November 2026

Brightspace Editor

To provide greater flexibility when designing course homepages and content, the {OrgUnitStartDate} and {OrgUnitEndDate} replacement strings are now supported in all tools that use the Brightspace Editor. Previously, these strings were limited to use within Intelligent Agents and email body text.

This update allows instructors to dynamically display the start and end dates of a course offering across multiple areas, including custom homepage widgets, announcements, and discussion descriptions. This ensures that learners have immediate and consistent visibility into important course timelines.

Groups

To make it easier for instructors to manually manage group membership, the new Manage Groups experience now includes an improved Manage Members page with Groups and Learners tabs. Instructors can manage membership by viewing groups and their members or by viewing learners and the groups to which they belong.

More details of the Manage Members workflow can be found here.

Quizzes

To improve navigation and consistency across Brightspace, the Quizzes tool now uses the enhanced group and section filters originally introduced in the February 2026 release. This update replaces the combined View By filter with separate, searchable Groups and Sections filters, significantly improving scalability for courses with many groups.

This update impacts the Quizzes View Statistics pages and the Grade Quiz workflow. On the View Statistics page, the filters are available on each tab: User Stats, Question Stats, and Question Details. Filter selections are specific to the active tab, preventing settings from being reset when navigating between different statistical views. On the Grade Quiz page, the filter is available on the Users and Attempts tabs, and filter selections are applied across both tabs.