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March 18, 2022
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20220318 to CAN and EU Zones
Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General Platform HTML5 Player Media Management Video EditorWe have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in Canada and European Union. This release focuses on brand new features including a more powerful EnterpriseTube, improved engagement tools, improve accessibility standards, refreshed layouts, and much more!
- Multi-EnterpriseTube to Support Departments and Sub-Organizations (Beta)
The EnterpriseTube can now be segmented based on the organizational structure of the institution. To better support the organizational structures that exist in large institutions, we designed an EnterpriseTube which allows users to create segments based on the organizational structure of the institution. Now, organizations can have Sub-EnterpriseTubes for their School of Medicine, Law School, and various departments. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to enable this feature. - Ability to Reply Directly to an In-Video Comment with Nested Commenting Capabilities
We have enhanced the in-video commenting feature to support the ability to directly reply to comments. This facilitates more direct collaboration between users and instructors. For more information on this feature, please click here. - Improved End-to-End Course Copy for Media Channels, Video Quizzes, and Embedded Videos
We have added new options and streamlined the end-to-end course copy workflow that seamlessly transfers content items such as Media Channels, Video Quizzes, and Embedded Videos. This feature is available for all major LMS products including Moodle, Canvas, Brightspace D2L, Blackboard Classic, and Blackboard SaaS. To learn more about how to enable this feature, please click here. - Recurring Live Streams Now Offer a Single, “Full Series” Live Stream Link
To better support organizations that regularly use live streams for recurring events, Admins can use a single live stream Master Link which will automatically forward users to a current or upcoming webinar live stream. - Video Editor Now Offer the Ability to Add and Delete Indices in Addition to the Pre-Defined Index Entries
This update will allow Content Creators to build on pre-defined index intervals by adding new indices to their videos with alternative timepoints. For more information on this feature, please click here. - Media Chooser Now Shows Dynamic Updates of Recording, Uploading, and Processing Statuses
We have made enhancements to the Media Chooser by offering a dynamic update to video thumbnails to now display recording, processing, and uploading status. Further, a video can be inserted that is still in a processing state. - Ability to Play Some Uploaded Video Types Immediately in the Media Library
We have added an extra stage to the transcoding pipeline which allows MP4 videos (and a few other types) to be played back immediately after upload. This will provide users with the option to playback their videos almost instantaneously in the original bitrate and format, while the other stages of the transcoding pipeline are processed in the transmuted original bitrate form. - Media Player Now Has Option for a “Go Forward” Button
To complement our Go Back option, the Media Player can be customized to include a Go Forward option. To learn more about how to create a Media Player “skin” with this feature, please click here - Machine-Generated ASR is Now Clarified in the Media Player Sidebar
This update will help users clearly distinguish if captions were generated through ASR or human captioning. Users can locate this attribute under captions by selecting the Gear icon on the Media Player. - Ability to Save Media Library Sort
In an effort to provide users more control of their Media Library and Media Channel. We have enhanced the usability of the Sort option so that sort preferences will now save between logins. - Accessibility Improvements Related to Meaningful Sequence Requirements of WCAG 2.1
To continue our efforts to meet and exceed WCAG 2.1 requirements, we have improved the tab order sequencing within the collapsible sidebar and also added an icon that clarifies the opening and closing of the sidebar. - Ability to Provision Channels Based on SAML and ADFS Group Attributes
Organizations can now opt to provision channels based on the group attributes within their Single Sign-On infrastructure. - Enhancement to Search Capabilities on the YuJa Media Chooser
We have implemented structures for the Media Choosers to enhance the search capabilities. Users will now experience improvements to the accuracy of search results when looking for specific content pieces. Instructions explaining the various search functions that are provided by the updated search system can be found by clicking the arrow icon located in the Search Bar.
- Multi-EnterpriseTube to Support Departments and Sub-Organizations (Beta)
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January 28, 2022
Enterprise Video Platform – Update 20220128 Released to CAN and EU Zones
Browser Capture Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones Upcoming Update Video Editor Video QuizzesWe have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in Canada and the European Union. This update includes about 200+ features and smaller improvements including improved Media Chooser recording options, new video editing insertion capabilities, refreshed layouts, faster loading of course and roster data, enhanced metadata searching capabilities, and much more! This will be released to the United States zone next Friday.
- LMS Media Chooser Integration with Browser Capture Studio
Users are now able to launch the Browser Capture Studio via the Media Chooser (LMS Extension). Simply by clicking Start, users can easily create presentation recordings, and then select them within the Choose Media tab afterwards. This enables Content Creators to quickly record course content and student assignments. - New Video Editor Insertion Options for Inserting Single-Stream Videos into Multi-Stream Videos
The Video Editor now provides more seamless tools for Content Creators to insert (and override) single-stream videos seamlessly into multi-stream videos. Moreover, we have also expanded the Video Editor’s capabilities to include inserting lengthy videos into shorter videos. - Improved EnterpriseTube with New ‘More Videos’ Carousel
As part of a multi-release plan to add more powerful capabilities to the EnterpriseTube, this release we start some UI improvements. The EnterpriseTube now has an additional More Videos carousel, which provides additional room to publicly showcase content. - Refreshed Courses & Groups UI Layout with Improved Filtering, Faster Data Loading and Responsive Design
Courses and Groups was completely overhauled from the ground-up to be more capable of handling tens-of-thousands of courses and roster entries. Users will now experience a faster, efficient, and more functional flow that is based on user feedback. - Ability to Search for Video PID within Media Library Using Information Encoded in Direct Link or Embed Code
Users are now able to use the Media Search Bar to search for a video using the information encoded in a Direct Link or an Embed Code. This was a heavily requested feature by our Administrators to identify where a video, known only by Direct Link or Embed Code, resided within the Video Platform. Instructions on how to search a video through Direct Link or Embed Code can be found by clicking the arrow icon located in the Search Bar. - Detection of Errors in Manually Edited SRT Caption Files
This new capability is able to detect and provide more detailed remediation information when users manually upload a SRT caption file that contains formatting issues. This aids Content Creators in easily correcting the errors, and saves all users from future inconveniences. - Ability to Search by Metadata Fields Defined in a Custom Metadata Schema
The Metadata Fields defined within a Metadata Schema are now searchable with a new search operator called “metadata:” For Organizations using a Custom Metadata Schema, users will now be able to generate more accurate search results.
- Metadata Field Search in the Media Library
- Metadata Field Search in the Media Chooser
- Metadata Field Search in the Media Library
- New APIs Available for Deeper Device Status Information and Functionality Customization
As third-party Developers seek to do more with their external tools and integrations, we continue to add new capabilities within our REST APIs.- Ability to Query Device Status Through Supported REST API
This API allows Application Developers to create an external page or application that summarizes their Organization’s Device statuses and provides a preview of a Device’s audio and video activity. We understand that some Organizations prefer to operate within a custom-built monitoring system, so now they have the capabilities to build this out fully. Please refer to this guide to learn more. - Ability to Specify Scheduled Recording Storage Location
This feature allows Application Developers to determine where a scheduled recording will be stored upon completion (as opposed to storing completed recordings in a general Default Collection).
- Ability to Query Device Status Through Supported REST API
- Ability to Customize YouTube Ingest Compliance Notification to Meet Local Compliance Laws
Administrators can now customize the prompt that will appear when users import a video from YouTube. In addition to a custom message, Administrators are able to provide a link to their country’s relevant legal rulings and institution policies for users to refer to. To learn more about this feature, please click here. - Improved Visualization of Word Cloud and Confidence Score Highlights when Using the Model A – Auto-Captioning Engine
We have made significant visual improvements to the Word Cloud feature for the Model A – Auto-Captioning Engine. Additionally, we have made significant improvements to the Confidence Scores shown in the Video Editor for Model A. - More Expansive Spanish and Portuguese Translations Now Available
To better support users from diverse linguistic backgrounds, we are providing more comprehensive Spanish and Portuguese translation support within our Enterprise Video Platform. To learn how to enable your preferred language, please click here. For future releases, we are currently working on expanding our services to provide Finnish and Dutch translations. - Refreshed Hub Profile and Workflow
The Hub Profile creation workflow has been refined to allow users to more efficiently create Hub Profiles. To learn more about this feature, please click here. - Ability to Search by Full Name in Roster
To allow for a faster and more refined search process, Administrators will now be able to search for users using their full names. - Notification when User Role Has Been Changed
To allow for easier tracking of purposeful and inadvertent role changes, Administrators can now receive a notification in the Audit Log when a user’s role has been changed within the Video Platform. - Refined UI Flow for Downloading a Transcript from Media Player Sidebar
The workflow for downloading a Transcript from the Media Player Sidebar has been improved (from a slightly confusing previous UI). Moreover, the Transcript will now be included when students decide to Bulk Download all associated Resources. To learn more about this feature, please click here - Ability to Disable Ability to Take Video Quiz via “Bell Icon” in Video Platform
Administrators can now disable Video Quiz Notifications which, in turn, prevents students from accessing video quizzes from the Bell icon. The most common reason to do so is to ensure that all quiz attempts flow to the LMS Gradebook (via an authenticated LMS LTI Launch event) instead of only the Video Platform’s Gradebook.
- LMS Media Chooser Integration with Browser Capture Studio
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October 10, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20211008 Released to CAN and EU Zone
Analytics Browser Capture Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General Platform Media Player Video Editor 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.
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- Redesigned Media Player Sidebar with Improved Visualizations
The Video Platform’s Media Player now offers a redesigned experience for each of the metadata panels of the Media Player. This change was focused on optimizing the visibility and usability of each panel. Click here to learn more about the Media Player Sidebar.- The new Chapter Index panel
- The new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) panel
- The new Resources panel
- Live Stream Integration Directly into Media Channels
To make it easier for students to join course-level Live Streams, a new integration within the Media Channels provides notification of active Live Streams to the course.
- Video Editor Now Provides the Ability to Insert Video from Your Existing Media Content
Content Owners can insert existing media into a video stream from their My Media library without having to first upload the content (as was previously the case). Click here to learn more about Insert Video. - Video Editor Now Supports Simultaneous Editing of Caption Files in Multiple Languages
Content Owners can now context-switch and edit multiple Caption Files within a single editing session. Click here to learn more about editing caption files in multiple language. - Video Editor Now Supports Find-and-Replace for Editing Captions
Caption editors now have a quick find-and-replace workflow to make editing captions more efficient.
- Video Editor Performance Optimizations (EU and CA Zone)
The processing infrastructure used by the Video Editor in the EU and CA zone has been optimized using the same elastic edit-processing infrastructure utilized in the US zone. The result is faster editing of long videos. - Gradebook-Aligned Video Completion Scoring
The Video Platform now offers an LMS Gradebook-aligned video completion scoring capability previously offered within the Techsmith Knowmia product. With this product being sunset, the ability to apply a grade based on a percentage-threshold watched was a heavily requested feature by former Knowmia customers. Click here to learn more about how to create a Playback Quiz.
- Support for Organization-Approved Pre-Roll and Post-Roll (Trailer) Videos
Organizations can now upload approved Pre-Roll and Post-Roll video content that can then be utilized by Content Owners. The goal is to allow Organizations to more easily distribute brand and compliance-aligned pre-roll and post-rolls. Click here to learn more about using Video Bumpers.
- Support for Downloading Video Podcasts with “Burned In” Captions
Content Owners and Administrators can now opt to download their video content with a “burned in” copy of the time-synchronized caption file. For videos with multiple associated caption files, users can select which caption file to “burn in”. Click here to learn more about obtaining burn-in captions within your downloaded videos.
- Create Auto-Scheduled Placeholder Recordings That Can Be Immediately Inserted Into Instructional Content
Auto-schedule recordings can now create placeholder videos ahead of the actual event. These placeholder objects can be inserted similar to actual videos. Click here to learn more about creating a Placeholder Video. - Browser Capture Now Provides the Ability to Download a Single Stream Podcast of the Newly Created Content
Users now have an option to immediately download an offline podcast of their newly created multi-stream content. Previously within the Brower Capture Studio, multi-stream content had to be downloaded as separate streams. Please note, the most popular workflow of saving directly to My Media is not affected by this enhancement.
- New Device Management and Integration APIs
In an effort to continue to expand the capabilities of our Hardware Capture appliance partners, we have continued to extend our APIs to provide additional device management and integration APIs. These include: the ability to programmatically register and unregister third-party hardware capture appliances, integration of Live Stream ingestion, recording pause and resume support, and more. - Support for D2L Homepage Link to Video Platform
D2L institutions can now add a link to the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform that is not contextually associated with a course. When the LTI link is followed, the Video Platform will present the user’s My Media content and is agnostic to any specific course view. - Support for Moodle Media Chooser Insertion of a Direct Link When the LMS Strips the Embed Code
Institutions that use Moodle can now use the Media Chooser in scenarios where the Moodle LMS strips the inserted video link, such as within a Moodle Forum post of a student. Now this scenario is detected and a link is, instead, inserted. - Support for Bulk Human Caption Operation
Human captioned-enabled users can now bulk-select multiple videos to send for human captioning. - Improved the Loading Time of the User-Level Analytics View
Optimized the retrieval and tabulation functions of this user-centric analytics view. Now this user-level view loads, in most cases, within a matter of seconds rather than over a minute. - Optimized Loading Speed of Media Player When Embedding 5+ Videos in a Page
Now embedded videos will load much more quickly as a result of a number of packaging, caching, and localization optimizations. - Continued Work on Accessibility Improvements Across Video PlatformAs part of our continued efforts to deepen the accessibility of our offerings, we have focused this release on improved Tab Ordering. For example, the Video Editor’s Tab Order is more logical and intuitive than it was previously.
- Redesigned Media Player Sidebar with Improved Visualizations
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September 3, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210827 Released to US Zone
Analytics Enterprise Video Platform General Platform Media Management 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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August 28, 2021
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20210827 Released to EU and CA Zone
Analytics Canadian Zones Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zones General Platform Media Management United States Zones 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 Offers a Simple Mode and Advanced Mode
The Video Editor now supports a Simple Mode and Advanced Mode making it easier for novice and experienced users alike to locate the editing tools they needed to get their recording ready for viewers. The Video Editor starts off in Simple Mode, and more experienced users can toggle the Video Editor to Advanced Mode if they prefer. The mode selection is saved for future video editing sessions. Click here to learn more about the Video Platform Video Editor.
- Redesigned Media Chooser with More Intuitive Workflows to Share, Upload and Record Content
We are introducing a redesigned Media Chooser that provides users with a more structured set of workflows to: share media content in the LMS, upload content, and create a new recording.
- Choose and Embed Media From Existing Collections
- Upload Content Directly and Embed It
- Record Content Using the Capture Tools
- Choose and Embed Media From Existing Collections
- Support for Multi-Embed in D2L Via On-The-Fly Playlist Generation
Similar to the multiple-embed capabilities added to the Media Chooser for non-D2L LMS’s, we are now adding support for D2L. Instructors can create on-the-fly video playlists by selecting multiple videos at the same time in the Video Platform’s Media Chooser. Users can select up to 12 video at-a-time to create their playlist in any D2L Content Item. Click here to learn more.
- Comprehensive Video Watch History
Ever wanted to find a video you watched before, but weren’t able to locate it? Our new Watch History feature helps viewers keep track of what they’ve watched before. Click here to learn more about Watch History.
- Data Management Archiving Now Supports the Creation of Recurring Policies and Actions
As storage continues to grow for our customers, creating data policies and archiving content can be time consuming for Administrators during the busy school term. We’ve added recurring policies to our Data Management tools to help with that. Administrators can now schedule archiving policies to identify and take specific actions on data. This could include a policy to automatically delete unused transcodes. Click here to learn more about the Video Platform’s Data Archiving features.
- Blackboard Collaborate Enterprise Connector
By popular demand, we’re releasing our Blackboard Collaborate Enterprise Connector to make your Video Platform the central repository for all media content generated in the Video Platform or outside using products like Zoom, WebEx, Microsoft Teams and Blackboard Collaborate. Content from Blackboard Collaborate will automatically import into the Video Platform before being optionally deleted (to free up your Collaborate storage and reduce costs). Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn how to deploy this new SKU. Click here to learn more about the Blackboard Collaborate Connector.
- Personal Auto-Caption Dictionaries
A new Personal Auto-Caption Dictionary is available for users – that complements the existing Organization-wide Auto-Caption Dictionary – to help users improve the accuracy of their video’s auto-captions for irregular or uncommon words. The AI Captioning engine uses the dictionary to improve the identification and spelling of words defined by the user. Click here to learn more about populating the Personal Auto-captioning Dictionary for individual users.
- Notifications and Alerts
With so many new notifications for Video Conferences, Live Streams, Video Quizzes and more, it can be difficult for users to keep track of what’s completed and what’s outstanding. Now users are able to mark those notifications as read to help prioritize remaining events that require the user’s attention.
- Archiving Event Notification Toggling
In our previous Video Platform release, we added a new notification to alert users when their content was archived by a System Administrator using the Data Management tools. In this release, Administrators can disable the notification if they do not want to alert users of the archiving event. Click here to learn more about all of the Video Platform’s email notifications.
- Geo-Location Analytics Now Available in Content Analytics
To help Content Creators track the usage of their videos, we’ve added Locations to our comprehensive Content Analytics report available under Usage & Analytics. Previously only available in User Analytics, the geo-location analytics data helps inform Content Owners where in the world users are watching a specific video. Click here to learn more about Content Analytics.
- Admin Panel Responsiveness for Small Screens
With Administrators constantly on the go and using devices with smaller displays, navigating through the Admin Panel can be frustrating as text and charts don’t always auto-resize when the user zooms in and out of the web browser. We’ve added additional support so that the Admin Panel remains responsive for all users regardless of the size of the display or the amount of zoom. Please note that this is an ongoing project with additional improvement being delivered in upcoming releases.
- Better Color Accessibility for Charts and Graphs
As we continue to drive improvements to the accessibility of the Video Platform for every person, we’re refining the UI so that users with visual impairments can more easily review charts and graphs. We’ve updated the color of text, icons and charts so that they offer more contrast along with additional improvements to the legiblity of text and images .
- New ASR Language Support Packs including Vietnamese
We’re adding Vietnamese as an available language for auto-captioning videos spoken in Vietnamese. This adds to our growing list of support language including English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese and more. Click here to learn how to request auto-captions for your video.
- More Accessible Inline Dialog Titles
To assist users who use screen readers to navigate in the Video Platform, a new menu title is visible at the top of the Media Details panel and other inline dialogs. This text can be “picked up” by industry-standard screen readers.
- Additional Third-Party Hardware and Application Integration APIs
New APIs allow third-party tools to pull video thumbnail images, individual video streams, check for Device statuses and more. These new APIs were released to support our partnership with Epiphan, Extron, PlayPosit and others. Click here to learn more about available Video Platform APIs. - Enable LTI 1.3 For Specific LMS Courses
We now make it possible to enable Video Platform integration for specific LMS courses using unique Deployment IDs. Previously, Organizations were only able to enable LMS-wide integration using LTI 1.3. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to learn more. - Blackboard Media Chooser LMS Extension Integration Improvements
Recent structural changes to Blackboard have required that we update our Blackboard Media Chooser LMS Extension to continue supporting a seamless integration experience during specific actions such as Course Copy. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to download the newest LMS Extension. - Refined Support of Canvas Media Chooser for Multiple-Embed Scenarios
The Canvas Media Chooser LMS Extension can now “sense” which Canvas rich-text boxes support multiple-embeds and which ones do not. This ensures instructors correctly embed videos in a way that aligns with Canvas’s capabilities. Reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager to coordinate the update of your Canvas Media Chooser LMS Extension.
- Video Editor Offers a Simple Mode and Advanced Mode
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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.
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September 4, 2020
Enterprise Video Platform – Update RC20200904 Released to EU Zone
European Union Zones General Platform Video Editor Video QuizzesWe 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Advanced Adaptive Live Streaming for Hardware Hubs