LMS Weekly Update: Special Access to a Quiz, March Release, and LMS Support

Posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2020

Most Common Quiz Question this Week – Special Access

Use the special access options when you need to provide students with alternate time restrictions, alternate attempt limits, or alternate due dates.

GOOD to KNOW! Extending the availability of a quiz, by changing the quiz start/end dates, does not give the student more time. If you have students who need a longer time to complete a quiz, when using one of the Special Access options, make sure you change the amount of time your students are allowed (the Recommended Time Limit or the Enforced Time Limit).

Brightspace March Release

The March system release brings exciting improvements to the LMS.

Announcements – Display author information – When creating or editing an announcement, now you have the option to have your name displayed as the author of the announcement, along with the timestamp. By default, the new Display author information check box is enabled, and you can choose if would like to include your name or not. Users reading the announcement will view the original author, the original date and time of the announcement, the author who edited the announcement and the date and time of the edit.

Groups – Set exact time learners can self-enroll – When using the Groups Tool with the purpose of setting up self enrollment Group Categories, now you can also add the time when enrollment opens/ends, along with the date. Previously, you only had the option to set the date when enrollment opened or expired.

Quick Eval – Support for anonymous marking – Assignments created with the Hide student names during assessment option selected now display in Quick Eval’s Submission view with learner names and profile images hidden.

Rubrics – Confirmation message for partially un-evaluated rubrics – To prevent publishing partially un-evaluated rubrics, the publishing workflow now includes a confirmation message that warns you when the rubric is not fully evaluated. You will have the option to continue publishing, or cancel. Warning messages appear when publishing a rubric for an individual student and when bulk publishing rubrics.

Rubrics – Overall Score levels calculated after rubric criteria completion – The Overall Score level is now only calculated after all the criteria in the rubric have been assessed. This change optimizes rubric performance by eliminating the calculation of incomplete Overall Score levels until the rubric evaluation is completed, and improves the grading experience.

Brightspace Support

Please use the appointment booking form for a desktop sharing session or to be called at a specific time. After you book an appointment, you will receive an email with the appointment details, and also with a link to the Teams meeting where the session will take place. Because of the high volume of bookings, we ask that you limit yourself to booking one session per day and respect the session duration (15 minutes).

 



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