SAFARI Montage^® Version 1.0

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats. There are no new packages supported in this release.

• Core K-8
• Core K-8 American Overseas
• Core K-8 Canadian
• Core 9-12
• Core 9-12 Canadian
• Core K-12
• Schlessinger K-8 Additional

Software Update

• Reduced size of updates
• Content packages are more independent of the software update

Playback

• Widescreen Video Support
• New SMB Mounter (increases security on OSX)
• Permanent Links

Settings & Tools > Setup

• Personalize Login Screen

CreationStation

• Bulk Upload
• ASF Support

Help

• Additional Help for System Settings
• Permanent Links
• Personalize Login Screen

System Settings

• “Grade Limits” is now called “Default Grade Range” because that more accurately describes its function. These drop-down boxes set the default grade range that new users will see in their searches. The user may override those ranges at any time, so “limits” was not the best term.

Data Recovery Help

• Added Data Recovery section to Administrator Guide in the Help System.

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats. There are no new packages supported in this release.

• Core K-8
• Core K-8 American Overseas
• Core K-8 Canadian
• Core 9-12
• Core 9-12 Canadian
• Core K-12
• Schlessinger K-8 Additional

Data Recovery

• Fixed playlist segmentation not restoring properly.
• Fixed issue where backup would not restore properly if a content package had been reinstalled at any point since the date of backup being restored.
• Scheduled backups not functioning on SAFARI Montage running on Apple's Xserve operating system.

Playback

• Fixed an issue where the "Viewable By" drop-down on the video playback page was not functioning.
• Fixed issue with audio file segmentation. User-configured start and stop points were ignored when audio was played back.

Settings & Tools

• The Update button on the Setup > System Settings page was not functioning.

Software Update

• Fixed an issue with the Nightly Update system. In rare instances, the Auto-Update system appeared to be actively installing updates but, in actuality, the updates were not occurring.

Uploadable Content

Upload your original video, audio, and image files to SAFARI Montage. The following formats are supported.

Video Formats

• Windows Media Video (.wmv)
• Quicktime (.mov)
• MPEG4 (.mp4, .mov)

Image Formats

• JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
• GIF (.gif)
• Bitmap (.bmp)

Audio Formats

• MPEG3 (.mp3)

Metadata

Assign your own metadata to your uploaded content, such as title, author, description (abstract), grade range, and copyright.

Video Segmentation

Divide your videos into labeled chapters and key concepts, allowing easy access to segments that you designate.

Access Control

Specify who may view your uploaded content - teachers, students, other uploaders, or everyone.

Playlists

Save your uploaded video, audio, and still images into playlists for quick playback in the future. Save your video chapters, key concepts, and bookmarks to playlists. Combine your content with SAFARI Montage licensed content. Playlists can be shared to other users within the system.

Content Expiration

Make your content expire on a certain date, rendering it invisible from that date forward to all users except you and the system administrator.

Attachments

Upload your own supplemental documents to associate with your content, or hyperlink to a document on the Internet or your intranet/extranet. Supplemental documents can include a teacher's guide, a data sheet, and an additional document of your choosing. Attachments can be of nearly any format, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, and image formats such as GIF, JPEG, and BMP.

Searchable Content

Your content becomes fully indexed by the powerful SAFARI Montage search engine so users can easily find your content. A new advanced search feature allows filtering by media type (image, video, audio).

Bulk Media Upload

Upload multiple files in a single operation. This is handled through a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

Custom Producer Logo

This allows you to brand your content with your own logo. Your logo shows up in search results and on the playback page for any uploaded content. This helps to distinguish your content from SAFARI Montage licensed content.

Interactive Quizzes

Create quizzes to associate with your uploaded content.

Auto-Update

• Fixed issue with version 1.1.6 not updating when on the OS X (Xserve) platform.
• Download completion message made more applicable in all cases

General

• Fix to Montage console where "Cancel" button was rebooting the server.
• Fixed playback on some Linspire operating systems.

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats.

• Core K-8
• Core K-8 American Overseas
• Core K-8 Canadian NEW!
• Core 9-12
• Core 9-12 Canadian NEW!
• Core K-12 NEW!
• Schlessinger K-8 Additional

General

• Support for client machines running Linspire 5.0 Operating System *
  • Browser: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7
  • Video Player: MPlayer 1.0 pre 6-3.3.5
  • Video Plugin: MPlayer plug-in 3.02

* Chapter and Segment playback and Bookmarking features are not supported on Linspire due to a limitation in the MPlayer plug-in. Videos must always be played back from the beginning, but can be manually scrubbed to any point in time.

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats. Due to licensing restrictions, QuickTime format will not play back on Linspire systems.

• Core K-8
• Core K-8 American Overseas
• Core 9-12
• Schlessinger K-8 Additional

General

• Metadata updates to numerous titles.

Standards

• Curriculum Correlations updated.
• Entering an ampersand by itself into the keyword search was causing an error message.

Auto-Update

• Fixed an issue where, in certain instances, Auto-Update appeared to be active, but Auto-Update was actually not running. If you experience this issue and you have a version earlier than 1.1.6, deactivating and reactivating Auto-Update will remedy this issue.
• Fixed a benign "Illegal Command" message that appeared when downloading an update.

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats.

• Core K-8
• Core K-8 American Overseas
• Core 9-12
• Schlessinger K-8 Additional

Standards

• Fixed an error that occurred when an apostrophe (') was used within a phrase search.

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats.

• Core K-8
• Core K-8 American Overseas NEW!
• Core 9-12 NEW!
• Schlessinger K-8 Additional NEW!

Standards

• Fixed phrase searching.

General

• Xserve - Installing an add-on package would cause video playback to fail.
• Installation Architecture - Improved the architecture of core installation files and processes.

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats.

• Core K-8

Dashboard

• “Last Videos Played” links now gray out if video is expired
• “Last Videos Played” panel renamed to “My Recent Videos.” This more accurately describes the contents of that panel and conforms to the style of the other panels on the Dashboard.

Video Playback

• Fixed Teacher’s Guide & Data Sheet links disappearing when playing a chapter or key concept if QuickTime is set as the preferred player
• Firefox 1.0.x - fixed “ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer”
• Firefox 1.0.x - fixed Teacher’s Guide link disappearing from DRP when adding a segment
• Safari 1.0 on Mac OS 10.2 - Fixed fullscreen video playback
• Safari 1.0 on Mac OS 10.2 - Fixed browser crashing issues on video details and playlist playback pages.
• IE 5.1 on Mac OS 9 - Fixed fullscreen video playback
• IE 5.1 on Mac OS 9 - Fixed browser crashing issues on video details and playlist playback pages.
• Safari 2.0 - Fixed alignment of key concept icons

General

• Improved default cursor location on numerous pages.
• Fixed expiration issue with duplicate titles existing between different packages (e.g., K-8 and 9-12). If one package expired before the other, the title would not show.
• Fixed several issues surrounding users not having a player preference on dual-format systems. Player preference is now defaulted to Windows Media Player for all new user accounts.
• Expired Content message was displaying to all users. It now only shows to Administrators.
• Username and password validation now indicates “no spaces.”
• Improved LDAP login failure messaging
• Fixed issue with “Add to Playlist” checkmark icons failing to indicate title’s playlist existence after switching player formats.
• Fixed running time inconsistency between search results page and video details page due to rounding. Running times for titles less then one minute are now displayed in seconds. Running times over one minute are rounded to the nearest minute.
• Video player adheres more closely to user’s player preference. On dual-format SAFARI Montage servers, videos played back from Shared Playlists or My Recent Videos panel were playing in the format in which they were originally saved, rather than the preferred format of the user.
• Spaces are now truncated from usernames upon login. This will decrease login failures.

Bookmarking

• Fixed issue with manual End Point time entry
• Fixed “Segment from Program” link missing from some bookmarks
• When adding a bookmark of a bookmark of a QuickTime video, the entire video would be saved to the Playlist rather than the bookmark.
• “Add to Playlist” checkbox icon no longer remains checked after In and Out points are modified using the Start Point and End Point links.
• “Add to Playlist” checkbox no longer appears when previewing a Windows Media video segment.

Playlists

• Items could be added to a deleted playlist using certain combinations of the Back button and clicks.
• The term “Preschool” was standardized as “Pre-K” throughout the application
• Usability improvements on Playlist decision page when attempting to add to a shared playlist or no playlist: better layout, consistency and conciseness of element and control names, reduction in wordiness and visual noise, removed redundant buttons, and improved user messaging.
• Fixed “Play All” link remaining active when all items are expired
• Fixed button highlighting on Playlists sub-navigation bar
• When one video format expires prior to the other in the same package, the system will play the video in the unexpired format. (This is only a safeguard. This scenario should never happen in practice because dual-formats will always expire simultaneously.)
• Refined duplicate checking logic when user is naming a Playlist. If playlist is shared, check for duplicates amongst all shared playlists (including user's own shared playlists). If playlist is not shared, check for duplicates in the user's personal playlists only.
• “Add to Playlist” link on the Playlist playback page was redirecting to the video playback page.

Settings and Tools

• Nightly Update - Added a link to Release Notes on SAFARI Montage website
• Nightly Update - Usability enhancements. Cancel buttons removed. Simplified buttons to read simply, “Update.”
• Account Management - Reset Password, Delete, and Active buttons keep the user on the current page.
• Account Management, Edit and Delete User - Update/Delete and Cancel buttons return the user to the page they were previously browsing in the user list.
• Account Management - friendlier error messaging for uploading bad files
• Account Management, Edit User - Validation message now indicates “no spaces.”
• Set Time Zone - drop-down box now persists selection. Added notification to user that changing the time zone will affect the system time.
• Set Time Zone - functions correctly on Xserve version of SAFARI Montage
• Add Multiple Users - Password is now validated per system-wide password validation rules
• Add Multiple Users - More robust error checking and more verbose error messaging. Indicates exactly which records failed and why (e.g, duplicate username, invalid username or password, etc.)
• My Preferences & Settings - Media Player Preference no longer shows on Mac OS clients. Preference should not show because Mac clients may only view QuickTime videos.
• System Settings - Improved LDAP configuration usability. “LDAP Groups” and “LDAP Connection” subnav buttons appear when LDAP is active. “Connection” and “Groups” links appear near the “Enable LDAP” drop-down when LDAP is active.
• Software Updates and Activation - Access to Montage is locked down when update is in progress. Prevents any user accesses from interfering with the update.
• Software Updates and Activation - Improved user feedback
• Content Packages, Manual Activation - Improved validation messaging when user fails to enter Activation ID or Password.
• LDAP Connection - Improved error message when connection to LDAP server fails or could not be authenticated.
• Network Settings - Certain operations that require a server restart or caused the IP address to change gave a false impression of failure or success. Improved overall user messaging in this regard.
• Network Settings (Xserve) - Changing the network settings now reboots the server to avoid some intermittent erratic behavior when not rebooting.
• Network Settings (Xserve) - Fixed Gateway sometimes showing “link #4.”
• Network Settings (Xserve) - Interface names were not fixed and were not addressable by name.
• Network Settings (Xserve) - “Set Time Zone” was taking two clicks to register the change at top of page.
• Network Settings - Non-alphanumeric characters are stripped from hostname field. This will prevent the error, “syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution.”
• Add New Content - Fixed “Record not found” error when cancelling out of license agreement.
• Add New Content, License Agreement - Fixed some rare cases in which the Cancel button would return the user to the Dashboard.
• License Agreement - Improved error messaging when attempting to continue without accepting both terms.
• Change Password - Password validation message now indicates “no spaces.”
• LDAP Groups - sorted alphabetically
• LDAP (Xserve) - SAFARI Montage is now honoring primary group assignments on an OS X open directory server.
• Reboot - Added text to inform user that a reboot is about to happen.
• Change Hostname - Cancel button was returning user to the Reboot and Shutdown page.

Standards

• Fixed pagination when returning from video details page
• Fixed counts incorrectly including expired titles
• Subjects in drop-down sorted alphabetically
• Message “Results X to Y out of Z” was inaccurate when using “Return to Standards Results” link.
• Fixed issue with incorrect result counts when From grade was set greater than To grade.
• Curriculum Correlations updated
• Fixed stray character in California standards
• Fixed issue with Florida standards when clicking “Refine Search”

Help

• Help system updated to include changes in this release.

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats.

• Core K-8

Video Playback

• Firefox 1.0.x - Fixed fullscreen playback issues

Playlists

• Fixed confusing title name when adding an item to a shared playlist.

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats.

• Core K-8

General

• Compatibility with Apple Xserve server platform

Video Playback

• Fix playback issues with some QuickTime videos with specialized encodings

Settings and Tools

• Nightly Update - Fix “access error” when switching nightly update preference from auto to manual

Content Packages

This release supports the following content packages. All packages listed are available in QuickTime and Windows Media formats.

• Core K-8