We have now fixed timeout error in our platform when downloading large files. The download icon can be found under the options tool in the course library corresponding to the course title as shown below.
Once the download icon is clicked a pop-up will be triggered from where you can download the required large files without any loading issue.
We have now rolled out new URL option for our E-learning Platform. Once entering into manage live classes after scheduling your live class session, you can find a new redirect URL option at the top right corner as shown below.
By clicking the " Redirect URL" a pop-up message will be triggered asking to enter the required URL. So, when attendees leave room or if instructor end the class, it redirects to the given URL.
Great news!! We are thrilled to announce the most-awaited Virtual Classroom major version update across all datacenter locations worldwide. This new version boasts many advanced features such as support for Simulcast powered by BrainCert’s all-new deep SFU engine. All global datacenter locations will now use our scalable and secure Software-Defined Smart WebRTC Network (SD-SWN) that offers the lowest latency and intelligent routing using our WARP (WebRTC Alternate Route Path) technology.
To make the video conferencing work in the most optimal way, we have introduced our all-new deep SFU/MCU engine with Simulcast support. With Simulcast, we deliver the best quality video streams to all attendees in a classroom. If an attendee has some problems with bandwidth (changed Wi-Fi to a slow mobile network, for example), the video quality will adapt to it by lowering the bitrate. If the attendees bandwidth situation gets better, the video quality will also get better by automatically raising the bitrate to offer the best possible experience to everyone in the virtual classroom session.
The recordings now will be in MP4 format instead of the old WEBM format which does not support playing in Apple's Safari browser. We have also forced 720p for all recordings to avoid any issues when uploading to YouTube or Vimeo.
BrainCert has interactive online whiteboard with all writing and drawing tools to make the session more engaging and interactive. We have now introduced the option to save the specific whiteboard tab to cloud storage and load it in any whiteboard tab and in any VC class session. This is a great way to quickly show the whiteboard tab without repeating the same content again in another class.
In BrainCert Virtual Classroom, we have multiple interactive whiteboards helping instructors to draw, illustrate, show diagram that supports drawing tools, LaTEX math equations, draw shapes and symbols, save snapshots and more. Now we have introduced the option to export the whiteboard session as PDF or an image (JPEG) file.
In BrainCert Virtual Classroom, it is also possible to set the desired video quality automatically by default or manually in the video settings. "Auto mode" will invoke Simulcast that provides optimal viewing experience by maximizing the video quality for every participant in the classroom and avoids the bitrate of the latter being dragged down due to other participants within the same session with less bandwidth available. It is also possible to manually set video quality in LD, SD and HD.
We have rolled out a new feature that offers a quicker way to enter enlarged video conference over the whiteboard area which makes the chat and attendee list right-panel visible. Face-to-face collaboration now made easy with enlarged real-time video conference and automatic speaker detection.
Now you can broadcast messages to all attendees in main and BreakRooms in real-time from the chat area using @broadcast tag. This is very helpful feature for instructors to quickly send a message to all participants in different BreakRooms.
Videos can be played enlarged over the whiteboard area in our media player section. Also, the instructor can allow attendees to control video playback so that students can pause and play the video from their end.
This intuitive feature allows navigating back and forth by collaborating with uploaded documents on the whiteboard maintaining the same zoom level set. Furthermore, the document toolbar can be dragged anywhere over the whiteboard area that offers better user experience.
This nifty info popup has been enhanced to show video parameters such as video bitrate, frame rate, resolution and packets lost in addition to the attendee's user specific information. This is very helpful to troubleshoot and monitor connectivity issues of each student.
By using the new enhanced text tool feature, instructors can now change the font size and font type for the text entered on the whiteboard.
We've implemented WolframAlpha API to show queries on the whiteboard. The API approach is more robust and can provide access to various optional optimizations (shorter answers, the ability to Show Steps for solving a problem, and more). WolframAlpha usage will be now metered based on the subscription plan.
We've greatly lowered the CPU usage of the virtual classroom when using different tools and functionalities such as recording, screen sharing, and overall board actions in general.
This new features allows video and audio files to autoplay in course lectures. You can toggle on or off the auto play feature under the file name with a click of a button in the content library.
We have rolled out "Course Bundles" feature for our E-learning Platform whereas instructor can add multiple courses to the bundle. Course bundles gives learners the chance to study two or more online courses at the same time. Instructor can create a bundle and add any number of courses as per their requirement. Students are automatically enrolled to the course bundle by sending a course invite. Full access can be given to students before or without payment as per an Instructor's choice. Also if students are found to be prospective, an email can be sent requesting them to take up the course bundle and the email analytics of the same can be found in the dashboard. Whenever a student enrolls in a course or a new payment occurs, an email notification will be sent to an Instructor about the same if notification is enabled.
Great News! We've now added support for additional fonts to provide a wider coverage for uploaded documents with international fonts such as Chinese and other modern fonts. When you upload a document including all popular types of documents such as Adobe PDF files (.PDF), Microsoft Word documents (.DOC, .DOCX), Microsoft Excel worksheets (.XLS, .XLSX), Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (.PPT, .PPTX), plain and rich text files (.TXT, .RTF) and other supported formats, the document conversion engine will retain the original fonts in the document or closely match the available fonts from our comprehensive fonts library in the backend.
This includes all the documents uploaded in the content library as well as the documents uploaded during a live virtual classroom session.
Instructors can now edit the invitation email template for private courses when enrolling students. The template for private course invitation is added as a new notification template under "Student E-mail Notifications" under 'Notifications' option in manage courses. This template can be customized to include additional instructions as needed.
We have now fixed the iCal calendar issue for the daily, weekly, monthly, and custom days when sending class invitation. The calendar feature in email clients such as Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo will now correctly parse the iCal and show the recurring classes as per the class schedule.
We have recently rolled out a new "Embed" feature for embedding JW player cloud hosted videos in the E-learning platform.
JW Player offers a full-service video hosting and management cloud platform lets publishers streamline workflows with speed, power, and efficiency. Instructors can now leverage this powerful feature to easily embed JW player cloud hosted videos in BrainCert content library.
Select the "JW player cloud-hosted video" from the drop-down and enter the Embed URL and Title. It's as simple as that.
We have now rolled out a new feature to track promo codes with intuitive analytics. The instructor can now check the number of times a particular coupon is being used by students, expiry date of the coupon and other relevant data in the analytics section.
