Product Updates

We have successfully pushed an update to all Enterprise Video Platform instances residing in Canada and the European Union. This release provides our users with updates to managing and embedding videos, editing published video quizzes, importing device schedules to new devices, viewing analytics for individual videos within a playlist, and several optimizations. This update will be released to the United States zones next Friday.

1. Infrastructure for Continuous Update without Down-Time Deployed
   The Video Platform has been updated with the core infrastructure to perform a zero-downtime maintenance model for routine product updates, fixes, and improvements. This model enables us to perform most types of system upgrades and patches without having active users impacted. Over the coming releases, we will be adapting our release processes to transition from an update-window model to
   a “no down-time update” model.
2. Video Quizzes Now Shared When the Underlying Video Is Shared
   In unifying video assets and video quiz sharing, once a video is shared, all quizzes associated with the video will automatically be shared as well (previously Video Quiz sharing was a separate action). This simplifies shared quiz creation workflows, especially those where Instructional Designers work collaboratively with Instructors to create video quiz content.
   
   
3. Ability to Edit Video Quiz Settings After the Quiz Has Been Published
   Content Creators can now edit settings for their video quizzes even after they’ve been published to their courses. This enables them to make minor corrections and adjustments that don’t affect the scoring of the video quiz.
   
   
4. Grade Book Shortcut in Video Quizzes
   To streamline the workflow for instructors when using Video Quizzes, we have added a Grade Book button that allows users to jump directly from the Video Quiz to the Grade Book page in Usage & Analytics. 
5. Support for the Creation of Multi-Video Dynamic Playlists in Rich Textboxes of the LMS
   Content Creators can now multi-select videos to embed as a unified video playlist, as well as multiple, single videos. The specific capabilities vary slightly depending on the capabilities of your LMS’s Rich Text Editor region.
   
   
6. Ability to Track Analytics for a Playlist of Videos
   Alongside the new dynamic playlist capability using the Media Chooser, Content Creators can now track analytical data on dynamic playlists that have been inserted using the Media Chooser.
7. The Video Editor Will Now Allow Users to Merge Multi-Stream Videos with Other Multi-Stream Videos (Beta)
   Content Creators can now merge multi-stream videos to make the process of creating and uploading media as smooth as possible. This feature will release next Friday with the scheduled United States release. Please note that this capability requires a Processing Sub-System update that will be performed in all zones next Friday.
   
   
8. Institutions Can Now Reference Email Addresses in Place of YuJa User ID
   Institutions can now show their Email ID in place of the YuJa User ID on most interfaces within the Video Platform. This will allow admins to identify and distinguish between users under the same name.
   
   
   
9. Enhanced Data Traceability for LMS and Single-Sign-On Attribute Data
   To provide enhanced debugging capabilities to configure and manage SSO and LTI integrations, admins can use the Admin Panel to view logs showing user sign-ins.
   
10.  Support Multiple, Simultaneous LTI 1.3 Configurations
    A single Video Platform instance can now be integrated with multiple LTI 1.3 LMS products simultaneously. This feature is primarily for supporting larger state and system-wide universities with independent LMS solutions.
11. Improved Audio Only Player UI
    The experience for audio-only playback has been updated to provide a modern look.
    
12. Improved Performance of Large Data Sets for Users
    We have optimized the Video Platform to provide faster load times for large sets of roster data.
13. Ability to Swap Schedules from Registered Hardware Hub or Software Capture
    In an effort to make the replacement of devices seamless, we have added the ability to copy schedules from one device to another to prevent the existing schedule from being lost. The newly registered device will then continue recording as previously scheduled.
    
14. Improved Navigation for Inter-User Collection
    We have improved our Media Chooser’s navigation for User Collections. Admins who need to move across User Collections when finding content to embed may use our new search bar to filter through users, cycle back through folders, and navigate back to the User Collection menu after viewing a folder.
    
    

We have successfully pushed a maintenance update to all YuJa Himalayas for Data Archiving and Compliance instances residing in Canada and the European Union. This update provides automatic imports from default sessions for Class Collaborate, a slight improvement to Microsoft Teams Provisioning and Mapping search feature, and several bug fixes.   

1. Automatically Import Videos from the Default Session for Class Collaborate
   Instructors hosting events from their default session will automatically have their recordings uploaded to the Video Platform.
   
2. Removed Security and Team Groups from Provisioning and Mapping for Microsoft Teams Meetings
   To provide the best search results for Microsoft Teams, we have removed the Security and Team groups from appearing in the list of search results for recordings.  
3. Bug Fixes
   We have made several bug fixes to improve Himalayas for Data Archiving and Compliance. Highlighting some of these fixes are:
   • Fixed an issue that allowed sub-admins to see, restore, and delete archives outside of their sub-organization.
   • Fixed an issue that prevented Class Collaborate videos from being automatically uploaded to the Video Platform.
   • Fixed an issue that would skip files during a bulk archive.

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Verity for Test Proctoring instances residing in the US, Canada, and the European Union. This update includes integration for Blackboard Original, the Instructor Reporting table, and enhancements to New Quizzes for Canvas.

1. Support for Blackboard Original Now Available
   To ensure exam integrity with test proctoring for our Blackboard users, YuJa Verity is now available for Blackboard Original (Ultra coming soon). Instructors can set specific restrictions on individual quizzes, view recordings of testing sessions, detailed reports of suspicious activities, and entire detailed reports for their courses. To learn how to integrate YuJa Verity with your Blackboard Original instance, please visit our guide on Integrating YuJa Verity for Test Proctoring into Blackboard Original.
   
   
2. New Proctoring Report for Instructors
   To provide an overview of student and course results for Verity, instructors can access Proctoring Reports, which provide a breakdown of all quizzes taken by students, including their attendance, grade, and flag level for the session. Individual details for each quiz provide a flag breakdown to view the most severe cases for quizzes.
   
3. Enhancements to Canvas New Quizzes
   We have improved upon our Canvas New Quizzes integration by providing instructors the ability to preview Verity-enabled quizzes. We have also added a more convenient location for the Results Table within Build and provided password protection to ensure the integrity of the quiz.  

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Engage Student Response System instances residing in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. This release provides our users with automatic sync for courses and user data as well as redesigns for our UI. 

1. Enhanced UI for Student Response
   We have updated the UI to provide a more modern look for students and optimize how they view and interact with Polls and Surveys. Future updates will continue to enhance our UI for creators and IT managers.
   
   
2. Automatically Sync LMS Course Data and Users
   In providing a more synchronous experience with our LTI integration, IT managers may enable automatic sync for course data and users. This will allow YuJa Engage to automatically update any changes to the course name, course code, and students enrolled in a course once the LTI link is accessed.
   
   
3. Bug Fixes and Optimizations
   We have optimized the performance of YuJa Engage and made several bug fixes to improve the user experience. Highlighting some of these optimizations and fixes are:
   
   
   • Resolved an issue that prevented images from appearing on the Class Results page.
   • Limited the pagination to ten when viewing polls, courses, and users.
   • Fixed issues for incorrect response count.
   • Resolved copy-and-paste issues. 
   • Minor UI changes to icons.

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Panorama for Digital Accessibility instances residing in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. This release provides our users with significant enhancements to our PDF-Processing sub-system, an upgraded LTI app, re-designed analytics reporting, a new Immersive Reader for Alternative Formats, support for D2L Lessons and Moodle Chapters, and keyboard accessibility improvements.

1. New Elastically Scaling PDF Processing Sub-System for Faster Throughput
   To support extremely high-volume PDF processing-throughput, we are introducing a new elastic-scaling PDF Processing Sub-System. Customers can expect even faster processing of media content, which will make a difference for large institutions at the start of the semester when thousands of courses are being copied-forward and instructors are actively creating large volumes of content.
   
2. New Institution Report with Improved At-a-Glance Summary Information
   Along with significant updates to the UI, the Institution Report now offers administrators the ability to view the Total Number of Files Processed, File Improvements, and Alternative Formats Downloaded. The average accessibility score will now be presented as a yearly graph, which can be downloaded for offline viewing. Users can also review a list of Most and Least Accessible Courses.
   
   
3. Redesigned Institutional Accessibility Issues Report with Analysis of Top Accessibility Issues
   To provide a comprehensive overview of issues detected, Panorama now offers admins a month-to-month breakdown of issues detected. Most occurring issues can be viewed in a list format. These issues are organized into their respective categories (Severe, Major, and Minor), and admins are provided a breakdown of the documents most affected.
   
4. Redesigned Contents Report Provides Breakdown of Popular Formats
   To provide administrators with a full breakdown of content-related issues, Panorama now offers users the ability to review the average file utilization, total number of downloads, most popular format, and most popular format uploaded. Users can also view graphs related to Popular Alternative Format Upload and Download, as well as a Content and Popular Format Download summaries.
   
   
5. Improved Course Report Provides In-Depth Accessibility Scores
   Providing administrators and instructors with information regarding course-specific issues, Course Reports features a month-to-month summary of the average Accessibility Score. Instructors can view the overall popularity of Alternative Formats, view popular document types, and have access to view specific Accessibility Scores and issues for their course content.
6. New Immersive Reader for Alternative Formats
   We have merged High Contrast and Text-to-Speech Alternative Formats and now offer a new Immersive Reader to cater to individual needs. Customize text sizes, font types, themes, and highlight parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. The Immersive Reader offers many more customizable options for students to explore, such as Line Focus, Picture Dictionary, and Translations. Students will have the flexibility to adjust these options and follow along with the text reader.
   
   
7. Automatic Document Reprocessing When Using the Moodle File Picker
   Panorama will now detect if a document has been replaced using the Moodle File Picker and will automatically reprocess the new file.
   
8. Support for the New D2L Lessons View
   We have updated the Panorama browser extension to support the new Lessons view in D2L Brightspace.
   
9. Support for Moodle Chapters
   In continuing to integrate Panorama into new areas of Moodle, we now generate Alternative Formats for Moodle Chapters. Future updates will further expand Panorama into other areas, such as Discussion Topics.
   
   
10. More Responsive and Accessible Keyboard Navigation
    As an accessibility product, Panorama is dedicated to continuous improvements to our UI to ensure that it’s responsive and accessible to all users. In this release, we’ve improved the keyboard navigation of our tools.
    

We have successfully pushed an update for Software Capture for PC binary to all instances residing in the US, Canada, and the European Union focused on improved performance and stability across a broad set of new and legacy computer architectures. This update also includes new shape tools for the Annotation toolbar, automatic uploads for failed recordings, low-resolution warnings when trying to generate automatic indexes, reduced load times, and several optimizations and 75+ bug fixes and improvements that include issues identified in the field.

1. New Shape Tool Available for the Annotation Toolbar
   Adding to the Annotation Toolbar, instructors will be able to utilize a variety of shape tools to enhance their live streams and recordings. To learn how to enable and use the Annotation Toolbar, please visit our guide on Using the Annotation Toolbar.
   
   
2. Automatic Uploads to My Media for Failed Recordings
   The YuJa Software Capture application will now automatically recover and upload failed recordings. Content creators can access and play their recovered recordings from their My Media folder.
   
3. Low-Resolution Warning for Automatic Index Generation
   To provide instructors with assurance for their automatic index creation, we now provide a warning message for low-resolution captures. For more accurate indexing, users will need to switch to a higher resolution.
   
   
4. Reduced Load Times for the YuJa Software Capture Application
   In an effort to make navigating through the Software Capture application a seamless experience, we have significantly reduced load times for opening YSC settings and switching between recording devices. 
   
5. Bug Fixes and Optimizations
   We have optimized the performance of the YuJa Software Capture application and made several bug fixes to improve the user experience. Highlighting some of these optimizations and fixes are:
   
   • YSC will no longer need to restart for system-wide settings to take effect.
   • YSC can now auto-launch from any installed location.
   • Fixed issues related to automated sessions not starting.
   • YSC will automatically disable inaccessible/in-use devices for automated sessions.

    

We have successfully pushed an update to all Video Conference Platform instances residing in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. This update provides our users with the re-release of our Video Conference mobile app and an increased number of video participants.

1. YuJa Video Conference Mobile Release
   We have re-released our Video Conference mobile app for IOS and Android to provide a secure and reliable experience similar to our desktop application. Mobile Video Conference attendees will be able to view shared screens and a list of participants. They will also have access to the live chat feature to engage with others during the session.
   
   
2. Increased Number of Video Participants to 120
   In continuing to enhance the overall collaborative experience, we have increased the number of simultaneous video participants to 120 and dial-in users to six. For future releases, we intend to incrementally increase video participants in an effort to attain 200 on-video participants. 

We 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.

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Engage Student Response System instances residing in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. This release provides our users with an improved Grade Book UI, live poll results for PowerPoint slides, and several optimizations and bug fixes.

1. Live Poll Results for PowerPoint Slides
   We have updated our PowerPoint poll integration to provide instructors and students with instant feedback for polls and surveys. View live results during PowerPoint presentations to enhance the overall experience of class participation.
   
2. Improved Grade Book UI
   We have updated our Grade Book UI to provide instant access to poll questions and participants. Instructors may simply access their published polls, view questions, and analyze individual student responses.
   
   
3. Bug Fixes and Optimizations
   We have optimized the performance of YuJa Engage and made several bug fixes to improve the user experience. Highlighting some of these optimizations and fixes are:
   
   • Names entered for anonymous poll participants will now appear in the Grade Book.
   • Optimized backend LMS integration for Canvas and Blackboard Learn.
   • Poll codes for PowerPoint will now appear for each poll slide.
   • Fixed issues for missing question labels.

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Verity for Test Proctoring instances residing in the US, Canada, and the European Union. This update includes access to our new Institution Reports, student access to listed URLs, and passwords for Verity-enabled quizzes.

1. New Admin Reporting for Institutions
   YuJa Verity now offers system-wide information for test proctoring. Institution Reports allow admins to view:
   
   
   • The overall proctoring results Flag Level of their institution. 
   • The number of Proctored Extensions downloaded.
   • A monthly count of proctored tests taken.

   Admins may also view top flagged courses within each category (i.e., Severe, Major, Minor) and have quick access to the Verity Results table for each course.
   

2. Allow Student Access to Only Listed URLs
   Instructors can allow students to connect to specific websites by creating a list of accessible URLs for test proctoring. This feature is perfect for students to access resources such as public domain libraries or any other URLs the instructor wishes to add. 
   
3. Integrated Passwords for Proctored Quizzes
   To ensure students cannot take a proctored quiz without the YuJa Verity extension enabled, we have integrated auto-generated LMS passwords for all Verity-enabled quizzes to provide an additional level of security and integrity to the proctoring process. Students will automatically be allowed access to quizzes once authenticated through the Verity extension.