Features, Improvements, and Fixes

These Release Notes contain a summary of changes made for the 30-31 Jul 2024 release of EchoVideo. For changes made in previous deployments, see the other Deployment Notes articles located in this Topic group, or contact support@echo360.com.

New Features

New Beta & Preview Section

All of the Beta and Preview features have been moved to their own tab within the Institution Settings -> General Settings area.

See EchoVideo: Beta and Preview Features for additional details.

Automatic Gradebook Sync for LTI 1.3 Integrations

Administrators can enable the new Gradebook Sync option for LTI 1.3 integrations from the Beta & Preview section with Institution Settings. Once enabled, a new Gradebook tab will appear on the Consolidated Analytics pages for the associated LMS Course both from within EchoVideo (with the API integration) and from within the LMS (with the Consolidated Analytics placement). You can then configure and customize and schedule the content and metrics you want to sync to the LMS gradebook.

See EchoVideo: Automatic Gradebook Sync (LTI 1.3) for additional details.

This will require an additional scope to be configured in the API integration for both Canvas and Moodle (Blackboard and D2L are unaffected).

• Canvas: See EchoVideo: Adding a REST API Integration with Canvas for additional details.
  • url:GET|/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/courses
• Moodle: See EchoVideo: Adding a REST API Integration for Moodle for additional details.
  • core_course_search_courses

Folders Preview

Administrators can enable the new Folders tab from the Beta & Preview section within Institution Settings. This initial Preview release of Folders is intended for users to start familiarizing themselves with the new functionality and includes the ability to:

• Create, edit, duplicate, delete, and move Folders
• Manage Folder membership and basic user permissions
• View existing Terms and apply them to Folders as metadata
• Open / View the Folder to the new landing page
• Create Sessions and Units
• Schedule recordings into Folders from the New Capture modal

NOTE that the ability to enable Folders is dependent on the new EchoPlayer also being enabled.

See EchoVideo: Folders for Instructors and EchoVideo: Folders for Admins for additional details.

New Reports via the API

We have added new reporting tools to the public Reporting API, allowing users to get

• The most played videos in the past X days
  • media-top-view-count
• The timestamp of when a student watched a particular video
  • media-view-timestamp
• How many students watched a video X% through and never came back
  • media-once-only-viewers
• How many students watched a video X% through but then did come back
  • media-recurring-viewers

More information on the public API in each region can be found here:
EchoVideo: API and SDK Documentation

24-Hour Clock Option

Administrators can now choose the time input setting for their Institution when configuring the information for their Institution (Institution Settings -> General -> Basic Info). This will update all places where a time is set within EchoVideo to use either 12 or 24-hour format. This includes locations such as the New Capture modal (Admin Captures tab and Course Schedule page) and the New Class modal (within the Section and from the Media Details Page).

This setting will also update the time display format in areas that are not already being controlled by your local user settings like the Users tab.

See EchoVideo: Managing Basic Institution Settings for additional details.

H5P Integration Update

We continue to work with H5P on releasing the integration announced last December and expect to be able to make it available soon.

Improvements

• The TinyMCE plugins available in EchoVideo are now compatible with OpenLMS.
• Improved the upload process to prevent captures from potentially becoming 'stuck' in the processing status.
• We have upgraded the version of OpenSSL used in Universal Capture software from version 3.0.9 to 3.0.14 to address vulnerabilities. Note that the old OpenSSL library will be in the backup folder after updating to the latest software version and may still be flagged by security tools.
• Accessibility improvements:
  • Alt Text for images have been reviewed and added where needed within the Transcript Editor, Media Details Page, and other locations where the EchoPlayer appears.
• Consolidated Analytics improvements:
  • Page loading of the Analytics tab within EchoVideo has been improved.
  • All of the polling and viewing calculations have been reviewed and verified.
  • The Download button on the main Media Views page now always appears, rather than appearing only when all the associated data was loaded, to prevent confusion about it being 'missing'. Data is instead loaded and displayed after clicking the button to Download Data.
  • If there are no recent views, the Total Views of All Media graph will now fall back to the latest time range that does have data.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the Admin Dashboard Cloud Usage graph was not displaying the colors indicating specific metrics correctly.
• Resolved several issues in the new EchoPlayer:
  • Content could be cut off at the bottom in certain resolutions and at certain sizes (in fullscreen. windowed, and embedded).
  • Interactive Media slides covered a portion of the controls when embedded at certain sizes.
  • The right-hand side of the Heatmap could be cut off at certain sizes.
• Resolved an issue where, in some cases, creating a new Webex integration could throw an error.
• Resolved an issue in Consolidated Analytics with the API integration where some users Courses were not appearing on the Analytics tab within EchoVideo.
• Updated a library within our Media Processor to resolve an issue where some content was failing to process correctly.
• Resolved a unique case where media URLs copied from an embed code could fail to load in the case that edits were made and saved on the media, but then restored to the original version while the edits were still processing.