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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 November 2020\/20.20.11 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n This feature updates the date picker component for the new assignment creation experience. The new date picker has a more streamlined design and requires a slight workflow change: to clear a date\/time, the X alongside the time field has been replaced by a Clear option inside the calendar.<\/p>\n Instructors can find the date picker in Due Date<\/strong>, Start Date<\/strong>, and End Date<\/strong> fields on the Create and Edit Assignments<\/strong> page.<\/p>\n To provide instructors with additional insight about their courses, statistics in the classic Content experience now include more information.<\/p>\n To view course content statistics, as an instructor, navigate to Content<\/strong>, and then select Table of Contents<\/strong> > Related Tools<\/strong> > View Reports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n From the Reports page, the Content tab includes the following changes:<\/p>\n From the Content tab on the Reports<\/strong> page, clicking a value under the Available To<\/strong> or Users Visited<\/strong> columns for a module displays a new Module details page<\/em>, which includes the following information:<\/p>\n From the Reports<\/strong> page, the Users<\/strong> tab displays a new Content Topics Available<\/strong> column, which includes the number of content topics available to each user.<\/p>\n From the Users<\/strong> tab on the Reports<\/strong> page, clicking a user displays the following information on the User Details page<\/em>:<\/p>\n In addition, the Class Progress tool now displays an icon to indicate if a topic or module has release conditions associated with it for the specified user.<\/p>\n To improve usability of the Grades tool and reduce calculation errors, Manage Grades<\/strong> now includes total points for grade categories and Final Calculated Grade. Previously, there was no indicator of the total points while users were managing their grade book, and instructors were required to manually add up the points from all grade items to check if the total matched their syllabus.<\/p>\n For weighted grade books, the total weight is displayed in addition to the total points. For formula grade books, the manually-entered max points is displayed instead of the total points. Totals do not include bonus grade items and do support grade item dropping.\n<\/p><\/div>\n Instructors can now view a preview of their quiz from Quiz Builder. Clicking the new Preview<\/strong> button on the Add\/Edit Questions<\/strong> view of the quiz opens a quiz preview attempt in a new tab for a complete view of how the quiz appears to learners.<\/p>\n This feature introduces a new option for Quizzes Attempt settings that allows students to only retake their incorrectly answered questions from previous quiz attempts. Instructors can select this new option in the Assessment tab of a quiz. When the Retake Incorrect Questions Only<\/strong> check box is selected for subsequent quiz attempts, each learner only sees the questions they had previously answered incorrectly in the same order as the initial attempt (including quizzes with random sections and random questions). <\/p>\n When grading a Retake Incorrect Questions Only quiz attempt, the instructor can only provide a score for the questions answered on this attempt.<\/p>\n A learner's score for a Retake Incorrect Questions Only attempt remains at minimum, the score they had on the previous attempt. Correctly answered questions on the Retake Incorrect Questions Only attempt add to the learner's attempts score. The Quiz Overall Score is calculated using the existing Highest\/Lowest\/First\/Last\/Average aggregation functions. The \"Average\" aggregation function can be used to give the student partial marks for questions that were not answered correctly on the first attempt.<\/p>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the November Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform November 2020\/20.20.11 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 - Date picker change<\/h4>\n
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Old date picker component on the Create and Edit Assignments page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/new-date-picker.png?resize=443%2C498\")
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New date picker component on the Create and Edit Assignments page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n2) Content \u2013 Enhancements to course content statistics<\/h4>\n
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New content statistics that display on the Content tab of the Reports page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/available-column-on-module-details.png?resize=625%2C276\")
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The new Available column that displays on the Module details page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/content-topics-available-on-users-tab.png?resize=625%2C171\")
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The new Content Topics Available column that displays on the Users tab of the Reports page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/content-stats-on-user-details.png?resize=625%2C257\")
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New content statistics that display on the User Details page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n3) Grades - Display total points in Manage Grades<\/h4>\n
4) Quiz Builder - Quiz preview<\/h4>\n
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The Preview button appears in Quiz Builder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n5) Quizzes - Retake incorrect questions in subsequent attempts<\/h4>\n
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The Retake Incorrect Questions Only option can be selected when setting Attempts Allowed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/retake-incorrect-questions-learner-view.png?resize=623%2C425\")
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A learner view of a Retake Incorrect Questions Only quiz attempt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nWant more information?<\/h3>\n
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