Product Updates

Today an issue was brought to our attention by a partner institution that recently upgraded their Moodle instance. The issue could, through a series of events, result in a premature user account deletion in rare scenarios. The Product Team has reviewed the affected code-path and issued a suitable patch. We will continue to monitor the situation accordingly.

We have successfully pushed an update to all zones. This release includes:

1. Probably the most noticeable is we made some cosmetic improvements to the look-and-feel with a more modern main menu, modern font-face and blue styling.
2. Improved Media Extension improvements to D2L Brightspace and Moodle to bring them to parity with Canvas and Moodle, including: drag-and-drop upload, initiate capture, select media sub-folders, and more.
3. Thumbnail preview for uploaded images
4. Replace video capabilities which will replace video A with B.

Since we had pushed back this release by a week, this semi-month release also includes 83 additional features and product improvements.

As many of our enterprise customers head back into the school year this past week, we made a decision to perform only a minor Platform update of about a dozen small fixes and improvements. We will be resuming our regular bi-monthly by mid-September.

We released an updated iOS application to the AppStore this week. The new capabilities of the iOS application include:

1. Integration with the Single-Sign-On product currently being used by the organization
2. Improved stability and compatibility with newer iOS devices

To accommodate this release, our SaaS-based platform release will shift by two weeks and is now currently slated for September 8th.

Please Note: Given the breadth of iOS devices and form-factors released in the last year by Apple, we encourage users to download and install the latest application. If you encounter any issues, please send us details to support@yuja.com and we will work to replicate and address these incompatibilities in a prompt manner.

To improve a narrow use-case which was causing some institutions issues with the Video Classrooms we pushed out a hotfix. A summary of the fix is provided below:

#150115257 – Improved the UI responsiveness when a large number of users are marked as Owners and/or are interacting with the classroom UI elements heavily.

We have successfully pushed an update to all zones. This release includes:

1. New branding elements to customize/hide channel names;
2. Updates to both PC and Apple desktop captures to resolve some minor Single Sign On (SSO)
3. Improved backend to the video editor for improved robustness in processing video edits. We will be further enhancing some of the visual capabilities in our September releases.
4. New Blackboard Media Chooser Building Block (please request this from your Account Manager)
5. Further improvements to the accessibility capabilities of the HTML5 Media Player
6. New Sharing access type called Edit Access which provides essentially Full Access minus deletion rights to the user.
7. Removal of the legacy JWPlayer and Flash-based media player which has been deprecated for the last 8 months.

We also released over 50+ smaller improvements and enhancements.

We have successfully pushed an update to all zones. This release includes:

1. Toggle capabilities for offline media download capabilities within the HTML5 Media Player;
2. New Video Classroom capabilities for switching presentation sources;
3. Resolution of some minor accessibility gaps within the HTML5 Media Player;
4. Refined Polls & Quizzes user interface (we also pushed out an incremental set of capabilities that includes the ability to add a picture to a quiz question).

In this release there were a total of 94 features, smaller improvements and fixes.

We have successfully pushed an update to all zones. This release includes the introduction of configurable LMS-to-YuJa role mappings, new folder-level embedding and direct-linking capabilities to share a full media playlist, the ability to preview a linked-document right within the HTML5 Media Player, improvements to the Quizzes & Polls user interface, new settable roles and end-meeting workflows within the Video Classrooms. There are also 42 smaller features and fixes.

The YuJa Product Team has delivered an updated version of the Android app for tablets and phones that improved device compatibility for capture replay, added the ability to watch single-stream (uploaded) media in the player app, and introduced single-sign-on (SSO) integration with the app. We are aiming to provide a similar set of improvements to the iOS app next month to improve video playback compatibility with newer iOS devices.

We have released a new version of the YuJa Software Station for PC which includes an improved user interface, easier to configure (and configuration free!) capture profiles, as well as a mini-bar for Stop and Pause that is docked in the lower right of the screen. We will be providing a more extensive review of these new capabilities with our August newsletter.