platform for the very first time through their LMS or SSO. This ensure that user information isn’t passed from the LMS or SSO into the Video Platform until the student accepts the Terms and Conditions. Click here to learn more about enabling this feature for your Organization’s Zone.
     
    
18. Class Media Channel Email Invitations
    Administrators can now control how users join a Class Media Channel through their email invitation by enabling or disabling different log in methods including SSO credentials, Video Platform credentials or even creating a new account. Click here to learn more about configuring Class Media Channel invitation options.
     
    
19. New API to Obtain Audit Log Entries, Video Search Capabilities, and Per-User Schedule Retrieval
    The REST API now offers additional APIs to extract audit log entries, perform additional video operations such as video search, and retrieve auto-scheduled sessions on a per-user basis. These APIs will also be used by third-party video quiz partners to enable them to utilize YuJa-hosted videos for quiz creation. Click here to learn more about the available REST APIs in the Video Platform.
20. Full Platform Localization Project Complete, including Support for French
    Our multi-quarter full Video Platform localization project is now complete with fully instrumented Globalization. This will enable seamless introduction of new Language Packs in the future. This release, we have completed the availability of our French Language Pack. Click here to learn more about changing your account’s preferred language. Note: We currently have our Test Engineers performing even more thorough sweeps of all tool-tips and older features to make sure we fully localized the UI. If you notice anything that isn’t localized, please let us know.
21. General Availability of Multiple Single Sign On Enterprise Connectors for a Single Video Platform Instance
    The Video Platform now supports up to 2 SAML and 2 CAS vendors for a single Zone allowing institutions with multiple SSO vendors to provide an seamless login experience to all Video Platform users.
22. Browser Capture Studio Now Offers an On-Demand Upload Capability to Support More Restrictive Firewall Settings
    With an improved network framework for Browser Capture, users using the online recording tool have a more consistent experience that improves upload response times on local networks running firewalls. Click here to learn more about using Browser Capture.

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States. For a summary of the release, please refer to the corresponding tag for the most recent Canadian and EU zones release.

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the European Union and Canada. Next week, we will perform the same update to United States-based instances.

1. Live ASR Provides Auto-Captioning for Live Streamed Events
   AI-based auto-captioning is now available for live streams. Now live streamed events can be captioned in real-time which provides improved accessibility to live content. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to learn how to opt your Organization into Live ASR for Live Stream events.
    
   
2. New User Analytics Dashboard with Breakout Analytics for Course-Embedded Content
   The User Analytics view has a brand new look with more in-depth analytics of individual users. Capabilities include:
   • Ability to filter video analytics for a given course including video content presented in both Media Channels and LMS-embedded Deep Linked content
   • New summary statistics on most viewed content, accesses and storage space used
   • Improved visualizations of aggregated usage statistics

   This new User Analytics dashboard also allows organizations to establish program certifications based on a viewer’s completion of course content. Click here to learn more about User-Level Analytics.
    
   

3. Additional Localization of Video Platform – In addition to the previous localizations, this release we have localized My Account, Live Stream Player, and Video Editor. Key remaining sections are Analytics and Admin Panel (will be completed in the subsequent release cycle). Our initial focus is to provide full localization for French. Click here to learn more about enabling French language support for your Video Platform account.
    
   
4. New APIs to Support Third-Party Hardware and Software Encoders 
   We’ve taken another step forward in our ongoing partnership with Extron and Epiphan to provide seamless video capture content and management to users through native integrations. New APIs and software encoders provide new entry points for the Video Platform to register, manage and ingest content from third-party hardware units.
5. Additional Media Chooser Support for Blackboard Content Items
   With the newest Media Chooser Plugin for Blackboard, instructors can now edit their media Content Item including content title, description, start date, and more before sharing it with students. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to learn how to download the newest version of the Blackboard Media Chooser Plugin.

We have released a new Software Capture for PC version (version v10.11.1.0) to all instances located in the United States, Canada and the European Union. This release is specifically targeted at achieving full localization support of the PC Capture application. From here, we will continue to add new language packs.

1. Full Localization of the PC Capture Application to French
   The Software Capture for PC application is now fully localizable and we are introducing support for French in this edition. Future updates will include localization support for additional languages.

We have released a new Software Capture for Apple version (version v5.1.0.0) to all instances located in the United States, Canada and the European Union. This release is specifically targeted at achieving full localization support of the Apple Capture application. From here, we will continue to add new language packs.

1. Full Localization of the Apple Capture Application to French
   The Software Capture for Apple application is now fully localizable and we are introducing support for French in this edition. Future updates will include localization support for additional languages.