Category: Canada Zone

• July 24, 2020

  Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20200724 Released to All Zones

  Canada Zone European Union Zone United States Zone

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

  1. 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.
     
     
  2. 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.
     
     
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
     
     
  5. 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.
     
  6. 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.
  7. YuJa Pro Captioning Now Supports Spanish Human Captioning
     Organizations using the YuJa Pro Captioning can now human-caption their content in Spanish.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
      
      
• July 24, 2020

  Video Conference Platform – Update RC20200724 Released to All Zone

  Canada Zone European Union Zone United States Zone

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

  1. Video Conference Recordings Are Now Playable in the Media Player

     Multi-party video conference recordings with screen, video and audio are now playable directly within the Enterprise Video Platform’s standard Media Player. This means that video conference recordings can now be edited, captioned, downloaded, thumbnailed, etc. with all the same capabilities afforded to standard captures and uploaded videos.

     In subsequent releases, we will be adding improved multi-person layouts, removing the interim step where a newly created recording initially plays back using the Video Conference application, and adding the ability for whiteboards and document sharing content to be linked to the recording as an attachment.

     

  2. Ability to Limit Access to Video Conference to Only Specific Users
     Administrators can now restrict access to the Video Conference to only specific users. This includes the ability to define who can create meetings and who can only attend meetings.
     
     
• July 18, 2020

  Software Capture for Apple (v4.1.1) – Update Released to All Zones

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  A new version of the Software Capture for Apple version (version v4.1.1) has been released to all instances located in the United States, Canada and the European Union.

  1. Brand New, Faster and More Efficient Capture Engine
     This version introduces a brand-new Capture Engine that provides improved stream synchronization on Retina displays, better memory and CPU efficiency, and a snappier user experience. This engine also provides improved device compatibility with external peripherals (example: Yeti Professional Microphone).
  2. Support for Recording Internal System Audio
     Content Creators can record the system internal audio as a secondary audio source alongside the primary microphone source. This can be used to record the sound of a video being played back during an active recording.
     
     
  3. Improved Compatibility When System Language is Simplified Chinese
     Resolved minor incompatibilities with the application when launched when Apple’s System Language is Simplified Chinese.
  4. Support for Recording with Apple Airpods
     Alongside the new Capture Engine is support for using Apple Airpods to perform recording.
  5. New Apple Capture Audit Logging Capabilities
     To provide Administrators with better visibility in remote user actions and system activity, the Apple Capture now provides audit logging capabilities for specific actions. Over the coming releases, additional events will be added to the Apple audit logging capabilities.
     
     
  6. New Permission Management Panel
     In many cases, Apple OS’s default permission settings for applications is to deny Camera, Microphone and Screen Recording access. On start-up, the new Permission Management Panel provides a clear indication of available permissions and the ability to directly open the Apple OS Security & Privacy tools needed to enable the required permission.
     
     
• July 18, 2020

  Video Conferencing Platform – Update Released to All Zone – RC20200717 Released

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  A new version of the Video Conference platform has been released.

  1. Improved Firewall Traversal for Screenshare
     Capabilities to allow the screenshare connection to better traverse specific firewall and router configurations.
  2. Improved Audio and Video Permission Edge-Cases
     Resolved a number of edge cases that could cause webcam and microphone permissions to be blocked during the Video Conference initiation.
• July 4, 2020

  Update to HTML5 Video Conferencing System Released to All Zone – RC20200703 Released

  Canada Zone European Union Zone United States Zone

  A new version of the Video Conference platform has been released. Please keep in mind that the release cadence for the Video Conference has been increased to twice-a-month (or more) as we roll out capabilities on a more aggressive release schedule in preparation for the Fall.

  1. Improved Connection Management and Retry Capabilities
     The Video Conference Platform now will perform individual connection-level retries to re-establish connections that may be on slower or high-latency connections.
  2. Improved Firewall Traversal Capabilities
     Capabilities to better traverse specific firewall and router configurations have been deployed. This should resolve several connection issues that users experience.
  3. New Ability to Select Video and Audio Options from the Entry Panel
     Now the Entry Panel has a new option to select Video and Audio directly before entering the Video Conference.

  

  4. New Top Bar Audio and Video Selection Options
     The Audio and Video buttons within the Top Bar now provide the ability to toggle between available video and mic sources.

  

• June 20, 2020

  Canadian and European Union Instances – Enterprise Video Platform RC20200619 Released

  Canada Zone European Union Zone

  We 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.

  1. 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.
     
     
  2. 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.
     
     
  3. 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.
     
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
     
     
  6. 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.
     
     
  7. 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.

     

  8. 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.
     
     
  9. More Readable Gradebook View
     The Video Platform’s Gradebook table view now has a more modern tabular view with additional Attempts filtering capabilities.
     
     
  10. 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.
      
      
  11. 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.
      
      
  12. 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.
      
      
  13. 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.
      
  14. 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.
      
      
• June 20, 2020

  US, Canadian and European Union Instances – Video Conference Platform RC20200619 Released

  Canada Zone European Union Zone United States Zone

  A new version of the Video Conference platform has been released that includes 15+ features and improvements. Please keep in mind that the release cadence for the Video Conference has been increased to twice-a-month (or more) as we roll out capabilities on a more aggressive release schedule in preparation for the Fall.

  1. Improved Participant Management Capabilities with Integrated Virtual Classroom Tools
     The Participant Management panel now offers an improved visualization of participant capabilities and roles. The Panel also now provides an integrated menu to manage mute settings, charge role and enable and disable media sources.
     
     
  2. New Mute Management Capabilities for Simplified Virtual Classroom Management
     Meeting owners now have additional mute capabilities to better manage the number of speakers during a multi-person virtual classroom. New mute management capabilities include:
     • Mute specific participants
     • Mute All participants with sub-capabilities to enable participants to subsequently unmute themselves
     • Offer the ability to speak to specific, owner-selectable participants

     

• June 12, 2020

  Update to HTML5 Video Conferencing System Released to All Zones

  Canada Zone European Union Zone United States Zone

  A new version of the Video Conference platform has been released that includes one key improvement. Please keep in mind that the release cadence for the Video Conference has been increased to twice-a-month (or more) as we roll out capabilities on a more aggressive release schedule in preparation for the Fall.

  1. Improved Re-Connection Logic in Unstable, Intermittent, or Weaker Connections
     Improved re-connection logic between peer-to-peer connections in situations where the link is temporarily unstable, intermittent or weaker. We will continue to monitor “connection graphs” to identify additional connection management improvements required.
• June 12, 2020

  YuJa Mobile for iOS 2.3.0 Release Published to Apple AppStore

  Canada Zone European Union Zone Uncategorized United States Zone

  We have successfully published a new version of the YuJa Mobile for iOS application to the Apple AppStore.

  1. Improved and More Modern Playback Experience
     A refreshed video playback experience using an overlay style Play Bar now provides better use of the available screen size.
     
     
  2. New Recording and Orientation Options
     Improved video display orientation to match the orientation used when recording for both portrait and landscape, as well as the ability to select the capture resolution when recording.
     
     
  3. Easier to Use Entry Screen
     The login experience has been streamlined. Rather than having to scroll through a list of Organizations and Schools, users can simply enter their email address, organization name or organization’s email domain to login to their organization’s configured authentication methods.
     
     
  4. Integration with Playback Analytics
     Playback analytics shown within the Visual Analytics now integrate with playback events generated by users when accessing the iOS application.
     
  5. Ability to Record Audio Podcasts
     The recording capability now includes the ability to create audio-only recordings (podcasts).
     
     
  6. Additional Variable Speed Playback Option
     Improved variable speed playback and device capability, as well as added new 4x speed control.
     
     
  7. Extended Control of Use of Non-WiFi Connections
     Selectable option to control whether downloads content for offline use can be performed only when connected to non-Wifi connections. This is aimed at helping users avoid situations where downloading or uploading content exceeds their phone’s data plan thresholds.
     
     
  8. Stability Improvements Based on Customer Usage
     Leveraging the previous deployment to resolve 50+ application crashes and errors that were discovered in the field. The result is an even more stable and robust user experience.
     
• June 6, 2020

  Update to HTML5 Video Conferencing System Released to All Zone

  Canada Zone European Union Zone United States Zone

  A new version of the Video Conference platform has been released that includes several improvements and features. The release cadence for the Video Conference has been increased to twice-a-month as we roll out capabilities on a more aggressive release schedule in preparation for the Fall.

  1. Support for Up To 9 Participants on Video
     The maximum number of participants on video has been increased to 9. Over the coming months, we will continue to increase this maximum.

  

  2. 10+ Smaller Fixes and Improvements Including:
     • Improvement to mute, no-sound and no-video icon sizes to be more consistent and sized to the video box.
     • Improved handling of video source switching in instances where it is performed very quickly (or toggled).
     • Resolved issue where copying the meeting link via the Copy Link button did no work on Chrome or Edge.