Product Updates

Enhancements to the YuJa Full-Circle Inline Remediation Module add font-size remediation for PDFs, accelerating accessibility workflows, supporting OCR-related fixes, and reducing manual effort to meet compliance standards.

1. Accelerate PDF Accessibility with Font-Size Remediation The YuJa Full-Circle Inline Remediation Module now supports font-size remediation for PDFs, helping institutions quickly address accessibility flags that require OCR injection. This feature speeds up remediation workflows, ensures PDFs meet accessibility standards, and reduces the time spent manually fixing document text for compliance.

Rolling out over the next few weeks, new updates to the YuJa DocAssist Accessibility Module allow admins to review and approve instructor requests, helping institutions maintain workflow oversight, prevent misuse, and better manage accessibility remediation spending.

1. Approve DocAssist Requests to Optimize Spending and Workflow

   Administrators can now review and approve instructor requests for the YuJa DocAssist Accessibility Module before they are sent to YuJa. This ensures requests are intentional, prevents misuse, and helps optimize spending, especially for page-based remediation, while keeping workflows efficient and under institutional control.

   

The YuJa AccessNotes Note-Taking Platform is now the YuJa Intelio AI Knowledge Assistant, reflecting an expanded focus beyond note-taking to a personal, AI-powered student assistant that delivers instant, course-specific guidance, supports ongoing conversations, and centralizes course content for a more seamless learning experience.

1. YuJa Intelio AI: Your Personal Knowledge Assistant

   Intelio AI transforms course content into an interactive, AI-powered study assistant, helping students stay organized, informed, and supported throughout their courses. Accessible from the sidebar, students can ask course-specific or general questions and revisit previous conversations for continuous guidance.

   Key benefits include:

   • Instant, Personalized Support: Students get immediate answers about assignments, quizzes, deadlines, and announcements, keeping them on track without searching through course materials.

     

   • Seamless Study Experience: New chats can be created while older conversations remain accessible, allowing students to manage multiple questions and study sessions efficiently.

     

   • Centralized Course Guidance: Intelio AI provides one place for students to explore course content, reducing confusion and making learning more intuitive and efficient.

     

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa Verity Test Proctoring Platform will be rolling out enhancements to improve the security and integrity of proctored assessments. Key highlights include support for geofenced assessments with IP and geolocation detection, enhanced assessment security with virtual camera detection, streamlined third-party quiz access across LMSs, and more.

1. Get Immediate Insights with AI-Powered Assessment Summaries

   We now provide an AI-generated summary of a test-taker’s assessment results for Automated Proctoring, available on demand once results are ready. For Live Proctoring, the summary will instead show the proctor’s observations, giving instructors immediate, relevant insights into each student’s performance while ensuring context-appropriate reporting for every proctoring type.

   

2. Catch What AI Misses with Manual On-Demand Flags

   Instructors and proctors can now add manual flags to a test-taker’s proctoring submission when they notice concerning behavior that the AI may not detect, such as another person in the room or a mobile device on the desk. While reviewing a proctor recording on the Verity submission page, they can now create a new flagged event, ensuring all potential issues are captured for grading and review. This gives instructors greater control and accuracy in maintaining exam integrity.

   

3. Simplify Chromebook Exams with Flexible Lockdown Controls

   We’ve added a new Unrestricted Lockdown option for Chromebook users, giving instructors more control over how students access quizzes on Chrome OS. Instructors can now choose whether to require Managed Guest Access or allow students to continue their attempts using the Verity Browser Extension, with a secondary checkbox enabled by default and supported by a tooltip for clarity. When enabled, students can take exams on Chromebooks without logging out or switching to Guest Access, reducing confusion and setup issues. When disabled, the existing full lockdown behavior remains in place. This flexibility helps institutions balance exam security with a smoother, more accessible testing experience for Chromebook users.

4. Support for Geofenced Assessments with IP and Geolocation Detection

   YuJa Verity now supports geofenced assessments by enforcing IP address and geolocation restrictions, ensuring assessments are taken only from approved locations. Together, these safeguards help institutions reduce unauthorized access, uphold assessment policies, and deliver a more secure, compliant testing environment without adding complexity for instructors or students.

   

5. Block Virtual Cameras to Protect Exam Integrity

   YuJa Verity now lets instructors disable virtual cameras when configuring proctored sessions, removing them entirely from a test-taker’s camera options. This helps prevent video manipulation, simplifies device selection for students, and reinforces the integrity of proctored assessments.

   

6. Streamlined Third-Party Quiz Access Across LMSs

   YuJa Verity now makes it easier for instructors and students to use third-party quizzes through External Learning Tools in any LMS. Instructors no longer need to manually copy LTI links as Verity can be activated directly within the External Learning Tool activity, reducing setup errors and simplifying the process. Students can also start a Verity proctored quiz directly through the External Learning Tool activity, ensuring a smoother, more intuitive experience and helping instructors deliver assessments efficiently across platforms like D2L and Moodle.

7. Easily Access Historical Monthly Usage Reports Directly Within YuJa Verity

   You can now view Monthly Reports directly within YuJa Verity. This allows you to make data-driven decisions and keeps you aware of key metrics immediately upon login. You can also easily reference past Monthly Usage Reports to help you track adoption, growth, and engagement over time to measure trends.

   

8. Secure Proctored Exams Without Requiring an LMS

   YuJa Verity now supports a standalone experience, allowing institutions to use Verity even without an LMS. Previously, access to Verity required users to be part of an LMS environment; now, institutions can deliver secure, proctored assessments through a standalone portal. This flexibility expands access to Verity, making it easier to support assessments in non-LMS workflows while maintaining proctoring integrity.

   

9. Modernized Email Design for Clearer, More Engaging Insights

   We’ve refreshed the design and format of emails reporting on Verity assessment usage, creating a more modern and visually engaging experience. The updated style highlights key usage statistics and insights, making it easier for recipients to quickly understand assessment activity and performance trends. This enhancement improves readability, emphasizes critical data, and ensures email communications align with current design standards and best practices.

   

10. Stay Ahead of Limits with Proctoring Usage Insights

    For institutions with usage limits, we now track Automated Proctoring, Live, and Live Check-In by both sessions and hours, helping admins monitor proctoring activity more effectively. Soft limits have been introduced, sending email notifications when usage exceeds predefined thresholds, allowing admins to manage capacity proactively without interrupting ongoing assessments. This provides better visibility, prevents unexpected overages, and supports efficient planning for proctoring resources.

11. Get Up and Running Fast with Our New Quick Setup Guide

    Admins now get a guided Quick Setup to configure LMS integrations, with LMS Visualizer (Canvas, D2L, Moodle) and LMS API (Moodle only) steps. The guide appears on first login, completes automatically when requirements are met, and mirrors Panorama’s style and functionality for a smooth, intuitive setup.

    

12. Non-Proctored Assessments Hidden in the YuJa Verity Assessment Hub for Clearer Visibility and Improved Efficiency

    The YuJa Verity Assessment Hub now hides non-proctored quizzes and assignments by default to reduce confusion and keep the focus on proctored assessments. For instructors, non-proctored assessments are hidden but can be viewed at any time by either selecting the “Not Proctored” filter or clearing all filters. For students, all non-proctored assessments are fully hidden. This ensures a clearer, more intuitive experience and improves efficiency for both instructors and test-takers when searching for proctored assessments.

    

Over the next few weeks, YuJa Lumina Software Capture will be rolling out enhancements to give you greater control and flexibility over your recordings. Key highlights include a Mirror Video feature, which allows you to flip your screen horizontally while recording, a customizable capture area to record sections of your screen with precision, and improved video settings that can be saved and applied each time you start a new recording for a seamless recording experience.

Lumina Software Capture (PC)

YuJa Lumina Software Capture is our new recording architecture platform that if being offered alongside our existing YuJa Software Capture. Over time, we will continue to build feature-parity with the two recording platforms.

1. Enhanced Video Settings for Easy Access and Optimized Quality

   YuJa Lumina Software Capture now lets you set the frame rate and resolution before starting your recordings, giving you more control over video quality and performance efficiency. This allows you to match each recording to the use case. And the best part? You can save these settings so they’re automatically applied each time you start a new recording, ensuring consistent video recordings with optimized quality and performance.

   

2. Like Looking in a Mirror: Use “Mirror Video” for a More Natural and Intuitive Recording Experience

   You can now use Mirror Video to improve your confidence and make you more comfortable on camera. This feature enables you to flip your screen horizontally while recording—like looking in a mirror—making it easier to adjust your appearance, modify your positioning, and coordinate your gestures. Mirror Video can be enabled or disabled as needed, and saved for future recordings, allowing you to record your tutorial, lecture, or demo with ease, without any unnecessary distractions.

   

3. Customizable Recording Area for Precise Screen Capture

   You can now select exactly what you want to record by using our new on-screen overlay. Before sharing your screen, you can move and resize the overlay to better define your recording area and preview it to make sure your screen sharing is focused, clean, and exactly how you want it. This allows you to direct the viewer’s attention to exactly what matters, protects sensitive or confidential information from appearing on screen for improved privacy and security, and keeps your videos looking polished and intentional.

   

Hardware Hub

This week, we’ll be updating the YuJa Hardware Hub to make managing classroom recordings easier than ever.

1. Highlighted Active Recording Display for Quick Device Identification

   When recording your classroom lecture through the Hardware Hub, the display of the device that is actively recording is now highlighted in a red border. This makes it instantly clear which camera is currently recording your session. With multiple cameras connected to your Hardware Hub, you can quickly confirm your setup at a glance, giving you confidence that every lecture is being recorded accurately.