What's New in Cornerstone Classroom 8.5.7

The Cornerstone Classroom clients were supported on the Linux operating system.

This update deprecates support for all Cornerstone Classroom clients on the Linux operating system.

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The Express client did not display a separate list of participants who were speaking at any point in time in a session.

With this update, the Express client now displays a list of participants who are speaking in the session. This is the list of participants whose microphone is turned On, and not necessarily those who are actually talking. It is a comma-delimited list of the participants' display names, where participants are added to the front of the existing list.

The names are displayed in the bottom bar of the Express client with a Speaking: label. When the speaking list is longer than the display space, a '…' is displayed. Hovering the mouse cursor on the '…' allows the user to see the complete list of participants who are speaking.

When no one is speaking in a session, a No one speaking label is displayed instead of the Speaking: label in the same area.

Even if the "Remember me" check box was selected and the email field was pre-populated on the Guest Attend page, registered users were still required to click the Attend button to enter the Cornerstone Classroom session.

Non-registered users or guest users are required to provide information on the Guest Attend page if they have not entered before.

Even though a fixed duration event was still in session, dropped out users could not re-enter the event because the event duration had exceeded. This happened in situations where the app had closed and the user attempted to re-launch the client to attend the event.

This update modifies the in-session state logic on events that have a fixed duration (not ongoing) so that a user who disconnects during a session can re-enter the event even if the duration of the session has been exceeded. This is achieved by not locking out the session for users as long as it is still active on the server even though the session duration has exceeded.

The content size was reset every time users started the AppShare or shared content and the view switched from the main virtual classroom content. Resultantly, the presenter and users had to reset their slide size repeatedly, and some content was cut off or not viewable without scrolling.

With this update, the content scaling and AppShare scaling is default to "Scale to fit" option. The scaling now stays consistent during a session unless changed by the user.

Both, the content scaling and AppShare scaling settings, which include zoom in, zoom out, scale to fit, and 1:1, are saved in the preferences file locally. When the Cornerstone Classroom app or browser client is launched by a user, the user's last saved setting is used to display the content.

If no value is saved for a user (when user launches the client for the first time or post app uninstall), then the default value of "Scale to fit" is used for both AppShare and content share.