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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 January 2023\/20.23.1 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n This release updates the list of retro or legacy browsers (specific older versions of supported browsers). If you are using a browser below the latest updates<\/strong>, the \"Your browser is looking a little retro\" warning message appears. The browsers include:<\/p>\n Previously this message would only show for browsers under Chrome\/Edge 100<\/strong>, Safari 15<\/strong>, and Firefox 99<\/strong>. There are no changes to legacy browser requirements that remain at versions below Chrome\/Edge 74<\/strong>, Safari 13<\/strong>, and Firefox 67<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To improve consistency in Brightspace Editor, this release updates the Editor so that it renders all equations during editing or creation in the same MathJax format as when published. This helps with correct formatting and spacing of equations, which makes it easier to review work prior to publishing.<\/p>\n Previously there were layout and styling differences during creation and editing; the former used WIRIS format rendering and the latter MathJax.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> There are no changes to the Equation Editor<\/strong> used to create an equation to insert into the editor.<\/p>\n Building upon the Brightspace Pulse \u2013 Access links and images in module descriptions<\/strong> when you\u2019re on-the-go feature originally released in October 2022\/20.22.10<\/a>. This feature improves the experience of learners using Pulse to review course topics by making full HTML topic descriptions available.<\/p>\n Previously, learners could access Content in Pulse, but could not see information included in topic descriptions that were visible in the Brightspace web application.<\/p>\n This release alters the existing release conditions for Discussions by adding a new Replies Only<\/strong> option to the Posts authored in topic<\/strong> and No post authored in topic<\/strong> condition types drop-down menus. This helps instructors release material, or not release material, based solely on replies.<\/p>\n Previously the only options were New Threads Only<\/strong> and Threads<\/strong> and Replies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Rubric evaluation workflow provides an autosave feature to streamline the evaluation process; however, if an instructor exited the partial evaluation, the automatically saved parts of the assessment were committed to the rubric and visible to the learner. To provide a better experience in Consistent Evaluation (inline and pop-out views), the instructor has the option to Publish the current evaluation, or to Save as Draft. If the instructor chooses to Save as Draft, the working copy of an evaluation is saved to a temporary file until the instructor clicks Publish<\/strong>, and then commits the assessment to the Rubric. If an instructor clicks the new Cancel<\/strong> button, the working copy is deleted. If an instructor edits a previously published evaluation and then decides to cancel before updating, all the changes in the evaluation, including the rubric evaluation changes, are discarded.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> Portfolio and Grade book pop out windows and the Rubric Create and Edit windows currently only support the auto-save functionality.<\/p>\n The Rubrics Statistics<\/strong> icon is available when the rubric tile is collapsed and expanded. When the rubric tile is collapsed, the icon appears at the bottom of the rubric tile. When the rubric is expanded, the icon now appears inside the grading task. This change provides expanded horizontal space for evaluators to complete the grading tasks.<\/p>\n Previously, when the icon appeared outside the expanded rubric tile, the space available to grade tasks was limited by the space used by the icon.<\/p>\n This change provides parity between the legacy evaluation experience and the new Consistent Evaluation<\/strong> experience.<\/p>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the January Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform January 2023\/20.23.1 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) Brightspace \u2013 Supported Browsers<\/h3>\n
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2) Brightspace Editor \u2013 Equations render consistently for all users<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>3) Pulse - View topic descriptions<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>4) Release Conditions \u2013 Additional Replies Only release condition for Discussions<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>5) Rubrics \u2013 Discard incomplete evaluations<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>6) Rubrics \u2013 Statistics icon moved to allow more space to grade tasks<\/h3>\n
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