D2L January Updates
*Changes going live January 26, 2022
Known Issues: Faculty Tools, Attendance Register Generator & Attendance from Participation Generator
There is currently an issue with the aforementioned tools after the addition of a new type of participation, “Q” (Quarantined). The faculty tool webpage they are located on have workarounds to get them functioning again temporarily.
I apologize for the inconvenience and we are looking into the matter!
Brightspace Learning Environment – Improved viewing features in Audio-Video player
To improve the functionality of the Audio-Video player in Brightspace Learning Environment, multi-bitrate streaming, and search functionality are now available.
The search function only searches captions of videos for the search value.
Brightspace Learning Environment – Supported browsers update
With this release, Brightspace Learning Environment’s browser version check now displays warnings for browsers earlier than the following versions:
- Chrome 93 (released in August 2021)
- Safari 13 (released in September 2019)
- Firefox 91 (released in August 2021)
- Edge 93 (released in August 2021)
Please note: users can still use D2L with older browsers, but they will be displayed the warning message as new versions of D2L are not tested in older browser versions and things may act unexpectedly in them.
Calendar – Improvements to Date and Time Selection Web Components
Added a Now button that sets the current date and time. The Today and Now buttons only appear when a date and time are required. When only a date is required, only the Today button appears and functions the same as the Now button
Discussions – Scoring Rubric drop-down for evaluations
To make the Discussion evaluation consistent with the Assignments evaluation, this feature adds the Grading Rubric drop-down to the sidebar menu. This allows the instructor to choose a grading rubric when evaluating a discussion
