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July 2025

Assignments

This feature enables instructors to create a new assignment type that accepts submissions in the form of an uploaded file, text entered in Brightspace Editor, or both.

To create this new type of assignment, instructors must go to the New Assignment page, expand the Submission & Completion panel, open the Submission Type dropdown, and select the new File or text submission option.

For these assignments, learners can choose how they want to demonstrate their learning. For example, if the assignment is an essay, learners can upload a file, paste a link to an external file in the text box, or type the entire essay into the text box. For assignments restricted to only one file, learners still have the option to add a text submission. Learners will also see an expanded Brightspace Editor for text submissions on the assignment submission page.

Previously, the available Submission Types were: File submission, Text submission, On paper submission, and Observed in person.

Groups

Instructors can now bulk enroll or unenroll learners in existing groups using a comma-separated values (CSV) file in the Groups tool. This feature adds a new Import button to the Manage Groups page and an Import option in the Category drop-down menu. Clicking Import opens a guided workflow with detailed instructions for correctly formatting the CSV file. Each line in the file must represent a single action: either enrolling or unenrolling a learner from a specific group in the course. CSV file modifications are limited to learners currently enrolled in the course.

Once uploaded, the system validates the CSV file. If the file contains no errors, the enroll or unenroll actions are performed, and once completed, the import results are displayed immediately. If there are any errors found in the file, the process stops and generates a list of errors found.

Cancelling the process does not reverse completed actions. Only one import process can run at a time.

New Content Experience

Learners can now track the completion of content topics within a module by viewing a progress indicator next to each topic in the New Content Experience. This feature brings several improvements to help learners easily identify remaining topics in a module. The updates are as follows:

  • Check marks for completed items.
  • Fractional summary of the learner’s progress for each content module.
  • Due dates are now displayed on a single line, with a tooltip appearing on hover for additional details.

Users can now add and access content at unlimited levels of depth in the New Content Experience. This enhancement preserves the original course structure created in Classic Content or another LMS and improves efficiency by eliminating the previous five levels restriction. With this update, there is no longer a need to reorganize deeply nested content. The new functionality includes:

  • The original content hierarchy or structure is maintained.
  • Users can drag and drop content regardless of its depth.
  • Current New Content Experience users can now create content at deeper levels.

Previously, content deeper than five levels in Classic Content or another LMS was hidden in the New Content Experience, requiring course restructuring before enablement.

Instructors and learners can now view the course Overview when enabling the New Content Experience. This update enhances user experience and efficiency by preserving the Overview created in Classic Content. The following updates are included:

  • Users with an Overview in Classic Content will see the same text/files in the New Content Experience.
  • The Overview now appears visually as the first module in a course
  • Users can delete the Overview, which will also be deleted in Classic.
  • Users can edit the Overview, and the changes will be reflected in Classic.
  • Users who have not added any text/files to the Overview in Classic will not see this module in the New Content Experience.
  • The course Overview cannot currently be added directly from the New Content Experience.

Previously, the course Overview added in Classic Content was not displayed in the New Content Experience.

Quizzes

This update introduces the full HTML editor for question-level feedback in Quizzes, enhancing the instructor experience and aligning it with the editors already available for Attempt Feedback and Overall Feedback, including support for the equation editor and file upload features.

Previously, instructors could provide feedback on inpidual questions using only the inline HTML editor, which offered limited formatting and functionality. With this update, instructors can now:

  • Upload files securely
  • Insert equations
  • Use advanced formatting and media tools

Instructors can now reopen the most recently submitted quiz attempt, allowing learners to resume from where they left off. The new feature supports scenarios where learners run out of time or miss the quiz end date, reducing frustration from auto-submissions and improving overall quiz management flexibility.

Previously, instructors could not reopen a submitted quiz attempt. This update introduces the ability to return quiz attempts to an unsubmitted state and adjust time limits if needed.

Instructors can now view rubric statistics for rubrics associated with written response questions across all learners’ first attempts in a quiz. Both Overall Statistics and Criteria Statistics are included with this update.

Previously, rubric statistics were limited or inconsistent for written response questions. With this update, the rubric statistics display data per quiz question for all users, not just the quiz overall.

The user interface clearly indicates that only first attempts with text are included in the stats.

This update provides instructors with consistent rubric statistics across all assessment types for better insight into how learners perform on written response questions in particular.

Quizzes

To improve efficiency when reviewing assessments, instructors can now clear rubric scoring using the new Clear Selections option.

This update supports instructors who need to reset scoring and start from scratch. Clearing the rubric score does not remove any previously entered feedback.

Selecting Clear Selections requires users to confirm the action. The option to undo this action appears in a pop-up window for a brief amount of time after clicking Clear Selections.

Previously, to modify scoring, instructors had to manually clear each rubric level.

In addition to the Clear Selections menu option, the Set All Ungraded option is also updated. When no rubric levels are selected, the option now appears as Set All to Yes and Set All to No in the menu.