D2L April 2025 Updates
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D2L April Updates

Assignments and Discussions – Bulk feedback for instructors | New

This feature enables instructors to provide bulk feedback to learners directly within the Assignments and Discussions submission pages, enhancing efficiency and user experience.

Key capabilities:

  • Add and save bulk feedback as a draft if none exists.
  • Update existing drafts or published evaluations for multiple learners simultaneously.
  • Apply feedback to selected learners using Add Feedback or to all learners using Add Feedback to All.
  • Display a warning message when saving an empty Feedback dialog as bulk feedback, as this action overwrites existing drafts or published evaluations.
Figure: Add Feedback to All button in Assignment Submissions area
Figure: Add Feedback to All button in discussion assessment area

Quizzes – New Quiz Evaluation Experience transitioning to default, with opt-out until July 2025 | Updated

With last month’s update to the type of questions available in the New Quiz Evaluation Experience, content parity now exists between the two forms. Most instructors are already using the New Quiz Evaluation Experience, but the option to opt-out of the New Quiz Evaluation Experience will being going away during our July 2025 update.

Brightspace Training Resources | Reminder

Following our Brightspace Training webinar series, all past recordings and information from the trainings are accessible via the Discover tool from the Brightspace homepage where instructors can now self-enroll in the course. This course is purely for the archival of webinar training content but it has been opened for Instructor view!

Figure: Discover link on the homepage navbar and the Brightspace Training Resources course

Instructor Guided Training | Reminder

If you have not done so already, please feel free to access our D2L guided instructor training course by clicking the link with the D2L moose on your homepage. At first this training looks barren with only a few items, but as you complete each module a new one will open up! This training goes through the basics of D2L all the way through more advanced tools and is available to all instructors of the college. You will also be entered to win some D2L branded prizes such as a Morris the Moose plushie, travel pillows, and tumbler cups!

Figure: The instructor guided training link.