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August 2025

Brightspace Platform

To enhance accessibility, screen reader and assistive technology support has been improved for five tab pages in Brightspace. The changes clarify the content structure and tab navigation cues for screen readers. There are no visible changes to the interface.

The following pages are updated:

  • Insights Portal
  • Bulk Course actions
  • Bulk Course Import History
  • Outcome Sets and Achievement Scale tabs in Learning Outcomes
  • Print Quiz in Quizzes

To help users better anticipate navigation behavior in Brightspace, a A diagonal arrow within a partial square shapeNew Window 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.

The icon design is also updated to better align with current styles used in Brightspace.

Groups

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.

This increased limit applies to all enrollment workflows, including:

  • Automatic enrollment during group creation
  • Automatic enrollment during Classlist enrollment, where automatic enrollment group types exist
  • Manual enrollment using the Enroll Users and Import options within the Groups tool
  • Groups enrollment via the Bulk User Management tool
  • Enrollment using Brightspace APIs

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.

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

In cases where enrollment fails due to the user limit, the following indications appear:

  • Brightspace APIs return an error
  • Bulk User Management and Group Import CSV display user-specific errors in the import results
  • IPSIS and Banner integrations report failures
  • In the Groups tool, additional users cannot be selected without deselecting users already enrolled in the group

For more information about this feature and future developments, see the blog post "Improving groups with increased enrollment limits." 

Quizzes

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.

Options to support multiple quiz versions include:

  • Shuffle Quiz (under Timing & Display) to shuffle quiz sections and questions.
  • Shuffle questions in this section (when creating or editing a section).   
  • Randomize answer order when creating or editing a supported question type, such as multiple choice.

An Answer Key is provided for each version to help instructors quickly and easily grade printed quizzes taken offline. It includes the correct answers and, where applicable, the grading method.