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• December 11, 2020

  Video Conference Platform – Update RC20201211 Released to All Zones

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  We have successfully pushed an update to all Video Conference instances residing in the United States, Canada and the European Union. This release was primarily focused on 35+ internal scalability improvements, performance of key functionality, as well as fixes and product improvements.

  1. Improved Video Streaming Loading

     The HTML5-based Video Conference now performs stream loading faster with a more refined user experience.

  2. Clicking the Share Button as an Attendee Takes to the Most Relevant Shared Content

     To provide an attendee with an easier experience, now clicking on the Share button in the Top Bar takes them to the most relevant shared content.

• November 14, 2020

  Enterprise Video Platform – Mid-Cycle Update RC20201113 Released to All Zones

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  We 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

• October 24, 2020

  Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20201023 Released to Canadian and European Zones

  Canada Zone European Union Zone YuJa Enterprise Video Platform

  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 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

     

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

     

  7. 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

  8. 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.

• October 22, 2020

  Video Conference Platform – Update RC20201023 Released to All Zones

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

  1. Cleaner More Modern Interface with Improved Action Bar Capabilities

     The HTML5-based Video Conference interface has a new look-and-feel that provides a cleaner interface, easier access to key capabilities, and a more intuitive navigation experience.

     

  2. New Quick Access Buttons with Click-to-Toggle Capabilities

     The new Navigation Bar auto-hides to ensure the visual focus is on the video conference experience rather than the toolset. The buttons also provide handy click-to-toggle between various view modes and sharing tools.

     

  3. Improved Video Conference Recording Synchronization

     This release includes over 25+ improvements to the video conference recording including audio synchronization.

  4. Coming Soon – Native YuJa Video Conference for Android Application

     This quarter, we also anticipate introducing our beta Video Conference for Android application. This is part of a broader strategy to provide a unified, cross-device video experience for on-demand and synchronous video.

• September 4, 2020

  Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20200904 Released to EU Zone

  European Union Zone

  We 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.

  1. 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.
     
     
  2. 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.
     
  3. 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.
     
     
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
     
     
  8. 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.
     
  9. 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.
     
  10. 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.
      
  11. 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.
      
  12. 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.
      
  13. 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.
      
• August 15, 2020

  Video Conference Platform – Update RC20200814 Released to All Zones

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

  1. More Scalable Phone Dial-In Support with Toll-Free Access Numbers

     Previously a beta feature, attendees now have the ability to dial into a video conference. While currently free, future releases will include the ability to purchase bundles of telephone access minutes.

     

  2. Streamlined Screensharing Workflow

     Now screensharing is even easier with one fewer step to initiate a screenshare.

  3. Improved Notification Management and User Experience

     Notifications now appear in a more structured manner on the right-hand-side of the video conference. Settings including notification sounds, messages and timeout, which are now configurable within the Settings dialog.

     

• August 15, 2020

  Hardware Hub 1U and 2U Firmware Available

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  A new Hardware Hub maintenance release is now available that provides the following improvements:

  • #171733025 – Resolved rare issue which could cause a portion of the video to record but not be playable with the audio.
  • #159841557 – Upgraded firmware to be more efficiently execute on a Windows 10 operating system base configuration.
  • #173822351 – Resolved issue which could cause the live stream to remain disconnected after a Hub disconnects and reconnects from the Internet.
  • #173823798 – Introduced new 2U and 1U BIOS process when the unit loses power to return to a Connected state instead of requiring a power-cycle.
  • #174050106 – Resolved rare issue where a multi-part video could fail to upload all parts.
  • #173970211 – Resolved issue of a un-closed file handler which could occur during a live stream with an inline audio device.
• July 24, 2020

  Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20200724 Released to All Zones

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  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.