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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 August 2020\/20.20.8 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n Building on the functionality added to the new create and edit assignment experience in the June 2020\/20.20.6 release<\/a>, you can now do the following:<\/p>\n This feature adds the ability to copy existing assignments. Instructors with the existing permission Add\/Edit Assignment Submission Folders<\/strong> can select the Copy Assignment<\/strong> option in the drop-down menu for an existing assignment to quickly create new assignments. This feature copies all settings of an existing assignment except the associated grade item and Turnitin settings.<\/p>\n Instructors can now perform copy actions for checklists. You can copy a whole checklist, a checklist category (including all items within it), or individual items in a checklist.<\/p>\n The Compose Email screen now includes a second Send<\/strong> button for enhanced usability.\n<\/div>\n Grades features a new workflow to quickly undo the release of final grades for a course. Instructors can easily select Unrelease All<\/strong> from the Final Grades drop-down menu.<\/p>\n When creating a written response question, instructors can now allow learners to upload files in their answers and include embedded images. Learners can also record audio or video responses when answering written response question types. Written response questions are available in surveys.<\/p>\n When grading a quiz, similar to the behavior in the Discussions tool, instructors can download and open these attachments in another tab.<\/p>\n When learners are reviewing their quiz submissions, if they are allowed to view their quiz responses, they can view their uploaded attachments.<\/p>\n The maximum file size for a single file or embedded image attached to a quiz response is set to 102400 KB (100MB). The maximum file size for all files attached or embedded in a single quiz question response is set to 102400 KB (100MB).<\/p>\n To improve the user experience for instructors who edit quizzes with previous attempts by learners, the following updates have been made:<\/p>\n Important notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n Effective August 15, 2020, the Assignment Grader mobile app is no longer available to new users. Existing users may continue to use the app if they have it installed, but no further updates or support will be made available by D2L and the app will be removed from app stores.<\/p>\n As an alternative mobile grading option, D2L recommends using the Quick Eval<\/a> tool in Brightspace.<\/p>\n Refer to Intent to End Of Life Notice For: Assignment Grader Mobile App<\/a> for additional information.\n<\/div>\n Effective August 30, 2020, the Brightspace ePortfolio mobile app is no longer available to new users. Existing users may continue to use the app if they have it installed, but no further updates or support will be made available by D2L and the app will be removed from the iOS App Store and the Google Play Apps store. <\/p>\n Refer to Intent to End of Life Notice for: ePortfolio Mobile<\/a> for additional information. Note that Brightspace ePortfolio is still available for use - only the mobile app version is unavailable.\n<\/div>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the August Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform August 2020\/20.20.8 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) Assignments \u2013 Additional functionality in the new assignment creation experience<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>2) Assignments - Copy assignment option<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>3) Checklists \u2013 Copy a checklist<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>4) Email - Interface improvements<\/h4>\n
5) Grades - Unrelease all final grades<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>6) Question Library \u2013 Attach files in written response questions<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>7) Quizzes - User experience updates for editing quizzes with attempts<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>8) Brightspace Assignment Grader \u2013 End-of-life<\/h4>\n
9) Brightspace ePortfolio mobile app \u2013 End-of-life<\/h4>\n
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