November 2025
Announcements
When Instructors create a new announcement in a Course Offering, they can now choose to send a copy to all users in their Classlist as an email, sent as if from the instructor themselves.
In the user interface for creating or editing an announcement, a new Send Email Copy checkbox now appears when an instructor creates or edits an announcement.
When an instructor selects the new checkbox, the system emails the content of the announcement to all users in the Classlist on publishing.
Users who are not subscribed to receive a notification for announcements will also receive an email, ensuring that important information contained within the announcement is delivered to every learner.
For announcements scheduled to publish at a later date, clicking the Send Email Copy checkbox emails the copy to users in the Classlist at the time that the announcement is published.
Brightspace
With this release, Brightspace improves visual consistency and accessibility by updating progress bar indicators across several tools. These improvements enhance support for screen readers and assistive technologies.
Visual indicators have been updated in the following areas:
- New Content Experience – Upload a file
- Quizzes – Add Existing Question
- Import Quiz Questions – Upload a file
- Quiz Study Support – Check if the quiz meets the study support requirements
- Generate Question – Choose a file to generate a question
- Content Uploader – Upload a file
- Manage Groups – Export progress bar
- Upload File (Classic Content) – Upload a file
Brightspace Editor
The equation editor Instructors and Learners use to compose equations in the Brightspace Editor (WIRIS) has been updated to the latest version, 7.24.0.
This update includes no functional changes to the equation editor, but does include WIRIS defect fixes.
Grades
Instructors can now use the Exclude from Final column when bulk editing grade items in the Grades tool. Selecting this option excludes the grade item from the final grade calculation.
Previously, this setting was only available when editing individual grade items. This enhancement helps instructors manage large grade books more efficiently by allowing them to update multiple items at once.
Learning Outcomes
Outcomes are now clearly grouped by Outcome Set across Brightspace, including in the Course Outcomes list, release condition dropdowns, and other relevant areas. This improved organization makes it easier for users to navigate, differentiate, and understand outcomes within a course.
With this update, each Outcome Set is displayed as a distinct group, enhancing clarity and laying the groundwork for future Outcome Set features.
Previously, outcomes were listed in the order they were added, which could lead to confusion and repetition of Outcome Set names.
Additionally, this release has added the following improvements to outcomes:
- Renamed lower-level outcomes to sub-outcomes for clearer terminology and improved consistency across the platform.
- Added warning messages when deleting outcomes from individual management:
- Warning when outcome is linked to deleted activities. If an outcome is associated with a deleted activity (such as an assignment, discussion, or quiz) and a user attempts to delete it, a pop-up message warns the user that the outcome may still have assessments linked to it.
- Confirmation when no assessments are linked. If no assessments are associated with the outcome, a message appears asking the user to confirm the deletion.