Assessments - Only one grade item is required. This makes assessing discussion topics faster as instructors do not have to navigate in and out of topics to complete an assessment. Copying groups - Now, when instructors copy groups to new courses, the group setup (grade item, assessment option, etc.) is also copied over. is no change in workflow for learners as they can only see one discussion topic and the posts within it that are associated with their group, as expected. This feature implements PIE items D113, D185, D386, D511, and D3362. Configuration Variable Global Change Look and Feel Organization Wide Tool Change Workflow Impact of Change Technical Details Next Steps Slight impact to administrators due to the change in the group discussions user interface. These features are turned off by default and are configured by the following new configuration variable: d2l.Tools.Discuss.EnableGroupFilteredTopics. To use the updated create group discussions user interface, administrators must turn on the configuration variable. Once the configuration variable is turned on, instructors can also use the updated create discussions user interface. D2L recommends turning this configuration variable on for test instances. Slight impact to instructors due to the change in the group discussions user interface and due to the change in workflow related to assessing group discussions and reading topics in the discussion list. These features are turned off by default. Contact your administrator if you do not see the updated create discussions user interface. D2L recommends using these features in a test environment.
Moderate impact to administrators due to the change in the Quizzes > create/edit Long Answer question user interface. Administrators can opt in to create or edit Long Answer questions the updated create/edit Long Answer questions user interface. To return to the original user interface, in the Welcome to the new Question Creation Experience! flyout, click Turn it off. This feature is dependent on the Authentication Service microservice in the Brightspace Cloud. To enable the new Long Answer question experience for instructors at any org level, turn on the configuration variable. Moderate impact to instructors due to the change in the Quizzes > create/edit Long Answer question user interface. To use the new create/edit Long Answer questions user interface, in the Welcome to the new Question Creation Experience! flyout, click Leave it on. To return to the original user interface, in the Welcome to the new Question Creation Experience! flyout, click Turn it off. If you do not see the new create/edit Long Answer question user interface, contact your administrator.
Groups PRB0040735 Previously, when a course that included discussion topics with group restrictions was copied, the group that was referenced by the restriction was not copied along with the discussion topic. This only occurred if the enrollment type of the group included in the restriction was set to Groups of #. Now, discussions created using the new group filtered discussions feature (available as of Brightspace Learning Environment 10.6.9) are copied, as expected, using the Import/Export/Copy Components tool. There are no planned updates for modifying the copy process for older group discussions (with 1 topic per group). Found in Brightspace platform 10.3.0. HTML Editor PRB0053448 Previously, in tools across Brightspace Learning Environment, when the image pasting feature was turned off, you could not paste images from Microsoft Word but you were still able to drag and drop images from a local folder and this resulted in broken links. Now, in tools across Brightspace Learning Environment where you can paste images into HTML Editor from MS Word, you can also drag and drop local images into HTML Editor, as expected. Found in Brightspace platform 10.6.7. PRB0053400 Previously, when you loaded the HTML Editor tool in Internet Explorer 11, a 404 might have been logged in the Broken Link Viewer. Now, the HTML Editor tool loads successfully in all supported browsers, as expected. Found in Brightspace platform 10.6.7. Import/Export/Copy Components PRB0053059 Previously, when you tried to copy individual calendar items from one course to another using the Import/Export/Copy Components tool, you might have encountered timeout errors and the selected items did not copy over. Now, when you try to copy individual calendar items from one course to another using the Import/Export/Copy Components tool, the copy process completes successfully without timeout errors, and the selected calendar items copy over, as expected. in Brightspace Learning Environment 10.3.0. To reproduce this fix: