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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 August 2025\/20.25.08 release that were added to our system this month:<\/p>\n To help users better anticipate navigation behavior in Brightspace, a New Window<\/em> icon now appears next to all menu items that open in a new tab or window. This change applies to all applicable menu items across the platform interface.<\/p>\n The icon design is also updated to better align with current styles used in Brightspace.<\/p>\n View an example of this change in the Print Thread<\/strong> menu in a discussion topic (see image).<\/p>\n From a course, navigate to a topic in Discussions<\/strong>, select the actions drop-down for a thread, then view the New Window<\/strong> icon appears beside Print Thread<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To support growing class sizes, the Groups tool now allows enrollment of up to 3000 users per group within a group category. Previously, the limit was 200 users per group.<\/p>\n This increased limit applies to all enrollment workflows, including:<\/p>\n The 3000-user limit is now strictly enforced across all methods of group enrollment. Previous workarounds that bypassed the former enrollment limit will no longer function for any group that has reached the 3000-user limit.<\/p>\n Currently, the automatic enrollment overflow functionality enrolls users into other groups in the same category if the selected group is full. However, when the 3000-user limit is reached in all groups, further enrollment attempts will fail. To continue processing enrollments, you must add additional groups to the category.<\/p>\n In cases where enrollment fails due to the user limit, the following indications appear:<\/p>\n For more information about this feature and future developments, refer to the Improving groups with increased enrollment limits<\/a> blog post.<\/p>\n This feature implements the following PIE\u202fitems:<\/p>\n In response to customer feedback, this update provides instructors with a simple way to print an offline quiz that supports all native Brightspace quiz question types, shuffling and randomization options, question pools, multiple versions, and an Answer Key<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Options to support multiple quiz versions include:<\/p>\n To help instructors quickly and easily grade printed quizzes taken offline, an Answer Key<\/strong> is provided for each version. It includes the correct answers and, where applicable, the grading method.<\/p>\n This feature implements the following PIE\u202fitems:<\/p>\n This update enhances the Product Idea Exchange (PIE)<\/a> based on customer feedback and introduces a new idea submission pipeline. D2L is refocusing on using PIE for new product ideas only. For bugs, support issues, or feedback on existing features, customers should use the Customer Support Portal or speak with your Customer Success representative. Updated guidelines<\/a> for PIE are available in the Community.<\/p>\n This update makes it easier to:<\/p>\n Released ideas are highlighted in Brightspace Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n D2L will provide feedback on submissions that do not follow the updated guidelines to provide an opportunity to update the submissions. Submitters receive a notification and have 90 days to enhance it.<\/p>\n D2L is also reviewing existing PIE submissions to inform migration plans. Customers are encouraged to revisit older submissions marked as Feedback Review Window<\/strong> and provide comments on those still relevant.<\/p>\n The current PIE interface remains open for commenting until August 31, after which it becomes read-only for six months to allow historical reference and migration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you are interested in getting more information about these and all the August Continuous Delivery updates, refer to the Brightspace Platform August 2025\/20.25.08 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) Brightspace \u2013 New Window icon for all menu items<\/h3>\n
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3) Quizzes \u2013 Print your quiz<\/h3>\n
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4) PIE \u2013 Enhancement to the Product Idea Exchange (PIE)<\/h3>\n
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