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We have successfully pushed a mid-cycle update to all instances residing in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. This release is focused on increased scalability and performance as we look to 2021 with the need to even further scale-up infrastructure.

1. Improved Cloud-Side Performance of Device Monitoring within Admin Panel and Visual Analytics Suite

   With the increased load came a more definitive need to further optimize the Devices tab within the Admin Panel, as well as the Visual Analytics suite.

2. Deployed Infrastructure to Move Static Asset Delivery to the Global Content Delivery Networks (Will Be Enabled Iteratively Within Video Platform Instances)

   To improve global performance of Video Platform static asset resource loading (images, CSS files, etc.), this has been moved off our AWS-side infrastructure and now will load via the Content Delivery Networks. This will reduce page load times, as well as reduce sever load. This functionality will be deployed iteratively through Q4 to customer instances.

3. Resolved Rare Issues Which Could Stall Loading of Notifications Panel within the Admin Panel

   Deployed improvements to the Notifications tab that resolved rare issues which could cause the Notifications data to stall when being loaded.

4. Added API for Hardware Hubs to Be Remotely Auto Started

   The original API call did not adequately address auto-starts to devices without Profile IDs. Now, an API is available to auto-start 2U and 1U Hardware Hubs.

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the United States. For a summary of the release, please refer to the corresponding tag for Canadian zones.

We have successfully pushed an update to all instances residing in the European Union and Canada. Next week, we will perform the same update to our United States-based zones. This release was primarily focused on 250+ internal scalability improvements, performance of key functionality, as well as fixes and product improvements.

1. Improved Performance of Zoom Ingestion

   The Video Platform sub-systems responsible for performing Zoom ingestion has been bolstered to provide even more robust and scalable ingestion of Zoom recordings. Many of these capabilities will complement a soon-to-be-released product called YuJa Himalayas for Digital Archiving and eDiscovery aimed at helping organization better manage the onslaught of digital media in a more compliant, scalable and cost-effective manner.

2. Data Management Tool Provides Ability to Export Matching Results as a CSV Table

   To provide better capabilities to review and archive potential content, the Data Management tool within the Admin panel now provides the ability to export the matching results table.

   

3. Faster Generation Speed for Embed Codes and Video Links for Longer Videos

   Though link generation speed is relatively fast, we recognize that some users need the links nearly instantaneously. Now, the links are available within seconds of the video being uploaded.

4. Improved Performance of Audit Logs (Notifications Tab) Data Loads

   With even mid-sized organizations routinely seeing hundreds-of-thousands of audit log entries, the Video Platform now offer a more robust and performant Notifications tab.

5. Improved Load Time of Visual Analytics and Admin Panel with Ultra-Large Data Sets

   Refinements to the load time of summary statistical information within both the Visual Analytics and Admin Panel have been made. These improvements are most noticeable for customers processing large volumes of video data.

6. Improved Summary Cards for Institution Storage Boxes with New Third-Party Storage Type

   New Storage Type Summary Cards provides a summary of the key storage types including a new storage type: Third-Party Imports. This new type summarizes the quantity of content being stored that arrived via an automated ingestion from a third-party systems such as Zoom.

   

7. Performance and Throughput Improvements to Canvas API Module

   The Canvas API Sync module has been improved to perform higher throughput Canvas data synchronization. Additional capabilities include:

   • Improved compatibility with Canvas API’s Enforce Scopes
   • Better integration with Canvas instances which do not perform archiving of historical course and user data
   • Faster data synchronization of new Canvas entity data

8. Improved Video Quiz Gradebook Synchronization and Related Improvements

   Based on user feedback, the Video Platform now includes about 15+ fixes and improvements for better Gradebook synchronization and handling of edge-cases. We will continue to review user feedback to resolve additional concerns.