LMS Weekly Update: December new features for Brightspace and common solutions

Posted on Wednesday, December 19th, 2018

As the Brightspace Support team encounters common technical questions, they will now be posted within a new Common Solutions section of the Brightspace Support website.

Refer to this page as well as the FAQ section regularly to see if your questions or concerns are already listed here.

https://www.algonquincollege.com/brightspace/common-solutions/

https://www.algonquincollege.com/brightspace/faqs/

 

Summary of new features — December release

As part of D2L’s continuous improvement model, Brightspace implements incremental enhancements each month to the Learning Management System.

By Dec. 21, you will notice the following changes within Brightspace:

Assignments

Changeable assignment and submission type

  • Modify existing assignments by changing assignment or submission types, without having to create a new one, if it has no learner submissions.

 

Learner name links directly to Evaluate Submission page

  • Access Evaluate Submissions by clicking on learner’s name on Submissions
  • Previously, clicking on learner’s name launched sending student an email; sending email to students still possible by clicking on box beside student name and clicking Email

 

Improved Grading Experience

  • You can click on submission’s file name to download
  • Markup Document button is now called Launch Turnitin
  • Publish and Save Draft buttons are more conveniently located; there is also an extra Next Student link

Discussions
Improved rubrics grading experience

  • Rubrics assessments and feedback automatically save as draft while updates are in progress
  • In draft state, rubrics will not be visible to learners until instructor clicks on Save & Publish
  • Feedback can be bulk published to all or select users
  • Published feedback for changes to the Total Score can be removed through a new feature called Retract Feedback. (Overall Score and Overall Feedback can be edited without retraction)
  • New grading pop-up window for easier grading contains all rubrics for the discussion, a list of all posts made by the student, and a place to enter Overall Feedback

Rubrics

Improved Creation Experience

  • Auto-save during creation and editing
  • Change rubric type and scoring method during creation
  • Re-order criterion via drag and drop (or keyboard)
  • Improved logic for points-based rubrics where new levels automatically follow existing point scoring sequences
  • Individual criterion cells in custom point rubrics dynamically scale when editing its out of value
  • Overall Score is visibly separated from rubric and displayed in its own section

Quizzes

Enhanced Written Response question type

  • Instructors can add initial text to Written Response questions

 


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