LMS Weekly Update: Brightspace enhancements for November

Posted on Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

Every month, you will discover new features and fixes in Brightspace as your Learning Management System team and Brightspace creator D2L work to streamline your LMS experience.

Help us in our continuing efforts to tailor Brightspace to the needs of Algonquin College by filling out the recent faculty survey here. The survey closes Sunday at midnight.

Here are the changes to Brightspace for November.

QUIZZES: Quiz-taking will go full screen

Additional screen space for the quiz due to removal of unnecessary navigation.

ASSIGNMENTS: Anonymous marking

This was enabled in October. This month, enhancements include:

  1. a) Icon appears when features used on assignments
  2. b) Student names revealed after feedback is published
  3. c) Improved confirmation message with prompt to grade ungraded items or still publish all

ASSIGNMENTS: Evaluate submissions page displays in full screen

Additional screen space due to removal of navigational bar links.

ASSIGNMENTS: New submission types can be selected from Existing Activities

In October, On Paper and Observed assignment submission types were added.

VIDEO NOTES: Close captioning

Users can add files containing closed captions to their video notes. The captioned text displays when viewing the video note.

MY COURSES WIDGET: Visual update

Includes status badge to show inactive and closed states for courses. Also, hovering over notification items gives tooltip information.

QUIZ COPY — Sorting Error

  • Previously, copied quizzes were sorted in the destination course by their creation time. This caused quizzes that had been reorganized to not appear in the destination course correctly.
  • Now, copied quizzes in the destination course are organized as they were in the source course, as expected.

COURSE IMPORT — Start and End Date Errors

  • Previously, upon course import, start and end dates for grade items may not have imported properly.
  • Now, upon course import, the start and end dates for grade items import, as expected.

HOLISTIC RUBRICS — Rubric Visibility Setting Now Available

  • Previously, when creating a holistic rubric, the Rubric Visibility setting was unavailable.
  • Now, setting is available, as expected.

FYI: YouSeeU is rebranded as Bongo as of Oct. 23

 

 

 


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