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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 2024\/20.24.1 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n In the Assignments and Discussions evaluation experience, the tooltip for reporting evaluation errors is updated to include clearer language. The tooltip appears when a user enters over 300,000 characters into the Overall Feedback<\/strong> field or enters an invalid grade into the Grade<\/strong> field.<\/p>\n The new tooltip reads \"There is one or more errors in the information entered\". Previously, the tooltip read \"There are invalid grades on this page\", excluding various errors that may have caused the tooltip to appear. The new language makes the types of errors clearer as it encourages users to review the entire evaluation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Learners can now export their earned awards in a standards-compliant format using the new Export Digital Credential<\/strong> option. This feature allows the download of certificates or badges as an industry-standard Open Badges 2.0 compliant Badge for their own record keeping or sharing.<\/p>\n Badge Baking is the process of embedding digital credentials within the badge image. This approach ensures that the user has legitimately earned the badge by including a verification link used to check the integrity of the embedded information. To learn more about Badge Baking, refer to Open Badges Baking Specification<\/a>.<\/p>\n For Baked Badge, the supported format in Brightspace is PNG only, and the recommended pixel size of the badge should be no smaller than 200 px x 200 px.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> Not all applications support Open Badges 2.0 Badge Baking. Some third-party applications strip meta-data from images, causing baked badges to be non-compliant with Open Badges 2.0.<\/p>\n To download an award, learners must navigate to the My Awards<\/strong> page, select the desired award, click Share<\/strong>, and then click the new Export Digital Credential<\/strong> button. In the opened window, learners must provide their email address to link to their award and ensure verification, and then click Export<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Exporting a digital credential downloads badges or certificates as a .png file with the award data embedded in the image.<\/p>\n Previously, awards could only be exported as a public URL or through the LinkedIn and Badgr integrations.<\/p>\n This feature implements PIE item D6128 (Awards: Incorporate Open Badge Standards).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This release updates the Insert Stuff > My Computer file picker with the version currently used in the Insert Image workflow, which allows drag-and-drop file uploads from the user's computer.<\/p>\n Previously, the Insert Stuff > My Computer file picker used an older file picker that did not support drag-and-drop of files.<\/p>\n This feature implements the following PIE\u202fitem:<\/p>\n With this update to Brightspace Virtual Assistant, clients who are subscribed to End User Support (EUS) Services can now enter their search string or question in the new text field at the bottom of the tool. Previously, users would need to select the I have a different question option to have access to a freeform field where they could then type in a query to receive Brightspace Community resources.<\/p>\n When instructors grade quiz attempts, any ungraded written response questions remain as pending evaluation until the instructor manually grades them. Previously, when instructors clicked Publish<\/strong> or Update<\/strong> for a quiz attempt, the written response question's pending evaluation status would be removed.<\/p>\n If a written response question is not graded, the status shows a pending evaluation message for both the learner and instructor view. In the learner view, learners always see the message \"This question has not been graded\" until the instructor grades the question. The instructor view displays the message \"not auto-graded; a default value of 0 was assigned\" until they grade the question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the January Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform January 2024\/20.24.1 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) Assignments & Discussions \u2013 Improved tooltip for unsaved changes to evaluations<\/h3>\n
2) Awards \u2013 Export achievements as digital credentials<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>3) Brightspace Editor \u2013 Insert Stuff uses new file picker when uploading from users' computer<\/h3>\n
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4) Brightspace Virtual Assistant \u2013 Enhanced user interface and experience<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>5) Quizzes \u2013 Written response questions remain as pending evaluation until being manually graded<\/h3>\n
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