What’s New on Brightspace? (January 2019)

Posted by crawfobn on Thursday, January 17, 2019 in Uncategorized.

Every month, Brightspace will release new features and updates. You can get a comprehensive view of the updates here, but this blog post will give you a quick overview of what’s new on Brightspace!

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.

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). 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)

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.