D2L Updates | eLearning Support | Bemidji State University

Recent Updates

In D2L Brightspace, the minimum supported browser versions have been updated.
In Rubrics, instructors can quickly set ungraded levels for rubric criteria to a minimum or maximum value. This is available for analytical type rubrics in assignments, discussions and written response quiz questions (new evaluation experience).
In Widgets, the ‘Office 365’ widget has been renamed to ‘Microsoft 365’ in D2L Brightspace.
January Knowledge Articles

In Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes: A new ‘learner view of grade’ displays the grade scheme as quick reference for the instructor. For Quizzes, instructors must opt into the new evaluation experience to access this feature.
In Rubrics: The Criteria descriptions can now be up to 500 characters. (Previously, they had a 256-character limit.)
December Knowledge Articles

In Assignments: The Advanced Assessment workflow has been updated to ensure students are assigned to at least one evaluator.
In Brightspace Pulse: The Pulse app will be updated throughout the next two months to improve the user experience, including the mobile browser integration.
In Groups: Deleted individual groups and categories of groups can now be restored through the Groups tool Recycle Bin.
November Knowledge Articles

This release contains no features or changes for instructors and students.

In Quizzes: The new Quiz Evaluation Experience is available for instructors to try out when evaluating student quiz attempts.
In Quizzes: Instructors can attach rubrics to written response questions and score those responses with rubrics when using the new quiz evaluation experience.
In Quizzes: Students can review unscored rubrics for written response questions when taking a quiz and review rubrics with feedback after their instructor has graded their quiz attempt.
KA 2512 for students, KA 2511 for instructors

In Assignments: The new Advanced Assessment workflow is available to instructors for co-marking or making individual evaluations on the same assessment.
In Content: The default font face and size is now Lato 19 for HTML topic pages that instructors create in Content. Note that this change does not affect existing content.
In Discussions: When using the ‘Reading View’ in a discussion topic, several improvements have been made including duplicating the Start New Thread button at the bottom of the page to reduce scrolling.
KA 2508 for students, KA 2507 for instructors

In Brightspace: The supported browser versions for Brightspace have been updated. It’s recommended that you use the latest version of your browser.
In Grades: A new gradebook setting is available to enter a zero automatically for a student’s grade score when they miss the due date for an activity (only file and text-based assignments, quizzes and LTI tools).
In Notifications: SMS notifications have been removed from the Notifications tool.
KA2502 for students, KA 2501 for instructors

In Assignments: Annotations toolbar has updated icons. Note there is no change to the annotations functionality.
In Manage Dates: Intelligent agents with a recurring schedule can now be edited and offset from Manage Dates.
KA 2499 for students, KA 2498 for instructors

In Grades: Instructor feedback files added to evaluations in Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes are now accessible to students from Grades. Students can review these feedback files from the Grades > Comments and Assessments column for the graded item.
In Manage Files: Instructors will receive an updated notification when zipping and unzipping files in Manage Files.
KA 2495 for students, KA 2494 for instructors

In Discussions: Instructor feedback files can now be attached to discussion evaluations. Students can review the feedback files from the Discussions and Class Progress tools.
In Quizzes: Additional functions are available for instructors setting up an arithmetic question type.
KA 2491 for instructors

In HTML Editor: Creating links are now more consistent in the Add Link window.
In Profile: The Twitter field has been renamed to X to reflect the current name.
In Quizzes: When exporting quiz statistics or reports, instructors will now receive a minibar notification to download them.
KA 2487 for instructors

In D2L Brightspace: A “Powered by D2L Brightspace” footer is at the bottom of select pages, including course homepages.
In Discover: Bulk approve or deny enrollment requests into a self-registration course.
In Quizzes: The question mark (?) icon no longer displays in the Question Library.
KA 2482 and 2481

Report any D2L Brightspace issues to the MinnState IT service desk.