The December Brightspace release included a number of improvements, please have a look at the highlights below:
- Updated video and audio player in Content, Lessons, and New Learner Experience
- Student access to the Attendance tool
- Assignments – Consistent evaluation experience
- Quizzes – Improved workflow for creating multi-select questions
Updated video and audio player in Content, Lessons, and New Learner Experience
To improve accessibility and create a consistent user experience, a new audio and video media player has been added to Content, Lessons, and the New Learner Experience.
Attendance tool – Student access
Students are now able to view their own attendance results in the Attendance tool, if instructors make the register visible to students.
Assignments – Consistent evaluation experience
The consistent evaluation experience for Assignments brings consistency to evaluating in Brightspace Learning Environment for all assessable tools. This feature provides an opt-in experience for users to familiarize themselves with the new experience when evaluating in Assignments. In future releases this evaluation experience will become available in additional tools.
Quizzes – Improved workflow for creating multi-select question
As part of the ongoing initiative to improve the quiz creation experience for instructors, this release streamlines the interface for creating multi-select questions, making the workflow simpler and more intuitive.
When instructors initially launch the Question Editor to create a multi-select question, the interface displays the two main components of a multi-select question: the question and potential answers. Selecting a field displays a pop-up toolbar for formatting the text and adding images, links, and graphical equations. As each field is completed, the preview pane displays how the question and answers appear to learners.
Want to learn more?
- See the full release notes, found here. Please note that not all features mentioned have been implemented in the UVic instance of Brightspace.
- Visit our Instructor Help Page
- Contact LTSIsupport@uvic.ca
