LMS Weekly Update: Brightspace July Release and Turnitin Maintenance

Posted on Friday, July 12th, 2019

This month’s updates to Brightspace will take place on July 19th and will bring a few improvements to the Assignment and Survey Tools.

Brightspace Assignment Tool

  • A new “Edit Categories” button will be available on the “Assignments” page, accessible from the “Activities” menu on a course navigation bar. This new button will allow you to easily group assignments under categories. The assignments without a category will be displayed under the “No Category” area. Note that the assignments’ categories are different than the grades’ categories.
  • An “Eraser” tool will be available when using the assignment annotations.
  • Click here to learn more about the Assignment Tool in Brightspace.

Brightspace Survey Tool

  • A few renamed buttons on the Surveys page will improve the learners’ experience (“Save Responses”changes to “Submit Survey”, “Save” button changes to “Save Responses” and a new “Back to Questions” button will be displayed when attempting to submit a survey with unanswered questions).
  • While taking an anonymous survey, an alert will appear at the top of the survey, indicating that the survey is anonymous and the learners names will not be tied to their submissions.
  • Click here to learn more about the Survey Tool in Brightspace.

Turnitin Maintenance this Saturday

Turnitin will take an 8 hour maintenance window on Saturday July 13, 2019 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Did you Know?

If you need access to the previous “LMS Weekly Update” notices you can find them on the Brightspace website.

 


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