PROPEL Faculty & Staff Blog

Support added for creating new select box grade items. Previously, only numeric grade items could be created from the new assignment experience.

When creating a new assignment as an instructor, under Grade Out Of, click Ungraded.

Click In Gradebook, and then Select Edit or Link to Exiting

From the Edit or Link to Existing dialog, the following options may display under Create a new grade item:

• If the Grades tool has available grade categories, the Choose Grade Category option displays. Clicking this button displays available grade categories for association. 

• If the Grades tool has multiple grades schemes, the Change Grade Type & Scheme option displays. Clicking this button displays available grade types and schemes for association.

Click OK, and then Save.

To make interface text more clear, the following labels have been renamed:

• Score out of is now Grade out of
• In Grades is now In Gradebook
• Choose in Grades is now Edit or Link to Existing
• Remove from Grades is now Not in Gradebook

Instructors will now be able to specify the type of files that can be submitted for each assignment.

When creating an assignment with file submissions, there is a new drop down in the submissions and completion section of the new assignment creation experience. In this drop down, instructors can choose the restrictions they want. Choices include:

• Annotatable files, which include all file types that are supported by the Annotation tool in Assignments. For more information, see File types supported by Annotations.
• .PDF only

• Files that can be previewed without any conversion, such as .HTM, .HTML, .MHT, .MHTML, and .BMP
• Images and videos
• Custom filetypes (You may enter file extensions that are allowed for file submissions. When this is set, students are given a list of acceptable file extensions when attempting to submit a file.)

Note: The current error message for a student uploading an invalid file type is a place holder and is set to be updated in the November update.

When a rubric is collapsed, instructors can now see if the rubric is complete. If it is complete, the collapsed rubric shows the overall level of the rubric. If it is not complete, the number of unscored criteria appears on the tile.

Before Change:

After Change:

• The Brightspace Editor toolbar now appears in the following locations:
  • Rubrics Creation and Edit experiences in the Description field
  • Rubrics Creation and Edit experiences in the Feedback field
  • Evaluation mode in the Feedback field.
• The Insert Stuff and Insert Quicklink buttons now appear in the different views with additional formatting options.  

It is now possible to copy or delete a criteria group on a rubric. The delete option is only available if there is more than one criteria group. When a rubric with attached assessment items has submissions evaluated against it, the rubric is locked and can no longer be edited or deleted.

As the title suggests, drag & drop / copy & paste functionality of images is now available in the following areas:

• Content Module/Topic Descriptions
• Quiz/Survey/Self-Assessment – Description, Header. Footer
• Grades – Description
• Content Course Overview Descriptions
• Discussion Forum/Topic Descriptions

The latest version of Brightspace Pulse is supported on devices with iOS 12+ or Android 6.0+. Older versions of Pulse will continue to work on devices with iOS11 (Iphone 5c and back) or Android 5.0 (2015~ phones and back), but they will not receive any app updates going forward.

In an upcoming update, we will add the option to print PDF file types to Classic Content as no option was previously available.

The Print Button will be visible when viewing a PDF topic or the Course Overview as a PDF.

We will have a new discussion evaluation experience up and working in December. This will make large changes to how the Discussion Evaluation Experience looks to make it fit in line with the New Assignment Evaluation Experience that is already in use. Please note the following interface is a work in progress and may change before final release.

Also, please note this is a visual upgrade first and foremost, tool functionality will not change but where you find those tools may.

New Discussion Evaluation Experience Screen: