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June 24, 2022
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20220624 Released to CAN and EU Zones
Analytics Browser Capture Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General Platform Live StreamingWe have successfully pushed our update to all instances residing in Canada and European Union. This update provides in-depth Live Stream statistics, new customizations for the Canvas LTI 1.3 integration, a new Sub-Admin Captioner role, consent forms workflows, our new Facial Analysis tool, and much more. This will be released to the United States zones next Friday.
- View Real-Time Live Stream Statistics (Beta)
We have introduced a new Live Stream tab within Usage & Analytics that provides real-time live stream statistics across Hardware Hub, Software Capture, and RTMP-initiated live streams. Content Owners and Administrators are now provided with in-depth knowledge of their live streams, including real-time stream quality, downstream bandwidth, geo-location maps, and viewer statistics. The Live Stream Analytics tab also offers a space to view statistics for past and current live streams, as well as view upcoming events.
- Ability to “Favorite” Documents and Images, as well as, Filter Based On Favorited Items
Content Owners can now “star” documents and images as a favorite item and then use the Visual Search capabilities to search across all Favorited items. We have also provided a Favorite tab within My Media as a single space to view all your Favorite items. We will be extending this capabilities to video content in a subsequent release.
- New “Shared with Others” Tab within My Media
To complement our Shared With Me feature and improve the ability to collaborate on content with others, we have added a Shared with Others capability. This provides you with a single pane view of content that you have shared with other individuals using the Share capability. To learn more about our sharing feature, please click here.
- New Version History Tab for Documents and Images
Content Owners can now view past metadata history, including file renaming, metadata tags, ownership changes, publishing events, thumbnail changes and dozens more.
- Commenting Now Available for all Media Types
To further increase media engagement, we have expanded our commenting capabilities from video-related media to now include many document types such as DOCX, PDF, and PPT. To learn more about this feature, please click here.
- Course Copy Now Also Supports Moodle “Importing Courses” Workflow
In addition to the Moodle Course Copy workflow, we now support the Moodle Import Course workflow to effectively perform course copy of Media Channels, Video Quizzes, and Embedded Videos. To learn more about this feature, please click here. - Institutions Can Now Send an Electronic Consent Form that Will Record the Recipient’s Response
Institutions that use photos for marketing purposes often have to receive consent from the model within the picture. The new Consent Form tab allows Content Creators to send, review and manage consent forms within a single space. This feature can integrate with the newly introduced Facial Recognition tool that is part of this release. To learn more about this feature, please click here.
- Added Facial Recognition Analysis to Manage Consent Forms
To ensure all recognized faces within a photo have consent forms tied to them, the Automated Facial Recognition tool can scan an existing library of images owned by the institution to see if a consent form exists. To utilize this capability, please contact your Admin to turn this capability on within your Video Platform instance.
- Ability to Generate Reports to Identify Duplicate Content
As institutions expand their media libraries, we now provide a report that identifies duplicate content. Content Owners can choose to manually generate a report or schedule reports on a daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis. To learn more about this feature, please click here. - Imported Caption Files to the Media Player now Support Bold, Italics and Underline Formatting
We have expanded our caption capabilities by adding formatting tags within VTT, XML and SRT-based caption files to be rendered within our Media Player.
- Improved End-to-End Course Copy Now Supported with LTI 1.3 Integration
Mirroring the Course Copy workflow introduced in the last release for LTI 1.1, the same end-to-end Course Copy that seamlessly transfers content items such as Media Channels, Video Quizzes, and Embedded Videos is supported in LTI 1.3. - YuJa LTI Link now Available in the Canvas Global Navigation Menu with LTI 1.3 (Optional)
Institutions using Canvas with LTI 1.3 integration can now enable YuJa along the Canvas Global Navigation Menu if they wish to do so.
- Support for Canvas ‘Hidden Tool’ Integration with LTI 1.3
YuJa links can now be hidden through JSON integration, allowing Instructors to only enable links for the courses they desire. To learn how to enable this feature, please click here. - Browser Capture is Now Able to Recover Interrupted Recordings
If a recording is interrupted or abruptly terminated, the user will be able to recover the recording automatically when re-entering the Browser Capture Studio.
- New Specialized Sub-Admin Role—Caption Editor
To provide Content Creators with more options when creating a sub-admin, we are introducing new roles targeting specific actions for sub-admins. The Caption Editor role is the first to be released, allowing sub-admins to use the Video Editor and Accessibility Tab tools to edit captions for shared videos while preventing this role from making additional changes. To learn more about this feature, please click here.
- View Real-Time Live Stream Statistics (Beta)
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November 27, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update 20211126 Released to US, CAN, and EU Zones
Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General Platform Live Streaming Media Management Media Player Video QuizzesWe have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada and the European Union. This update provides new quiz capabilities, new enterprise connectors to third-party hardware, as well as 150+ smaller bug fixes and updates.
- Video Quizzes Now Offer the Ability to Assign LMS Gradebook Credit Based on Percentage Watched
In addition to assigning credit based on Percentage Watched Threshold, users now have the ability to give credit to students based on the percentage of the video they watched. For example, if a student has watched 50% of the assigned video, they will receive a credit of 0.5 points. This Playback Quiz can also be enabled via the Video Quiz Editor. Click here to learn more about how to create a Playback Quiz.
- Ability for Users to take Video Quiz in External View
In addition to standard view, students will now have the option to take their Video Quizzes in External View. This allows students to fully utilize the space on their device to create an optimal viewing experience.
- Refreshed Admin Panel Platform Tab with Unified Preferences, Settings, Metadata, API and System Alerts Sub-tabs
This update reduces the numbers of tabs in the Admin Panel and simplifies the organization, layout and usability of many of the configurations. Click here to learn more about the Admin Panel’s Platform tab.
- Refreshed Roster Tab with New Summary Cards and Filtering Options
Administrators now have the ability to filter and identify users that match specific criteria. This update will now allow users to generate quick search results as opposed to manually searching for their desired results. Click here to learn more about the Admin Panel’s Roster Tab.
- Ability to Redo Actions in the Video Editor
Users will now be able to perform a redo of their last action in the Video Editor. This allows users to easily retrieve their edit as opposed to recreating it. Click here to learn more about using Redo in the Video Editor.
- The Media Chooser Now Offers Expanded Display of Filter Options
This update entails displaying filter options in a horizontal window for easier navigation and selection. This feature aims to help power users, with a large quantity of diverse media, retrieve their desired content. Users can customize the filters to be as specific or general as they please, ranging from file types, including YouTube and Vimeo, to specific publication status, and location where stored.
- Ability to Generate Indexes Based on OCR
Users will now be able to generate indexes based on OCR via the Accessibility tab in the Media Details panel. This will replace the previous feature which generated indexes based on the closed caption file, and based on our research creates better and more structured indexes. Better indexes allow students to easily navigate between topics within lengthy videos. Click here to learn more about how to generate indexes.
- Media Player Now Shows Video Next to Sidebar in Small Viewports (Instead of Overlay)
To optimize the viewing experience of the Media Player for smaller windows, this update supports side-by-side viewing of the Media Player and Sidebar for users who have smaller device screens or prefer to view content in smaller windows.
- New Epiphan Enterprise Connector for Integration with Epiphan Capture Hardware
With Epiphan Video’s Pearl integration with YuJa’s Video Platform, users will experience easy data management through automatic recordings and live-streaming of their scheduled and impromptu events. Upon completion, users’ recordings will be automatically uploaded into their YuJa media library. Click here to learn more about the Epiphan Enterprise Connector.
- New Matrox Enterprise Connector for Integration with Matrox Monarch LCS Capture Hardware
The Matrox hardware integration with YuJa’s Video Platform enables users to define their profiles and record video content using Matrox LCS devices. Built as a partnership with Matrox’s Product Management Team, this integration provides Matrox customers with the ability to use their Matrox hardware for classroom lecture capture use cases. Click here to learn more about the Matrox Monarch LCS Enterprise Connector.
- Ability to Disable YuJa Credential Login for Non-Admin Users
For institutions that connect YuJa directly to an LMS and/or SSO, Administrators can now disable the YuJa Credentials direct login capability. Click here to learn more about choosing a default login method.
- Improved Live Stream Fault Tolerance with Repeated Pause/Resume Events and Improved Streaming of High Bitrate Content
This update includes resolving minor bugs and issues to provide an enhanced livestream experience.
- Video Quizzes Now Offer the Ability to Assign LMS Gradebook Credit Based on Percentage Watched
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June 26, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210618 Released to US Zone
Analytics Enterprise Video Platform General Platform Himalayas HTML5 Player Live Streaming Media Management Media Player SSO United States Zones Video QuizzesWe 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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June 19, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210618 Released to EU and CA Zone
Analytics Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General Platform HTML5 Player Live Streaming Media Management Media Player SSO Video QuizzesWe 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.
- New Storage Management Capabilities Including Download Archive and Additional Policy Rules
With more users creating content and storing media assets on the Video Platform, storage management is a priority concern for many organizations. We’ve introduced new tools to our Data Management toolset to help Administrators identify archivable media content and manage their ever growing storage. Click here to learn more about data archiving.- We’ve added two new features to the Data Management toolset found under the Admin Panel. Administrators can add Bulk Tags to matching media content, and a Download Zip capability for selected media.
- New Rules (matching criteria) can be added within the Policy Editor to identify content by Role Type and Content Type. For example, an Administrator could use these rules to easily identify Exam Proctoring Sessions created by Students that should be archived to free storage.
- More detailed audit tracking gives organizations transparency into archival events, making it easier for them to monitor the archive folder generation and total amount of storage archived.
- We’ve added two new features to the Data Management toolset found under the Admin Panel. Administrators can add Bulk Tags to matching media content, and a Download Zip capability for selected media.
- Advanced Transcode Management and Admin Bitrate Selection Capabilities
Content Owners and Administrators can now manage the available transcodes within a video. This including adding specific transcodes for a particular resolution and bitrate, as well as removing an existing transcode. Transcodes provide alternative variants to provide more customizable adaptive bitrate capabilities settings but do occupy additional storage space. Click here to learn more about managing transcodes on a per-video basis.
- Advanced Transcode Management Custom Video Qualities Capabilities within Admin Panel
Administrators can now select which transcode qualities they wish to make available to specific roles. For example, Admins could provide the ability for Content Owners to generate a 480p adaptive bitrate transcode, however permit themselves to generate 2160p transcodes. Click here to learn more about managing transcode generation.
- Microsoft Teams Enterprise Connector
Complementing our Zoom and Webex Video Conferencing Enterprise Connectors, we now offer a Microsoft Teams Enterprise Connector. This provides the ability to automatically or manually ingest Microsoft Teams video conference recordings. Click here to learn more about our Microsoft Teams connector.
- Itemized Storage Report
The Itemized Storage Report is a downloadable report that provides storage metrics for all media content accessible in the Video Platform including the Title, Owner, Date of the Upload, Size, and number of Views. Click here to learn more about the storage analytic reporting.
- Bulk Download Support for Multi-Stream Content
Before, multi-stream video content could only be Bulk Downloaded as separate files which produced separate MP4 files for each stream. Now, users can Bulk Download multi-stream content as a single file allowing all available streams to merge into a single MP4. Click here to learn more about Bulk Downloading media content.
- Ingested RTMP Streams Can Be Recorded, Stream with Adaptive Bitrate Streaming and Use the Live Chat Capability
RTMP-ingested streams can now be recorded by the Video Platform, as well as utilize the same adaptive bitrate streaming infrastructure previously deployed for live streams originating from YuJa Software Capture and Hardware Hub-originating live streams. The Live Chat capability has now been extended to RTMP-originating streams. The resulting recording can also be assigned a session owner, saved to a specific Media Collection, and optionally published to a particular location. Click here to learn more about about RTMP Live Streaming in the Video Platform.
- RTMP-Based Events Now Offer a Stream Preview Capability to Monitor the Event
To enable Event Services teams to better manage RTMP-based Live Stream Events, the Video Platform now offers the ability to preview an active stream and monitor the outgoing audience feed. Click here to learn more about about RTMP Live Streaming in the Video Platform.
- RTMP-Based Live Stream Real-Time Event Statistics
Live stream events, including RTMP-originating events, now offer real-time event statistics including the total number of viewers, active viewers, attendance length, as well as geo-location information on attendees. Future releases will deepen the available statistics, as well as introduce new data visualizations. Click here to learn more about RTMP Live Stream statistics.
- New Video Quiz Delivery Options Including “View After Submission” and “Permit Student Resubmission”
Video Quizzes now support two additional settings available to Video Quiz creators. Instructors can specify if Students should be allowed to resubmit their answers after submission or if a Student can continue to access the video of a Video Quiz after the quiz’s Close Date. Click here to learn more about advanced Video Quiz settings.
- Redesigned Gradebook Analytics with Color-Coded, Single Pane Results View
With a cleaner UI and a list of new features, we’ve given the YuJa Gradebook a whole new look-and-feel to provide an at-a-glance look for Instructors as they monitor their Students comprehension of course content. Instructors can grade each of their students’ Video Quiz short answer responses in a single click, view all attempts, the scores received and the answers selected. Click here to learn more about Video Quizzes and the Gradebook.
- Improvements to Keyboard Level Accessibility with Platform-Level Highlight Selection on All Keyboard Navigations
As part of an initiative to deepen the accessibility capabilities of the Video Platform, we have introduced both improved the keyboard navigation visual element, refined the screen-reader support, and transitioned some UI panels into a more Universal Design. Over the coming quarters, we will continue to broaden and improve additional UI screens.
- XML Scheduling Upload Now Provides Collection-Level Specification Capabilities
As more and more organizations move to remote scheduling for classroom lecture capture, we’ve made bulk scheduling even easier. Administrators can bulk schedule lecture capture sessions through the Devices page under the Admin Panel using an XML and can now specify the location to save the recording. Click here to learn more about uploading an XML schedule for automated recording.
- Added 10 New Auto-Captioning Languages including Finnish
As YuJa continues to expands internationally, our user base has become increasingly diverse and English is no longer the only primary language spoken by Video Platform users. We’ve added 10+ new languages to our AI auto-caption toolset to support organizations including Finnish, Farsi, Danish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, and Traditional Mandarin. Click here to learn more about requesting auto-captions on a per-video basis.
- Transcript Downloading from within the Media Player
With our initiative to improve digital accessibility for all users, we’ve added the ability to download the video transcript directly though the Media Player’s Sidebar so viewers who are watching an embedded video can download the transcript. Click here to learn more about downloading resources through the Video Platform Media Player.
- Prioritizing Proctor Session Initiation for Students Enrolled in Proctored Courses
We know that students can make mistakes when trying to initiate a proctoring session on their device so we’ve made it easier to launch the tool by prioritizing proctor sessions for students when they click Create Recording. Students are now less likely to accidentally create a standalone recording instead of a proctoring session. Click here to learn more about enabling prioritization of proctoring sessions for students.
- Customizable Terms and Conditions Prompt for New Video Platform Users
Video Platform security and transparency has always been our top concern. Organizations can now require all users to accept their organization’s custom Terms and Conditions before accessing the Video Platform for the very first time through their LMS or SSO. This ensure that user information isn’t passed from the LMS or SSO into the Video Platform until the student accepts the Terms and Conditions. Click here to learn more about enabling this feature for your Organization’s Zone.
- Class Media Channel Email Invitations
Administrators can now control how users join a Class Media Channel through their email invitation by enabling or disabling different log in methods including SSO credentials, Video Platform credentials or even creating a new account. Click here to learn more about configuring Class Media Channel invitation options.
- New API to Obtain Audit Log Entries, Video Search Capabilities, and Per-User Schedule Retrieval
The REST API now offers additional APIs to extract audit log entries, perform additional video operations such as video search, and retrieve auto-scheduled sessions on a per-user basis. These APIs will also be used by third-party video quiz partners to enable them to utilize YuJa-hosted videos for quiz creation. Click here to learn more about the available REST APIs in the Video Platform. - Full Platform Localization Project Complete, including Support for French
Our multi-quarter full Video Platform localization project is now complete with fully instrumented Globalization. This will enable seamless introduction of new Language Packs in the future. This release, we have completed the availability of our French Language Pack. Click here to learn more about changing your account’s preferred language. Note: We currently have our Test Engineers performing even more thorough sweeps of all tool-tips and older features to make sure we fully localized the UI. If you notice anything that isn’t localized, please let us know. - General Availability of Multiple Single Sign On Enterprise Connectors for a Single Video Platform Instance
The Video Platform now supports up to 2 SAML and 2 CAS vendors for a single Zone allowing institutions with multiple SSO vendors to provide an seamless login experience to all Video Platform users. - Browser Capture Studio Now Offers an On-Demand Upload Capability to Support More Restrictive Firewall Settings
With an improved network framework for Browser Capture, users using the online recording tool have a more consistent experience that improves upload response times on local networks running firewalls. Click here to learn more about using Browser Capture.
- New Storage Management Capabilities Including Download Archive and Additional Policy Rules
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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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February 27, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210219 Released to US Zone
Enterprise Video Platform Live Streaming Media Management Media Player United States Zones Video EditorWe 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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February 19, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210219 Released to EU and CA Zone
Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones Live Streaming Media Management Media Player 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 United States-based instances.
- Video Editor Now Supports Insertion of “Virtual Backgrounds”
Users can record with any tool within our Capture Portfolio (Hardware, Software, In-Browser or Mobile), a third-party capture tool, or simply upload content and then use the Video Editor to apply a “Virtual Background”. The Video Editor also supports adding different background images to each stream. We will continue to enhance this new capability in two keys ways:- Refine the Artificial Intelligence models used to generate the “Virtual Backgrounds”.
- Continue to scale out the deployment of a newly introduced GPU-Accelerated Processing sub-system (a cluster of more advanced processing infrastructure).
Click here to learn more about this capability.
- Dedicated GPU-Enabled Adaptive Bitrate Live Streaming Now Available for PC and Apple Capture Applications
The Live Stream sub-system has been extended to support adaptive bitrate streaming for live streams originating from both the PC and Apple Capture applications. This same capability was recently introduced for live streams originating from our Hardware Capture appliances.
- New WebEx Enterprise Connector for Video Conference Content Ingestion
Similar in function to our Zoom Enterprise Connector, the new WebEx Enterprise Connector enables ingestion of video conference recordings from WebEx video conferences. Based on user feedback, this feature will continue to be customized to support deeper system interconnectivity. Click here to learn more about this capability.
- Additional Zoom Connector Integration Options for User Synchronization, Related Metadata Ingestion and More
The Zoom-to-YuJa integrations has been extended to support new user enrollment options including Manual Enrollment, Self-Enrollment, Bulk Enrollment, and Automatic Enrollment. Further, we added additional features including:- Importing the Zoom-generated auto-captioning for use within the Video Platform
- Improved support for multi-fragmented Zoom recordings when a recording is stopped and resumed within a single meeting
- Ingestion of meeting poll and chat information
Keep in mind that you will need to refresh your Zoom Marketplace application to take advantage of these new capabilities. Click here to learn more about this capability.
- Improved Social Media Connectors for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube
The Social Media Enterprise Connectors that provide the facility to cross-syndicate video content to social media platforms have been updated to use each platform’s latest APIs. Click here to learn more about this capability.
- Video Player Optimizations and Caching Improvements
The Video Player is now smaller in size, offers faster load times, aligns better with existing caching infrastructure, as well as utilizes the Content Delivery Network for the Video Player’s “front-end script” assets.
- Lightweight Button Style to Better Align Video Platform UI with LMS UI
A new lighter-weight button style enables more natural brand alignment with the Organization’s LMS.
- Granular Capabilities to Configure Course Name Provisioning
Organizations can now design their own course name provisioning template based on the standard LMS fields of Label, Term and Title. This enables Organizations to fully align Video Platform course names with their existing LMS course provisioning structure. Click here to learn more about this capability.
- Improved Support for East Asian Language Character Sets in Search-Filter and Drop-Down Menus
Based on a review of incompatible UI elements, the filtering capabilities were improved to better support East Asian language character sets.
- New Gradient Top Bar Style Branding Option
A new gradient Top Bar styling provides added customization and styling options. All existing Top Bar color options are retained.
- Improved Live Streaming Performance in Low Bandwidth Scenarios
The Live Streaming capabilities have been bolstering to better support live streaming in lower bandwidth scenarios including where the Internet quality fluctuates or experiences longer latencies. - Media Library Thumbnail Now Shows Recording Status for Live Streamed Sessions
Now the Media Library overlay shows the current recording, uploading, and processing states for live stream sessions just as it already does for non-live recordings.
- Offline Download Availability Can Now Be Limited to In-App Downloads Only
Content Owners can now limit offline downloading of content to only YuJa’s native iOS and Android mobile apps. This balances the viewer’s desire for flexible viewing options with the Content Owner’s concern with maintaining secure digital rights management.
- Institution-Wide Auto-Publish Delay Now Provides Time-Based Granularity
Organizations using the delayed auto-publishing capability for auto-scheduled sessions can now specify a specific time at which the recording is made available to the published Media Channel. Click here to learn more about this capability.
- Video Editor Now Supports Insertion of “Virtual Backgrounds”
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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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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.