What's New in Cornerstone Classroom 8.5.3

This release provides Cornerstone Classroom administrators the ability to configure the type of files that leaders or presenters can add to Cornerstone Classroom by introducing the following new Client properties:

• Meet in My Room check box

  Adds the Meet in My Room check box in the Outlook Scheduler toolbar. When selected, the user is not displayed any options. It works similar to the Meet from My Room in Cornerstone Saba, where the user is launched into an ongoing Meeting event. It uses your room URL instead of creating a new one, and assumes your meeting is in the future.

  If a My Room event is already created via Cornerstone Saba, then selecting this check box in Outlook Scheduler uses the same meeting event. If no My Room exists, then clicking this option creates the My Room event. If the user later logs into Cornerstone Saba, then Cornerstone Saba uses the My Room created by the Outlook Scheduler.

• Meet Now check box

  Adds the Meet Now check box in the Outlook Scheduler toolbar. Selecting this option for a new meeting or appointment and then saving it or sending the invite, immediately opens up a new browser window and redirects you to the attend page.

• Label change for Create Virtual Event check box

  The Create Virtual Event check box label in the Outlook Scheduler toolbar is changed to New Virtual Event. Selecting this check box now opens the form for creating a new event. Clearing the check box hides the form.

  The New Virtual Event" and Meet in My Room options are mutually exclusive. Selecting Meet in My Room clears New Virtual Event and closes the form. Selecting New Virtual Event clears Meet in My Room.

• Default event type in the event form

  Changes the default option in the Event Type drop-down list from "Webinar" to "Meeting" in the new event form.

• Updated toolbar branding

  The Outlook Scheduler pane now displays an updated Cornerstone Classroom logo.

• Options button

  Clicking the Options button opens or closes the configurable event options as before. However, if you select the Meet in My Room or Meet Now check boxes, then the Options button is disabled unless you have more than one "profile" set up. Profile is the Cornerstone Classroom server/domain you are associated with. If you have more than one profile then the Servers section of the Options form is enabled but the Event Options and Event Audio sections are disabled.

  

To see the enhanced Cornerstone Classroom Outlook Scheduler toolbar:

1. Restart Microsoft Outlook client.
2. Go to the Outlook Calendar.
3. Click New Appointment or New Meeting.

   The Cornerstone Classroom Outlook Scheduler toolbar is added to the Appointment toolbar.

The default value for the codec is set at OPUS (24k bps), which is appropriate for Cornerstone Classroom voice usage. For a richer audio experience, you can switch to the OPUS FS (64k bps) codec.

The following domain properties are changed for Audio:

The following types of changes are logged:

• update a setting value
• un-hide a hidden setting
• check/un-check Protected check box
• check/un-check Inherited check box

The log tracks:

• timestamp
• domain name
• user name (login)
• change type
• setting category/name
• setting value

2017-03-06 13:03:06,964 INFO - Domain Setting change: In domain 'main' user 'admin' exposed hidden setting 'SECURITY/AntivirusPort' 
2017-03-06 13:03:06,964 INFO - Domain Setting change: In domain 'main' user 'admin' changed the value of 'SECURITY/AntivirusPort' to '1344' 
2017-03-06 13:03:06,964 INFO - Domain Setting change: In domain 'main' user 'admin' set 'SECURITY/AntivirusPort' 'Protected' to '1' 
2017-03-06 13:03:06,964 INFO - Domain Setting change: In domain 'main' user 'admin' set 'SECURITY/AntivirusPort' 'Inherited' to '0' 

So when the browser is sent to the App install page, it first goes to the connector installation page to install the browser connector. This page also includes troubleshooting information that guides users to enable the connector if it is already installed.

Cornerstone Classroom administrators can configure the video scaling using a hidden domain property. By default, pre-scaling of video is enabled. When enabled, it scales down (or up) the camera's frame to the Cornerstone Classroom session's compatible size before encoding it with H.264.