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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 April 2021\/20.21.4 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n This feature builds on the Accommodations - Quiz accommodations | New<\/a> feature that was released in the February 2021\/20.21.2 release.<\/p>\n The following improvements have been made in the Classlist, Quizzes, and User Progress tools:<\/p>\n Improvements in Classlist for Instructors:<\/p>\n Improvements in Classlist for learners:<\/p>\n Improvements in Quizzes for instructors:<\/p>\n Improvements in User Progress:<\/p>\n The New Assignment Evaluation Experience now includes a drop-down menu from the group name. This menu contains links to:<\/p>\n This feature makes anonymous marking fully supported in the New Assignment Evaluation Experience. When using Anonymous marking, the Anonymous User number appears in place of the username, just as it appeared in the legacy Assignments experience. In addition, the following features of anonymous marking remain the same: <\/p>\n Anonymous marking uses Publish All instead of the Publish button. If no feedback for anonymous users has yet been published, the Publish button is disabled and a message appears to direct users to the Publish All button. If any user feedback has been published, all Publish buttons become automatically enabled.<\/p>\n The new Brightspace Editor replaces the previous HTML Editor as the default HTML Editor in the new Assignment Creation Experience. <\/p>\n Review the Brightspace Editor - Replaces the HTML Editor | New release note<\/a> to learn more about the features of Brightspace Editor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The new Brightspace Editor replaces the previous HTML Editor as the default HTML Editor in the new Assignment Evaluation Experience. <\/p>\n Review the Brightspace Editor - Replaces the HTML Editor | New release note<\/a> to learn more about the features of Brightspace Editor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A new context menu appears in the side panel of the updated assignment evaluation screen. This menu links to the following:<\/p>\n In the New Assignment Evaluation Experience, when a learner has submitted only one file, the evaluator no longer has to click into the evaluation and then into the file. The file opens directly for the evaluator, saving a click during the evaluation process. Late submission information continues to display above the file, as it currently does.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This feature is in line with the improvements made to the Quizzes tool as listed in the Accommodations \u2013 Improvements in Classlist, Quizzes, and User Progress<\/em> feature. However, it is not dependent on granting any accommodations permissions, and is visible to any user with permission to Add Special Access.<\/p>\n Instructors can now grant learners special access in terms of quiz time multipliers (for example, 1.5x quiz time) or +minutes (for example, an additional 30 minutes). For example, if an instructor has a 30-minute quiz and using the Special Access page, grants three learners 1.5x the quiz time, their updated quiz time of 45 minutes displays. Instructors no longer have to manually calculate the updated quiz time.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> After extending the learners quiz time by way of quiz time multipliers or +minutes on the Special Access page, if an instructor updates the duration of the quiz, the learner\u2019s quiz time on the Special Access page does not dynamically update at this time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n For a more secure and consistent editing experience in Brightspace, creating any of the following question types now automatically filters out JavaScript and non-standard HTML: Likert, Ordering, Matching, Fill in the Blanks, Short Answer, Multi-Short Answer, Arithmetic, and Significant Figures. For existing questions containing JavaScript and non-standard HTML, the questions continue to display as intended until an instructor edits and saves the questions, which removes the JavaScript and non-standard HTML. Previously, instructors could add JavaScript or non-standard HTML to question types in order to create dynamic content for quizzes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the April Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform April 2021\/20.21.4 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) Accommodations - Improvements in Classlist, Quizzes, and User Progress<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>2) Assignments - Action menu for group assignments in New Assignment Evaluation Experience<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>3) Assignments - Anonymous marking in the New Assignment Evaluation Experience<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>4) Assignments - Brightspace Editor in the new Assignment Creation Experience<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>5) Assignments - Brightspace Editor in the New Assignment Evaluation Experience<\/h4>\n
<\/a>6) Assignments - Context menu on the Evaluation screen in the New Assignment Evaluation Experience<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>7) Assignments - Single file submissions open directly in the New Assignment Evaluation Experience<\/h4>\n
8) Quizzes \u2013 Improvements to Special Access functionality<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>9) Quizzes \u2013 Secure and consistent editing experience<\/h4>\n
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