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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 September 2020\/20.20.9 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 August 2020\/20.20.8 release<\/a>, you can now do the following:<\/p>\n To keep up to date on course activity, learners can now read Activity Feed<\/a> posts and comments in Brightspace Pulse for iOS. Learners can also receive Activity Feed notifications. For example, in courses with Activity Feed enabled, instructors can use Activity Feed to post reminders about upcoming assignments and links to course materials. Learners then receive notifications about those posts in Brightspace Pulse, allowing them to view post details from the course homepages. Future releases will allow learners to post or reply to posts, if they have the appropriate permissions.<\/p>\n From the Courses tab, tapping a course displays the course homepage. The latest post and any associated comments display in the Activity Feed.<\/p>\n From the Notifications tab, tapping an Activity Feed notification displays the associated post or comment in the Activity Feed.<\/p>\n Learner activity data is now captured more accurately through the addition of a new system usage metric. Previously, Pulse usage was not tracked, and learners who accessed their courses through the app were misrepresented as having low engagement and could not access conditionally released content.<\/p>\n These changes affect the following areas of Brightspace:<\/p>\n A visual word count is now visible in the HTML Editor for discussion posts. All words in a discussion post are counted and include filler words such as \u201cthe,\u201d \u201cif,\u201d and \u201cto.\u201d <\/p>\n The word count is dynamically displayed to learners while they type in the HTML Editor and it also appears next to posts they have created in the Discussions Reading View and Grid View. Learners can view the word count for their posts only.<\/p>\n For instructors, the word count appears on the Assessment<\/strong> page during the discussions assessment process and it also appears inline with the post details in the Discussions Reading View and Grid View. Instructors can view the word count for all user posts.<\/p>\n Building on the attach files in written response questions functionality released in the August 2020\/20.20.8 release<\/a>, when creating arithmetic and significant figures questions, instructors can now allow learners to include external files with their responses and record audio or video responses when answering these question types. This feature is only available in the new Quiz Builder Experience.<\/p>\n When grading a quiz, similar to the behavior in the Discussions tool, instructors can view a list of attachments, download them, or open them in another tab. When reviewing their submission in Submission View, the learner can see their uploaded attachment if allowed to see their responses.<\/p>\n To support attachment responses, Quizzes data sets and quiz reporting enhancements will be released in the November 2020\/20.20.11 release. <\/p>\n This feature enables instructors to search for sections in Question Library by section title, as well as the ability to select and import the section in its entirety from the search results list. Previously, you could only search for questions by question text and you could not select sections in the search results.<\/p>\n To simplify the movement and reordering of questions in Quiz Builder, a new Move To<\/strong> option is visible when a question is selected. The Move To<\/strong> option allows questions to be moved to the Top of the Quiz<\/strong>, Bottom of the Quiz<\/strong>, or to a specific section within the quiz.<\/p>\n Previously, to move multiple questions into a section, instructors had to individually drag the questions into the desired section. Now, instructors can select multiple questions and move them all at once using the Move To<\/strong> menu. The drag and drop reordering of questions has not been affected by this feature and remains available.<\/p>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the September Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform September 2020\/20.20.9 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) Brightspace Pulse for iOS \u2013 View Activity Feed posts and comments<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>3) Class\/User Progress \u2013 Include Pulse activity in usage data<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>4) Discussions - Visual word count for discussion posts<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>5) Question Library \u2013 Attach files in arithmetic and significant figures questions<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>6) Question Library \u2013 Search for and select questions in Question Library sections<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>7) Quiz Builder - Enhanced question reordering<\/h4>\n
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