What's New in Cornerstone Classroom 8.5.6

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This release enhances the usability and refreshes the look and feel of Cornerstone Classroom App and Browser client user interface.

Some of the major enhancements are listed below with corresponding screen images.

Welcome Page

The Welcome page displays cleaner boxes with fitting text. It now displays only the event name at the top.

Whiteboard

New icons for whiteboard tools make it more intuitive.

Breakout Rooms

Enhanced look of radio buttons, numbers and check boxes.

Playback

Enhanced color scheme and icons for playback view.

Agenda

The enhanced Agenda view provides easy access to agenda items. The agenda view displays enhanced icons for various agenda items and different folder colors.

Polls

Clean and fresh look of polls for both leaders and participants make them very usable.

Settings

Enhanced color scheme and flat buttons for Settings dialog box.

Alert/Error/Warning Messages

Enhanced style elements for alert, error and warning message dialog boxes.

AppShare view

AppShare view is enhanced to include the new style and color elements. See the AppShare toolbar image below.

Support for Roboto font

The App and Browser clients now use the Roboto font instead of multiple fonts used earlier. This ensures text consistency throughout the user interface.

The font is made available as part of the App download, so users do not need to install the font separately.

Evaluations

Evaluations created with the App-based Agenda Builder in this update have a larger default font size than the evaluations created using the legacy Agenda Builder. If you want legacy evaluations to display in the new UI format, then it is recommended you recreate them using the new App-based Agenda Builder.

Prior to this release, the Agenda Builder in Cornerstone Classroom App provided limited set of features.

This release enhances the text chat in Cornerstone Classroom App and Browser clients to provide the following options:

Clear all Messages

Leaders and presenters can clear all text chat messages in the chat panel.

To clear all text chat, right-click anywhere in the text chat panel and click the Clear all messages option. Cornerstone Classroom displays a confirmation dialog box. If you confirm, then all text chat is cleared.

Delete a Message

Leaders and presenters can selectively delete any specific text chat message in the chat panel. However, participants can only delete a chat message they have entered. They cannot delete someone else's message.

To delete a specific text chat message, right-click on the particular message in the text chat panel and click the Delete message option. Cornerstone Classroom displays a confirmation dialog box. If you confirm, then the selected text chat message is deleted.

Wrapping of long Words and URLs

Long words and URLs are now wrapped to fit the horizontal width of the text chat panel.

Prior to this update, the "You are now sharing..." message workflow for AppShare was not intuitive to end users who had not used AppShare anytime before. Additionally, the participants felt that their screen was being shared already and did not know they had to dismiss the message before proceeding.

With this release, the AppShare usability is enhanced such that the person who is launching AppShare and who is viewing the shared screen is now displayed more intuitive messages.

If the person shares the entire Desktop, then a popup dialog box with a confirmation message "Are you sure you want to share your desktop?" is shown.

If the person shares a particular application, then a popup dialog box with a confirmation message "Are you sure you want to share the application <application_name>?" is shown.

When AppShare is started, participants are displayed "Viewing <firstname lastname>'s screen" message on top of their screen. This indicates who is currently sharing.

When a Windows 10 (Win10) client used AppShare, all other clients were able to view only partial AppShare. This was happening because for high DPI displays, Win10 would automatically adjust the Display Scaling Setting. This scaling caused the Cornerstone Classroom App or Browser client to capture a smaller image than what was shared.

This release fixes the discrepancy between the "virtual" size of the screen and the "physical" size in pixels of the display for high DPI (Win10) displays. Now the Cornerstone Classroom App or Browser client launched in dpiAware mode so AppSharing from such systems handles the scaling differences.

The Microsoft APIs that handle Win10 screen scaling now return the physical size instead of the virtual size, which allow capturing of all pixels and send them.

However, the size of the screen share is now 2400x1350 rather than 1920x1080, providing more bandwidth. Also, the image is now 125% bigger when the receiving client is in 1:1 mode.

For a Cornerstone Saba and Cornerstone Classroom integration, after a terminated user was purged in Cornerstone Saba, if the corresponding user existed in Cornerstone Classroom, then the user was not removed from Cornerstone Classroom.

This update provides the ability to remove user accounts from Cornerstone Classroom when the corresponding users are purged in Cornerstone Saba.

Differences between Cornerstone Classroom standalone and Cornerstone Saba-Cornerstone Classroom integrated API behavior

Auditing

This update also provides auditing of the purge action. The audit trail indicates who performed the purge action on a user, irrespective of whether the purge was performed via UI or APIs.

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This update introduces the following new API to purge existing Cornerstone Classroom users.

Overview

Deletes and purges an existing Cornerstone Classroom user based on the user's GUID. It returns code 204 (No Content), if the purge is successful. The Purge API deletes a user in the Cornerstone Classroom database and obfuscates their personal information.

Requires OAuth

YES

Method

GET

URL

https://<hostname>/api/users/purge/{GUID}?forceDelete=true

If:

• ?forceDelete=true, then query param in the API URL is required when purging a user from Cornerstone Classroom, which has not been deleted. The Purge API requires a user to be deleted before their personal information is obfuscated.
• ?forceDelete=false, then query param in the API URL generates the following error if the user is not deleted previously:

  "error": 
  [
     {
      "message": "User with id ' 0000387c403600000162bb2b5b2881ea' must be deleted before can be removed",
      "code": 1312
      ...
     }
  ]

Calling Options

Table 2. Calling OptionsCalling Options

Name	Description	Sample Value	Data Type	Required?
GUID	The GUID of the Cornerstone Classroom user	0000387c403600000162bb2b5b2881ea	string	Yes

Header

ACCEPT: application/xml or application/json

AUTHORIZATION: <key>

Note: Where <key> indicates the authentication token generated by the Authentication Web service (/api/authenticate).

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