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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 2021\/20.21.3 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n Previously, when you copied an assignment, the copied assignment was set to active and you had to open the newly copied assignment to edit it.<\/p>\n Now when you copy an assignment<\/a>, the copied assignment is set to inactive<\/strong> and you are directed to the Edit Assignment<\/strong> screen to continue editing it as part of the copy assignments workflow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Starting with the March 2021\/20.21.3 release, the Consistent Evaluation experience in Assignments is now referred to as New Assignment Evaluation Experience. <\/p>\n This feature updates the Assignments - Consistent evaluation experience | New<\/a> feature released in December 2020\/20.20.12. When hovering over a learner\u2019s name or profile picture in the new evaluation experience, the learner\u2019s user profile card appears. The card displays the user\u2019s online\/offline status as well as links to: <\/p>\n Clicking any of the links in the profile card opens a new window.<\/p>\n NOTE<\/strong>: More information about the New Assignment Evaluation Experience can be found in this What is Coming in Evaluation<\/a> article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Starting with the March 2021\/20.21.3 release, the Consistent Evaluation experience in Assignments is now referred to as New Assignment Evaluation Experience. <\/p>\n This feature updates the Assignments - Consistent evaluation experience | New<\/a> feature released in December 2020\/20.20.12. The New Assignment Evaluation experience now supports Turnitin Similarity and Turnitin Grademark in Assignments. The existing Turnitin workflows and functionality appear on the User Submissions page in the new experience. The Turnitin workflows are also supported in the mobile experience.<\/p>\n NOTE<\/strong>: More information about the New Assignment Evaluation Experience can be found in this What is Coming in Evaluation<\/a> article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To prevent plagiarism and protect an organization's intellectual and branding copyrights, all earned certificates downloaded from the Awards tool are now password-protected from editing. Each certificate is generated with a random password that is not displayed to users, preventing anyone from editing the certificate in Adobe\u00ae Acrobat\u00ae or Adobe Reader\u00ae. Previously, if an administrator or instructor uploaded a password protected certificate, any learner that downloaded the earned certificate could edit it in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.<\/p>\n In Brightspace Pulse, learners now receive push notifications that remind them about upcoming quizzes and assignments. By default, notifications display two days before each activity's due date or end date.<\/p>\n Learners receive a notification in Brightspace Learning Environment and Brightspace Pulse under the following conditions:<\/p>\n Learners do not<\/strong> receive a notification in Brightspace Learning Environment and Brightspace Pulse under the following conditions:<\/p>\n To improve the ease of use for clients using the date and time picker in Brightspace Learning Environment, there have been updates to the web components related to date and time selection. These changes are intended to provide better usability for keyboard users and better integration with assistive technology. Changes include:<\/p>\n Note: There may be some instances of the older date picker remaining in Brightspace Learning Environment. These instances will be changed to the new date picker in a future release. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Previously, to copy and continue editing a quiz, you had to navigate to the Manage Quizzes<\/strong> page, click the More Actions<\/strong> > Copy<\/strong> functionality, and then select the quiz you wanted to copy, rename it, and click Edit quiz after copy completes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This feature updates the copy quiz workflow to better align with Assignments. Now, the copy functionality is available on the individual quiz drop-down menu. When you copy a quiz, the copied quiz is set to inactive<\/strong> (as per the original copy quiz workflow) and you are directed to the Edit Quiz<\/strong> screen to continue editing it. Now, the copy quiz workflow also copies over Special Access settings and aligned Learning Objectives.<\/p>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the March Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform March 2021\/20.21.3 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) Assignments - Copying an assignment<\/h4>\n
2) Assignments \u2013 Learner profile card in New Assignment Evaluation Experience<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>3) Assignments \u2013 Turnitin support in New Assignment Evaluation Experience<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>4) Awards \u2013 Password-protected certificates<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>5) Brightspace Pulse \u2013 Notifications for upcoming quizzes and assignments<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>6) Calendar \u2013 Improvements to date and time selection web components<\/h4>\n
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7) Quizzes - Copy quiz workflow<\/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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