Student / Staff Experience

Feature

Benefit

Performance improvements

Since a fast and responsive desktop is essential for a good user experience, we continue to test and optimize streaming performance.  In this release, we have opened a new channel for H264 and addressed issues with H264 on Chrome. These changes significantly improve performance, especially for graphics-intensive applications.

Homework submission
(Canvas)

Ability for students to upload an assignment to Canvas from the virtual desktop.

Students login to Canvas, navigate to a course, and launch Apporto. When they finish working on the assignment, they click a homework button in the desktop ribbon menu.  After selecting the relevant assignment and file, they hit upload, and the file is uploaded to Canvas where it is accessible to instructors for grading.

USB streaming (Arduino POC)

Ability to communicate back and forth between the virtual desktop and a USB device connected to the user’s physical device. 

We have completed a proof of concept for “USB streaming” with Arduino boards. Our next test will be with WACOM devices.
 

This feature will be ready for beta testing around August 20.  Please email [email protected] if you’d like beta access.

Enhancements and bug fixes

Enhancements and bug fixes:

• Fixed a printing issue in a 3rd party technology that caused the desktop to freeze when printing to pdf

• Added free text search to Sessions and the Audit Trail (previously this was only available in the Users screen)

• Addressed accessibility gaps in the login page, profile, App Store, and desktop ribbon menu

• Achieved a Lighthouse performance score of 80% on www.apporto.com

• Began development of the Next Generation App Store

Admin Experience

Feature

Benefit

User location map

Many colleges and universities have global campuses, professional students, and students studying abroad. To provide insight into where students are logging in from, we’ve added a Users Location Map in the Admin Dashboard (bottom right corner).  The map uses geo-IP data to approximate user location.  The default view is for North America, but you may toggle to see a world map.

Enhancements and bug fixes

Enhancements and bug fixes:
 

• Began development of Next Gen services to improve performance of bulk operations for user creation, editing, and deletion

• Migrated remaining customers to new web architecture, ensuring redundancy