Product Updates

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa SmartSpeaker.AI instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes the expanded voice options, option to highlight both words and phrases during audio playing, customize highlight colors with color contrast preview, automatically scroll your content during audio playback, download an MP3 file of your selected content, and more.

1. Customize Your Listening Experience with Expanded Voice Options
   YuJa SmartSpeaker now offers three additional voice options, giving you a wider selection of voices across different genders and tones, allowing you to choose the one that best suits your listening preferences.
   
2. New Option to Highlight Both Words and Phrases During Audio Playing
   In addition to highlighting individual words, YuJa SmartSpeaker can now highlight both words and phrases during audio playing. Simply enable the adaptive spotlight option in the settings to activate highlighting phrases as YuJa SmartSpeaker reads along.
   
3. Customize Highlight and Font Colors with Color Contrast Previews
   You can now customize the highlight colors for words, phrases, and font colors to match your reading preferences. Additionally, you can preview the color contrast in a sample sentence before playing the audio to ensure readability.
   
4. Auto-Scrolling Content In Sync with Audio Playback for Easy Follow-Along
   YuJa SmartSpeaker now features an auto-scrolling option that automatically scrolls your content in sync with the audio playback, ensuring you can still follow along with the content without the need of manually scrolling through.
   
5. Downloadable Audio Files in MP3 Format for Offline Listening
   You can now download an MP3 file of your selected content from YuJa SmartSpeaker, allowing you to listen offline on your devices and easily share the audio content with others.
   
6. YuJa SmartSpeaker Is Integrated With the Enhanced HTML Document Alternative Format
   If your institution utilizes YuJa SmartSpeaker, it will now be automatically available for you when generating an Enhanced HTML Document from the Alternative Formats menu.
   
7. Directly Use YuJa SmartSpeaker in the LMS Without the Extension Installed
   If Panorama is integrated into your LMS, faculty, and students will no longer need to download the Panorama Browser Extension to use YuJa SmartSpeaker. It will simply be displayed on-screen if it is enabled at the course or institution level.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Structural Remediation Max Add-On Platform instances residing in the United States, Canada, European Union, and Australia. This release provides updated interface with icons for each content element type, and the option to add alternative text to images during PDF Structural Remediation.

1. Updated Interface with Icons for Each Content Element Type
   We’ve updated the interface to include icons for each content element type, helping you categorize different content elements and visualize the reading structure more clearly.
   
2. Add Alternative Text to Images During PDF Structural Remediation
   You can now add or change the language of the alternative text during the PDF structural remediation. Simply click the Figure tag to edit the alternative text for your image, ensuring comprehensive accessibility improvements for your PDF documents.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa LMS Accessible Design Add-On Platform instances residing in the United States, Canada, European Union, and Australia. This release provides new option to enable necessary designer elements, specify your preferred image padding, and save your recently selected colors.

1. New Administrator Option to Enable Necessary Designer Elements
   If you’re an administrator, you can customize which LMS Designer elements are available to faculty. Simply access your General Settings and enable the elements your institution requires to structure content more efficiently.
   
2. Specify Your Preferred Image Padding Within the LMS Designer
   Previously, you had to adjust image padding in the HTML code editor after embedding the image. Now, you can simply enter your desired padding during the image embedding Process in the LMS Designer.
   
3. Recently Selected Colors Are Saved in the LMS Designer
   Previously, you had to manually select the color for each design element. Now, you can easily choose from your recent selections in the LMS Designer, allowing you to quickly apply your frequently used colors to different content elements.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes improved transparency of document accessibility scores, a new Power BI report template, a redesigned side bar with animated icons, the option to detect missing captions in the Video Platform’s videos, hide the To-Do List, view remediated documents and their analytics in the Course Report, and more.

1. Improved Transparency of Document Accessibility Scores with Detailed Calculation Breakdown
   As an administrator, you can now view a detailed breakdown of scoring rubrics for your documents across different accessibility models. Each model’s accessibility score is calculated using specific formulas based on the number of elements scanned and the proportions of minor, major, and severe issues. Simply hover over the info icon to view the calculation formulas and sample scenarios for each model, providing greater transparency into your accessibility scores.
   
2. New Report Template for Presenting Accessibility Analytics in Power BI
   As an administrator, you can now present your accessibility analytics easily in Power BI using our LMS report template. Simply upload the template along with your exported report in a JSON format to visualize your accessibility report.
   
3. Integrate the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform With YuJa Panorama to Detect Missing Captions in Videos
   You can now easily integrate the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform with YuJa Panorama by adding an access key. After the integration is complete, any videos embedded from the Video Platform into WYSIWYG content that YuJa Panorama can scan will automatically be checked for the presence of captions. If a video has missing captions, you will receive detailed instructions on how to add auto-captions through the Video Platform.
   
4. Updated Sidebar Iconography with Subtle Animation Element
   Panorama’s sidebar has been redesigned with new animated icons for all menu items and improved keyboard accessibility for navigation.
5. New Institution-Wide Setting to Hide the To-Do List
   If Panorama’s To-Do List is no longer required, we’ve added a new setting that allows administrators to hide it across your institution. This will ensure that any items in the To-Do List are preserved in case instructors and administrators are granted access to the feature again.
   
6. View Remediated Documents and Their Analytics in the Course Report
   We’ve improved our course report to provide an overview of all remediated documents within a selected course. This allows you to see remediation types, compare document scores before and after remediation, and track your file remediation history.
   
7. Enhanced Arrow key Navigation With NVDA Screen Reader
   We’ve updated Panorama’s screen reader compatibility with NVDA, ensuring the Alternative Formats Menu can be navigated using arrow keys. Previously, this functionality was restricted if certain NVDA settings were enabled.
   
8. Bulk Upload Users to the YuJa Panorama Roster Via CSV File Upload
   ​​As an administrator, you can now avoid the hassle of individually adding users to your YuJa Panorama roster. Update the YuJa Panorama roster by bulk uploading a CSV file containing a list of users and their required information.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. This update includes integrated live proctoring sessions within the proctoring setup wizard, an updated YuJa Verity results page allowing you to switch between test-takers, a redesigned institution report and course report to provide more in-depth insights, centralized proctoring analytics in the new assessment report, and more.

1. Integration of Live Proctoring Session Within Proctoring Setup Wizard
   YuJa Verity now offers a unified workflow for live and non-live proctoring setup. Previously, as an instructor, you could only create a live assessment after setting up a proctored assessment within YuJa Verity. Now, we’ve simplified the process by integrating steps for creating a live assessment within our Setup Proctoring wizard.
   
2. New “Speed-Grader” Results Page Features Ability to Flip Through All Test-Takers in a Single View
   When reviewing proctored assessments, you can now quickly switch between a test-taker’s attempts and those of others all within the same view. Simply select a test-taker from the drop-down list and their attempts to begin reviewing recordings and relevant information, including room scans, ID photos, and configuration details. Additionally, you can also filter test-taker events by flag level, allowing you to analyze the most concerning issues.
   
3. The Institution Report Offers More In-Depth Analytics to Track YuJa Verity’s Usage
   We’ve improved our institution report to offer more key metrics that administrators can utilize to track YuJa Verity’s usage over time, along with Course Analytics showcasing an overview of YuJa Verity’s usage in particular courses. Some of the analytics include:
   • A graph illustrating the attempts associated with each proctoring method. 
   • The total number of times that test-takers have attempted assessments. 
   • The total number of assessments proctored. 
   • The total number of hours proctored.

   

4. Improved Course Report Provides New Data Representations to Assess Test-Taker Performance
   The new course report offers insights into flag levels within your course, helping you assess the frequency of severe, major, and minor events flagged in assessments. Additionally, Assessment Analytics provides an overview of each assessment, showing the total number of test-takers, the number of flagged events, and the highest flag level recorded.
   
5. Centralized Proctoring Analytics in the New Assessment Report
   The new Assessment Report offers proctoring analytics for any assessment you wish to review. It summarizes the status of completed assessments, the number of test-takers marked with Severe, Major, or Minor events, and access detailed analytics for individual test-takers.
   
6. Modernized Video Player Interface with Redesigned Progress Bar and Icons
   With the modernized video player, you can now view test-takers’ recordings with a redesigned progress bar and icons, making it easier to navigate through the content and quickly access key moments in the recordings.
7. YuJa Verity Mobile Lockdown App Support for Blackboard
   Building on our support for proctored assessments on mobile devices in D2L Brightspace and Moodle, test-takers can now take proctored assessments in Blackboard on their mobile devices.
   
8. Enhanced Guidance for Screen Sharing in the YuJa Verity Lockdown App
   We’ve added a how-to video in the YuJa Verity Lockdown app setup process to help test-takers resolve issues related to screen setup for assessments.
   
9. Resolved Session Time-Outs During Assessments in Blackboard
   Previously, test-takers experienced session time-outs when accessing assessments on Blackboard. Now, we’ve resolved this issue, and test-takers can expect questions to appear within a few seconds.
10. System Check No longer Required for Exempted Test-Takers
    Previously, exempted test-takers were required to undergo a system check before taking an assessment in the Lockdown app. Now, we’ve resolved this issue, and they can proceed to an assessment without any restriction.
    
11. Canvas Instructors Can Grade Proctored Assessments Without Requiring the YuJa Verity Browser Extension
    Canvas instructors no longer need to download the YuJa Verity Browser Extension to grade proctored assessments. They can directly click on their assessment within the YuJa Verity Platform, allowing them to grade results on a wider range of browsers and devices, including Safari and iPads.
    

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Engage Student Response System instances residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. This release includes multiple rich-text styling options for question titles, new activity reports for creators, and geofence location configuration in administrator accounts.

1. Add Rich-Text Styling to Question Titles
   With our new rich-text editor, you can now customize the styling of question titles for a unique appearance across both web and mobile versions of YuJa Engage. Some of these styles include:
   • Bold, underline, and italicize words
   • Adjust the font color
   • Highlight text

   

2. New Creator’s Activity Report – View Analytics of Your Activities
   As a creator, you can now access detailed reports of your personal activities, including analytics for standalone activities and those published in courses. Additionally, you can gain insights into participant engagement by reviewing reports for individual activities.
   
3. Set Up the Default Geofence Locations for Your Institution
   As an administrator, you can now set up multiple geofence locations for your entire institution, allowing attendance creators to select from a predefined list of locations.
   

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa Enterprise Video Platform instances residing in the European Union, Australia, the Middle East, Canada, and Asia. The United States geographic zone will be updated later this week. The highlights for this update include a redesigned Accessibility dashboard, the option to bulk archive courses, a redesigned My Account, more in-depth activity tracking for courses, the Multi-Select metadata type, and more.

1. Redesigned Accessibility Dashboard with the Admin Panel
   The Accessibility Dashboard has been redesigned from the ground up to provide actionable insights into video accessibility within the enterprise. New capabilities include:
   • Summary Cards highlighting key aspects of video accessibility.
   • Filterable tables detailing On-Demand and Live ASR Captioning Activity, Pending Requests, and Accessibility Settings.
   • Visibility on use of Generative AI capabilities in enhancing accessibility.
     

   

2. Bulk Archive or Restore Courses in Courses & Groups
   If you’re an admin or an instructor managing dozens or even thousands of courses on the Video Platform, you can now Bulk Archive and Bulk Restore multiple courses.
   
3. Redesigned My Account, Including Tab Unification, Workflow Improvements, and Refreshed Design
   The My Account page has been refreshed with a new design, consolidating multiple sections into a few easy-to-navigate pages.
   • New Configurations Page to Manage Personal Settings – The new Configurations page lets you manage your settings for notifications, downloads, integrations, and the media player in one place.
   • Upgraded Recycle Bin and Watch History Pages With a New Interface – The Recycle Bin and Watch History pages have been updated with our new branding, making it easier to view deleted content or videos you’ve previously watched.
   • Improved Accessibility – A number of screens with overlays have been re-designed to be more screen-reader and keyboard-navigation friendly.

   

4. In-Depth Activity Tracking for Courses
   The Activity panel now offers enhanced audit log tracking for course channel management, allowing you to see whether a course was successfully copied or if any errors were encountered.
   
5. New Set of APIs for NL-LOM Metadata Harvesting
   As an administrator, you can now use our NL-LOM APIs for your metadata harvesting, a standardized format designed for educational institutions in the Netherlands to ensure consistency in managing resources.
6. New Metadata Type – Multi-Select
   The new Multi-Select metadata type allows you to create a list of values and choose one or more to apply to your content.
7. Improved the Underlying Infrastructure of Our Generative AI Capabilities for Multi-Language Audio Dubbing
   You can now automatically generate more precise audio tracks for videos originally in English with our improved multi-language dubbing capabilities. Simply choose from over 25 languages to dub your video, allowing your viewers to select their preferred listening experience.
   
8. Usability Improvement in Platform-Level Settings with Clearer Explanations of Each Option
   With increased settings and configurations, we have introduced a new user interface style to explain each of the options more clearly.
   
9. Faster Processing Speeds for Generating Content Reports
   Previously, generating a Content report may have taken almost two minutes for results to appear. Now, you can expect results to appear in under a minute.
   

We have successfully pushed an update for YuJa Software Capture for PC and Mac to all Enterprise Video Platform instances residing in Canada, the European Union, Australia, the Middle East, and Asia. The United States will be updated later this week.

For the YuJa Software Capture for PC, this update includes the option to remotely uninstall YuJa Software Capture and the option to deploy YuJa Software Capture to multiple devices using Microsoft Software Installer.

1. Fleet Management Capabilities – Remotely Uninstall YuJa Software Capture
   Building on our existing ability to remotely deploy YuJa Software Capture, we’ve now added the option to remotely uninstall it from any computer through the Device panel.
   
2. Fleet Management Capabilities – Large-Scale YuJa Software Capture Deployment to Devices Using Microsoft Software Installer
   Administrators can now download YuJa Software Capture as an MSI file in addition to the existing formats. If you’re a network administrator, this will allow you to configure and deploy YuJa Software Capture across your entire institution.
   

For the YuJa Software Capture for Apple, this update includes significantly reduced times for processing recordings, the option to resize selected screen areas for recordings, real-time status updates for sessions, and a new setting to enable or disable your iPhone’s camera as a video source.

1. Significantly Reduced the Processing Times of Recordings
   We’ve reduced the processing time for YuJa Software Capture recordings, enabling video playback in just a few seconds.
   
2. Resize the Selected Screen Area for Recordings
   Previously, you could select a capture area on your screen for recording, but adjustments were not possible once it was set. Now, you have the flexibility to modify the size of the capture area right up until you start recording, allowing you to fine-tune it to your preference.
   
3. Real-Time Status Updates for Active YuJa Software Captures
   The Devices panel now provides real-time updates to the activity status of YuJa Software Capture sessions, letting you know when it is actively recording and paused.
   
4. New Setting to Enable or Disable Your iPhone’s Camera as a Video Source
   With Apple’s latest updates, your iPhone can now connect to YuJa Software Capture, using its camera as a video feed. If you prefer not to use this feature, simply uncheck the new Continuity Camera setting in YuJa Software Capture.
   

For the YuJa Hardware Hub, this update includes a new modal to configure peripheral devices, customize the frame rate of video sources, and imporved offline resilience to start scheduled sessions.

1. Better Offline Resilience to Start Scheduled Sessions During Unreliable Internet Connectivity
   Previously, scheduled Hub sessions would be delayed if there were repeated connectivity issues. We’ve enhanced this feature so sessions can begin immediately, even when the network connection is unstable (repeatedly connects and disconnects).
   
   
2. Configure Peripheral Devices for the Hardware Hub in Our Enhanced Modal
   We’ve updated the Hardware Hub’s configuration modal to offer a more intuitive layout that displays all sources, such as NDI cameras, and their connection status.
   
3. Customize the Frame Rate of Video Sources for Recordings
   Video sources connected to the Hardware Hub can now be configured through the Devices panel, allowing frame rates to be adjusted from 30 fps to 60 fps.
   

The release provides real-time accessibility integration with WordPress and Drupal, comprehensive insights into accessibility issues, a new Performance Report metric, use AutoPilot.AI to propose fixes for entire web pages, disable websites from being scanned, at-a-glance accessibility scores for documents, and assign one-time credits to scan pages.

1. Real-Time Accessibility Integration for WordPress and Drupal CMS Including AutoPilot.AI
   If you’re an administrator, you can now integrate your YuJa EqualGround Platform into WordPress and Drupal to detect accessibility issues in real time as you create websites. In addition, you will have complete access to AutoPilot to help suggest fixes for issues as they’re found.
   
2. Comprehensive Insights on Issues: What They Mean and Why They Matter
   YuJa EqualGround scans for over 100 potential issues, and we understand that you may not be familiar with each one. To simplify things, when an issue is detected, we now provide concise summaries explaining its significance and why resolving it is important.
   
3. New Performance Report Metric: Speed Index
   We’ve introduced a new Performance Report metric, the Speed Index, which measures how quickly content becomes visually available during page load.
   
4. Use AutoPilot.AI to Help Propose Fixes for Entire Web Pages
   In our previous release, we introduced the option to select an issue and for AutoPilot.AI to suggest how to fix it. Now, you can streamline the process by running AutoPilot.AI across an entire web page, allowing you to review all proposed fixes for accessibility issues at once.
   
5. Disable Websites from Being Scanned
   If you’re looking to pause recurring scans for specific websites, you can now disable those sites from being scanned by YuJa EqualGround.
   
6. At-a-Glance Accessibility Scores for Documents Detected on Web Pages
   When reviewing a document scan of a web page, detected files will display an accessibility score next to them, allowing you to prioritize and address the most concerning documents first.
   
7. Assign One-Time Credits to Page Scans
   In one-off cases where you require more credits than your monthly limit for page scans, you can contact your Client Success Manager to add additional credits that will remain on YuJa EqualGround until used.

We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa AccessNotes.AI Notetaking Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union. This update includes a new report for AccessNotes, the option to create tags, minimize background noise, record the audio of browser tabs, use Gen AI to create a text-based summary of audio notes, and the option to enable captions.

1. New In-Depth Reporting for AccessNotes to View Key Analytics
   AccessNotes Report allows administrators to track key analytics and provides insights into the number of uploads, transcripts generated, and summaries created.
   
2. Create Tags to Highlight Significant Moments
   Content Creators can add descriptive tags to their notes, highlighting key areas of interest and expanding on important points while reviewing their notes. Tags are also timestamped and can be color-coded to help organize notes.
   
3. Minimize Background Audio Using AI-Powered Noise Reduction
   AccessNotes uses an AI noise reduction algorithm to help reduce unwanted background noise from your notes, ensuring clear audio playback.
   
4. Record the Audio Output of Browser Tabs
   Content creators now have the option to select a browser tab and capture its audio. This feature can also be paired with external microphones, allowing audio capture from both the browser tab and the microphone.
   
5. Use Gen AI to Create a Text-Based Summary of Your Notes
   Gen AI can be used to turn long-form audio notes into a text-based summary to highlight key moments.
   
6. Enable Captions to Follow Along with Audio Notes
   AccessNotes can now convert its AI-generated transcriptions into captions, providing an easier experience for following along with audio content.