What's New in Cornerstone Classroom 8.5.1

Prior to this release, Cornerstone Classroom supported the NPAPI plugins for launching the Cornerstone Classroom app on Mozilla Firefox version 49 and earlier.

Starting with Firefox 52, Mozilla is expected to discontinue support for the NPAPI plugins. NPAPI plugins are not supported in 64-bit Firefox browser on Windows. With this release, Saba is providing a mechanism to launch the Cornerstone Classroom app without using NPAPI plugins. However, NPAPI plugin support is still functional in 32-bit Firefox 50.

This release introduces the Cornerstone Classroom Firefox Connector extension to launch the Cornerstone Classroom app on Mozilla Firefox version 50 and above.

The Cornerstone Classroom app installation page is enhanced to display the new Install Cornerstone Classroom Firefox Connector button.

Clicking this button opens the Mozilla Add-ons website displaying the Cornerstone Classroom Firefox Connector extension download page. You can download the extension and install it to launch the Cornerstone Classroom app from a Cornerstone Classroom server.

Supported Browsers

The Cornerstone Classroom Firefox Connector extension supports only Firefox version 50.0 or later.

Prior to release 8.5, non-secure deployments of Cornerstone Classroom were supported. To allow non-secure deployments, administrators could enable the domain-level security property Allow non-secure events domain.

With release 8.5, Cornerstone Classroom supports only secure deployments. With no support for non-secure deployments, this release obsoletes the domain-level security property Allow non-secure events domain. Additionally, the related Secure event check box for events, meetings, and Webinars is also obsoleted.

Both, the property and the check box, are no longer displayed on the UI.

Prior to this release, users and administrators were able to remove Webinars without any restriction. There was no configuration to control this ability.

By default, this property is set to No.

To configure this property, login as the Cornerstone Classroom administrator and navigate to Administrator > Manage Domains > Properties, and select the Security category type.

If this property is enabled for a domain, then when users try to delete or remove a Webinar in the domain, the application displays an error message and restricts them from deleting the Webinar.

Prior to this release, users could attend a Cornerstone Classroom session through a proxy, where the proxy provided only basic authentication for the Cornerstone Classroom App client. However, there was no support for NTLM or Kerberos proxy authentication.

In addition to basic proxy authentication, this release now supports advanced proxy authentication using NTLM or Kerberos for the Cornerstone Classroom App client.

Prerequisites

For the advanced proxy authentication to work on client Windows machines, the "Enable Integrated Windows Authentication" property in Internet Options > Advanced Settings must be enabled on the client machines.