Kaltura Upgrade – June 26, 2021

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.

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:

  1. 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.
  2. User Interface update – UI to conform all button sizes and fonts in the application, and adjusted the weight of thumbnails text
  3. Search – The (i) Information icon is available on all search pages.
  4. IVQ (Quiz Average Score) – The average score was added to the VQ analytics under the Quiz Users tab.
  5. Edit Media – a new info card display (Creator, Owner, Entry ID, Media type, Publish status, Creation date and Updated date).
  6. 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.
  7. Publish – Publish tab is integrated into Edit dashboard for a better workflow
  8. 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
  9. Add New menu is now displayed on smaller screens
  10. 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
  11. IVQ analytics – All quiz users are now listed on the CSV export.
  12. IVQ – Accessibility – The “x un-Answered Question x/y” text is now read by screen readers.
  13. 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.
  14. IVQ – Time out “Refresh the browser” notice for quizzes in Canvas
  15. Editing Chapters – Users can now hover over the timeline and see the full chapter description.
  16. 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).