June 2021
Attendance – Delete and restore registers
Instructors can now restore mistakenly deleted attendance registers and associated session data. You can delete registers individually on the Attendance Registers page or in bulk.
Note: Deleted registers do not appear in the Attendance data set.
Figure: The Attendance Registers page with the More Actions drop-down menu > Delete functionality
Brightspace Platform – LaTex rendering in quiz questions
Scientific and mathematical equations are rendered seamlessly without the need to use the LaTeX equation option in the Equation Editor. When enabled, any existing inline LaTeX equations render as expected. When disabled, these equations no long render. However, the equation remains unaltered.
Figure: A Content topic with some inline LaTex equations and a learner’s view of the equations
Email – Auto save outgoing messages |
When users send email messages, these sent messages are automatically saved in the Sent Mail folder. As a result, the User Account > Email Settings > Save a copy of each outgoing message to the Sent Mail folder check box is no longer available.
Figure: The Email Settings page before this email setup improvement
Figure: The Email Settings page after this email setup improvement
Import/Export/Copy Components – Export course metadata
Brightspace Learning Environment course packages now include metadata that identify the Course Name, Course Code, and Language used in the course. This metadata is displayed in the IMSManifest.XML file.
Rubrics – Detach rubric warning for feature assignment creation experience and reorder criterion groups
When an attached rubric is deleted from an evaluated assignment, if evaluations of that rubric have been performed, the user now receives a detach rubric confirmation message for the assignment. This change applies to the New Assignment Creation Experience.
It is now possible to reorder those criterion groups in the New Rubric Creation Experience. If more than one criterion group appears in your rubric, direction arrows appear to the left of the criterion group header to reorder the criterion groups in the rubric. If only one criterion group appears in your rubric, the direction buttons do not appear.
Rubrics – Replace legacy Rubric grading in Competency Manual Assessment items and in Grade items with New Rubric Experience
Manual assessment for competency items now display the New Rubric Experience by default. Now, when evaluating a competency manual assessment item, the New Rubric Experience displays automatically.
Grade items now display the New Rubric Evaluation Experience. Now, when you evaluating an indirect rubric on a grade item, the New Rubric Experience appears by default when evaluating a grade item with a direct rubric association. With this change, all grade book workflows now follow the New Rubric Experience.