Engageli 2.1
Last Updated: July 11, 2022
What’s New?
- Upload PDF presentations before or during class
- Improved experience when giving presentations with minimal lag time
- Higher resolution, better visual quality presentations than a screen share
- Reduced dependency on internet connection
- Class-wide and table-level two-way whiteboard collaboration
- Includes standard annotation tools, notes, and the option to attach files (PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images, and text files)
- Keyboard navigation-enabled
- Engageli Action Tags Lab available in the Admin Portal
- Ability to add Engageli Tags to documents and presentations to easily enable and execute a variety of actions, including polls and quizzes
- Ability to use Engageli Tags for actions in addition to polls/quizzes, including audio settings, table settings, table presets, documents, recording, and timer
- Divide classrooms into separate sections connected to the main classroom for differentiated instruction and large group work
- Ability to elevate TAs or learners to the instructor role in a sub-room
- Ability to send announcements to all or specific sub-rooms
Enhancements
Instructors
- Ability to blur or add a background to camera/video
- Ability for browser-based instructors to change user roles during class (learner, TA, instructor)
- Ability to change user roles for others during class
- Ability to test a classroom with a computer-simulated learner
- Ability to screen share with individual tables
- Ability to drag-and-drop individual learners from one table to another
- Ability to copy class URL link from within the classroom
- Ability to resize and reposition floating windows in full screen mode
- Ability to preview table presets in the Admin Portal
- Auto-detection of Engageli Tags in slides or documents that sends a notification to the instructor to apply Tag
- Engagement scores on learner video feeds (1-5 engagement scale) visible to browser-based instructors
- Engagement scores on learner video feeds include audio activity and non-anonymous Q&A posts
- Tour of Engageli features for the live classroom and Playback Room
- Notification and prompt to change the audio mode back to Room Mode when leaving a table to go back to the podium
- Ability to mute a learner
- Ability to ask a learner to unmute
- Ability to turn off a learner’s camera
- Ability to ask a learner to turn on the camera
- Ability to lower a learner’s hand and remove them from the podium
- Ability to move a learner to a different table
- Ability to approve a learner’s screen share request
- Ability to add a learner to a panel
- Ability to change user role during class
- Ability to change user role for others during class
- Ability to send chat messages that appear as notifications
- Ability to block a learner from class
Learners and Guests
- Engageli for Learners mobile iOS app
- Engageli features tours for both the live classroom and Playback Room
- Ability to blur or add a background to camera/video
- Ability to zoom in and out on shared PDF files
- Notification when screen sharing with the class or a table
- Notification when the classroom audio setting changes (Room Mode and Table Mode)
- Addition of searchable video transcripts
- Hyperlinks added to notes to navigate to specific timestamps within a recording
- Improved user experience when sending Playback Room invitations
- Ability to transfer host permissions to another learner
- Ability to open a whiteboard for individual use or two-way collaboration in Playback Room sessions
Polls
- Ability to distribute learners to tables based on poll results
- Ability to see the number of learners who did and did not answer the poll question
- Ability to see learners’ individual poll responses in the Class Gallery
- Ability to enter multiple words for text-based, word cloud poll questions
Recordings
- Ability to configure settings to automatically start recording
- Ability to include YouTube videos shared via Show clips in class recordings
Portal Enhancements
- Improved class scheduling capabilities including days of the week and time zone compatibility
Data Analytics and Reports
- API for event streams
- Comprehensive analytics tab in the Admin Portal
- Ability to track recording (asynchronous) attendance
- Improved data for speaking time (podium, panel, Room and Table Modes)
- Ability to download Q&A thread
LMS Integration
- Ability to support one LMS course with multiple Engageli classrooms
- Ability to merge two or more LMS courses into a single Engageli classroom
Bug Fixes/Improvements
- Screen share for browser-based instruction persists when the instructor joins tables
- Screen share preview window can be repositioned and enlarged
- Screen share preview window simplified and enhanced
- Ability to display table names in special characters
- Increased button sizes for annotation
- Improved icons for guests in Tables view
- Added TA label to the video feeds of users in the TA role
- Ability to use parentheses in display name to include titles and pronouns
- Increase in learner concurrency