Product Updates

Over the next few weeks, YuJa Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform will be releasing a new layout for course reports, embedded accessibility status banners on your course homepage, the ability to upload custom accessibility icons, and more.

1. New Embedded Banner Provides Instant Insight on Accessibility Issues Directly From Your Course Homepage

   Institutions can now enable an Embedded Banner for their course homepage, which will provide instructors with an overall accessibility score for the course and allow them to launch quick remediation. These new, optional banners allow instructors to gain an instant overview of how accessible their courses are and simplifies the course remediation process by providing users with faster, easier access to Panorama’s remediation tools.

   
2. Redesigned Reports For Easier Navigation to Key Information

   All of Panorama’s Reports have been redesigned with a new tab structure to make navigating between data easier. The new report design reduces the amount of scrolling needed to view the full scope of information and allows users to quickly switch between viewing different sections. With YuJa Panorama’s new report structure, obtaining critical data has never been easier.

   
3. YuJa Panorama Now Identifies Inaccessible Panopto Video Content

   YuJa Panorama can now identify inaccessible content found in external videos hosted by Panopto via our new Panopto Video Integration. Once the integration is enabled, the platform will be able to identify and flag any Panopto Videos in the WYSIWYG editor that are missing captions. By flagging videos without captions, YuJa Panorama helps instructors maintain accessibility standards and ensure all students have equal access to course content. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

   
4. Admins Can Now Optionally Allow Students to Perform Inline Remediation in DocHub

   Administrators can now enable permissions for students to perform inline remediation on their own documents in DocHub. When enabled in Global Settings, students in DocHub will be able to open accessibility reports and perform inline remediation in their documents. By allowing students to perform inline remediation for accessibility issues, students can get into the practice of creating fully accessible documents that reflect their institution’s accessibility standards and goals.

   
5. Upload Accessibility Icons To Match Your Branding Needs

   Administrators can now upload custom icons for Accessibility Scores, Alternative Formats, and File Processing icons. With these expanded Branding Settings, administrators will have greater flexibility in customizing icons to match their institution’s preferences.

   
6. Custom Non-Descriptive Text Checks Will Be Expanded to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel Documents

   YuJa Panorama will now detect custom non-descriptive text issues in PPTX, DOCX, and XLSX documents, such as “for more information, click here” or “read more.” These checks help ensure that all links provide meaningful context for screen reader users, extending accessibility check coverage previously available only for other document types.

   
7. Instantly Reset Customized Issue Severity Levels to Default WCAG Aligned Severity Levels

   Users can now easily reset their customized issue severity levels back to Panorama’s WCAG-aligned default scoring. Whether it’s the start of a new term or your institution has decided to change the way accessibility issues are flagged, resetting the severity flags for issues can now be completed in seconds, with one click.

   
8. Allow Instructors to Manually Dismiss Issues In Specific Courses

   Institutions can now map the Content Developer role to the Panorama Instructor role. This lets designers improve course accessibility just like instructors, without granting access to admin reports or institution-level settings, and eliminates the need to enroll them as teachers in hundreds of courses. The result is a streamlined workflow, secure role management, and faster accessibility improvements across courses.

   
9. Toggle the Visibility of Accessibility Scores To Help Instructors Focus On Issues Instead of Numbers

   Administrators can now hide Accessibility Scores from Course Reports and document Accessibility Scores from instructors to ensure that only administrators have access to Accessibility Score data. This will allow instructors to focus on accessibility issues rather than on numerical scores. When the Show Accessibility Scores to Instructors setting is disabled, instructors retain full access to Accessibility Reports and remediation tools, but cannot view any accessibility scores.

   
10. Toggle the Ability to Check for Missing Title Issues in HTML Files to Improve Screen Readability

    Users can now enable Panorama to flag missing title issues in HTML files and provides suggested fixes for inline remediation. By accurately flagging Missing Title issues in HTML files, Panorama helps ensure that HTML files are fully screen-readable.

    
11. Gain Better Visibility of User Activity with New LTI Logs

    Panorama will now log LTI activity in Integration Settings for better visibility into successful and failed LTI launches. Each log item can be expanded for full sign-in details, providing administrators and IT personnel with in-depth debugging information.

    

Over the next few weeks, YuJa AutoPilot will be adding a new feature that provides AI summaries of Panorama’s Reports.

1. New AutoPilot AI Summaries Can Instantly Parse Report Data for Historical Trends and Possible Recommendations

   All users of YuJa AutoPilot will now find an AI Summary tab in all of Panorama’s Reports. AutoPilot’s AI Summary translates historical data into an outline of Observed Trends and possible Recommended Areas for Action. For users who find themselves spending longer than desired trying to understand the graphs and tables in Reports, these new AI Summaries will simplify the process of analyzing historical data by providing a clear and succinct description of Observed Trends. Using the report data, the AI Summary tab will also generate Recommended Areas for Action, and Guidance & Recommended Actions where possible, to help instantly improve course and institution accessibility.

   

Over the next few weeks, YuJa Structural Remediation will be adding a new feature that allows you to rotate PDFs.

1. YuJa Structural Remediation Now Allows You to Rotate PDFs

   Users in Structural Remediation can now rotate PDFs within the tool as needed. Users can choose to rotate specific pages or to rotate all pages in a document, giving users complete control over the process.

   

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa Verity Test Proctoring Platform will be releasing a new browser extension for Safari, an integrated workflow for proctored assessments in Blackboard, and other updates to advance the security and usability of the platform.

1. Protect Academic Integrity with Proctored Assessments on Safari

   The YuJa Verity browser extension is now available on Safari, allowing instructors to provide test-takers with more browser options to take secure assessments while enabling Verity’s wide range of proctoring capabilities to help ensure academic integrity.

   

2. Create Proctored Assessments Directly Within Blackboard Courses

   Instructors are now able to create Verity proctored assessments straight within the Blackboard LMS without needing to navigate to the Verity platform separately. This updated integration streamlines and eliminates confusion in the assessment setup process for instructors using Blackboard.

   

3. Manage Your Data With Time-Based Retention Policies

   Users can now configure Verity to delete or archive data before it is automatically deleted after 1 year. This allows instructors to better manage the lifecycle of their data, meet security compliance standards of their organization, and reduce security risks.

4. Secure Verity Plugin Updates In OpenLMS

   The YuJa Verity plugin update workflow for OpenLMS clients has been upgraded to eliminate manual handoffs and reduce crashes. OpenLMS clients can now install Verity updates automatically through a private GitHub repository, improving overall data security and workflow efficiency.

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa Verity Test Proctoring Platform will be releasing a brand new module that allows interviewers to disable certain actions while monitoring behaviors to secure and advance interview processes.

1. Advance Your Interview Experience Using Candidate AI

   Users can now integrate Candidate AI, a new interview proctoring platform in YuJa Verity, with Zoom and Microsoft Teams in Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) to provide a secure and fair interview experience. With this new streamlined integration, interviewers can limit device functionality and monitor metrics in real-time to make informed hiring decisions.

   

   Key features include:

   • Integration with Video Platforms: Candidate AI is available with major video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet, and others.

     

   • Interview Proctoring Configurations: Interviews can select a range of activities to be proctored during an interview, and set severity flags for each activity to align with their policies.

     

   Some configurations include:

   • Recording Configurations: Candidates’ video, audio, and screen activity will be recorded. A 360-degree room scan of the interview environment will be required.

   • Disable Screen and Keyboard Activity: Candidates have restricted access to tools such as spell-check, clipboard, print, screen-capture, file download, virtual cameras, Apple Handoff, and right clicks.

   • Verification: Candidates will be asked to verify their ID and signature.

   • Tab Configurations: Candidates cannot open or close tabs, unauthorized websites, browser extensions, decoy websites, and side panels.

   • Block Items: Candidates cannot access virtual machines, unauthorized desktop applications, mobile devices, and multiple screens.

   • Other Activities: Activity such as system performance, candidate location, keyboard activity, web traffic, and internet connection can be tracked or disabled.

   • Proctoring Reports: Interviewers will receive a detailed, timestamped report after the interview to review flags that were raised to make an ultimate hiring decision. Interviewers can raise new flags, resolve existing flags, and download the session report.