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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nD2L (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 January 2020\/20.20.1 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n As of January 1st, Brightspace has ended support for Internet Explorer. All versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be able to access Brightspace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To provide consistent language support with the Brightspace platform, Brightspace Pulse is now available in the following additional languages:<\/p>\n Previously, Brightspace Pulse was only available in: English (U.S.), Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil), and Dutch.\n<\/p><\/div>\n To improve ease of use, the total number of users for their selection (whole class, section, group) now appears in a field at the bottom of the Classlist<\/strong> page for at-a-glance viewing to help instructors keep track of the total number of learners, which may extend beyond the users visible on the page. On the Print Classlist<\/strong> and Email Classlist<\/strong> pages, the clickable Print<\/strong> and Email<\/strong> buttons now float consistently on screen, to ensure easy access to these actions without excessive scrolling.\n<\/div>\n Copy Course Components now contains a validation logic step to the course copy process, which can inform users if they performed a copy from the source previously, avoiding unnecessary duplication of copied course components.\n<\/p><\/div>\n When assessing discussions, instructors have new multi-select options to Publish Feedback<\/strong> and Retract Feedback<\/strong>. In the Status<\/strong> column, the Draft<\/strong> \/ Published<\/strong> checkbox has been replaced by information on the date when feedback was saved as draft or published. These changes are visible on both the Users<\/strong> and Assessments<\/strong> tabs. The Save<\/strong>, Save and Close<\/strong>, and Cancel<\/strong> buttons have also been removed as their functionality has been replaced by the Publish Feedback<\/strong> and Retract Feedback<\/strong> options.<\/p>\n This feature introduces the ability to sort exported gradebooks based on the following options: OrgDefinedID<\/strong>, Username<\/strong>, Last Name<\/strong>, and First name<\/strong>. The sort options available are based on the User Information Privacy permissions for the role.\n<\/div>\n This feature includes three improvements to Groups:<\/p>\n To improve the ability to manage items on their Quick Eval list, instructors can now select items that appear in their Quick Eval list and remove them temporarily or permanently. Instructors can view their dismissed items in the Dismissed Activities List<\/strong> and restore them to the Quick Eval list at any time.\n<\/div>\n Quiz scores and feedback entered in Grades now synchronize automatically with Quizzes. To further streamline the workflow, the Overall Feedback<\/strong> fields in Grades and Quizzes are now consolidated, and the Grade Item Public Comments<\/strong> field has been removed from Grades. All comments entered in the Overall Feedback<\/strong> field in Grades synchronizes automatically with the Overall Feedback<\/strong> field in Quizzes. This update creates a more direct workflow and aligns Quizzes with the consistent feedback experience implemented in Assignments and Discussions. Refer to the blog post Improving Consistency Of Synchronization Between Grades And Quizzes Tool (20.20.01 \u2013 January Release)<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> Synchronization only occurs for new grade entries. Existing grade data for quizzes will not be migrated due to the high impact to all past data and reports.\n<\/div>\n When creating new rubrics, users can now share the rubric created at the organization level with other org units (courses). The rubric creation process provides the capability to either share or, conversely, block rubrics from being shared with other org units (courses). Previously, this was only possible by using the legacy rubric editor.<\/p>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the January Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform January 2020\/20.20.1 Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Additionally, refer to the Brightspace Release Notes for Continuous Delivery Releases<\/a>, for details about current, past, and to preview upcoming continuous delivery updates.<\/p>\n View current, past, and preview upcoming Continuous Delivery release notes<\/a> Note: Are you doing something innovative in Brightspace or perhaps you've discovered a handy tip? Share how you are using Brightspace in your teaching and learning in The Orange Room<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Image credit: image<\/a> by geralt from Pixabay<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1) Support for Internet Explorer | Removed<\/h4>\n
2) Brightspace Pulse \u2013 Additional languages supported<\/h4>\n
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3) Classlist \u2013 Total number of users field and floating buttons<\/h4>\n
4) Copy Course Components - Add validation logic to the copy process<\/h4>\n
5) Discussions \u2013 Assessment consistency changes<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>6) Grades \u2013 Export sorting options<\/h4>\n
7) Groups \u2013 Self-enrollment group capacity, start dates and descriptions<\/h4>\n
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8) Quick Eval \u2013 Dismiss activities from list<\/h4>\n
9) Quizzes \u2013 Synchronization with Grades<\/h4>\n
10) Rubrics \u2013 Share rubrics with other org units during creation<\/h4>\n
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\nTry these Brightspace How-To documents<\/a>.
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\nor schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, email<\/a>, or
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