{"id":20277,"date":"2024-02-22T13:53:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=20277"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:53:49","slug":"brightspace-tip-436-february-continuous-delivery-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-436-february-continuous-delivery-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #436: February Continuous Delivery Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"center\"><a title=\"update\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/update-upgrade-renew-improve-1672363\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/update-1672363_640.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" alt=\"the word update written on a chalk board\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Our Continuous Delivery update occurs on the 4th Thursday of each month. D2L provides <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/categories\/release-notes-en\">release notes<\/a> to help users stay up-to-date with the changes.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the updates in the February 2024\/20.24.2 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>1) Question Library \u2013 Removal of the question mark icon<\/h3>\n<p>The question mark (?) icon that appears next to questions in Question Library is removed to prevent visual clutter. However, the folder icon that appears in Question Library next to each section remains.<\/p>\n<p>This change only impacts Question Library and the question mark icon remains in other areas of Brightspace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>2) Brightspace \u2013 Branded footer on main pages<\/h3>\n<p>With this release, a <strong>Powered by D2L Brightspace<\/strong> footer now appears on select pages in Brightspace. The footer appears on the following pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>D2L\u2019s login pages<\/li>\n<li>Org and org unit homepages<\/li>\n<li>Portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Brightspace for Parents and Guardian<\/li>\n<li>Discover<\/li>\n<li>Manager Dashboard<\/li>\n<li>Insights Portal Dashboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This replaces the footer that previously appeared at the bottom of the login page and removes the corresponding <strong>Do not display D2L branded footer<\/strong> setting from the Login Page Management tool.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/kb\/articles\/22992-powered-by-d2l\">Powered by D2L blog post<\/a> in Brightspace Community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the February Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/kb\/articles\/23505-february-2024-20-24-2\">Brightspace Platform February 2024\/20.24.2 Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/categories\/release-notes-en\">Brightspace Release Notes for Continuous Delivery Releases<\/a>, for details about current, past, and to preview upcoming continuous delivery updates.<\/p>\n<h2>Want more information?<\/h2>\n<p>View current, past, and preview upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/categories\/release-notes-en\">Continuous Delivery release notes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/Brightspace:_Instructors_Quick_Start_Tutorial\">Instructors Quick Start Tutorial<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/index.php\/Brightspace_Known_Issues\">Brightspace Known Issues<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-2-sandbox-courses\/\">Request a sandbox course<\/a><br \/>\nSign-up for <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/events\/\">Brightspace training sessions<\/a><br \/>\nYou can find <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/categories\/higher-ed-postsecondary\">Brightspace help<\/a> at D2L's website.<br \/>\nJoin the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/categories\/higher-ed-postsecondary\">Brightspace Community<\/a>.<br \/>\nTry these <a title=\"Brightspace How-to\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-documents\/\">Brightspace How-To documents<\/a>.<br \/>\nVisit our <a title=\"Brightspace FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-faq\/\">Brightspace FAQs<\/a> for additional Brightspace information<br \/>\nor <a title=\"Schedule 1-on-1\" href=\"http:\/\/jflorent.youcanbook.me\/\">schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, <a title=\"Send email\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/mail\/?to=31\">email<\/a>, or<br \/>\ncall Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418.<\/p>\n<p><strong>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-189-educator-share-showcase\/\">The Orange Room<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><small>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/update-upgrade-renew-improve-1672363\/\">image<\/a> by geralt from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/license\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Our Continuous Delivery update occurs on the 4th Thursday of each month. D2L provides release notes to <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-436-february-continuous-delivery-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Brightspace Tip #436: February Continuous Delivery Updates\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403],"tags":[402,419],"class_list":{"0":"post-20277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"tag-brightspace","8":"tag-updates","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-5h3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11759,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-25-continuous-delivery-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":20277,"position":0},"title":"Brightspace Tip #25: Continuous Delivery Updates","author":"Janice Florent","date":"March 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"D2L (the company that owns Brightspace) uses Continuous Delivery to update our Brightspace system. 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