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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 2023\/20.23.11 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n This feature adds the ability to copy announcements to other courses when the new permission Announcements > Copy to Other Courses<\/strong> is enabled for the user role. Users must be enrolled in both the source and destination courses with a role that has the new permission enabled to copy announcements. The permission is disabled by default for all roles.<\/p>\n A single announcement can be copied to multiple course offerings. Users can copy announcements from the Announcements tool or the Announcements widget from the context menu of an announcement by selecting Copy to Other Courses<\/strong>. Once copied, the announcement is in a draft state and users must publish the copied announcement in the destination course to complete the copying process.<\/p>\n The following attributes are copied:<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> Release Conditions are not<\/strong> copied.<\/p>\n This feature implements the following PIE\u202fitem D10642 (Send Announcements to Multiple Courses at Once).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Publish All<\/strong> dialog for Assignments and Discussions is improved and standardized to show key information about learner evaluations. Dialog messaging is consistent for both Assignments and Discussions as it notes complete and incomplete learner evaluations and other key information, like how many learners have feedback and how many learners or groups are assigned to an activity. This change improves the user experience by including additional information about the status of learner evaluations and creating evaluation consistency across Brightspace.<\/p>\n Previously, the Publish All<\/strong> dialog did not display any information about learner evaluations or other key information, and the dialog messaging was not consistent across the Assignments and Discussions tools.<\/p>\n Instructors now have the option to set up a quiz to deduct a percentage of a question\u2019s point value for incorrect answers submitted. This feature applies specifically to question types that can be auto-graded, for example, multiple-choice and true or false questions. The only question type that can\u2019t be auto-graded is written response. <\/p>\n Instructors can also enter negative values when manually grading individual quiz questions or manually updating all quiz question attempts from the Quizzes tool.<\/p>\n To ensure that instructors can view accurate quiz statistics, Question Statistics<\/strong> are also updated to account for this new functionality. Therefore, if negative grading is enabled, Question Statistics<\/strong> may display the following differences in statistics:<\/p>\n To ensure that learners are fully aware that negative marking is enabled for a quiz, the Summary<\/strong> page of a quiz explicitly notifies the learner that for each question answered incorrectly, a percentage of that question's point value is deducted from the final attempt grade.<\/p>\n Also, learners are given the opportunity to explicitly clear previously-selected answers to auto-graded questions by clicking Clear Selection<\/strong>. This gives learners the opportunity to leave the question blank and receive a mark of zero (0), instead of forcing them to guess and enter an answer that could possibly incur a percent deduction.<\/p>\n Learners who are given the ability to view questions after submitting their quiz by their instructor can review questions that received negative score deductions for incorrect answers.<\/p>\n Previously, instructors could not set a quiz to deduct a percentage of a question's point value for incorrect answers submitted.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> The overall quiz score cannot be negative and caps at zero.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the November Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform November 2023\/20.23.11 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) Announcements \u2013 Copy announcements to other courses<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>2) Assignments and Discussions \u2013 Review key assessment information when publishing evaluations<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>3) Quizzes \u2013 Deduction option for incorrect answers<\/h3>\n
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