Product Updates

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 a new marketplace of accessibility products, an option to reorder the Alternative Formats Menu, customize the DocHub Experience by creating default folders, options to treat images as decorative, and more.

1. Explore Our Brand New Marketplace of Accessibility Products to Help You Create, Remediate, and Engage With Your LMS Content

   When it comes to accessibility, there is a wide range of tools that specialize in how your content looks and feels. Whether you’re looking to create a welcoming home page on your LMS or want to give your users the freedom to customize elements to suit their needs, the Marketplace is a one-stop shop with everything you need. Browse our catalog of products and see what you like. When something catches your eye, contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager, who can help you learn more and set things up for your institution.   

   

2. Customize the Alternative Formats Menu by Reordering the Placement of Formats

   As an administrator, you can now reorder the formats in the Alternative Formats Menu to suit your institution’s preferences. For example, you can prioritize frequently used formats and display them at the top of the menu for more convenient access across your institution.

   

3. Customize the DocHub Experience by Creating Default Folders

   As an administrator, you can now create default DocHub folders, allowing you to set up specific folder structures based on your institution’s preferences for content management. Please note that users must be added after creating default folders for those folders to appear to them.

   

4. The Issues Report Provides an Overview of All Issues and in Which Courses They Occur

   When reviewing the issue report, administrators can now see all courses with a specific accessibility issue, along with the number of occurrences. This allows you to quickly locate courses with the highest instances of any particular issue and address them efficiently.

   

5. New Option to Automatically Exclude Decorative Images from Being Flagged as Issues

   In certain cases, your content may contain images marked as decorative with an empty alt tag (alt=””) or a custom decorative tag. To ensure that these types of images are not flagged as issues, YuJa Panorama now offers more flexibility for you to treat these images as decorative.

   

6. Verify that Hyperlinked Text is Descriptive

   Descriptive text for hyperlinks can be useful so that users have context on where the link will take them. However, in cases where the full URL needs to be displayed, such as a work cited page, you can now verify that it is not to be flagged as an issue in the Accessibility Report.

   

7. New Accessibility Check for Excessive Heading Levels in HTML Content

   We’ve expanded Panorama’s capabilities in detecting heading tags that exceed six levels for HTML content in the WYSIWYG editor, ensuring better compliance with the latest WCAG accessibility guidelines.

   

8. Expanded Branding Options for Enhanced Customization

   We’ve expanded the branding settings to offer greater flexibility in customizing icons and the interface to match your institution’s preferences. Key updates include:

   • WYSIWYG Gauge Size: Customize its size to ensure a consistent display alongside other icons within your LMS’s WYSIWYG editor.

     

   • Login Page Branding: Upload a preferred logo for the login page to better align with your institution’s branding.

     

   • Predefined Color Options for Top Bar: Choose from modernized, high-contrast color options to maintain visual accessibility while matching your institution’s branding.

     

9. Fix Outdated File Formats Issue Within the Accessibility Report

   We’ve enhanced YuJa Panorama’s capabilities to not only identify outdated file formats and provide how-to-fix suggestions, but also offer an instant fix. Simply click the Fix Issue button to update your file format to the latest version.

   

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. This update includes more powerful AI Detection capabilities for webcam recordings, a simplified test-taking experience on the Mobile Lockdown App, options to create registration windows for live proctoring sessions, proctoring guidelines for live proctors, and more.

1. More Powerful, Continuous AI Detection Capabilities to Identify Objects and People within the Webcam View We’ve enhanced our AI detection capabilities with a new real-time AI model that continuously identifies people and unpermitted objects. This improves the detection accuracy across various scenarios, such as when a test-taker’s face is not center-aligned, is obstructed from the webcam’s view, or when the environment has dim lighting.

   

2. A More Simplified Test-Taking Experience on the Mobile Lockdown App

   The mobile test-taking experience is now simplified into a three-step guided process within the LMS assessment page: connect YuJa Verity with the LMS, download the Mobile Lockdown App, and launch the app. Once on the app, Canvas test-takers will automatically be signed in to start their assessment, while test-takers of other LMS platforms can take the assessment after signing in manually. Future updates will provide the same auto-sign-in capabilities to Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, and Moodle.

   
3. Create Registration Windows for Live Proctoring Sessions

   Registration windows allow you to establish proctored live sessions that test-takers must register for before the window closes. This ensures there are no last-minute cancellations for the proctoring session and that the number of test-takers is finalized before it starts.

   

4. Provide Proctoring Guidelines to Live Proctors Before a Session Starts

   When creating an assessment that contains specific proctoring procedures or special accommodations, you can now include proctoring guidelines for live proctors to review before they join the session. This ensures they are well-informed about assessment details and prepared to accommodate specific needs before the session begins.

   

5. Remotely Deploy the YuJa Verity Lockdown App Across Multiple Devices

   If you’re an administrator for a large-scale or multi-campus institution, you can now remotely deploy the YuJa Lockdown App across all Windows devices using the new MSI installer.

   

6. Flagging for Unauthorized Website Navigation Attempts in the YuJa Lockdown App

   When test-takers attempt to access a restricted website during a Lockdown assessment, YuJa Verity will now not only block access to these sites but also flag the issue for review, ensuring greater transparency of unauthorized navigation during assessments.

   

7. New Progress Bars to Track the Upload of Proctoring Sessions

   After a proctored assessment is submitted, we now show the upload progress of all devices in real-time so that test-takers are informed of their status.

   

8. Updated Visuals Across the Verity Test Proctoring Experience

   We’ve updated our visual displays of images and text across the proctoring experience, including:

   • Modernized the Proctoring Readiness Check with visuals and updated step-by-step instructions.

     

   • Redesigned UI for the live proctoring end pages with clearer indications of why a live session has ended.