Highlights of D2L Brightspace 10.5.3For Teachers

November 17, 2015Version 10.5.3 Update

Brightspace 10.5.1-10.5.3

• Highlights of Feature Changes• Screen Shots of Feature Changes• Fixed Issues• PIE Product Idea Exchange Requests Fulfilled• Links to D2L’s Documentation• Features that we will not be implementing at this time

Highlights of Feature Changes and Enhancements• News

• Instructor can retrieve deleted News items• Dropbox:

• Student Submission History log includes file upload date/time stamp• Copy Course Components

• Identifies the individual who performed the course copy function with date/time stamp• Improved workflow to avoid timeouts when copying courses

• Groups tool• Self enrollments can be changed by student• Student can view member list before enrolling• Self enroll groups can auto enroll students who have not self-enrolled by deadline

• Discussions• Consistent views for assessing discussions

Restore Deleted News Item

Dropbox Folder Submission Log

If student forgets to “submit” the file, the history log now includes the date and time the student

uploaded the file, which substantiates a student’s claim to have attempted to submit an assignment.

Copy Selected Components Workflow

• The Import/Export/Copy Components now uses asynchronous workflow to avoid timeouts when copying large courses.

• The History page displays the progress of the copy.

Copy Course Components History

Username of person who performed the copy is displayed along with date

and time of when copy was performed

Groups Self Enrollment Settings

1. Instructors can set a deadline “expiry date” for when students need to complete their group self enrollment choice

2. Instructors can have any students who did not choose a group automatically enrolled in a group after expiry date

3. Instructors can set a group prefix to clearly identify group names instead of the generic “Grp1, Grp2, “ naming convention. This applies to all groups, not just self enrollment groups

Student Group Self Enrollment Options

Student Can Change Self Enrollment in Groups

Note: students can only leave groups that allow self enrollment. This allows the student to switch toa different self enrollment group. Enrollments in all other group types can only be changed by the instructor.

Discussions: Assess Topic Score consistent appearance

• In Discussion tool:• Assess Student link in the dropdown menu of a

thread or reply post• Topic Score link on the Users tab of the Access

Topic area• Student link on the Assessments tab of the

Access Topic area

• In Grades tool from Submissions button:• On the Enter Grades grid• On the Grade Student page• from the Grade Category page

Discussion Tool: Topic score details screen consistent appearance

Grades Tool: Discussion topic score details screen consistent appearance

What’s FixedThe following issues experienced by MnSCU users have been fixed as of version 10.5.3

• Navigation to a specific thread in a topic works correctly when clicking on a link from a notification or from the Discussions Subscription page.

• The Add Users to Special Access button in Quizzes is now clickable in Firefox and Safari when using a Mac.

• Setting a release condition that uses percentage parameters no longer results in an 'Internal Error'.

• Pearson grades will now be synced back into D2L.

• Attempt score and overall attempt score will now display when submission view is set to display the score.

• When grading a quiz, using 'Update All Attempts' for a multiple choice question will now display the question answer options.

Faculty Feedback/Ideas

• System Site Administrators and Campus Site Administrators are always ready to hear your suggestions

• D2L Brightspace has a Product Idea Exchange (PIE) that is open to D2L Brightspace Community Members

All D2L clients are encouraged to become Brightspace community members and make use of the community resources and contribute ideas to PIE

Join here: https://members.brightspace.com/JavaBridge/members/register/

PIE Requests Fulfilled in 10.5.3 (mmm…..)

D1205 You can now see who copied a course through the existing Copy Course Components History page.

D2335, D987, D880, Enhancements to the Groups tool D786, D777 and D649 allows users to join groups more easily and instructors

and admins can setup and manage groups more easily.

D1870 and D1928 Instructors can now restore deleted News items within the Learning Environment.

Documentation from D2L• 10.5.1

• Release Notes• Fixed Issues• Known Issues

• 10.5.2 • Release Notes• Fixed Issues• Known Issues

• 10.5.3• Release Notes, Fixed Issues and Known Issues

Note: D2L’s official documentation may includefeatures and/or tools that are not available to MnSCU:

1) due to technical issues 2) Because features do not meet MnSCU’s security requirements3) because there are extra costs involved

Features and Tools not Available to MnSCU at this Time

Personal Dashboard and Course Setup Checklist Quizzes: Ability to set multiple IP address ranges to quiz restrictions Student Success SystemAwards tool Pulse Mobile App: Users have access to view upcoming course events. TurnInIt integration Story Builder – additional cost Data Export – additional cost Google Apps Microsoft Office 365User Progress – Course Access and Summary and Content indicators (Brightspace Data Platform &

Brightspace Insights are needed)

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

D2L Brightspace Production will be updated from 10.5.0 to 10.5.3

Estimated downtime 4 hours (from 4:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.)

Mark your calendar and put up a news item in D2LBrightspace to remind students of the downtime