Product Updates

This week, we’re rolling out a major product update across all YuJa Lumina Video Platform instances. This update includes a modernized live-stream player with improved RTMP streaming, new master course and blueprint course quiz-copying functionality, a refined Analytics Bandwidth visuals, and so much more.

1. Modernized the Live Stream Player With Improved RTMP Streaming

   We’ve redesigned our Live Stream Player with a React-based architecture, featuring a modernized interface that enhances functionality and user experience, including stable video delivery, pause and rewind functionality, and improved captioning support.

   

   Other updates include:

   • Enhanced mobile experience: Fully responsive design with integrated live chat functionality optimized for iOS and Android devices.
   
   • Versatile viewing options: Switch between Presenter and Gallery views with support for up to four simultaneous streams and a new pin feature for seamless view transitions.
   • Stream syncing and performance improvements: Audio-based stream synchronization highlights the active speaker and ensures stability during connection interruptions, while React-based optimizations provide a more stable streaming experience with reduced buffering, faster load times, and consistent performance across devices.

2. New Master Course and Blueprint Course Quiz-Copying Functionality

   We’ve introduced a new blueprint course functionality that automatically publishes quizzes across copied courses. When enabled, a master, or “blueprint” course, serves as the blueprint for all linked courses, automatically adding quizzes to all copied courses. This eliminates manual republishing when updating content. The feature works with all quiz publishing methods and also applies when unpublishing content.

   

3. Better Guidance Capabilities for LMS Course Copy Actions

   We’ve improved the error messaging for video quiz course copies to provide clearer guidance when issues transpire. Users now get specific information about why a quiz failed to copy and help troubleshoot problems that occur.

   

4. Refined Analytics Bandwidth Visuals

   We’ve updated the Analytics Bandwidth tab with a modern interface featuring an enhanced color palette, improved data visualization, and a more intuitive layout. The redesign delivers a cleaner, more accessible experience while maintaining all the robust tracking capabilities you rely on to monitor bandwidth usage across your organization.

   

5. Redesign Course Invitation Login Page

   When users are invited to a course via email, they’ll see a redesigned and simplified user interface. When they click the link, they’ll be automatically added to the course.

   

6. Ability to Bulk-Upload Users into Groups for Improved Management

   We’ve enhanced Groups management with a new bulk user upload feature, allowing administrators to add multiple users to Groups via CSV file upload. This time-saving functionality mirrors our existing Course Channels workflow, eliminating the need for manual user addition and streamlining permission management for departmental shared folders across your organization.

   

7. Improved Live Stream Connection Recovery Notifications

   We’ve improved the live-streaming experience with intelligent connection management that maintains stream continuity during network interruptions. When a connection is lost, viewers now see a “Connection lost” notification while the system attempts reconnection. The system automatically resumes the stream if the connection is restored or removes the notification if the interruption persists.

   

8. Redesigned LMS User Provisioning Interface for Enhanced User Experience

   We’ve modernized the manual user provisioning UI in the LMS with a new, more aesthetic page design. The revamped interface enhances the user experience for “Create New User” and “Use Existing Account” workflows while adding multi-factor authenticator validation for existing accounts with MFA enabled.

   

9. Customized Top Bar Design

   The platform’s top bar can now be customized through the Admin Panel’s Branding settings, including by personalizing background and text color combinations to align with your institution’s branding.

   

This week, we’re rolling out a major product update across all YuJa Lumina Video Platform instances. The highlights for this update include an option to customize the Media Library Sidebar for consistent branding alignment, a reorganized Media Library sidebar to prioritize key sections, an option to specify the Media Player’s language when linking or embedding videos, and more.

1. Enhanced Audio Description Now Supports Multi-Stream Videos

   Enhanced Audio Descriptions can now be added to multi-stream videos, allowing you to use our built-in editor to create descriptions for specific streams or our AI capabilities to auto-generate descriptions for selected streams.

   

2. Reorganized the Media Library Sidebar to Prioritize Key Sections

   The Media Library sidebar has been reorganized to prioritize key sections over others, such as the Course Channels now appearing in your Personal collection.

   

3. Customize the Media Library Sidebar for Consistent Branding Alignment

   Expanding on existing branding options for the login page and navigation bars, administrators can now customize the header font and background colors of the Media Library Sidebar, ensuring consistent brand alignment across the Video Platform.

   

4. Improved the Visual Display of information for Media Content

   We’ve refined the Media Player Page to present media-related information in a more structured and accessible format. Key updates include:

   • Tags and chapters are now displayed separately for direct and easy access.
   • A structured word cloud view with color-coded responses groups similar terms together for quick identification at a glance.
   • The document tab now includes file-type icons and a download button for improved navigation.
   

5. Share Live Stream Links Via Email

   As an administrator, you can now email the link to live stream sessions directly to your audiences from within the Video Platform, allowing for quicker distribution and broader access to your live events.

   

6. Specify the Media Player’s Language When Directly Linking or Embedding Videos

   To meet multilingual accessibility standards across websites, the YuJa Video Platform now allows you to specify the language of the Media Player interface before embedding or directly linking to a video. The supported languages are Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese, French, and Spanish. Simply copy the link of a media file and add “&lang=” followed by the short form of your desired language.

   

7. Share Direct Links or Embed Codes of Media Files with Enhanced Audio Description Enabled

   After generating Enhanced Audio Descriptions for your media files, you can now share the media link or copy the embed code with Enhanced Audio Descriptions automatically enabled.

   

8. Bulk Import an XML File to Upload Metadata Values for the Multi-Select Feature

   If you have a predefined list of metadata values to import as an XML file, you can now do so when creating a Multi-Select metadata field. Simply upload the file or paste its link to auto-fill your values.

   

9. New Option to Edit Comments

   Need to correct your comment? You can now simply edit it instead of having to delete and rewrite your thoughts.

   

10. Redesigned Login and Authentication Pages to Match Our Updated Branding

    The sign-in, password reset, and 2-step verification pages have been redesigned with a modern and consistent interface, offering a more intuitive login experience.

    

11. Revamped the Visualization of the Loading Spinner in the Media Player

    We’ve improved the loading visualization in the Media Player with a new rainbow spinner to provide a clearer view of when videos are loading.

    

12. New API to Automatically Update the Account Status of Users

    We have added a new API that allows you to update the status of users on your platform to Active or Suspended.

This week, we’re rolling out a major product update across all YuJa Lumina Video Platform instances. The highlights for this update include an option to create your enhanced audio descriptions with our built-in editor, upload a SRT or VTT file for enhanced audio descriptions, narrate video scenes with embedded audio descriptions and automatic speech-to-text, pin frequently used folders and channels to the video platform’s sidebar, and more.

1. Create Your Own Enhanced Audio Descriptions with Our Built-in Audio Description Editor

   We’re introducing a new Audio Description Editor to help institutions create and edit Enhanced Audio Descriptions directly within the Video Platform to describe scenes for those who are visually impaired. This allows for pinpoint accuracy on where you would like the Enhanced Audio Descriptions to be read, by positioning the playback bar at the desired scene and writing out your descriptions.

   Not sure how to describe a scene? If you have GenAI PowerPack enabled on your Video Platform, our Gen AI comes integrated with our editor to help you write enhanced descriptions with a simple click of a button.

   

2. Upload a SRT or VTT File for Enhanced Text-to-Speech Audio Descriptions and Use Our Editor to Make Updates

   Have an SRT or VTT file ready for your Enhanced Audio Descriptions? Simply upload it directly to your video for Enhanced text-to-speech Audio Descriptions. If you need to update the file, our Enhanced Audio Description editor makes it easy to make manual adjustments. Plus, if your platform has the GenAI PowerPack enabled, you can use Gen AI to enhance and update your existing descriptions.

   

3. The Media Player Pauses and Narrates Videos with Embedded Text-to-Speech Audio Descriptions

   In traditional cases where audio descriptions are provided, natural pauses in dialogue may not provide sufficient time to describe the scenes for those who need assistance. To address this issue, the Media Player automatically pauses videos to read your Enhanced Audio Descriptions in a natural way that provides enough time for viewers to understand the entire context of the scene.

   

4. Pin Frequently Used Folders and Channels to the Video Platform’s Sidebar

   Easily keep track of important folders and channels by pinning them to the sidebar on the Manage Media page. In a future release, we will provide additional account-level and institutional-level customization capabilities.

   

5. Protect Your Account With Two-Factor Authentication 

   As an institution admin, you can manage two-factor authentication on a role basis for all non-admin and admin users. This will ensure that when you or other users attempt to sign in to the Video Platform, they will be required to enter a six-digit authentication code sent to their email. By default, this feature is enabled for admins and can be managed for all roles by navigating to the Admin Panel > Platform > Platform Settings > Additional Options > Security & Privacy.

   

6. The Authentication Page Has Been Updated With a New Modernized Interface

   If you are not logged into the Video Platform when you access a direct link, you will see our new authentication page, which is better aligned with our branding theme by providing an updated color palette and visuals.

   

7. Instructors Can Access the Content Report for Videos Through the Media Details Window

   As an instructor and course owner, you can now easily access the Content Report for any video through its Media Details window. This will ensure when you’re in a course, you never have to manually navigate to the Content Report to see video analytics.

    

8. More Streamlined Publishing Capabilities for Recordings

   Previously, only after creating a recording did you have the option to publish it to your desired channels and save it to personal folders. Now, you can customize the publish and save locations anytime before or after the recording by accessing the settings for the Browser Capture.

   

9. Improved the Responsiveness for the Usage & Analytics Content Report

   We have updated the Content Report in Usage & Analytics to be more responsive on various screen sizes by adjusting spacing and alignment issues.

10. More In-Depth Audit Logs to Track Deleted Items and Mobile Activities

    We’ve expanded our audit logs to track files that are permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin according to the retention policy.