Product Updates

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 provides new analytical reports for activities, a live carousel view of short answer submissions, direct links to video tutorials to help create polls, and updates to the Engage add-on for PowerPoint and Keynotes.

1. New Institution Report – View a Summary of Analytics for Activities on the Platform

   We have incorporated an at-a-glance summary of statistics for platform activities and engagement by tracking the total number of participants and responses. Engage IT managers can also access a comprehensive list of courses, with the option to view reports for each course to gain deeper insights.

   

2. Live Carousel View of Short Answer Submissions

   As participants submit responses to short answer questions, a live, rotating carousel will be displayed, allowing creators to see all responses in a single view.

   

3. New Course Report – View Course Analytics to Track Engagement Over Time

   Creators can monitor course engagement by tracking the total number of polls and attendance activities created, along with the number of responses participants have provided.

   

4. New Standalone Report – View Analytics of Activities Not Released in a Course

   For activities not released within a course, creators can monitor their polls and attendance, allowing them to track and compare key metrics over time, such as the number of questions created and total participant engagement.

   

5. New Activity Report – View Analytics for Specific Activities on the Platform

   The Activity report summarizes statistics for a selected poll or attendance, allowing creators to view associated questions and the total number of participants that completed the activity.

   

6. Direct Links to Video Tutorials for Creating Poll Questions

   To assist new activity creators in understanding the various question types available on Engage, we have added direct links to video tutorials, offering step-by-step instructions on creating each question type.

   

7. Engage PowerPoint Add-in and Keynotes: Import and Create Question Banks

   To ensure feature parity between the Engage web and desktop apps for PowerPoint and Keynote, creators can import questions from the Question Bank into their presentations or create a new Question Bank with their custom list of questions.

   

8. Engage PowerPoint Add-in: The Activity Feed Provides a List of Live Participants

   We have updated the Engage PowerPoint add-in to align more closely with the web app by providing the Activity Feed panel, which displays a list of live participants joining the poll or attendance.

   

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 provides a combined workflow for surveys and polls, a new Open Discussion question type, the option to upload images as possible answers for matching questions, the option to save geofence locations, restore deleted activities, view videos in embedded polls during PowerPoint and Keynote presentations, manually stop scheduled polls, and the option for participants to view their results on the mobile app.  

1. Combined Survey Questions into Polls Providing Options for Graded and Ungraded Questions To streamline our process, we’ve combined the survey and poll activities. Polls will now include all question types and can be graded or left ungraded on a per-question basis.
2. New Question Type: Open Discussion Engage now allows Creators to include the Open Discussion question in their polls. This new question type allows participants to freely express their thoughts and opinions without being graded.
3. Upload Images as Possible Answers for Multiple-Choice Questions Creators can now upload images as answers for multiple-choice questions, allowing participants to choose from a list of possible images and text.
4. Save Geofenced Locations for the Attendance Activity Routinely used geofenced locations can now be saved, allowing creators to select from a pre-saved list when creating an attendance.
5. Restore Deleted Activities from the Recycle Bin Creators can recover an activity from their Recycle Bin if it was accidentally deleted.
6. Watch Embedded Videos in Polls During PowerPoint and Keynote Presentations Creators who embed videos in their polls and incorporate them into PowerPoint or Keynote presentations can showcase videos directly within their slides.
7. Manually Stop Scheduled Polls Previously, scheduled polls would remain active until their end date. Now, scheduled polls can be manually stopped anytime by clicking the Stop Poll button.
8. Participants Can View the Gradebook on the Mobile App We’ve updated the mobile app to allow participants to view the gradebook for all activities.

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 provides our users with the option to build polls and surveys by importing CSV files, email notifications for scheduled polls, upload images without size restrictions, enhanced geofence tracking, the option to reattempt surveys, the option to mandate a password reset, set a time limit for the attendance activity to automatically close, auto-share questions during presentations, and more.

1. Build Polls and Surveys by Importing CSV Files Creators with a personal CSV file of questions can now easily upload it to import their queries into any poll or survey.
2. Email Notifications for Scheduled Polls Course members can be notified via email when a poll is scheduled for release and receive a follow-up reminder when the poll is about to be released.
3. Upload Images Without Size Restrictions We’ve updated Engage to no longer restrict users to a maximum file size when uploading images to questions or the branding page.
4. Enhanced Geofence Tracking for LMS-Embedded Attendances An LMS-embedded attendance will open in a new tab, allowing participants to access their attendance with location tracking enabled.
5. Participants Can Reattempt Surveys After Completion Based on Creator Settings Similar to how Creators can allow multiple poll attempts, they can now grant participants the option to reattempt surveys.
6. Option for Password Reset for All Users After 12 Months IT managers can require all users to reset their passwords after 12 months.
7. Set a Time Limit for the Attendance Activity to Automatically Close For automated attendance management, Creators can set a timer to close an open attendance.
8. View Your Account Information on the Engage Platform Engage now offers the option to view your account information from within the platform and options to quickly access settings.
9. New Gradebook Filters to Sort Results by Participants or Scores Creators reviewing activity results can sort the gradebook alphabetically by participants or filter the results based on the scores received by participants.
10. Auto-Share Questions During PowerPoint and Keynote Presentations We’ve added a new setting that allows Creators to automatically share their questions during presentations instead of manually clicking the “Release” button.

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 provides our users with the option to share Question Banks, question navigation for participants, select multiple correct answers for Clickable Images, feature parity between the web and desktop app, new settings for activities, and enhanced UI for the Activity Chooser.  

1. Share Question Banks With Other Members Question Banks can be shared with other members on the Engage platform to allow users to collaborate and quickly create activities.
2. Complete, Skip, and Return to Previously Unanswered Questions During an Activity Participants will have the option to skip to any specific questions they wish to answer. Answered questions will be marked in blue for tracking, and participants can easily return to unanswered questions in their activity with a click of a button.
3. Select Multiple Correct Answers for Clickable Image Questions For Clickable Image questions with more than one correct answer, poll creators can select multiple correct answers.
4. Feature Alignment Between the Engage Web App and the Desktop App for PowerPoint and Keynote We updated the Engage desktop app to include the following features:
   
   • Create activities within the desktop app for Keynote.
   • Insert Ranking question types.
   • Insert the Attendance activity.
   
5. Adjust the Duration of Class Results for Participants We have added a new setting that allows creators to customize the duration for which class results are visible to participants after answering each question.
6. New Countdown Settings When Manually Ending an Activity Creators can set a countdown timer to appear when an activity is manually ended, allowing participants to finish without the activity abruptly ending.
7. Increase the Time Limit for Polls and Questions After sharing a poll or an individual question, creators can dynamically adjust the time limit, extending the allotted time participants have to complete the activity.
8. Enhanced UI for the Activity Chooser When embedding activities into an LMS, the enhanced Activity Chooser will feature organized tabs for each activity and options to filter results.

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 provides our users with geolocation-based attendance tracking, a new Ranking question type, manual grading for all questions, export results for Blackboard and Canvas, edit questions for active polls, embed scheduled polls within the LMS, enhanced SSO security, and enhanced parity between the web and mobile app.

1. New Geolocation-Based and Code Word-Based Attendance Tracking Attendance tracking, particularly useful in educational settings, is a tool designed to confirm the physical presence of students inside classrooms by verifying their location. The results can then be viewed and synced with the LMS gradebook to keep track of attendance.
2. New Ranking Question Type Engage now offers Creators the option to include a Ranking question type for surveys. This new question type will enable participants to express their preferences by ordering options from greatest to least, favorite to least favorite, or any other desired arrangement.
3. Manual Grading for All Question Types Similar to how Engage provides manual grading for short answers, we’ve expanded this capability for all question types. Creators can access the gradebook results for a poll to edit whether the responses given were correct and quickly switch between questions and attempts for each student.
4. Export Poll Results for Blackboard and Canvas Gradebook Sync In cases where a poll was not embedded in the LMS, Creators can download a CSV file of their chosen poll results, which can then be uploaded into their Blackboard or Canvas gradebook. This feature is already supported on Moodle, and our next release will provide D2L Brightspace users with the same capability.
5. Edit Questions for Activated Polls and Surveys When Creators are sharing individual questions with participants for active polls and surveys, they can edit questions on the fly right before release.
6. Embed Scheduled Polls within the LMS Scheduled polls can now be embedded in the LMS for automatic gradebook synchronization.
7. Enhanced Single Sign-On Security by Allowing Fingerprint Values to Be Assigned YuJa Engage ensures secure user logins by providing the option to add a fingerprint value. If one was not added during SSO ADFS integration, it will automatically be assigned once a user logs in for the first time.
8. Features for the YuJa Engage Mobile App Are Aligned with the Web App To provide consistent and reliable features to the mobile app comparable to the web app, we have added and resolved many issues to enhance the overall user experience. Some of these features include the following: participants can view embedded videos, feedback can be provided for polls and surveys, and the inclusion of the ranking question type.