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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 March 2020\/20.20.3 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n To provide more information to users, Announcements now supports displaying author information (name and timestamp) on new and edited announcements.<\/p>\n If a user has the new permission, when the user creates or edits an announcement, a new Show Author Information<\/strong> check box displays in the New\/Edit Announcement<\/strong> page, allowing them to choose if they want author information to display.<\/p>\n Users reading the announcement may see some or all of the following author information:<\/p>\n When setting up groups that allow learners to self-enroll, instructors can now add an exact time when enrollment opens, and an exact time when self-enrollment expires. Previously, instructors could only set the date when enrollment opened or expired.<\/p>\n Assignments created with the Hide student names during assessment<\/strong> option selected now display in Quick Eval\u2019s Submission view with learner names and profile images hidden. Instructors using anonymous marking can access Quick Eval with confidence that it supports their anonymous marking needs.<\/p>\n To prevent publishing partially unevaluated rubrics, the publishing workflow in the new Rubrics grading experience now includes a confirmation message that warns users when the rubric is not fully evaluated. Instructors have the option to continue publishing, or cancel. Warning messages appear when publishing a rubric for an individual student and when bulk publishing rubrics. Users attempting to publish an incomplete rubric evaluation must now click Publish<\/strong> to complete the workflow.<\/p>\n In Rubrics, when using keyboard navigation to tab to a row of selectable cells, there is now a focus indicator to help orient users on the page.\n<\/p><\/div>\n In the new Rubrics grading experience, the Overall Score level is now only calculated after all the criteria in the rubric have been assessed. This change optimizes rubric performance by eliminating the calculation of incomplete Overall Score levels until the rubric evaluation is completed, and improves the grading experience for instructors and rubric evaluators.\n<\/p><\/div>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the March Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform March 2020\/20.20.3 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) Announcements \u2013 Display author information<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>2) Groups \u2013 Set exact time learners can self-enroll<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>3) Quick Eval \u2013 Support for anonymous marking<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>4) Rubrics \u2013 Confirmation message for partially unevaluated rubrics<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>5) Rubrics \u2013 Improved accessibility in Rubric grading<\/h4>\n
6) Rubrics \u2013 Overall Score levels calculated after rubric criteria completion<\/h4>\n
Want more information?<\/h3>\n
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\nJoin the Brightspace Community<\/a>.
\nTry these Brightspace How-To documents<\/a>.
\nVisit our Brightspace FAQs<\/a> for additional Brightspace information
\nor schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, email<\/a>, or
\ncall Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418.<\/p>\n