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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 some of the updates in the July 2025\/20.25.07 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n This feature enables instructors to create a new assignment type that accepts submissions in the form of an uploaded file, text entered in Brightspace Editor, or both.<\/p>\n To create this new type of assignment, instructors must go to the New Assignment<\/strong> page, expand the Submission & Completion<\/strong> panel, open the Submission Type<\/strong> dropdown, and select the new File or text submission<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n For these assignments, learners can choose how they want to demonstrate their learning. For example, if the assignment is an essay, learners can upload a file, paste a link to an external file in the text box, or type the entire essay into the text box. For assignments restricted to only one file, learners still have the option to add a text submission. Learners will also see an expanded Brightspace Editor for text submissions on the assignment submission page.<\/p>\n Previously, the available Submission Types<\/strong> were: File submission<\/strong>, Text submission<\/strong>, On paper submission<\/strong>, and Observed in person<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> Text submissions are not supported by the Annotations tool.<\/p>\n This feature implements the following PIE item:<\/p>\n To support upcoming changes to increase group enrollment limits planned for August 2025, all group enrollment workflows are now consistently handled by a background job.<\/p>\n Previously, group enrollments created through the Groups tool, APIs, and course copy operations were processed asynchronously to reduce timeouts and errors. With this update, all group enrollment methods (through the Manage Users tool, Classlist enrollments that add users to groups, enrollment APIs, Banner integrations, and Self Registration) are processed using the same background job mechanism.<\/p>\n For end users, this update ensures that when they complete an enrollment in a course offering, any corresponding group enrollments within that course are also processed automatically. This background process may take one to two minutes to complete.<\/p>\n This feature provides consistent and efficient group enrollments across tools and workflows, ensuring a seamless experience as enrollment limits increase, and preventing timeouts and errors during high-volume events.<\/p>\n For more information about planned enrollment changes, refer to the Improving groups with increased enrollment limits<\/a> blog post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Instructors can now bulk enroll or unenroll learners in existing groups using a comma-separated values (CSV) file in the Groups tool. This feature adds a new Import<\/strong> button to the Manage Groups<\/strong> page and an Import<\/strong> option in the Category<\/strong> drop-down menu. Clicking Import<\/strong> opens a guided workflow with detailed instructions for correctly formatting the CSV file. Each line in the file must represent a single action: either enrolling or unenrolling a learner from a specific group in the course. CSV file modifications are limited to learners currently enrolled in the course.<\/p>\n Once uploaded, the system validates the CSV file. If the file contains no errors, the enroll or unenroll actions are performed, and once completed, the import results are displayed immediately. If there are any errors found in the file, the process stops and generates a list of errors found.<\/p>\n Cancelling the process does not reverse completed actions. Only one import process can run at a time.<\/p>\n Administrators can configure the CSV file format in the Form Elements tool using the new form element BulkGroupEnroll. The following form element properties are customizable:<\/p>\n Either Username or Org Defined Id, and Group Name or Group Code, are required to ensure there is enough information to complete the enrollment or unenrollment action.<\/p>\n The new workflow is available to roles with the Groups and Sections Management > Create\/Edit\/Delete Groups and Categories permission enabled.<\/p>\n This feature implements the following PIE items:<\/p>\n Initially introduced in September 2024\/20.24.9<\/a>, the New Quiz Evaluation Experience is now enabled by default for all clients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This update introduces the full HTML editor for question-level feedback in Quizzes, enhancing the instructor experience and aligning it with the editors already available for Attempt Feedback and Overall Feedback, including support for the equation editor and file upload features.<\/p>\n Previously, instructors could provide feedback on individual questions using only the inline HTML editor, which offered limited formatting and functionality. With this update, instructors can now:<\/p>\n This feature implements the following PIE item:<\/p>\n Instructors can now reopen the most recently submitted quiz attempt, allowing learners to resume from where they left off. The new feature supports scenarios where learners run out of time or submit their attempt by mistake, reducing frustration from auto-submissions and improving overall quiz management flexibility.<\/p>\n Previously, instructors could not reopen a submitted quiz attempt. This update introduces the ability to return quiz attempts to an unsubmitted state and adjust time limits if needed.<\/p>\n This feature implements the following PIE items:<\/p>\n Instructors can now view rubric statistics for rubrics associated with written response questions across all learners\u2019 first attempts in a quiz. Both Overall Statistics<\/strong> and Criteria Statistics<\/strong> are included with this update.<\/p>\n Previously, rubric statistics were limited or inconsistent for written response questions. With this update, the rubric statistics display data per quiz question for all users, not just the quiz overall.<\/p>\n The user interface clearly indicates that only first attempts with text are included in the stats.<\/p>\n This update provides instructors with consistent rubric statistics across all assessment types for better insight into how learners perform on written response questions in particular.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To improve efficiency when reviewing assessments, instructors can now clear rubric scoring using the new Clear Selections<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n This update supports instructors who need to reset scoring and start from scratch. Clearing the rubric score does not remove any previously entered feedback.<\/p>\n Selecting Clear Selections<\/strong> requires users to confirm the action. The option to undo this action appears in a pop-up window for a brief amount of time after clicking Clear Selections<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Previously, to modify scoring, instructors had to manually clear each rubric level.<\/p>\n In addition to the Clear Selections<\/strong> menu option, the Set All Ungraded<\/strong> option is also updated. When no rubric levels are selected, the option now appears as Set All to Yes<\/strong> and Set All to No<\/strong> in the menu.<\/p>\n This improvement follows the recent release of the Set Ungraded option in the January 2025\/20.25.01<\/a> release, to make it easier to manage rubric scoring.<\/p>\n This feature implements the following PIE items:<\/p>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the July Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform July 2025\/20.25.07 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? 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2) Groups \u2013 All group enrollments now processed via background job<\/h3>\n
3) Groups \u2013 Bulk enroll and unenroll users by CSV file import<\/h3>\n
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4) Quizzes \u2013 New Quiz Evaluation Experience is the default<\/h3>\n
5) Quizzes \u2013 Full HTML Editor for Question Feedback<\/h3>\n
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6) Quizzes \u2013 Reopen a submitted quiz attempt<\/h3>\n
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7) Quizzes \u2013 Statistics available for rubrics on written response questions<\/h3>\n
8) Rubrics \u2013 Options to improve rubric management<\/h3>\n
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