We will be rolling out a new widget that will display a welcome message to new users and point them in the direction of our self-enroll d2l student training. This should increase the number of users who interact with the tool and get them off on the right foot when they start classes! We will be updating this message and its contents as we move forward.

Please note that all users will see this message when they first login after the update. Upon selecting the “Dismiss” button on the widget, the widget will not open again until a user opts to do so at the bottom of the home page.

Aside from use on the main page, we will be determining how functional this can be on the course level as well. If you would like to test using this on your course page to point students to a welcome module, please reach out!

With this release, the Brightspace Pulse App is now only supported on the following mobile operating systems:

• Android 6 and above
• iOS13 and above

This ensures that mobile level support is consistent across all D2L Apps, rather than being on a per-app basis; and consistent with Android and Apple policies concerning operating system support.

Previously, Brightspace Pulse was supported on Android 6 and iOS12 and above.

D2L will now display a new message when being accessed via an outdated browser that is not supported by the current platform.

The Turnitin integration options layout and feature names are changed with this release. The option changes can be viewed on the Turnitin Integrations options page.

GradeMark is now Online Grading and Originality Check is now Similarity Report. Instructors can enable features for Online Grading and Similarity Report separately within the Turnitin Integration options page.