{"id":19728,"date":"2023-09-28T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T17:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=19728"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T17:47:31","slug":"brightspace-tip-407-september-continuous-delivery-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-407-september-continuous-delivery-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #407: September Continuous Delivery Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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D2L (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 2023\/20.23.9 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n

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1) Quizzes \u2013 Quiz Timing Improvements featuring Synchronous Quiz<\/h3>\n

This release updates the Quiz Creation experience for instructors and learners by adding a new synchronous quiz option.<\/p>\n

With this release, instructors can facilitate quizzes where learners take their attempts simultaneously, which is convenient for in-class sessions. The new addition of synchronous quizzes enables instructors to set up a quiz where the quiz timer starts on the start date for all learners rather than when the learner launches the quiz (asynchronous). The quiz timer then ends for all learners at the same time.<\/p>\n

To set up a synchronous quiz:<\/p>\n

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  1. From a quiz page, expand the Availability Dates & Conditions<\/strong> accordion.<\/li>\n
  2. Set start date and time.<\/li>\n
  3. Expand the Timing & Display<\/strong> accordion.<\/li>\n
  4. Click Timer Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  5. In the Timing<\/strong> dialog, under Quiz Start, select Synchronous: Timer starts on the start date<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  6. Click OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Set up a synchronous quiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Note:<\/strong> If no start date and time is set for the synchronous quiz, the No Start date set<\/strong> alert appears under the selected option, and you cannot save the quiz. The Due Date<\/strong> option is disabled for synchronous quizzes because students do not choose the time frame of when to take the synchronous quiz, therefore there is no need to set a due date.<\/p>\n

    To ensure that learners are aware of upcoming synchronous quizzes, instructors should create instructional or manual solutions. For example:<\/p>\n