{"id":14116,"date":"2019-07-25T02:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=14116"},"modified":"2019-10-23T10:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:45:03","slug":"brightspace-tip-113-july-continuous-delivery-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-113-july-continuous-delivery-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #113: July Continuous Delivery Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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. <\/p>\n

Our Continuous Delivery update occurs on the 4th Thursday of each month. D2L provides release notes<\/a> to help users stay up-to-date with the changes.<\/p>\n

Here are a few updates in the July 2019\/20.19.7 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n

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1) Activity Feed \u2013 Pin multiple posts<\/h4>\n

Instructors can pin more than one post to the top of their Activity Feed<\/a>. Previously, only one post could be pinned at a time. This allow instructors to highlight more than one important post at a time to ensure that students do not miss critical posts.<\/p>\n

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Multiple posts pinned to the top of the feed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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2) Assignments \u2013 Edit category improvements<\/h4>\n

An Edit Categories option is now available in Assignments to allow users to edit all categories from one page. You can add, modify, delete, and sort categories, as well as manage unused categories. If a category with assignments is deleted, those assignments are added to the No Category area.<\/p>\n

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Select Edit Categories from the Assignments page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Manage all categories from one page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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3) Assignments - Eraser added to Annotations<\/h4>\n

An eraser has been added to the Annotations tool bar to allow evaluators to remove ink annotations made when evaluating assignment submissions.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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4) Class Progress - Default indicator change<\/h4>\n

Class Progress has two Content tool indicator graphs: Content Visited and Content Completed. In this release, the default is switching from Content Visited to Content Completed to better reflect learner progress through the completion of Content activities.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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5) Navbar - Display user initials when there is no user profile image<\/h4>\n

If a user does not upload a user profile image in Brightspace, the navbar now displays the user's initials in the user-profile badge. Previously, if a profile image was not uploaded, a blank user image displayed.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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6) Surveys - Improvements to the learner experience<\/h4>\n

To improve the learner experience when taking a survey, the following updates are now available:<\/p>\n