Product Updates

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Verity Testing Proctoring Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. This release provides improved administrative capabilities, enhanced student experience during exams, and more powerful tools for live proctoring sessions.

1. Native D2L Extension Available for YuJa Verity Direct LMS Integration

   Building on extensions with Canvas and Moodle, we’ve expanded our LMS integration capabilities with a new offering built using the D2L Extension framework. Now, rather than hitting a roadblock when they attempt to access a password-protected assessment without the required browser extension, test-takers will be guided through YuJa Verity setup and then be directed to their quiz.

   

2. Enhanced Quiz Configuration Display for Quick Restriction Verification

   YuJa Verity’s Quiz Configuration Summary and Verity Results pages now display additional configuration options beyond top-level settings, such as specific detection parameters for video recordings or allowed websites for web traffic monitoring, giving instructors visibility into their proctoring settings. This update makes it easier to verify all enabled restrictions and troubleshoot potential issues.

   

3. Support for Moodle Course Copying Simplifies Course Setup

   Proctoring settings now transfer seamlessly when copying or importing courses and assessments in Moodle. This capability ensures all proctoring settings transfer automatically to the new assessment, streamlining course setup and maintaining consistent security protocols.

4. New “Raise Hand” Feature Alerts Instructors in Live Proctoring Module

   Test-takers can now raise their hand during live proctored assessments. Proctors receive sound notifications when hands are raised and can view all raised hands in a dedicated list, with options to lower individual hands or all hands at once.

   

5. New Group Communication Tools for Live Proctors

   Live proctors can now communicate with all test-takers simultaneously through a new “Everyone” tab in the Chat panel. This feature enables announcements, time warnings, and general instructions to make live proctoring more efficient and responsive for both instructors and test-takers.

   

6. New Node-Based Administration Controls for Improved Access Management in Shared LMS Environments

   Administrators can now view institutional reporting, course reporting, and settings filtered by organizational nodes. This update improves access management in shared LMS environments while providing separation of administrative responsibilities.

   

7. Resource Links in Quizzes Are Automatically Whitelisted

   Links added to question content are now automatically added to the whitelist when using the “Disable New Tabs” or “Close Open Tabs” options in D2L and Canvas Classic Quizzes. This update helps ensure test-takers can access instructor-provided resources without interruption while maintaining assessment security.

   

8. Moodle Category and D2L Organizational Unit Support for Sub-Account Visibility and Control

   YuJa Verity now provides organizational hierarchy support to Moodle and D2L learning management systems, complementing the existing functionality in other LMS platforms. Administrators can sync category structures from these platforms using the Scope Settings management tool for consistent sub-account visibility and control.

   

9. Enhanced Student Accommodation Controls for Streamlining the Exemption Management Process

   Instructors can now add detailed accommodation notes to individual test-takers directly from the redesigned Accommodations tab. This updated interface streamlines the exemption management process while providing space for instructors to document specific student needs or approved modifications.

   

10. New Institutional Roster Management With Advanced Search Capabilities

    YuJa Verity now has an institutional roster system. Administrators can create, modify, and manage user accounts from a centralized dashboard, with advanced search capabilities and downloadable roster reports.

    

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Engage Student Response System instances. This release includes new question-type labels, improved mobile navigation with sticky controls, updated authentication workflows with institutional branding capabilities, automated grade book sync for Canvas and D2L Brightspace, and a refreshed mobile poll interface.

1. Automated Grade Book Sync for Canvas and D2L Brightspace

   Building on our automatic Blackboard Grade Book sync, we’ve added grade book sync between YuJa Engage and LMS grade books for Canvas and D2L Brightspace. Previously, participants were required to log in to the LMS to take polls and have their results synced. Now, their results are automatically synced to the grade book after completing polls through the YuJa Engage mobile app or website, eliminating the need to log in. To configure this option, simply select “Allow only course members to join under Participant Restrictions,” and assign the poll to your desired course from the drop-down menu.

   

2. New Question-Type Labels Added

   We’ve added support for custom question-type labels that allow instructors to maintain their preferred terminology when transitioning from other platforms. Instructors can now create familiar activity types such as ‘Icebreaker,’ ‘Retrospective,’ and ‘Brainstorm’ while leveraging YuJa Engage’s powerful short answer functionality.

   

3. Improved Mobile Navigation with Sticky Controls

   We’ve improved the mobile experience in YuJa Engage with sticky navigation controls that remain visible at the bottom of the screen while scrolling through poll questions.

   

4. Updated Authentication Workflow with Institutional Branding

   We’ve refreshed the YuJa Engage authentication screens with a contemporary design that enhances usability and security. The update introduces institutional branding capabilities that display your organization’s logo during sign-in, improve keyboard navigation accessibility, and provide clearer feedback throughout the authentication process.

   

5. Refreshed Mobile Poll Interface

   We’ve redesigned the student poll-taking experience in our mobile apps to align with our web interface, providing improved navigation and a more intuitive layout for students participating via smartphones and tablets.

   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa FeedbackFlow Assessment Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. This update includes simplified assessment creation to streamline navigation, improved grading-method creation, and a new split-screen assessment interface.

1. Simplified Assessment Creation to Streamline Navigation

   The assessment creation workflow has been improved and simplified to streamline navigation, reduce the number of clicks in the creation process, and to provide clearer guidance to instructors as they create and manage assessments.
   
   

2. Improved Grading Method Creation 

   Instructors can now quickly access recently used rubrics, preview options before selection, and build custom rubrics that save to personal, course, or institutional libraries.
   
   

3. New Split-Screen Assessment Interface

   Assessments now have a split-screen interface that allows participants to view instructor videos while recording their responses, eliminating the need to scroll between content. Participants can also reference questions and rubric criteria while they record.
   
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa EqualGround Accessibility Governance Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. The release introduces an option to assign teams to manage specific page groups, an intuitive approach to start your website scan in minutes with our setup wizard, an option to scan and crawl multiple websites and page groups, and more.

1. Start Your Website Scan in Minutes With Our Setup Wizard
   YuJa EqualGround now features an intuitive setup wizard that streamlines your website scanning experience, guiding you through every essential step in one centralized flow. Within four simple steps, you can add or bulk upload websites to the platform, configure the scan scope and frequency, and initiate a scan to detect accessibility issues across your web pages and documents.
   
2. Website Scan Setup: Automatic Detection of All Websites Within the Top-Level Website
   Organizations that manage hundreds of websites will no longer have to enter each URL manually. YuJa EqualGround will automatically detect all websites under your top-level website (domain), allowing you to select the publicly accessible websites you want to configure for scans.
   
   
3. Website Scan Setup: Bulk Apply the Same Configuration Across All Websites
   When all selected websites require the same configuration for the scan depth and frequency, you can save time by applying the settings to all websites and beginning the scan immediately.
   
4. Assign Teams to Manage Specific Page Groups
   Building on our previous release, which allowed for assigning teams to manage an entire website, your organization can now designate teams to manage specific website sections by assigning them to page groups. This ensures each team has the necessary permissions, such as configuring scans, viewing accessibility reports, and analyzing web page performance for their assigned page group.
   
5. Scan and Crawl Multiple Websites and Page Groups
   Institutions with many sites can now choose to crawl or scan multiple websites or page groups rather than individually scanning each one.
6. Filter Website Reports by Page Groups
   You can now filter reports by selecting a page group, allowing you to focus on specific areas of your website for more detailed insights.
   
7. View Issues on Your Site and the Specific Pages Where They Occur
   You can now access a detailed list of issues detected on your website in the new Issues tab. This includes the number of occurrences and the specific web pages affected by each issue, allowing you to easily identify areas of concern.
   
8. More In-Depth AA and AAA Issue Detection for Web Accessibility
   Expanding on our existing accessibility checks, YuJa EqualGround now includes more detections for AA and AAA-related issues. Some of these checks include:
   • Web page contains descriptive headings and labels.
   • Components with the same functionality are presented consistently across web pages.
   • Ensure users have sufficient control over how content is presented to them.

   

9. View Full SEO Issue Names in Exported Report
   We’ve improved our exported SEO report to display descriptive names for all issue types to help you clearly understand the issues found.

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa AutoPilot AI Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes the option to re-run AutoPilot to address newly flagged issues and revert changes from AutoPilot’s course scans.

1. Ability to Re-Run AutoPilot to Address Newly Flagged Issues
   You can now run AutoPilot multiple times on your files to ensure that any subsequent issues discovered can be resolved automatically instead of fixing them yourself. This is particularly useful when dealing with an untagged document, as AutoPilot may reveal underlying issues after tagging that would otherwise require manual intervention.
   
2. Revert Changes from AutoPilot’s Course Scans
   After successfully remediating an entire course using AutoPilot, you will now be given the option to revert all accessibility changes if desired.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Structural Remediation Max Add-On Platform instances residing in the United States, Canada, European Union, and Australia. This release provides an option to automatically generate a new tagged structure of your PDF document.

1. Automatically Generate a New Tagged Structure of Your PDF Document
   Ensuring a correct tagged structure in PDF documents is crucial for accessibility tools such as screen readers to access content in the right reading order. Structural Remediation Max now offers a one-click solution to automatically regenerate the tagged structure of your PDF documents, ensuring they are accessible.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa SmartSpeaker instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes the option to instantly look up definitions for complex terms and translate content with AI-text recognition software.

1. Instantly Look Up Definitions For Complex Terms
   Expanding on its GenAI capability, SmartSpeaker now provides instant definitions for selected words or phrases, helping you to understand complex concepts easily.
   
2. Translate Content with AI-Text Recognition Software
   In situations where the web content is not in your preferred language, you can now translate text into any of our over 100 supported languages using SmartSpeaker’s AI text recognition.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes a new marketplace of accessibility products, an option to reorder the Alternative Formats Menu, customize the DocHub Experience by creating default folders, options to treat images as decorative, and more.

1. Explore Our Brand New Marketplace of Accessibility Products to Help You Create, Remediate, and Engage With Your LMS Content
   When it comes to accessibility, there is a wide range of tools that specialize in how your content looks and feels. Whether you’re looking to create a welcoming home page on your LMS or want to give your users the freedom to customize elements to suit their needs, the Marketplace is a one-stop shop with everything you need. Browse our catalog of products and see what you like. When something catches your eye, contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager, who can help you learn more and set things up for your institution.   
   
2. Customize the Alternative Formats Menu by Reordering the Placement of Formats
   As an administrator, you can now reorder the formats in the Alternative Formats Menu to suit your institution’s preferences. For example, you can prioritize frequently used formats and display them at the top of the menu for more convenient access across your institution.
   
3. Customize the DocHub Experience by Creating Default Folders
   As an administrator, you can now create default DocHub folders, allowing you to set up specific folder structures based on your institution’s preferences for content management. Please note that users must be added after creating default folders for those folders to appear to them.
   
4. The Issues Report Provides an Overview of All Issues and in Which Courses They Occur
   When reviewing the issue report, administrators can now see all courses with a specific accessibility issue, along with the number of occurrences. This allows you to quickly locate courses with the highest instances of any particular issue and address them efficiently.
   
5. New Option to Automatically Exclude Decorative Images from Being Flagged as Issues
   In certain cases, your content may contain images marked as decorative with an empty alt tag (alt=””) or a custom decorative tag. To ensure that these types of images are not flagged as issues, YuJa Panorama now offers more flexibility for you to treat these images as decorative.
   
6. Verify that Hyperlinked Text is Descriptive
   Descriptive text for hyperlinks can be useful so that users have context on where the link will take them. However, in cases where the full URL needs to be displayed, such as a work cited page, you can now verify that it is not to be flagged as an issue in the Accessibility Report.
7. New Accessibility Check for Excessive Heading Levels in HTML Content
   We’ve expanded Panorama’s capabilities in detecting heading tags that exceed six levels for HTML content in the WYSIWYG editor, ensuring better compliance with the latest WCAG accessibility guidelines.
   
8.  Expanded Branding Options for Enhanced Customization
   We’ve expanded the branding settings to offer greater flexibility in customizing icons and the interface to match your institution’s preferences. Key updates include:
   • WYSIWYG Gauge Size: Customize its size to ensure a consistent display alongside other icons within your LMS’s WYSIWYG editor.
   • Login Page Branding: Upload a preferred logo for the login page to better align with your institution’s branding.
   • Predefined Color Options for Top Bar: Choose from modernized, high-contrast color options to maintain visual accessibility while matching your institution’s branding.
9. Fix Outdated File Formats Issue Within the Accessibility Report
   We’ve enhanced YuJa Panorama’s capabilities to not only identify outdated file formats and provide how-to-fix suggestions, but also offer an instant fix. Simply click the Fix Issue button to update your file format to the latest version.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. This update includes more powerful AI Detection capabilities for webcam recordings, a simplified test-taking experience on the Mobile Lockdown App, options to create registration windows for live proctoring sessions, proctoring guidelines for live proctors, and more.

1. More Powerful, Continuous AI Detection Capabilities to Identify Objects and People within the Webcam View
   We’ve enhanced our AI detection capabilities with a new real-time AI model that continuously identifies people and unpermitted objects. This improves the detection accuracy across various scenarios, such as when a test-taker’s face is not center-aligned, is obstructed from the webcam’s view, or when the environment has dim lighting.
   
2. A More Simplified Test-Taking Experience on the Mobile Lockdown App
   The mobile test-taking experience is now simplified into a three-step guided process within the LMS assessment page: connect YuJa Verity with the LMS, download the Mobile Lockdown App, and launch the app. Once on the app, Canvas test-takers will automatically be signed in to start their assessment, while test-takers of other LMS platforms can take the assessment after signing in manually. Future updates will provide the same auto-sign-in capabilities to Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, and Moodle.
3. Create Registration Windows for Live Proctoring Sessions
   Registration windows allow you to establish proctored live sessions that test-takers must register for before the window closes. This ensures there are no last-minute cancellations for the proctoring session and that the number of test-takers is finalized before it starts.
   
4. Provide Proctoring Guidelines to Live Proctors Before a Session Starts
   When creating an assessment that contains specific proctoring procedures or special accommodations, you can now include proctoring guidelines for live proctors to review before they join the session. This ensures they are well-informed about assessment details and prepared to accommodate specific needs before the session begins.
   
5. Remotely Deploy the YuJa Verity Lockdown App Across Multiple Devices
   If you’re an administrator for a large-scale or multi-campus institution, you can now remotely deploy the YuJa Lockdown App across all Windows devices using the new MSI installer.
   
6. Flagging for Unauthorized Website Navigation Attempts in the YuJa Lockdown App
   When test-takers attempt to access a restricted website during a Lockdown assessment, YuJa Verity will now not only block access to these sites but also flag the issue for review, ensuring greater transparency of unauthorized navigation during assessments.
   
7. New Progress Bars to Track the Upload of Proctoring Sessions
   After a proctored assessment is submitted, we now show the upload progress of all devices in real-time so that test-takers are informed of their status.
8. Updated Visuals Across the Verity Test Proctoring Experience
   We’ve updated our visual displays of images and text across the proctoring experience, including:
   • Modernized the Proctoring Readiness Check with visuals and updated step-by-step instructions.
     
   • Redesigned UI for the live proctoring end pages with clearer indications of why a live session has ended.
     

    

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Engage Student Response System instances. This release includes a new profanity filter to prevent offensive language in responses, an option to visually display mathematical equations with a LaTeX editor, and the option release polls with unlimited response time.

1. New Profanity Filter to Prevent Offensive Language in Responses
   YuJa Engage now includes a profanity filter that detects offensive words in activities, providing a more respectful and inclusive environment when responses are given.
   
2. Visually Display Mathematical Equations in Activities Using the LaTeX Editor
   To help accurately display how mathematical equations should look in your activities, YuJa Engage now supports using the LaTeX editor to write them. You can then preview your content to ensure it looks as intended. 
   
3. New Option to Release Polls with Unlimited Response Time
   Polls can now be released without a time limit, allowing participants to respond at their own pace until it is manually closed.