{"id":20806,"date":"2024-09-30T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T16:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=20806"},"modified":"2024-09-30T15:15:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:15:28","slug":"brightspace-tip-473-september-continuous-delivery-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-473-september-continuous-delivery-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #473: 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 some of the updates in the September 2024\/20.24.9 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n

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1) Assignments \u2013 Update to assignment annotations PSPDFKit<\/h3>\n

With this release, the software that powers annotations (PSPDFKit) in the Assignments tool is updated from version 20.24.03 to 20.24.04. As part of this update, the unsupported PSPDFKit Bookmarks tool is disabled and the Bookmarks<\/strong> option in annotations is removed to avoid confusion. This update also fixes defects and prevents further defects related to PSPDFKit being out of date.<\/p>\n

Previously, instructors could click Bookmarks<\/strong> and add bookmarks to the document. However, added bookmarks were not saved after refreshing the page.<\/p>\n

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Before this update, instructors could click Bookmarks to add bookmarks to pages of a PDF. However, these bookmarks were not saved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After this update, Bookmarks is removed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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2) Quizzes \u2013 Attach rubrics to written response questions<\/h3>\n

For Brightspace implementations that use the new quiz evaluation experience, it is now possible for instructors to attach a rubric to written response (long answer) questions on a quiz.<\/p>\n

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When creating new or editing existing written response questions, instructors can now click Add Rubric to attach a new or existing rubric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Subsequently, within the quiz, instructors can use the rubric to grade the written response quiz questions. The rubric appears below the learner's answer or the instructor can click Pop Out<\/strong> to open the learner response in a separate dialog, enabling the instructor to view the rubric and the written response in separate windows.<\/p>\n

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The instructor can click Pop Out to view the response submission in a separate window, or open the rubric below the submission in the same window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The rubric appears in the quiz window for the written response question.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Learners can now see the rubric for written response quiz questions while they are taking the quiz. After the quiz is complete and graded, the learner can review the rubric in the graded quiz for any feedback the instructor provides during the evaluation.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The rubric is visible to learners provided the rubric visibility option is set to make visible to students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3) Quizzes \u2013 Optimize productivity with an improved quiz evaluation experience<\/h3>\n

Grading workflows are now optimized in the quiz evaluation experience to improve instructor productivity. The new quiz evaluation experience can now be turned on in the quiz page you are grading.<\/p>\n

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Instructors can click the down arrow on the top right of the page to expand the dialog used to turn on or turn off the new quiz evaluation experience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The dialog indicates if the experience is on or off and provides buttons to turn it on or off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After instructors have opted into the new experience, they can scroll between users and select the quiz attempt they want to evaluate for the user.<\/p>\n

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In the new quiz evaluation experience, instructors can use the right and left arrows to select the learner and then select the quiz attempt they want to evaluate from the drop-down list.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the main assessment area there are now two panels, which is consistent with other updated experiences in Brightspace. The following question types are supported in the new quiz evaluation experience:<\/p>\n