Category: Enterprise Video Platform

  • June 19, 2021

    Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210618 Released to EU and CA Zone

    Canada Zone Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zone

    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.
  • April 24, 2021

    Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210416 Released to to US Zone

    Enterprise Video Platform United States Zone

    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.

  • April 17, 2021

    Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210416 Released to EU and CA Zone

    Canada Zone Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zone

    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.
  • April 12, 2021

    Software Capture for PC (v10.11.1.0) – Minor Update – Released to All Geographic Zones

    Canada Zone Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zone United States Zone

    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.
  • April 5, 2021

    Software Capture for Apple (v5.1.1.0) – Minor Update – Released to All Geographic Zones

    Canada Zone Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zone United States Zone

    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.
  • March 23, 2021

    Hardware Hub Firmware – Update v5.00 Now Available

    Enterprise Video Platform

    A new Hub firmware is available for both the RCS-430 and RCS-550 models focused on improving the handling of specific scenarios and edge-cases. To request your Hubs to be updated, please provide a list of Hub UDIDs to your designated Customer Success Manager.

    1. Improved Source Recovery Logic During Disconnections

      The Hub-side and video processing-side has been improved to better handle situations where the audio or video source disconnects intermittently during the recording.

    2. Improved Internet Disconnection Recovery Logic

      Improved live stream resumption in situations where the Hub’s Internet becomes unstable or disconnects temporarily.

    3. Added Firmware Version Summary within Source Details Tab

      To help organizations track the versions of the specific components of their Hub’s firmware.

    4. Improved LCD Screen Status Indicators

      Improved the status indicators that are displayed for the Hub’s recording statuses.

    5. In addition to the above improvements, a number of fixes for specific scenarios were also improved including:
      • Resolved issue where, in some situations, RS 232 commands did not transmit correctly to the RCS-550 Hub.
      • Improved source synchronization when a pause and resume operation occur via RS-232 commands.
      • Resolved issue where if inline audio is unplugged during the recording, the audio wouldn’t record after being plugged in back.
      • Resolved issue that prevented capture at the 1920 x 1200 aspect ratio
      • Resolve issue that could result in a slow memory usage and generate excessive logs
      • Improved stability and quality of HDMI Embedded Audio recording
  • February 27, 2021

    Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210219 Released to US Zone

    Enterprise Video Platform United States Zone

    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.

  • February 19, 2021

    Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210219 Released to EU and CA Zone

    Canada Zone Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zone

    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 Now Supports Insertion of “Virtual Backgrounds”
      Users can record with any tool within our Capture Portfolio (Hardware, Software, In-Browser or Mobile), a third-party capture tool, or simply upload content and then use the Video Editor to apply a “Virtual Background”. The Video Editor also supports adding different background images to each stream. We will continue to enhance this new capability in two keys ways:

      • Refine the Artificial Intelligence models used to generate the “Virtual Backgrounds”.
      • Continue to scale out the deployment of a newly introduced GPU-Accelerated Processing sub-system (a cluster of more advanced processing infrastructure).

      Click here to learn more about this capability.

    2. Dedicated GPU-Enabled Adaptive Bitrate Live Streaming Now Available for PC and Apple Capture Applications
      The Live Stream sub-system has been extended to support adaptive bitrate streaming for live streams originating from both the PC and Apple Capture applications. This same capability was recently introduced for live streams originating from our Hardware Capture appliances.

    3. New WebEx Enterprise Connector for Video Conference Content Ingestion
      Similar in function to our Zoom Enterprise Connector, the new WebEx Enterprise Connector enables ingestion of video conference recordings from WebEx video conferences. Based on user feedback, this feature will continue to be customized to support deeper system interconnectivity. Click here to learn more about this capability.

    4. Additional Zoom Connector Integration Options for User Synchronization, Related Metadata Ingestion and More
      The Zoom-to-YuJa integrations has been extended to support new user enrollment options including Manual Enrollment, Self-Enrollment, Bulk Enrollment, and Automatic Enrollment. Further, we added additional features including:

      • Importing the Zoom-generated auto-captioning for use within the Video Platform
      • Improved support for multi-fragmented Zoom recordings when a recording is stopped and resumed within a single meeting
      • Ingestion of meeting poll and chat information

      Keep in mind that you will need to refresh your Zoom Marketplace application to take advantage of these new capabilities. Click here to learn more about this capability.

    5. Improved Social Media Connectors for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube
      The Social Media Enterprise Connectors that provide the facility to cross-syndicate video content to social media platforms have been updated to use each platform’s latest APIs. Click here to learn more about this capability.

    6. Video Player Optimizations and Caching Improvements
      The Video Player is now smaller in size, offers faster load times, aligns better with existing caching infrastructure, as well as utilizes the Content Delivery Network for the Video Player’s “front-end script” assets.

    7. Lightweight Button Style to Better Align Video Platform UI with LMS UI
      A new lighter-weight button style enables more natural brand alignment with the Organization’s LMS.

    8. Granular Capabilities to Configure Course Name Provisioning
      Organizations can now design their own course name provisioning template based on the standard LMS fields of Label, Term and Title. This enables Organizations to fully align Video Platform course names with their existing LMS course provisioning structure. Click here to learn more about this capability.

    9. Improved Support for East Asian Language Character Sets in Search-Filter and Drop-Down Menus
      Based on a review of incompatible UI elements, the filtering capabilities were improved to better support East Asian language character sets.

    10. New Gradient Top Bar Style Branding Option
      A new gradient Top Bar styling provides added customization and styling options. All existing Top Bar color options are retained.

    11. Improved Live Streaming Performance in Low Bandwidth Scenarios
      The Live Streaming capabilities have been bolstering to better support live streaming in lower bandwidth scenarios including where the Internet quality fluctuates or experiences longer latencies.
    12. Media Library Thumbnail Now Shows Recording Status for Live Streamed Sessions
      Now the Media Library overlay shows the current recording, uploading, and processing states for live stream sessions just as it already does for non-live recordings.

    13. Offline Download Availability Can Now Be Limited to In-App Downloads Only
      Content Owners can now limit offline downloading of content to only YuJa’s native iOS and Android mobile apps. This balances the viewer’s desire for flexible viewing options with the Content Owner’s concern with maintaining secure digital rights management.

    14. Institution-Wide Auto-Publish Delay Now Provides Time-Based Granularity
      Organizations using the delayed auto-publishing capability for auto-scheduled sessions can now specify a specific time at which the recording is made available to the published Media Channel. Click here to learn more about this capability.

  • February 6, 2021

    YuJa Panorama for Digital Accessibility – Update RC20210206 Released to All Zones

    Canada Zone Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zone Panorama Digital Accessibility Platform

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

    1. Reports and Configuration Now Available Within New LTI-based Application

      Unified and updated the Panorama reporting into a consolidated LTI-based application. Now all reports can be accessed within a unified LTI application. Please contact your Customer Success Manager for updated installation steps.

    2. New Blackboard Plugin for Easier Installation
      The Blackboard installation steps just got easier with the release of a YuJa Panorama Visualization Plugin for Blackboard. This capability also adds an additional layer of security and integrity checks. Please contact your Customer Success Manager for updated installation steps.
    3. New Configuration Panel within LTI-based Application
      Added ability to view the latest Visualization version, with the corresponding integrity hash on the Configuration panel.
  • December 19, 2020

    Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20201211 Released to US Zone

    Enterprise Video Platform United States Zone

    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. In addition to the features noted in the RC20201211 tag, the below feature was also included.

    1. Streamlined Single-Sign-On Process for Externally Embedded Content
      To make the sign-in process easier for the end user, we now provide an improved authentication process when embedded content is enabled with Single-Sign-On. Now, click on the secured video and a sign-in window opens that provides the ability to authenticate with the organization’s Single Sign-On. Once authenticated, the video will auto-detect the authentication and commence playback. To learn more, visit the YuJa Support article: https://support.yuja.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059012834