Product Updates

Over the next few weeks, YuJa Panorama will roll out an array of new features to further streamline LMS integration, increased AlwaysOn Compliance options, and much more.

1. See how Panorama is automatically improving your content with the new AlwaysOn Compliance Report

   Administrators can leverage YuJa Panorama’s new AlwaysOn Compliance Report to track key usage and progress statistics across their organization.

   The following insights are available:

   • Issues Remediated Over Time: A convertible graph or table to visualize accessibility issues that AlwaysOn Compliance has remediated each month, broken down by severity.

   • Remediated by File Format: A clear histogram that visualizes the number of files AlwaysOn Compliance has remediated, broken down by file type.

   • Compliance Score: An average accessibility score of monitored content for the current month compared to the previous month.

   • AI Summary: An AI-powered analytics dashboard that provides summaries on observed trends and recommended areas for action.



2. Streamline your YuJa Panorama integration workflow with a new guided, inline process

   YuJa Panorama’s Integration Settings tab is introducing a new guided workflow to complete integrations in one single tab. Each integration method is organized in a neat grid format so that administrators can easily view their configurations at a glance.

   Key features include:

   • Embedded integration guides: Administrators can now utilize an embedded, inline integration guide in a side panel accompanied by screenshots for enhanced clarity.

   • Ready-to-copy text: Administrators can now copy text directly from inline guides to fill out required fields from the side panel, eliminating the need to switch between multiple screens.



3. Refine your AlwaysOn Compliance targets with expanded configuration options

   To give institutions more flexibility, administrators can now customize the threshold at which AlwaysOn Compliance will target documents for automated remediation. They can also specify which issues they would like AutoPilot to focus on during scans. This enhances control over automated scans and allows institutions to decide how and the frequency that they would like to scan documents at.

   

4. Reduce manual remediation in Microsoft Excel workbooks with increased highlight precision and format preservation

   Users can now scan and remediate their XLSX and XLS files with more consistency and accuracy. Issues are now highlighted with higher precision in the document preview for increased ease of use, and YuJa AutoPilot fixes preserve table formatting to prevent manual rework. Institutions can also apply their desired alt text length to Excel workbooks according to their needs and institutional policies.

   

5. Filter the LMS report by course prefix and yield accurate results instantly

   YuJa Panorama users can now filter by course within the LMS report using partial queries from the course’s title, or an associated keyword. This new capability helps users locate courses without typing the entire course title. Users can also filter by all matching courses or choose to exclude some courses in their results, allowing them to adjust their searches for targeted and relevant results.

   

6. Cut down remediation time with bulk-duplicate file replacement throughout the LMS

   Class members are now notified via email and via a message in their Notifications Tab whenever a live stream has started, helping them keep track of scheduled streams and attending them on time.

7. Readily embed accessible videos in your LMS with the Video Compliance Player

   Users are now able to embed videos enhanced in the Video Compliance Player directly in their LMS with ready-to-paste embed code, allowing videos to play inline with added accessibility features. This allows users to easily insert and view accessible videos directly within their LMS workflow without leaving the page.

   

8. Tag PDFs using YuJa Panorama’s updated in-line OCR remediation guide

   YuJa Panorama’s OCR remediation workflow now links a guide that instructs users on how to correct OCR issues within the platform. Users no longer require third-party platform licenses or tools to make OCR-related fixes, facilitating a continuous remediation workflow within the platform.

9. New SAML SSO support accelerates setup workflow for administrators

   Single Sign-On in YuJa Panorama now allows administrators to adapt SAML SSO quickly and efficiently for easy access to the platform. This feature reduces the amount of steps required for configuration by allowing imports by URL or XML, streamlining the process for administrator SSO setup. YuJa Panorama will also keep information up to date automatically, reducing manual work.

Over the next few weeks, YuJa Structural Remediation will introduce a new design and workflow to improve remediation processes for PDFs.

1. Remediate PDFs faster with YuJa Structural Remediation’s refreshed design

   YuJa Structural Remediation’s user interface has received a sleek new revamp that makes fixing PDF accessibility issues quicker and easier.

   Key features include:

   • Automatic suggested fixes: Users can now launch Structural Remediation directly from an issue in the Accessibility Report, where suggested fixes can be applied or dismissed in bulk for more efficient remediation.

     

   • Page view highlights: Users have access to an upgraded page view with highlights for precise issue locating.

     

   • Improved display options: Users now have easy access to Tag Types, Reading Order, and Annotation display options to see how screen readers will interpret documents.

     

   • All issues under one tag: Users can now view all suggested fixes under a single tag within the Accessibility Report to eliminate manual searching.

     

2. Return to your page and scrolling position instantly with page preservation in YuJa Structural Remediation

   YuJa Structural Remediation now preserves the precise spot and scrolling position that users are currently working on after fixing an issue. This feature helps users maintain a streamlined and uninterrupted workflow when remediating documents within the Accessibility Report.

   

Over the next few weeks, YuJa SmartSpeaker will receive an update that allows users to vocalize written content with no character limits for endless text-to-speech capabilities.

1. Generate speech for an unlimited number of text characters with YuJa SmartSpeaker

   YuJa SmartSpeaker now allows users to utilize text-to-speech for an unlimited number of characters, allowing users to accommodate their needs without capacity barriers.

   

Over the next few weeks, YuJa AutoPilot will be updated to suggest fixes that coordinate with the existing formats and themes in your documents.

1. Stay aligned to your document’s style with smarter fixes in YuJa AutoPilot

   YuJa AutoPilot now matches the existing document style and theme when implementing automated changes, including existing fonts, colors, and styles. This reduces how thoroughly users need to monitor fixes that YuJa AutoPilot makes, cutting down on time spent aligning fixes with the document’s existing theme for coherence and consistency.

   

Over the coming weeks, YuJa Verity will roll out a range of new features that monitor assessments to ensure academic integrity, including an AI assistant that answers your questions about test-taker sessions, richer reporting, and stronger safeguards for remote exams.

1. Get quick insights and specific details about your assessments by asking the new AI assistant

   YuJa Verity is introducing an AI assistant that enables proctors to ask and receive answers to natural language questions about specific assessment sessions. Located in the Assessment Report for any given quiz, the AI assistant features four different menus to help streamline assessment review:

   • Summarize Report: Provides a summary of the assessment session, identifying trends, top flags, and risks to help instructors investigate issues.

     

   • Review Flagged Events: Provides a list of open flagged events, with the test-taker and flag type, for your review.

     

   • Resolve Flags: Resolves flagged events on your behalf, with the option for instructors to add a note with any relevant information that provides context.

     

   • Ask AI Assistant Anything: Allows instructors to ask the AI Assistant any additional questions related to the assessment, such as which flagged events occurred most often.

     

2. See the full picture of academic integrity with new centralized dashboard and monthly email summaries

   YuJa Verity is adding a new centralized dashboard for administrators and monthly instructor notifications to provide greater visibility into academic integrity activity and system interventions. These expanded insights help administrators and instructors better understand assessment activity and the impact of monitoring tools.

   New features include:

   • Centralized dashboard: Get high-level insights into your institution’s usage of YuJa Verity with the new centralized dashboard. View the total number of flagged integrity issues, breakdowns by issue type, and counts of actions that YuJa Verity prevented. Period-over-period comparisons may also help instructors and administrators identify changes in activity over time.

     

   • Enhanced monthly emails: Receive more detailed monthly notification emails for academic integrity insights, which provide the total number of flagged issues for the month, sorted by severity type. Email reports also include a breakdown of issue types and the number of violations that YuJa Verity prevented (e.g., an attempt to copy and paste), helping instructors better understand assessment activity and the impact of integrity-monitoring tools.

     

3. Deeper AI analysis of room scans and continuous workspace monitoring with better verification of secondary cameras

   YuJa Verity is adding the ability to specify and verify secondary camera recordings and room scans:

   • AI secondary camera verification: AI secondary camera verification: AI analyzes the secondary camera and ensures that it is pointed in the right place.

     

   • AI room scan verification: AI analyzes the contents of the room scan to detect whether or not test-takers scanned the entire room. YuJa Verity will flag the room scan if it’s invalid or does not show the entire 360-degree view of the room, ensuring instructors are aware if a test-taker doesn’t conduct the room scan properly.

     

4. Schedule when assessments open and when test-takers get notified

   YuJa Verity is adding the ability for instructors to configure an assessment’s start time, giving them greater flexibility when scheduling assessments. Instructors will also be able to choose when test-taker notification emails are sent, helping ensure test-takers are informed when the assessment becomes available.

   

5. Restrict exams to approved locations based on IP address so test-takers can’t take them from just anywhere

   Administrators can now restrict an exam to specific networks during the proctoring setup process using an IP-address range, allowing institutions to control assessment access in YuJa Verity. This gives admins extra confidence in the testing environment without requiring stricter proctoring for every exam.

   

6. Improved AI analysis to catch suspicious apps you didn’t block

   YuJa Verity is enhancing its AI-powered analysis to examine open applications for signs of potential cheating, including when the option to block all applications is disabled. Even if proctoring configurations allow certain applications, AI now reviews open applications on each test-taker’s computer and flags tools that could be used to cheat, including Claude, NetBird, Chrome, and more. This gives instructors an additional layer of insight into potential academic integrity concerns.

   

7. Block AI cheating apps that hide on screen and disguise their names

   Some AI cheating tools, such as Cluely and Interview Coder, are built to go unnoticed. They can show answers in a hidden window on top of the exam that the test-taker can see but screen recordings can’t. Some also disguise themselves by using the name of an ordinary, harmless program. YuJa Verity now recognizes a wider range of these tools, even when they’re hidden or disguised, and flags or blocks them during proctored assessments. This helps ensure test-takers’ answers reflect their own knowledge, rather than hidden AI help.

   

8. Better microphone detection to ensure YuJa Verity connects to the test-taker’s correct microphone

   YuJa Verity is introducing better microphone detection to help verify that the appropriate microphone is being used during an assessment. This enhancement adds another check to the microphone setup process to help ensure the intended audio device is used.

9. Set up LMS integrations faster with autofilled fields and error checks

   YuJa Verity has made the LMS integration process easier to help administrators complete setup with fewer errors. Integration fields can be filled in automatically to reduce manual entry, while validation checks help identify potentially misplaced Client ID and Deployment ID values and detect unwanted spaces in configuration fields.

   This feature is available in:

   • API integrations: Configuration fields are prepopulated and every field is automatically checked for unwanted spaces that could cause the connection to fail.

   • LTI integrations: Values such as the Client ID, Deployment ID, and JWKS URL are autofilled where possible. YuJa Verity also alerts users if the Client ID and Deployment ID appear to be entered in each other’s fields, and flags any unwanted spaces in configuration fields.

   • LMS Visualizer integrations: When connecting YuJa Verity to Canvas so test-takers without the Verity Browser Extension can still see the Verity interface, configuration fields are automatically filled in and checked for unwanted spaces.

10. Prevent obstructed footage with alerts when a test-taker’s webcam video turns blurry

    YuJa Verity now flags moments when a test-taker’s webcam image becomes blurry, whether from a technical issue or a covered or obstructed lens. Instead of discovering unusable footage after assessment completion, instructors will catch this issue immediately, making reviews faster for instructors and more fair for test-takers.

11. Secondary exam password for assessments so only test-takers in approved locations can access them

    Instructors and administrators can now add a secondary exam password to YuJa Verity proctored assessments in their LMSs. After YuJa Verity begins the proctoring session, test-takers must enter a password provided by the instructor or proctor before they can access the test. This helps institutions that require in-person testing make sure test-takers only receive exam access once they’ve arrived at an approved location, like a classroom or testing center.

    Instructors and administrators can:

    • Set a custom password for each assessment: Create and save a secondary password that test-takers must enter manually, giving testing centers control over when each exam can begin.

    • Keep the existing proctoring workflow: YuJa Verity’s automatically generated password still starts the proctoring session, so the secondary password adds a layer of security without changing how proctoring works.

    • Reuse passwords across copied exams: When an assessment is copied from a master exam, including into another D2L Brightspace course, the secondary password carries over automatically, so instructors don’t need to re-enter it for every copy.

    • Rely on a password that stays put: The secondary password remains in place until an authorized user changes it.

12. Set your own rules for when YuJa live proctors intervene during assessments

    Institutions using Live Proctoring can now control how YuJa’s proctors respond to suspicious behavior during an exam. Administrators can choose which flags—for example, multiple faces on screen—require a proctor to intervene in real time, and which flags should stop the test entirely so the test-taker cannot continue. When a proctor steps in, test-takers now see a clearer message explaining what’s happening, reducing confusion in the moment. After the exam, an updated results table shows each proctor intervention more cleanly, including which flags triggered it and when it took place, so instructors can review incidents quickly and with full context.

13. Get a clearer picture of proctoring usage with assessment and attempt counts broken down by type

    The Institution Report now separates the number of assessments proctored from the total number of proctored attempts. Since many assessments allow test-takers more than one attempt, this gives administrators a more accurate view of how proctoring is being used across their institution. The report now also breaks down how many assessments were proctored using Automated, Live, and Live Check-In proctoring, making it easier to see which methods are used most and plan resources accordingly.

14. Map LMS roles to YuJa Verity roles for accurate access

    Administrators can now map the roles passed from the LMS through LTI to specific YuJa Verity roles. This makes sure instructors, students, and other users automatically get the right level of access in YuJa Verity based on their LMS role, without needing to adjust permissions manually.