January 2019

• Updated: Assignment Grader - Evaluate On Paper and Observed in person submission types - iOS and Android versions of the Assignment Grader application now support On paper, and Observed in person submission types. Instructors can evaluate all of their assignments using the application; including those that do not require a file or text submission.
• New: Assignments - Align outcomes to assignments - When creating assignments, instructors can now access a Learning Outcomes tab to associate learning outcomes to an assignment. Instructors can browse pre-defined outcomes that they have previously imported into their course from Lessons. When associated to an assignment, the outcomes are visible to instructors and learners when viewing the assignment.
• New: Assignments - Assess learner progress using outcomes - Instructors can assess assignment submissions directly against outcomes aligned to an assignment. This allows instructors to easily assess learner progress against outcomes in Assignments. Learners are also able to view the results of the instructor assessing their assignment submissions directly against outcomes aligned to the assignment. This change makes it easier for learners to understand their progress against an outcome, and locate areas for improvement.
• Updated: Assignments - Improvements to Assignments List View - When accessing Assignments, the list view now displays updated information. Instructors see information on the assignment name, the number of learners who have completed the assignment, the number of learners who have been evaluated, the number of learners who have had feedback published, and the Due Date. Learners are now able to see the assignment name, the Completion Status (Not Submitted, Submitted, Completed), their Score, The Evaluation Status (Not yet evaluated, Feedback: unread, Feedback: read), and the Due Date.
• Updated: Groups - Create new submission types - The new On paper and Observed in person submission types available in Assignments can now be created from the Groups tool.
• Updated: HTML Editor - Descriptive error message for quicklinks to unavailable activities - A specific error message now appears to users who click a quicklink to an activity that is outside the availability dates (not yet available or no longer available). With this feature, the specific error message, "Unavailable Quicklink. The <activity type> is not available" appears for many additional course activities. The error message appears for the following unavailable activity types:
• Announcements items
• Calendar events
• Chat sessions (if the user is not part of a group chat)
• ePortfolio (for items that not shared to the user)
• External learning tools links
• Templates (that are not available in the current org unit)
• Groups (with expired self enrollment option
• Intelligent Agents - Export agent run history to CSV - Intelligent Agent run history, previously only visible in Brightspace Learning Environment, can now be exported to a CSV file. This feature allows instructors to better track learners that are triggering Intelligent Agents.
• Updated: Rubrics - Improved rubric creation experience - To improve on the new rubric creation experience, rubric creation has been changed to a single-page workflow. Clicking New in the Rubrics tool immediately brings the user to the rubric authoring page. As well, the two previous Rubric Tool options Properties and Levels and Criteria are now condensed into a single Edit option.