August 2026

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes can now be aligned directly to content modules and submodules, extending outcome alignment beyond topics and assessment activities. This enhancement provides a more intentional and structured way to map learning outcomes across the entire course hierarchy.

Administrators and instructional designers can align one or more learning outcomes when creating or editing content modules and submodules. These alignments are also surfaced within the Outcomes Coverage Experience, allowing users to view and manage course-wide outcome coverage across modules, submodules, topics, and assessment activities in a single location within the New Content Experience.

Quizzes

This update improves the source and filter dropdowns in the Browse Existing Questions dialogue to better align with Brightspace standards and provide a more consistent experience.

Both dropdowns now include a search option, helping instructors find sources and filters more quickly.

This release also introduces the question annotation option in Quizzes. Learners can flag quiz questions to revisit later and apply strikethrough formatting to answer options to help narrow their choices.

Learners can select the bookmark icon beside a quiz question to flag it for review. Flagged questions appear in the left navigation, allowing learners to quickly return to them.

Learners can also select the strikethrough icon beside answer options to eliminate choices they believe are incorrect.

Work To Do Widget

The Work To Do widget now helps learners with multiple roles, such as teaching assistants, focus on upcoming and overdue work by hiding evaluation activities by default. Previously, the widget displayed both personal course due dates and evaluation tasks for users with multiple roles, making it more difficult to track learner deadlines.

This release also updates the Work To Do widget so that when learners complete all activities in a module, the module is automatically marked as complete and removed from the widget.

Learners now see only activities that still require completion, reducing clutter in the widget.

Previously, completed modules that had due dates could continue to appear as overdue because the module itself was not automatically marked as complete. As a result, learners could see overdue modules that no longer required action and could not be manually dismissed.