September 2024

Assignments

With this release, the software that powers annotations (PSPDFKit) in the Assignments tool is updated. As part of this update, the unsupported PSPDFKit Bookmarks tool is disabled and the Bookmarks option in annotations is removed to avoid confusion. This update also fixes defects and prevents further defects related to PSPDFKit being outdated.

Previously, instructors could click Bookmarks and add bookmarks to the document. However, added bookmarks were not saved after refreshing the page.

Learning Outcomes

The Programs tab is now positioned immediately before the Achievement Scale tab in Learning Outcomes. The functionality of either of these tabs has not changed.

This update enhances the user interface and streamlines the workflow, making it easier to add outcomes to programs.

Quizzes

For Brightspace implementations that use the new quiz evaluation experience, instructors can now attach a rubric to written response (long answer) questions on a quiz. 

Subsequently, within the quiz, instructors can use the rubric to grade the written response quiz questions. The rubric appears below the learner's answer or the instructor can click Pop Out to open the learner response in a separate dialog, enabling the instructor to view the rubric and the written response in separate windows.

Grading workflows are now optimized in the quiz evaluation experience to improve instructor productivity. The new quiz evaluation experience can now be turned on in the quiz page you are grading.

After instructors have opted into the new experience, they can scroll between users and select the quiz attempt they want to evaluate for the user. 

Details on the new quiz evaluation experience can be found at https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3533-evaluate-quizzes