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August 2023 Highlights

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D2L Brightspace updates for August 2023

This update is scheduled for the evening of August 24, 2023.

This month’s updates for D2L Brightspace include:

  • Announcements – Pin announcements to top of Announcement widget and tool pages| New
  • Rubrics – Pop-out details provide increased evaluator awareness | Updated
  • User Progress – Class Progress displays absent periods more clearly | Updated

Announcements – Pin announcements to top of Announcement widget and tool pages| New

Instructors can now pin announcements and global announcements to the top of the Announcement Widget and Tool pages, allowing important information to remain visible to learners.

Announcements so pinned are indicated to learners as such with the use of a new pinned icon that appears on the announcement. Global announcements appear at the top of the page before any announcements pinned within a course offering.

The Announcement page with the Pin to top option selected and the Announcement has been pinned message.

Figure: Select Pin to top to pin an announcement to the top of the Announcement Widget.

Rubrics – Pop-out details provide increased evaluator awareness | Updated

To provide a more complete context for learner evaluation, rubric pop-outs now provide activity details including activity title, course name, learner name, and evaluator name.

The evaluator name only appears if it is explicitly assigned; implicit evaluators’ names do not appear with the additional details.?Learner name information respects user information privacy policies and displays?Anonymous?if evaluating with the Anonymous role or marking in?Anonymous Mode.

The Rubric pop-out displaying the additional detail of the activity title, course name, and learner name. The evaluator name does not appear in this example.

Figure: An example rubric showing the activity title, course name, and learner name.

User Progress – Class Progress displays absent periods more clearly | Updated

When viewing data for Course Access,?Login History, and?System Access History, the absent period now correlates to the login date on the same line.

Login History Progress with highlighted "Absent period: 13" as new

New “absent period” in Login History Progress

 

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