All production zones received a bi-monthly update which added over 150 new features and improvements including updated Video Classrooms, new Media Management capabilities, added capabilities within Visual Analytics, and general UI updates / enhancements.

We will be improving our support for additional ingestion audio / video formats and encodings. This is scheduled for Friday April 14th at midnight Eastern Standard Time. We do not anticipate any system down-time or adverse customer impact.

On Friday March 31st, 2017 we pushed a minor update that added some new capabilities around uploading non-media content in a manner consistent with video content. This update also improved the Canvas-specific LMS Media Extension including an improved user experience, filtering content type and embedding shared content.

The next release will include the ability to also upload non-video content – such as files, images, PDFs, etc. – into the Media Management platform. This will be updated in our minor “dot” scheduled for March 31st, 2017. Updates to all of the LMS Media Extensions will be forthcoming.

For our release currently scheduled for release in all production zones on April 7th, 2017 we will move from to a unified model for Video Classrooms. This provides improved classroom management capabilities.

In an effort to offer improved 360-degree feedback of instructional content, a minor “dot” release scheduled for March 31st, 2017 with the addition of a Confusion button that triggers an email alert to the instructor.

We are pushing an update this week (pending Android Store approval) to improve the use of HLS encoded streams. We expect this to be available for download by March 31st, 2017.

The previous release which unified the single-stream and multi-stream pipeline into a unified one resulted in an unintended effect with video quizzes. This will be resolved in our April 7th, 2017 release.