LMS Weekly Update: Brightspace February Release

Posted on Friday, February 21st, 2020

Brightspace February Release

The February system release brings exciting improvements to the LMS.

Quick Eval – Course Level filtering

In addition to the Quick Eval tool accessible from the org navigation bar, tool that allows you to see a list of unevaluated submissions from across courses and tools in one single place, now you can access it from within a course. When you choose Quick Eval from the Progress menu on the course navigation bar, you will see a list of activities and submissions belonging ONLY to that course.

Quick Eval – Dismiss Activities until Next Submission

As a follow up to the Dismiss Activities feature added in January, now you can can choose to dismiss until the next submission is received for the activity. Previously, you could only select a specific date or forever when dismissing an activity. The dismissed items display in the Dismissed Activities List and can be restored at any time.

Assignments – Streamlined access to Inline Feedback

Your students can now immediately access inline feedback from Progress, Grades, and Assignments. From these tools, the View Inline Feedback link takes the learner directly to the annotations view (or Turnitin viewer, if that is the tool you used to provide feedback). The inline feedback also includes a link to the file for the assignment, so learners know which document contains the feedback. Previously, the View Inline Feedback link took the learners to the Assignment feedback summary page, where they had to click a second link to view the feedback.

Grades – Tab delimited import into Gradebook

When importing grades and other type of feedback into your gradebook, using the Import button from the Enter Grades tab, you can now import .tsv files (tab delimited). Previously, users could only import comma delimited files into Gradebook.

Classlist – New View

In addition to the change introduced by the January release – having the number of users displayed at the bottom of the Classlist page – now your course users are divided by role, displaying in multiple tabs (All, Learner, Instructor and Other). The All tab displays all users enrolled in your course, while the Other tab will show all the other users with roles different than instructor or learner.

Video Note – Automatic Closed Captioning

To improve accessibility, video notes now provide automatic closed captioning for newly created videos and the ability to manually add or update closed captioning for all previously recorded videos. After video processing, users can view closed captions using video player controls. In addition, users can now download a transcript and the closed caption file associated with a video independent of Video Notes. Please note that the Video Note Captions option is accessible from the admin tools (gear icon), in the top right corner, just beside your name.

Reminder – Brightspace Symposium

Don’t forget to sign up for the Thursday, February 27th, from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Respondus LockDown Browser Trial

You’ve been asking for a little while and we are almost ready to announce a trial. Make sure you read the next LMS Weekly Update for details!

 


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