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January 2025

Consistent Evaluation

The individual scores and feedback from Assignment and Discussion grade items are now synchronized with the grade book using the Update button regardless of whether a change was made. The Update button in Assignments and Discussions evaluations is always available to update, even when no changes were made. This feature also enables instructors to verify that the information between the grade book and the Assignment or Discussion tool is properly synchronized.

Previously, In Brightspace, when an instructor evaluated an assignment, discussion, or quiz using a rubric and saved it as a draft, then added feedback directly in the grade book and saved it, the feedback did not sync back to the evaluation page when the instructor clicked Update.

New Content Experience

With this release, New Content Experience (Lessons) now supports adding nested modules up to five levels deep. This allows instructors and administrators to create courses with more complex module structures.

This builds on the functionality released in November 2024, which supports migrating courses with a nesting depth up to five levels. Also, as of the November 2024 release, selecting a module title in Learner Experience launches the module, aligning it with the user experience across Brightspace. The Launch button was also removed with that change.

Previously, the nesting limit for modules in New Content Experience was set to three levels. Users who wanted to add modules at level four or five had to temporarily enable Classic Content or use Course Builder.

In a future release, administrators and instructors will be able to adjust the depth of existing modules within the content hierarchy.

Rubrics

This feature updates the instructor workflow of evaluating a rubric and providing feedback to learners. Now, instructors can quickly assess all ungraded Rubric criteria and then go back through to add feedback where necessary. To provide a more streamlined experience for instructors using analytical-type rubrics for assessments in the Consistent Evaluation experience for assignments, discussions, and written response quiz questions, the instructor can automatically set ungraded levels to a minimum or maximum value.

From a drop-down beside the rubric name in each assessment pop-out, or from a context menu in Consistent Evaluation, there are two options:

  • Set Ungraded to [top rubric level name]: where all ungraded levels within this rubric are set to the maximum value using the top level of the rubric.
  • Set Ungraded to [lowest rubric level name]: where all ungraded levels within this rubric are set to the minimum value using the bottom level of the rubric.

When an instructor selects an option, a confirmation dialogue appears to advise of the bulk action and provides an option to undo the update.

Previously, instructors were required to click individual criteria, which was a time-consuming task for large rubrics, requiring many clicks to set the rubric score to 100%.