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Brightspace Tip #303: February Continuous Delivery Updates

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D2L (the company that owns Brightspace) uses Continuous Delivery to update our Brightspace system. The Continuous Delivery model gives us regular monthly updates allowing for incremental and easily integrated changes with no downtime required for our Brightspace system.

Our Continuous Delivery update occurs on the 4th Thursday of each month. D2L provides release notes to help users stay up-to-date with the changes.

Here are a few updates in the February 2022/20.22.2 release that were added to our system this month:

1) Content – Print and Download in fullscreen

The Print and Download buttons are now available when viewing a topic in fullscreen, using the classic Content experience.

Previously, the options to print and download a topic only appeared on the main Content view, and when users opened a topic in fullscreen by clicking View content in new window, those options were not available.

Top of a fullscreen topic page, with the new Print and Download buttons in the upper right.
Top of a fullscreen topic page, with the new Print and Download buttons in the upper right.

2) Intelligent Agents – Agent List page changes

This feature adds the following new functionality to the Agent List page, where users manage the Intelligent Agents they have created:

  • The ability to create, assign, and manage categories; and
  • A new Bulk Edit for some agent details: title, category, and active/inactive state.

This feature also updates the icons denoting the active/inactive state of each agent.

The new Intelligent Agent List page, with the bulk edit and category management functionality.
The new Intelligent Agent List page, with the bulk edit and category management functionality.

This feature implements PIE Item D7196.

This feature addresses the following accessibility criteria:

  • WCAG 2.1 Success criterion 1.3.6 Identify Purpose

If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the February Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform February 2022/20.22.2 Release Notes.

Additionally, refer to the Brightspace Release Notes for Continuous Delivery Releases, for details about current, past, and to preview upcoming continuous delivery updates.

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