Product Updates

We have successfully pushed an update to all zones. This release includes a refined workflow within the Capture & Live Stream tab, improved performance and experience within the HTML5 Media Player, improvements to Video Classroom recording, and 67 other features and fixes. As a reminder, as previous indicated we sunsetted the Shared Files and Course Syllabus to better focus on the the capabilities most relevant to our customers.

Our Product Team has been busy preparing for the next bi-monthly release currently scheduled for next Friday. We have some exciting new features planned and about 50 smaller improvements and fixes. Additionally, there will be three key workflow changes that you should expect to see.

1. Refined Workflow for Capture and Live Stream suite. We have simplified the four-box layout into three boxes that focus on the three main activities that the majority of users perform on a regular basis.
   
2. Ability to turn ON/OFF capture workflows. While we offer the industry’s most comprehensive capture suites, some institutions wish to only enable specific workflows, especially during initial deployment. A common example is whether to enable the Web Capture workflow and Configured Rooms workflow to end-users. IT Managers will have the ability to toggle these three tiles within their Platform Settings.
   
3. Sunset of Course Syllabus and Shared Files. We have now fully completed our transition to enable file and document storage in the Media Library. This also includes the ability to link documents to Media Channels. With this, the ongoing need for a separate Shared Files and Course Syllabus suite is increasingly minimal. Our Support and Account Management team can assist any institutions in transitioning to the newer features. Please contact us if you would like assistance.

We have successfully pushed an update to all zones. This release includes a refreshed Main Menu, more modern Institution->Devices tab, an updated Android app that resolved a number of device playback issues on recent devices (we will commence work on refreshing our iOS app in July for the same purpose), and updates to our Video Quizzes to use our branded HTML5 Player.

We also added over 50 features and fixes included the ability for authenticated users to download their digital notes and bookmarks as a PDF, improved performance and search within the  Courses & Groups tab, the ability to better manage auto-generated PDFs and Audio Description tags.

We have some exciting features rolling out in phases this summer – stay tuned!

To ensure the Product Team keeps focused on the features that our customers use, we will be discontinuing the Group Messaging feature which provides text-message based notifications. Prior to this notice, we performed an extensive review of how this feature was used and believe this will not have a significant impact on our customer workflows.

We have successfully pushed an update to all zones. This release includes a new Metadata tab within Institution that enables improved copyright association of media for library services and improved compliance with specific copyright rulesets. We also improved and refined some user experience workflows within Media Management, added multi-source audio (3+) capabilities within the HTML5 Player, improved slide insertion compatibility within the Video Editor, and 95+ other improvements and fixes.

Over the next few releases in June we will be adding new capabilities including a new and improved PC Software Capture desktop application, bookmark exporting capabilities, and exciting new media management features. We will also be consolidating and rationalizing capabilities including removal of the Group Messaging tab, Shared Files tab (since Media Management now allows enables full digital asset management), and Course Syllabus. If you are using these tabs, please contact your Account Manager to discuss alternate workflows.

We used this release to address a number of smaller features and fixes including improved Media Channel accessibility, cleaner Web Capture publishing workflow, an improved HTML5 Player (including resolving a potential hardware capture sync issue) and 28 features and improvements across the Enterprise Video Platform.

Per our bi-monthly release cycle, the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform has been updated with about 40 improvements and features. Major capabilities include new Video Classroom management tools for instructor-led training classes, refined HTML5 player capabilities, and new features within the Canvas Media Chooser including the ability to initiate captures directly from the Media Chooser extension.

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.