Available from 12 July, 2024
We are excited to introduce several new features and enhancements to Digital Samba Embedded. Our enhanced Q&A now includes an upvoting feature, allowing participants to prioritise the order of answering questions based on interest. Additionally, a new System check page ensures participants can test their connections and devices before sessions, providing peace of mind. We’ve also added the Never crop my video stream feature for hybrid rooms, ensuring all participants appear non-cropped in a single tile. Explore these updates and more in the latest release.
Digital Samba Embedded
Upvoting in Q&A
Enhanced Q&A with a new upvoting feature that allows prioritising the order of answering questions based on participant interest.
- Configuration via Dashboard or API: Define 'voters' with the 'Upvote in Q&A' permission and 'repliers' with the 'Answer questions in Q&A' permission. Enable 'Q&A' and 'Upvoting' in the room settings.
- In-session actions: Voters can upvote questions by clicking the 'thumbs up' icon. Participants can sort questions by votes, which allows repliers to prioritise answering based on interest.
- Post-session: Retrieve Q&A logs, including upvotes data, in JSON and TXT formats via dashboard and API.
Dashboard and API
New Features
- Introducing a 'System check' page where participants can test their connection to our signalling and media servers, along with their microphone, speaker, and camera. This pre-session check ensures everything functions properly, offering participants reassurance and peace of mind.
- Introducing 'Broadcaster tile visibility',' a new room setting that allows team members to control the visibility of broadcaster tiles based on their camera and microphone state. This setting can applies to the room and any recordings within it, improving the user experience in large rooms or webinars by hiding potentially empty and irrelevant tiles from participants' view. This setting can be controlled from the dashboard and the API, and is automatically set according to the selected maximum participants and maximum broadcasters, but can be overridden.
- Added the 'Upvote in Q&A' permission to the Moderator, Teacher and Speaker preset roles.
- Improved UX in the 'Pre-create poll' form in the dashboard by automatically focusing the cursor on the next choice input field upon submitting a choice. Team members can now also press the 'enter' key to submit a choice, which automatically creates the next choice field and focuses the cursor on it.
- Replaced the former dropdown selector with a more suitable toggle to choose between single and multiple choice in the polls pre-creation form.
- Revised nomenclature for Polls. The former 'poll options' are now referred to as 'poll choices'.
- Updated the 'plan' label in the Statistics page to reflect when a downgrade has been scheduled, and to display the future downgrade date.
- Improved UX by disabling submit buttons in the 'Choose your subdomain' and 'Complete your signup' forms until they are completed. This behaviour is now consistent with dashboard forms in general.
In-Room
New Features
- Introducing Never crop my video stream, a feature designed for hybrid rooms where participants are physically together and connected via a multi-camera device that combines them into a single video stream. The device manager can now choose not to crop their video stream, ensuring all participants appear non-cropped in a single Digital Samba tile. Access this feature in the Join screen and the in-room Settings cogwheel.
- Added sorting functionality to the Q&A panel, allowing participants to sort questions by chronological order (both ascending and descending) and by interest, measured in votes.
- Fixed the position of the question-answer block in the Q&A panel while typing to prevent it from moving when others upvote.
- Added a new 'confirmation' parameter to our SDK's Initial Settings object, allowing integrators to request or bypass moderator confirmation when removing a participant.
- Updated some labels in the tile contextual menu to ensure consistency.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where the microphone was not available by default on the Android mobile app, requiring participants to toggle it off and on before joining the room.
- Fixed an issue with 'Presentation files' where a blue selector outline remained around the previously selected page of a multipage document after another page was selected.
- Fixed a regression that caused missing tooltips in the pinned and magnified tiles.
- Fixed an issue where the private chat unread messages counter bubble did not disappear when a participant was moved to a role with disabled private chat permissions.
- Fixed an issue where a file opened by the presenter would display incorrectly on the side of a remote user who joined after the presenter had opened a whiteboard. In such cases, the whiteboard should have been displayed remotely.
- Resolved an issue where the captions panel would load in breakout rooms but display no captions, as transcriptions are unsupported in breakout rooms. The fix involves removing the empty captions panel from breakout rooms.
Samba Live
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where creating recurring meetings with the 'create new session' option sometimes resulted in no sessions being created.
- Resolved an issue where YouTube links failed to play back when joining a room in a browser.