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April 24, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210416 Released to to US Zone
Analytics Enterprise Video Platform General Platform Live Streaming United States ZonesWe 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.
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April 17, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210416 Released to EU and CA Zone
Analytics Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General Platform Live StreamingWe 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- Live ASR Provides Auto-Captioning for Live Streamed Events
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December 19, 2020
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20201211 Released to US Zone
Enterprise Video Platform General Platform United States ZonesWe 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.
- 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
- Streamlined Single-Sign-On Process for Externally Embedded Content
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December 11, 2020
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20201211 Released to EU and CA Zone
Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General Platform Live Streaming Media Management Video EditorWe have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the European Union and Canada. Next week, we will perform the same update to our United States-based zones.
- Improved Browser Capture Studio with Screen Recording Capabilities
The Browser Capture Studio now offers the ability to perform screen-recording alongside audio and video sources. To learn more about using the Browser Capture Studio, visit the YuJa Support article: https://support.yuja.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046033333
- Improved Browser Capture User Experience Offers Direct Download Capabilities
The Browser Capture Studio now offers the ability to download the raw Webm video that the browser recorded (before it’s sent up to the Video Platform for processing).
- New API for Bulk Deleting Device Schedules
To enable third-party workflows on device schedule management, an API to purge all device schedules is now available. Visit the YuJa Support article for details: https://support.yuja.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049580714 - Ability to Share Video Quizzes Editing Capabilities with Other Users (Beta)
Content Owners can now share access to a Video Quiz to other editors. This heavily requested feature enables new collaboration workflows including the ability for Instructional Designers to pre-create quizzes on behalf of instructions and then share the resultant video and quiz. Through Q1 of 2021, we will continue to further refine this workflow.
- Ability to Insert a Video In-Situ into an Existing Multi-Source Recording without Overwriting Existing Timeline
The Video Editor’s Insert Video capability now offers a “Current Time- Insert” (without Override) for multi-stream videos. This enhances the “Current-Time – Insert” that was previously only available for single-stream videos. Visit the YuJa Support article for details: https://support.yuja.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051853393
- Better Highlighting of Active and Selected Video and Folders
A smaller “fit-and-finish” improvement to My Media provides a better indicator of the active or selected media.
- Improved Media Details User Interface
The Media Details interface offers a cleaner design with dozens of minor UI fixes and improvements.
- Refreshed IMS Re-certifications for all LTI Enterprise Connectors
We finalized the annual re-certification and compliance of all our LTI-based Enterprise Connectors including our LTI 1.1, LTI 1.3, LTI Advantage, and IMS Caliper integrations with the IMS Global standards organization. - Ability to Disable Auto-Captioning for Specific Zoom-Mapped Users
As part of a staggered roll-out of 20+ features in Q1 of 2021 focused on new Zoom capabilities and improvements, today we added the ability to selectively enable auto-captioning for a specific user’s content ingestion. Visit the YuJa Support article for details: https://support.yuja.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050861693
- New Notification When Human Captioning Requests Have Been Fulfilled
A new Notification is now provided within both the Admin Panel’s Notification tab, as well as an email alert when a human caption request has been fulfilled.
- Improved Live Stream Player User Experience
An improved Live Stream Player is now available that provides improved multi-source selection in instances with 3+ sources. In additional to other smaller improvements and refreshed icons, the Live Stream Player also aligns to the branding styles defined for the On-Demand Media Player (for both the Overlay and Fixed Bar style).
- Improved Device Schedule Management with Additional Capabilities to Select All, Select Partial and Clear All
The Device Schedule Management tab now offer some bulk schedule management capabilities to select all, select partial and clear selected. Visit the YuJa Support article for details: https://support.yuja.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048682194
- Improved Audio Waveform Generation to Reduce Visual Skewing When Using Browser and Screen Level Magnification
In instances where a current browser or screen-level magnification exists on the user’s computer, the improved waveform rendering of the audio waveform, reduced instances where it appears unsynchronized with the absolute time-codes.
- Improved UI Responsiveness of Notification Tab’s Filtering for Narrow Viewports (Such as LMS Windows)
The Admin Panel’s Notification tab now offers improved UI responsiveness in narrow viewports such as within LMS Windows. Visit the YuJa Support article for details: https://support.yuja.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050322154 - Downloading Media for Offline Use Now Routes through the Content Delivery Network (CDN)
To improve both the speed of offline downloading, as well as compatibility with anti-virus software, content being downloaded for offline use will now route through the same Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure used to perform live and on-demand video streaming.
- Improved Browser Capture Studio with Screen Recording Capabilities
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November 14, 2020
Enterprise Video Platform – Mid-Cycle Update RC20201113 Released to All Zones
Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General Platform United States ZonesWe have successfully pushed a mid-cycle update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. This release is focused on increased scalability and performance as we look to 2021 with the need to even further scale-up infrastructure.
- Improved Cloud-Side Performance of Device Monitoring within Admin Panel and Visual Analytics Suite
With the increased load came a more definitive need to further optimize the Devices tab within the Admin Panel, as well as the Visual Analytics suite.
- Deployed Infrastructure to Move Static Asset Delivery to the Global Content Delivery Networks (Will Be Enabled Iteratively Within Video Platform Instances)
To improve global performance of Video Platform static asset resource loading (images, CSS files, etc.), this has been moved off our AWS-side infrastructure and now will load via the Content Delivery Networks. This will reduce page load times, as well as reduce sever load. This functionality will be deployed iteratively through Q4 to customer instances.
- Resolved Rare Issues Which Could Stall Loading of Notifications Panel within the Admin Panel
Deployed improvements to the Notifications tab that resolved rare issues which could cause the Notifications data to stall when being loaded.
- Added API for Hardware Hubs to Be Remotely Auto Started
The original API call did not adequately address auto-starts to devices without Profile IDs. Now, an API is available to auto-start 2U and 1U Hardware Hubs.
- Improved Cloud-Side Performance of Device Monitoring within Admin Panel and Visual Analytics Suite
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October 24, 2020
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20201023 Released to Canadian and European Zones
Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General PlatformWe have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the European Union and Canada. Next week, we will perform the same update to our United States-based zones. This release was primarily focused on 250+ internal scalability improvements, performance of key functionality, as well as fixes and product improvements.
- Improved Performance of Zoom Ingestion
The Video Platform sub-systems responsible for performing Zoom ingestion has been bolstered to provide even more robust and scalable ingestion of Zoom recordings. Many of these capabilities will complement a soon-to-be-released product called YuJa Himalayas for Digital Archiving and eDiscovery aimed at helping organization better manage the onslaught of digital media in a more compliant, scalable and cost-effective manner.
- Data Management Tool Provides Ability to Export Matching Results as a CSV Table
To provide better capabilities to review and archive potential content, the Data Management tool within the Admin panel now provides the ability to export the matching results table.
- Faster Generation Speed for Embed Codes and Video Links for Longer Videos
Though link generation speed is relatively fast, we recognize that some users need the links nearly instantaneously. Now, the links are available within seconds of the video being uploaded.
- Improved Performance of Audit Logs (Notifications Tab) Data Loads
With even mid-sized organizations routinely seeing hundreds-of-thousands of audit log entries, the Video Platform now offer a more robust and performant Notifications tab.
- Improved Load Time of Visual Analytics and Admin Panel with Ultra-Large Data Sets
Refinements to the load time of summary statistical information within both the Visual Analytics and Admin Panel have been made. These improvements are most noticeable for customers processing large volumes of video data.
- Improved Summary Cards for Institution Storage Boxes with New Third-Party Storage Type
New Storage Type Summary Cards provides a summary of the key storage types including a new storage type: Third-Party Imports. This new type summarizes the quantity of content being stored that arrived via an automated ingestion from a third-party systems such as Zoom.
- Performance and Throughput Improvements to Canvas API Module
The Canvas API Sync module has been improved to perform higher throughput Canvas data synchronization. Additional capabilities include:
- Improved compatibility with Canvas API’s Enforce Scopes
- Better integration with Canvas instances which do not perform archiving of historical course and user data
- Faster data synchronization of new Canvas entity data
- Improved Video Quiz Gradebook Synchronization and Related Improvements
Based on user feedback, the Video Platform now includes about 15+ fixes and improvements for better Gradebook synchronization and handling of edge-cases. We will continue to review user feedback to resolve additional concerns.
- Improved Performance of Zoom Ingestion
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September 12, 2020
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20200904 Released to Canadian and US Zones
Canadian Zones General Platform Live Streaming United States Zones Video Editor Video QuizzesWe have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in Canada and the United States. For a summary of the release, please refer to the corresponding RC20200904 tag when deployed to the EU zones.
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September 4, 2020
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20200904 Released to EU Zone
European Union Zones General Platform Video Editor Video QuizzesWe have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the European Union. Next week, we will perform the same update to our United States and Canadian-based zones.
- Advanced Adaptive Live Streaming for Hardware Hubs
Hardware Hub-originating live streams can now take advantage of newly deployed elastic-scaling infrastructure that provides an adaptive bitrate live streaming experience. The resolution levels offered include: 240p, 480p, 720p, and 1080p with the default option being a network-sensing Auto setting.
Organizations can request a firmware update to their Hardware Hubs to take advantage of this new capability. Please note that similar capabilities on the RTMP-based stream ingestion and the Apple and PC-based Software Capture application’s live streaming facilities are on the near-term roadmap.
- New Video Quiz Gamification Capabilities to Create Advanced Tours (Beta)
Video Quiz Creators can create Choose-Your-Own-Adventure type video quizzes with a video asset. A new Decision Point question type has been introduced that provides the ability to customize the linear progression of a video-based quiz based on the response to a proposed Decision Point. This enables an interactive user experience where video content can be sequenced in a non-linear fashion based on interactive input. This Beta feature will be further enhanced based on its assigned roadmap, as well as user feedback on future capabilities.
- Deeper Audit Logs for Video Quizzes
To provide better insight for instructors and Administrators, the Video Platform now provides deeper audit logs of quiz events including: deleting, editing, publishing, quiz attempts, and dozens more.
- Improvements to Gradebook Sync Integration
Based on customer feedback, the Video Platform has incorporated a number of improvements to its LMS Gradebook synchronization including improved error handling, retry logic and more. - Resolution of a Number of Media Download Edge Cases
The Video Platform has incorporated 10+ fixes for “edge cases” related to downloading both transmuxed and original video content. - Improvements to Canvas Native API Integration Module
In the last release, the Video Platform added a new native Canvas API-based integration that complemented the standard IMS-based LTI integration already provided. This release, the Video Platform added improved API integration including better handling of API rate limiting during large volume synchronization, support for course copy scenarios, support for Canvas API Scoping, and better support for situations where multiple identical course codes exist for active courses. - New Security Pin Requirement for More Secure Phone-Based Support
To ensure that YuJa’s total-user-support provides industry-leading product support in a secure and compliant manner, YuJa Product Support is introducing a new Security Pin requirement that users are required to provide to receive non-general (account specific) product support.
- Improved Video Editor Experience with More Responsive Design
The Video Editor now offers an even more flexible and responsive design which fits better within smaller laptop screens. With this update, several fixes to caption and transcription editing issues have also been included.
- Added Profanity Filter Option for the Recently Released Auto-Caption Engine
The Profanity Filter capability is now available with the recently released auto-caption engine. Now both Caption Engines offer a Profanity Filter option.
- Devices Tab Now Provides Improved Schedule Management Tools
A new Manage Schedules option within the Devices Tab provides the ability to view, filter and delete schedules on a per-device and all-devices basis.
- Progress on Initiative to Provide Full Localization Support (Starting with French)
The Video Platform is undergoing an initiative to provide full localization support across all aspects of the product. We expect to have all web-based Video Platform screens full localized by mid-Fall with our initial support for French. This release includes translations for over 60% of the common Video Platform user interfaces including the Media Library, Media Player, and more.
- Support for Locked Student Video Submissions
Instructors can now disallow the ability for student-submitted video assignments to be edited or deleted when submitted via an LMS Media Chooser.
- On-Demand LMS Gradebook Sync
Complementing our automatic LMS Gradebook Sync, the Video Platform now offers an On-Demand LMS Gradebook Sync option which will perform a full re-synchronization of the YuJa Gradebook data for a given quiz to the corresponding LMS Gradebook.
- Advanced Adaptive Live Streaming for Hardware Hubs
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July 24, 2020
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20200724 Released to All Zones
Canadian Zones European Union Zones General Platform Media Management United States Zones Video EditorWe have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada and the European Union.
- Audit Log Subscriptions with Subscription Management Capabilities
Administrators can now create email subscriptions to specific Audit Log events. These events are sent in real-time to the specific users or email aliases. This enables scenarios such as a Device Sub-Administrator setting up subscriptions to be informed of all Device-level alerts for low-audio and auto-scheduling error.
- Additional Auto-Captioning Languages
The Video Platform now supports Automatic Captioning (ASR) in the following languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Hindi, Turkish, Thai, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Korean.
- Improvements to Zoom Enterprise Connector
The Zoom Connector now permits ingestion of password-protected and host-only content. Additionally, organizations with multiple Video Platform instances can now simultaneously integrate the same Zoom enterprise account into multiple Video Platform instances. - Improved Localization of Date and Time Formats
The Video Platform’s Branding tab now supports the ability to use either a Day/Month/Year or Year/Month/Day format.
- Canvas Native Integration for Non-LTI Automatic Course Provisioning, User Creation, and Roster Sync
Complementing the IMS-certified LTI integration, the Video Platform now offers native Canvas synchronization. This native API-level capability pre-populates the Video Platform with LMS-side entities without the need for an LTI launch event. The course, user and roster entities are then continually updated to match their corresponding Canvas-side entity. For information on this capability, visit the YuJa Knowledgebase Article.
- Smaller Media Now Uploads Via Multi-Part Upload
Multi-part Upload was originally implemented for larger (500MB+) content. Now the robustness of this implementation, including the ability to permit uploads to withstand intermittent or temporary Internet connection interruptions, is now available for smaller media files. - YuJa Pro Captioning Now Supports Spanish Human Captioning
Organizations using the YuJa Pro Captioning can now human-caption their content in Spanish. - Improved Performance of Media Player When Large Number of Video Embeds
The load-time and performance requirements of the Media Player has been improved to better support situations where a large number of videos are embedded into a single LMS or webpage. - Improved Video Editor’s Video Insertion
Improved robustness of video insertion into an existing video in situations where: 1) the video being inserted is a silent video or, 2) the slide or image is being inserted at the last second of the video. - Ability to Automatically Perform Auto-Captioning (ASR) Directly into Preferred Language
For organizations that would like to perform ASR in a non-English language by default, the Video Platform now provides the ability to specify their preferred default.
- Audit Log Subscriptions with Subscription Management Capabilities
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June 20, 2020
Canadian and European Union Instances – Enterprise Video Platform RC20200619 Released
Canadian Zones European Union Zones General Platform HTML5 Video Editor Media ManagementWe have successfully released an update of the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform to all instances in the European Union and Canada. This release includes over 155+ new features and improvements. A corresponding release will be deployed to United States instances in one week.
- New Notifications Tab within Admin Panel That Unifies All Logging, Audit Logs, and System Events
All audit logging capabilities of the Video Platform and Video Conferencing Platform – including Device Logging, Admin Overview, Software Capture Audit Tracking, and Video Conferencing Audit Logging – have been unified into a single Notifications tab. This new tool provides scalable filtering of millions of events by type, name, user, device, and date. In an upcoming release, we will introduce the ability to selectively create self-subscription to specific event subsets.
- Deep Audit Tracing for Media and Folders Actions Including Content Deletions and Moves
Audit logs for actions performed on media and folders – including deletion, renaming, changing owner, and dozens more – are now available within the new Notifications tab. This enables Administrators to carefully trace videos in situations where, among other things, end-users cannot find a specific video or are unsure about a performed video action.
- Added Drag-and-Drop Support for WAV and M4A Audio Files
The drag-and-drop Media Management ingestion capability has been extended to support both WAV and M4A audio formats. - 15+ New Video Editor Improvements and Options:
- Edits of Videos with an Internal Audio Track – Improved trimming of videos that contain an internal audio track. Previously the internal (system) audio track could be lost during an edit operation.
- High Volume of Cuts – Improved performance when performing a large number of cuts (20+), as well as situations where so many cuts are performed that the video’s duration has been reduced by 90%+
- Advanced Edit Operations – Resolved a number of issues where advanced editing workflows involving multiple blurs, text-labels with special characters and telestrations could fail to properly process within the Video Editor pipeline.
- Brand-Aligned “Forgot Your Password” Screen with Improved Workflow
The Forgot Your Password workflow is now aligned to the branding and styling of the Login page. Further, the workflow for resetting a user password is also streamlined into a two-step email verification process.
- Improved Overview Panel for Administrators with Faster Load Times
The Overview tab of the Admin Panel now loads more quickly and provides at-a-glance visuals on overall activity via the Summary Cards at the top and current storage utilization below.
- Unified Media Security Tab with New Domain Restriction Capability for Embedded Content
The Security Settings for Password, Authentication, Date, IP Range, Location and Domain have been consolidated within the Links tab of Media Details. In addition to being a more natural place for it, the Video Platform’s Security tab now includes:- The ability to restrict an embed code for use on a particular website sub-domain.
- New capabilities to layer multiple security settings for a given media. Now content can have simultaneous security settings such as Date, Password and Location restrictions.
- New Video Quiz Settings Including the Ability to Limit Number of Reattempt and Specify Which Attempts to Record
Video Quizzes now provides more customization options to specify how many quiz attempts to permit, which quiz attempts should be stored, and which attempts should be recorded in the LMS Gradebook.
- More Readable Gradebook View
The Video Platform’s Gradebook table view now has a more modern tabular view with additional Attempts filtering capabilities.
- New Zoom Enterprise Connector Options for Deletion After Importing and Self-Enrollment
The Zoom Marketplace Enterprise Connector now offers some additional options for deleting recordings after the import is complete, as well as options for users to self-enroll their Zoom account (which is part of an Organization-wide Zoom master account) to import meeting recordings. Depending on when you installed the Zoom Marketplace application, the new deletion capabilities may necessitate re-installing the Zoom Marketplace app to associate the updated permission sets.
- New Zoom Audit Logging Capabilities
To better trace issues and status during Zoom import operations, the Zoom Enterprise Connector now provides audit logging capabilities on actions performed during importation. Of course, these Zoom audit logging capabilities are shown within the Admin Panel’s Notification tab.
- Pop-up Blocker Detector Installed for Video Editor and In-Browser Capture
To help prevent confusion when a browser-based Pop-up Blocker plugin blocks access to the Video Editor or In-Browser Capture (which open in a new tab), the Video Platform now provides notification to the user of the situation.
- Infrastructure for Custom Transcode and Bitrate Management Tools
Laying the groundwork for an upcoming Admin Panel tool to provide Transcode Management capabilities, this release we deployed the foundational infrastructure to soon support this functionality. In an upcoming summer release, the Video Platform will introduce the actual Advanced Transcode Management capabilities. - Third-Party Integration with Epiphan Third-Party Hardware Capture Appliances
The Devices tab within the Admin Panel now integrates a rich Epiphan device integration that provides the ability to register, auto-schedule, and auto-ingest recordings. The new Epiphan Middleware Controller architecture ensures that the Epiphan integration can scale to any number of local Epiphan appliances. Further, this Controller architecture can be extended to manage any third-party hardware capture appliances.
- New Notifications Tab within Admin Panel That Unifies All Logging, Audit Logs, and System Events