Category: European Union Zone

• July 18, 2020

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

  Canada Zone European Union Zone United States Zone

  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.
• May 26, 2020

  Software Capture for PC (v10.6) Released to All Geographic Zones

  Canada Zone European Union Zone United States Zone YuJa Lecture Capture Portfolio

  We have released a new Software Capture for PC version (version v10.6) to all instances located in the United States, Canada and the European Union.

  1. Upload Progress Window Integrated with Both PC Application Recording Toolbar and Standalone Window
     Post-recording, users can now see a status upload bar to track the status of in-progress uploads. This is available on both the Recording Toolbar and a Standalone Upload window.
  2. Improved Alert When a Source is Unplugged
     In instances where a recording source is disconnected mid-recording, in addition to the alert shown on the Confidence Monitor, a Windows Toast Notification alert is also provided.
  3. Improved Pause Processing in Instances of Dozens of Pause Operations
     Videos where a significant number of pauses exist (10+ pause-resume sequences) now are processed in a manner that better maintains the synchronization of the audio and video feeds.
  4. 15+ Smaller Fixes and Improvements Including:
     • Resolved issue that would prevent an unregistered Software Capture device from utilizing Watch Point.
     • Resolved issue where a recording could, in a specific instance, become corrupt if a source is unplugged mid-recording.
     • Resolved issue where the Video Encoding process could get stuck during an active recording.

   

• April 25, 2020

  Canadian and European Union Instances – Enterprise Video Platform RC20200424 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. A corresponding release will be deployed to United States instances in one week.

  1. Video Lifecycle Management with New Data Retention and Data Policy Management Tools
     Administrators have new tools to manage data retention including the ability to create data policies. Policies can be created with customizable rules including identifying unused data, older content, and specific content types. When executing policies, Administrators can review matching data, preview content, purge content, as well as aggregate it into an Archive Folder. In future releases, we intend to provide tools to offload Archive Folders onto offsite or AWS-side storage locations. We encourage you to try your data management workflows and provide us with feedback on future improvements you would like to see.
     
     
  2. New Auto-Captioning Engine with Better Accuracy and Room Acoustic Models
     The Video Platform now provides a new auto-captioning engine that offers higher-quality auto-captioning. This auto-captioning engine also operates better in larger lecture halls and in situations where the microphone may be further away from the speaker. We encourage you to enable Model A in your organization’s Admin Panel and try it out for yourself.
     
     
  3. Video Editor Now Provides Clearer Indication of Trimmed Captions
     The Video Editor provides an easier interface to edit captions while simultaneously making trims and cuts to the video (which naturally affects the caption time-points). The new Video Editor interface includes a color indicator showing which caption entries will be removed, which will have an invalid timestamp (post edit), and which ones will remain valid.
     
     
  4. Increased the Maximum Video Size to 1TB
     By default, all Video Platform instances now have a maximum single file size of 1TB. For a basis of comparison, that’s about the combined size of two hundred and fifty, full-length HD movies.
     
     
  5. User Interface Improvements to Browser Capture Studio
     Updates to the Browser-based Capture Studio include improvements to the compatibility across web browsers, minor improvements to the capture workflow, and better messaging once a recording is complete.
  6. New Media Chooser Behavior for Blackboard and Moodle Students
     The Media Chooser is once again useable by student roles. Following changes to Blackboard and Moodle’s security model, student roles were unable to embed content. Now, the Video Platform will detect the role and place a permitted link into the chosen LMS region.
  7. Sub-Organization Now Supports Auto-Provisioning of Shared Folders
     Organization Management capabilities now include the ability for sub-organization creation to automatically create a Shared Folder matching the hierarchy of the Sub-Organization structure.
  8. Performance Improvements to UI Screens Displaying and Filtering Large Volumes of Users
     Several web application screens which had slightly sluggish behavior when filtering against ten-of-thousands of users has been improved. This included the Link Users within the Zoom Enterprise Connector and the Admin Panel’s Overview and Roster tabs.
  9. Pre-Quiz Error Messaging to Quiz Takers with Browser Settings That Prevent LMS Gradebook Sync
     Users who are likely to have browsers or browser settings – such as disabling third-party cookies – that could prevent LMS Gradebook synchronization of quiz results will now see an in-context LMS message preventing quiz entry. This is aimed at reducing the chances that a student takes an LMS-embedded quiz without being able to transmit the resulting quiz grade to the LMS Gradebook.
     
     
  10. HTML5 Video Conference Now Has Improved Screen-Reader Support
      A minor update to the Video Conference web application interface addressed a number of screen-reader issues related to missing alt-text for UI components.
• April 15, 2020

  Software Capture for Apple (v3.2.4) Released to All Geographic Zones

  Canada Zone European Union Zone United States Zone

  We have released a new Software Capture for Apple version (version v 3.2.4) to all instances located in the United States, Canada and the European Union. This minor release focused on improving performance and user guidance on high-resolution Retina displays.

  1. Decrease in CPU Usage When Recording Apple Retina Display Screens
     CPU usage during a recording has been significantly improved when recording the screen of Apple Retina Display screens. This should result in fewer skipped frames and better overall system performance.
  2. Detection of Resolutions That May Be Too High
     In situations where the resolution, frame-rate and CPU may ultimately result in audio and video frames to get dropped, we now provide better detection of this and display a warning to the user. This warning also provides specific steps to resolve the issue.