Kaltura Enterprise Video platform Upgrade – June 26,2021 05:00 PT to June 28, 2021 08:00 PT
The Kaltura Enterprise Video Platform will be unavailable between June 26,2021 05:00 PT and June 28, 2021 08:00 PT.
- Users will not be able to view, upload, edit or access Kaltura media in Canvas, Canvas Catalog, the Teaching & Learning media portal (Learning.video.ubc.ca, video.ubc.ca) or on any location where media is embedded.
The upgrade will include some new features/enhancements and bug fixes. (Please note: Not all new features or fixes are listed here. Also, some new features may not be rolled out immediately as further testing may be required).
Highlights include:
- My Media Table view (A new Table view is available for all users in the My Media page) Table view includes: Title, Entry ID, Duration, Plays, Last Updated and Published status.
- User Interface update – UI to conform all button sizes and fonts in the application, and adjusted the weight of thumbnails text
- Search – The (i) Information icon is available on all search pages.
- IVQ (Quiz Average Score) – The average score was added to the VQ analytics under the Quiz Users tab.
- Edit Media – a new info card display (Creator, Owner, Entry ID, Media type, Publish status, Creation date and Updated date).
- My Media View Analytics Button – A View Analytics button is now available next to each entry on the My Media page, allowing users to reach the Entry Level analytics dashboard with one click.
- Publish – Publish tab is integrated into Edit dashboard for a better workflow
- Playlists
- Added friendly images for alerts and search results.
- More focused steps for creating a new playlist
- Added tool tips on each of the media items in the “Add to Playlist” component
- Switched sides of the “from” and “to” columns in the “Add Items To Your Playlist” component
- Playlist embed type options – The user may now choose the type of embed when embedding a playlist
- Add New menu is now displayed on smaller screens
- BSE – Fixed an issue using the BSE embeds in the LMSs, when using a player with the Transcript Widget on screens wider than 1024px, the player control bar was not visible
- IVQ analytics – All quiz users are now listed on the CSV export.
- IVQ – Accessibility – The “x un-Answered Question x/y” text is now read by screen readers.
- IVQ – Longer Viewing Session – To resolve issues with session expiration for long videos, we have extended the duration of the session, and made it dynamic.
The default will now be 4 hours (14400 sec), however, if the video duration is longer than 2 hours the session will be the video duration multiplied by two. - IVQ – Time out “Refresh the browser” notice for quizzes in Canvas
- Editing Chapters – Users can now hover over the timeline and see the full chapter description.
- Kaltura Capture – Fixed an audio sync issue with Kaltura Capture recordings (webcam with PowerPoint). Users should install Kaltura Capture Application version: 4.2.110 which is available by going to: My Media > Add New > Kaltura Capture (Download Page).