FACULTY Minnesota State D2L Brightspace 10.7.0 Cumulative Release Notes
Minnesota State D2L Brightspace
Platform 10.7.0 for Faculty
Cumulative Release Notes
Note: This document provides the combined release notes from D2L
Brightspace versions 10.6.4 through 10.7.0 monthly releases. The
package was released as 10.7.0 for self -hosted clients.
D2L Brightspace products or features relevant to Minnesota State
users are outlined in this document. Minor changes were made to the
original content when appropriate.
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Table of Contents
BRIGHTSPACE 10.7.0 PACKAGE FOR SELF-HOSTED CLIENTS ........................................................................ 5
10.7.0 NEW AND UPDATED FEATURES ......................................................................................................... 6
BRIGHTSPACE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................ 6
Brightspace platform - Supported browser changes | Updated 10.6.9 ............................................... 6
ANNOUNCEMENTS ................................................................................................................................... 7
Announcements - Link directly to an announcement | New 10.6.8..................................................... 7
ASSIGNMENTS ........................................................................................................................................... 9
Assignments - Enforce a window style for rubrics opened in Assignments | New 10.6.7 ................... 9
Assignments - Assignment submission email notifications | New 10.6.8 ............................................ 9
AWARDS .................................................................................................................................................. 11
Awards - Clarify the Availability and Sharing options for award creators | Updated 10.6.6 ............. 11
Awards - Modifications to the logic for automatic award grants | Updated 10.6.6 .......................... 11
BINDER STORE ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Binder Store - End-of-life | Removed 10.6.5 ...................................................................................... 12
BOOK LIST................................................................................................................................................ 12
Book List - Widget removed from Remote Plugins | Removed 10.6.5 ............................................... 12
BRIGHTSPACE DAYLIGHT......................................................................................................................... 13
Brightspace Daylight - Navbar now contains Overflow menu links | New 10.6.4 .............................. 13
Daylight Experience - Update to MyCourses widget| Updated 10.6.6 .............................................. 14
Daylight Experience - Class Progress now uses updated styles | Updated 10.6.7 ............................. 14
Daylight Experience - Content page Table of Contents is now responsive to small screen display
Updated 10.6.7 ................................................................................................................................... 15
Daylight Experience - LMS now uses updated core icons | Updated 10.6.7 ...................................... 16
Daylight Experience - My Courses widget can use images from curated library | Updated 10.6.7 ... 16
Daylight Experience - Responsive Print and Settings links | New 10.6.7 ........................................... 19
Daylight Experience - Responsive Tables | New 10.6.7 ...................................................................... 20
Daylight Experience - User Progress now uses updated styles | Updated 10.6.7 .............................. 21
Daylight Experience - Re-skin of Assignments pages | New 10.6.8 .................................................... 21
Daylight Experience - Responsive button groups in Assignments | New 10.6.9 ................................ 22
Daylight Experience - Re-skin of Discussions | New 10.6.9 ................................................................ 23
Daylight Experience - Re-skin of Content Viewer | New 10.6.9 ......................................................... 23
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Daylight Experience - Responsive multi-actions in tables | Updated 10.6.9 ...................................... 24
Daylight Experience - Typography changes to Daylight styles | Updated 10.6.9 ............................... 24
Daylight Experience - Improvements to My Courses widget | New 10.6.10...................................... 25
Daylight Experience - Reskin of Discussions and Quizzing pages | New 10.6.10 ............................... 26
Daylight Experience - General availability | New 10.6.11 ................................................................. 26
Daylight Experience - Improvements to the My Courses widget | Updated 10.6.11......................... 28
Daylight Experience - Optional course image banner on widget-based homepages | New 10.7.0 ... 31
CONTENT ................................................................................................................................................. 32
Content - Separate Org files from Shared files | Update 10.6.4......................................................... 32
Content - Support default MIME type mapping | Update 10.6.4....................................................... 34
DISCUSSIONS ........................................................................................................................................... 34
Discussions - Improvements to group discussions | New 10.6.9 ....................................................... 34
Discussions - Reading view user interface changes | Update 10.6.9 ................................................. 39
DOCUMENT VIEWER ............................................................................................................................... 40
Document Viewer - Viewing experience | Updated 10.6.8 ................................................................ 40
GRADES ................................................................................................................................................... 41
Grades - Include group and section information in grade exports | New 10.6.6 ............................... 41
Grades - Grade book workflow and updated calculations for exemptions | New 10.6.8 .................. 42
Grades - Exempted grade item effects on release conditions | New 10.6.8 ...................................... 43
Grades - Grade exemptions can be imported and exported | New 10.6.8 ........................................ 44
Grades - Show exempted grade items in Class Progress | New 10.6.8 .............................................. 45
Grades - Automatically release final grades | Updated 10.6.9........................................................... 45
Grades - Exempt a learner from multiple grade items | New 10.6.11 ............................................... 47
HTML EDITOR .......................................................................................................................................... 49
HTML Editor - TinyMCE | Updated 10.6.6 .......................................................................................... 49
HTML Editor - Cut and Paste │ Updated 10.6.7 .................................................................................. 49
HTML Editor - Math Editor | Updated 10.6.10 ................................................................................... 50
INTEGRATIONS ........................................................................................................................................ 51
URKUND Plagiarism Checker - URKUND Plagiarism Checker integration available | New 10.6.10.... 51
Virtual Classrooms and Video Assignments - Live Captioning Role available | New 10.6.11............. 53
Virtual Classrooms and Video Assignments - Breakout rooms available in Virtual Classrooms
Premium | New 10.6.11 ..................................................................................................................... 54
INTELLIGENT AGENTS.............................................................................................................................. 54
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Intelligent Agents - Tool Improvements | New 10.6.4 ....................................................................... 54
Intelligent Agents - Tool Improvements | New 10.6.7 ....................................................................... 58
LTI ............................................................................................................................................................ 62
LTI - Content-Item Message 1.0 | New 10.6.5 ................................................................................... 62
LTI - Content-Item Message Service for Course Import | New 10.6.6................................................ 62
QUIZZES ................................................................................................................................................... 64
Quizzes and Surveys - Direct export of report data to Microsoft Excel – Updated 10.6.5 ................. 64
Quizzes - Create / Edit Multiple Choice Questions | Updated 10.6.7 ................................................ 67
Quizzes - Create / edit True or False questions | Updated 10.6.8...................................................... 68
Quizzes - Create / edit Long Answer questions | Updated 10.6.9...................................................... 69
Quizzes - Create / edit Short Answer questions | Updated 10.6.10................................................... 70
Quizzes - Improvements to the new quizzing experience | Updated 10.6.11 .................................. 71
Quizzes - Enhancements to Short Answer questions | Updated 10.6.11 .......................................... 72
SCORM .................................................................................................................................................... 73
SCORM - New Brightspace SCORM solution | New 10.6.11 .............................................................. 73
USER PROGRESS ...................................................................................................................................... 76
User Progress - User Progress tool is now the Class Progress tool | Updated 10.6.7 ........................ 76
User Progress - Dropped Grades appear on Summary and Grades tabs | New 10.6.8 ...................... 77
User Progress - Improved display of grade item weights | Updated 10.6.8 ...................................... 78
VIDEO NOTE ............................................................................................................................................ 80
Video Note - EMEA region support | New 10.6.6 ............................................................................... 80
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BRIGHTSPACE 10.7.0 PACKAGE FOR SELF-HOSTED CLIENTS
The following release notes are for self-hosted clients who want information on all Brightspace Platform features
released from 10.6.4 to 10.7.0 (August 2016 to April 2017). This document’s intended audience is faculty members
at Minnesota State colleges and universities.
Additional Information:
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D2L Brightspace 10.7.0 Cumulative Fixed Issues (https://mnscu.sharepoint.com/sites/IMS/)
D2L Brightspace 10.7.0 Cumulative Known Issues (https://mnscu.sharepoint.com/sites/IMS)
Brightspace Platform Requirements
(https://community.brightspace.com/resources/documentation/platform_requirements/brightspaceplatform
requirements)
FAQ 1483 Supported browsers in D2L Brightspace (https://d2l.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1483)
Valence Development Platform (http://docs.valence.desire2learn.com/about.html)
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10.7.0 NEW AND UPDATED FEATURES
BRIGHTSPACE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Br ightspace plat form - Support e d browser changes | Updated 10.6.9
As of this release, the Brightspace platform no longer supports the following browsers:

Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 10 (IE10)

Apple® Safari® 6, 7, and 8
For a complete list of supported browsers, refer to Brightspace Platform Requirements
(https://community.brightspace.com/resources/documentation/platform_requirements/brightspaceplatformrequirements).
Note: Minnesota State D2L Knowledge base provides a list of supported and unsupported browsers in our FAQ 1483 Supported
browsers in D2L Brightspace (https://d2l.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1483).
Global Change
System Requirement Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors
currently using IE10 or Safari 6, 7,
or 8 with the Brightspace platform.
Using an unsupported browser with the Brightspace
platform displays a pop-up message, recommending a
supported browser.
Before you use the Brightspace
platform, D2L recommends
switching to a supported browser
for an optimal experience.
Unsupported browsers may produce unexpected results
or some tools may not function in the Brightspace
platform.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announceme nt s - Link dire ct l y t o an announcement | New 10.6.8
This feature allows instructors to link directly to individual announcements by using the Insert Quicklink button from the HTML
Editor. It simplifies the process of referencing announcements and bringing them to the attention of learners.
Figure 1: Select Announcements from the Course Materials list
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Figure 2: Select the announcement you want to link to
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to
changes in workflow when bringing
announcements to the attention of
their students.
N/A
From the HTML Editor click the
Insert Quicklink button. From the
Course Materials list, select
Announcements, and choose the
item you want to link to.
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ASSIGNMENTS
A ssignments - Enforce a window st yle for rubr ics opened in Ass ignments | New 10.6.7
Previously, when instructors opened rubrics within Assignments, the rubrics appeared either in a dialog that covered the
assignment submission or in a pop-up window that instructors could move away from the submission. How rubrics appeared
depended on the window style configuration in Account Settings.
Most users prefer to have pop-up content appear in a pop-up window, which is the default behavior. This is independent of an
instructor’s dialog setting preference in their Account Settings. This choice is particularly useful to instructors who want to have
rubrics open in a separate, movable window when instructors view assignment submissions, while at the same time, leaving all
other pop-up content to appear within the window style of their choice across all other tools. This feature implements PIE item
D2737.
Configuration Variable
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to
the change in workflow.
N/A
To change the default assignment
rubric window style, it must be set
by your administrator.
A ssignments - Ass ig nment submis sion email noti fications | New 10.6.8
When instructors create or edit an assignment submission folder, they can now fill in a Notification Email field in the Properties
tab. This allows instructors to receive email notification when a new submission is uploaded, and helps instructors manage
folder submissions and perform grading on recently submitted assignments.
This feature implements PIE items D2062, D2895, D2444, D1222, and D584.
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Figure 3: Notification Email field in submission folder properties
Configuration Variable
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due
to the change in workflow.
On the assignment folder’s Properties tab, fill in a
Notification Email field with your email address.
You will receive an email notification when a new
submission is uploaded to the assignment
submission folder.
N/A
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AWARDS
Awards - Clar if y t he Avai labi lit y and Sharing options for award creators | Updated 10.6.6
The availability options to define to whom the award is available and where in the org structure the award is available have
changed. The text for the options is now the same on both the Edit and the Create pages. The availability options now include:

Make the award available to all my courses (default). This new option provides the same result as if you previously did not
select an availability option.

Make the award available to other award creators and their courses. If you configure an award to be available to other
award creators, you can then make the award available only to the current org unit and any child org units.
This feature implements PIE item D3319.
Figure 4: In the Awards tool, you can choose to share the badges and certificates you create with other award creators, and how
you want to limit the ability of others to use your awards.
Users Only
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight disruption to instructors who
define the availability and sharing
of awards.
When creating an award, you can select one of two radio N/A
buttons that indicate how you want to share the award.
If you select the radio button indicating that you want to
share it with other award creators in other courses, there
is a checkbox that you can select to determine how
broadly you want to share the award in the course.
Awards - Modif icat ions t o t he log ic for automatic award grants | Updated 10.6.6
In the past, if an award was being shared to several courses and a release condition was set to release a second award, the
second award would be awarded if the first was earned in ANY course to which the award was shared. The logic has been
modified to release the second award only if the first award was earned in that specific course.
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Tool Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors who
now have better control over the
release of the second award.
This modification affects the release conditions that
monitor and assess release conditions. There is no
additional change required by users to enable this
modification.
N/A
BINDER STORE
Binder Store - End -of- li fe | R e move d 1 0.6.5
D2L announces the end-of-life of the Binder Store. The Binder Store will no longer be enhanced or supported.
System Requirement Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to all users due to the
end-of-life of the Binder Store.
N/A
N/A
BOOK LIST
Book L ist - Widg e t re move d from R e mote Plugins | Removed 10.6.5
The Book List Widget no longer appears when managing Remote Plugins in Brightspace Learning Environment. The widget can
no longer be added to a homepage and it no longer appears on any existing home pages that previously included the widget.
At this time, this removal is only applicable to users who received Book List Widget after D2L Learning Environment 10.4.0.
Global Change
Tool Change
Organization Wide
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BRIGHTSPACE DAYLIGHT
Br ightspace Dayl ig ht - Navbar now contains Over flow menu link s | New 10.6.4
The Brightspace navbar now includes a More menu that contains overflow items if there are space limitations due to a narrow
screen (such as a tablet or phone screen) or a large number of links. The More menu appears as the last menu link on the
Daylight navbar. The changes make the appearance of the core Brightspace Platform consistent across the product offering.
Figure 5: The More menu contains navbar links that do not fit on the screen
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
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Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight disruption to all instructors due to the
changes to the user interface. There are no
workflow changes as a result of these changes.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can use this
feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Updat e t o MyCourses widget | Updated 10.6. 6
The MyCourses widget now uses the Daylight styling, responsive layout, and tile-based layout, and the ability to add an image
to the tile for each course. Instructors can see their pinned courses in a tile-based view, and can search through their courses.
Figure 6: You can change the image on a course tile using the Change Image option.
Look and Feel
Global Change
Workflow
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to all instructors due to the workflow changes.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on and a
permission set before you can use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Class Prog re s s now uses updated sty les | Updated 10.6.7
The Class Progress tool has been updated to use the Daylight Experience styles. There may be some low-traffic pages within the
Class Progress tool that have not fully implemented the Daylight Experience styling.
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Users Only
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Next Steps
There is a slight impact to instructors of the Class Progress tool
due to the updated styles.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Cont e nt pag e Table of Contents is now responsive to smal l sc reen displa y
Updated 10.6 .7
The Content landing page containing the Table of Contents is now responsive to tablet or mobile device screens. The Table of
Contents sidebar appears at the top of the mobile page, with the main page contents below it. When you are using search, the
sidebar is hidden so that you can read the results below the search field. When you clear the search, the sidebar is visible again.
This feature implements PIE items D2064 and D1832.
Figure 7: The Table of Contents of the Content tool, when viewed on a mobile device, appears above the main content area
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Workflow
Tool Change
Users Only
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Moderate impact to all instructors who use Brightspace Learning
Environment on a tablet or mobile device.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - LMS now use s updated core icons | Updated 10.6.7
The Brightspace Learning Environment now uses updated Daylight icons. Work for this feature has been completed in priority
order based on page usage. Any low-traffic pages that did not get updated in v 10.6.7 will be completed in 10.6.8.
Look and Feel
Global Change
Impact of Change
Next Steps
There is a slight disruption to all instructors due to the updated
icons.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - My Course s widg et can use images from curated library | Updated 10.6.7
When you have turned on the Daylight Experience, the My Courses feature is also turned on. In the new My Courses interface,
all courses display a default image assigned from the curated image library. Instructors can then search for different images and
change the default image.
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Figure 8: The MyCourses widget now uses a default image from a curated library
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Figure 9: You can change the default image for a course on the MyCourses widget
Look and Feel
Global Change
Workflow
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to the ability to use and change
default images in the My Courses widget.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on and a
permission set before you can use this feature.
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Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Re sponsi ve Print and Settings lin ks | New 10.6.7
On mobile devices or narrow displays, there is now an overflow menu for links in the top-right corner of many tool pages. This
overflow menu appears as an ellipsis, and contains all of the links that previously resided in the top right corner, such as
Settings, Print, and Help.
Figure 10: The Print and Settings options are now available in an overflow menu on the top-right corner of many tool pages.
Organization Wide
Look and Feel
Users Only
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Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to all instructors who use Brightspace Learning
Environment on a tablet or mobile device.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you
can use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Re sponsi ve Table s | New 10.6.7
Tables are now displayed in the Daylight style, and large tables are now responsive to display on tablet or mobile device
screens. When a table is too wide to display in the viewing area, it is obvious that there is additional content beyond the current
viewing area, and the user can use a swipe gesture or click a button to view the additional content. In this release, the
responsive table functionality has been added to Class Progress and User Progress tools.
Figure 11: Instructors can click a button to view additional content that appears off-screen. This feature is visible to screen
readers to provide access the additional content.
Tool Change
Look and Feel
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Users Only
Workflow
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to all instructors who are able to better view tables
on tablets or mobile devices.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - User Prog re ss now uses updated sty les | Updated 10.6.7
User Progress has been updated to use the Daylight Experience styles. There may be some low-traffic pages within User
Progress that have not fully implemented the Daylight Experience styling.
Users Only
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Next Steps
There is a slight impact to instructors of User Progress due to the
updated styles.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Re -s kin o f Ass ig nments pages | New 10.6.8
Assignments pages have been modified so that many of the high priority workflows for teachers and students work more
intuitively on all devices. The following pages are affected by these changes:

Assignments > Student view > Assignment List

Assignments > Student view > Submission History

Assignments > Student view > Submit Files

Assignments > Student view > File Upload Results

Assignments > Student view > View Feedback

Assignments > Instructor view > List page

Assignments > Instructor view > Evaluate Submission
Look and Feel
Tool Change
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Users Only
Workflow
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Moderate impact to all instructors who use Brightspace Learning
Environment on small screens, tablets, or mobile devices.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Re sponsi ve butt on groups in A ssignments | New 10.6.9
When the browser window is narrow, long lists of action buttons now collapse into a More Actions dropdown button. On
extremely narrow screens, the text inside a button might wrap over two lines and the More Actions button may collapse down
to an ellipsis button. If menu buttons are collapsed into a More Actions dropdown button, the menu options are displayed
when you hover over the menu button entry in the list. If there is already a More Actions dropdown, the collapsed action
buttons become standalone actions on the same level as other actions on the existing dropdown.
Some tools do not use this tool, and are not changed as a result of this feature. Other tools, such as Content, have manual fixes
applied as part of this feature.
Figure 12: This image shows how the buttons collapse into the More Actions menu. As the display gets more narrow, the More
Actions menu only displays an Ellipsis.
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Workflow
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Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to all instructors who use Brightspace Learning
Environment on small screens, tablets, or mobile devices.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Re -s kin o f Di scus sions | New 10.6.9
The View Topic and Discussion list pages of the Discussions tool have been updated to use the Daylight Experience styles.
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Users Only
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Moderate impact to all instructors who use Brightspace Learning
Environment on small screens, tablets, or mobile devices.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Re -s kin o f Cont ent Viewer | New 10.6.9
The Content Viewer that Brightspace Learning Environment uses to display content topics such as Microsoft Word documents
or HTML documents uses an iframe. The iframe is surrounded by other controls such as the topic title, context menu, iterator
buttons, or tabs. A smaller screen, such as a tablet or mobile device now display the content viewer and surrounding controls
appropriately.
This feature implements PIE items D2064 and D1832.
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Users Only
Workflow
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Moderate impact to all instructors who use Brightspace Learning
Environment on small screens, tablets, or mobile devices.
Your instructor must have Daylight turned on before you can use
this feature.
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Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Re sponsi ve mult i -actions in tables | Updated 10.6.9
Actions performed in tables now adhere to the Daylight Experience styling and responsive behavior. Actions include search and
result count, paging controls including legacy numeric paging, and inline filters.
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Users Only
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Moderate impact to all instructors who use Brightspace Learning Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
Environment on small screens, tablets, or mobile devices.
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Typog raphy changes to Dayl ight sty les | Updated 10.6.9
The light weight of the Lato font have been replaced with the normal weight of the Lato font. This update increases accessibility
for users with low vision or eye sensitivity. Some projectors, operating systems, and browsers also see better rendering of text
at the heavier font weight. In addition, the 20 point font size is also being used more sparingly, and the size and line height of
headings, field labels, or other topographical elements have had minor changes to fit into the new style.
Note that these changes do not affect products that manage their own styles, such as Brightspace Assignment Grader. Content
topics and custom widgets also maintain their own font styles. You may choose to update your font use to match the heavier
font.
Organization Wide
Look and Feel
Users Only
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Moderate impact to all instructors who use Brightspace Learning Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
Environment on small screens, tablets, or mobile devices.
use this feature.
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Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Improve me nt s t o My Courses widget | New 10.6.10
Improvements to the My Courses widget include the following items:

Users can now include a catalog and custom image in Copy Course Components, import content, and export content.
Select the image as a component during the copy, export, or import workflow.

The course search functionality has been improved.
Figure 13: As you enter search criteria, suggested results display beneath the search box.
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Figure 14: You can perform an advanced search by using the Advanced Search link below the Search field. On the Search My
Courses page, you can search your courses and further refine your results based on search criteria.
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Users Only
Workflow
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors who include course catalog and
image when copying and exporting content.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you
can use this feature.
Slight impact to all users who search the My Courses widget
due to improved ability to narrow search results.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Re sk in of Dis cuss ions and Quizz ing pages | New 10.6.10
There have been updates to the following pages to include additional Daylight Experience styles:

Discussions

Quizzes - Student view while taking a quiz
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Users Only
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to all instructors due to change in styles.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Gene ral a vailab il ity | New 10.6.11
The Brightspace product suite has been redesigned using the Brightspace Daylight Experience. This new design provides
increased visual appeal including new fonts, icons, colors, and simpler formatting. There have been changes to improve
responsive navigation for mobile devices, tablets, and other narrow displays. Applications and tools now have a consistent look
and feel with a focus on learning activities.
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The Daylight Experience also features a new My Courses widget that provides a responsive tile-based layout and a new image
library that contains over 3000 images.
Figure 15: Daylight Experience styles featured on a laptop screen
Figure 16: Daylight Experience styles featured on a tablet and mobile device screen
The Brightspace Daylight Experience features are now optimized for production environments when using the Google Chrome
or Apple Safari browsers. The core tools and workflows in Brightspace Learning Environment have been tested extensively on
these two browsers. In the coming months, D2L will continue to make updates across the product suite that reflect Daylight
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design and will continue to optimize the Daylight Experience in other browser environments. Turning on Daylight does not
modify your content or other settings in Brightspace. All workflows and features in the Brightspace Daylight experience are
available on all supported browsers; however, D2L is continuing to optimize performance and improve page load times on
browsers other than Chrome and Safari.
Configuration Variable
Organization Wide
Global Change
Look and Feel
Workflow
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to all users who are now able to use the Daylight
Experience in a production environment optimized for the
Google Chrome or Apple Safari browsers.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on before you can
use this feature.
Da yl ight E xpe rie nce - Improve me nt s t o the My Cour ses widget | Updated 10.6.11
The My Courses widget has been improved in the following ways:

Improved ability to search for courses.

Relevant courses automatically display in the widget for most users. Based on your enrollments and Course Access
options, up to 12 current and future courses automatically display in the widget. Instructors with more than 12 current and
future courses that haven’t manually pinned at least one course continue to see a banner message to remind them to pin
their courses using the options in the View All Courses page. The widget does not override any choice an instructor has
made to specifically pin or unpin a course.
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
For courses that aren't current or active, the My Courses widget now displays course start dates, course end dates, and
course inactive states.
Figure 17: For instructors to see courses that aren’t current or active, the My Courses widget displays course start dates, course
end dates, and course inactive states.

If a course is inactive but has started, the course tile has a yellow dot in the top right corner. A banner displays in the
widget indicating to the instructor that students are not able to access inactive courses.
Figure 18: A yellow dot appears in the top right corner of a course tile if the course is inactive but has started.

The Course Offering information page is available as an option on the course context menu. Instructors can use this
information page to quickly change a setting such as the course active state.
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Figure 19: The Course Offering information page is available as an option on the course drop-down menu

Course titles in the My Courses widget now display a total count of the unread course updates, including unread discussion
posts, ungraded quiz attempts, unattempted quizzes, unread assignment submissions, and assignment submissions with
unread feedback. If the total count is more than 99 items, the number appears as 99+ on the title. Click on the numbered
link to view the Updates widget on the course home page.
Figure 20: Course titles in the My Courses widget display a total count of the unread course updates.
Configuration Variable
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Role Permissions
Users Only
Workflow
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Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to change in workflow.
Your administrator must have Daylight turned on and a permission
set before you can use this feature.
Da yl ight Expe rie nce - Optional cou rse image banner on widget -based homepages | New 10.7.0
Instructors can now add a course image banner below the navigation bar on widget-based course homepages. The banner
provides a venue to personalize the look and feel of course homepages and provide a connection between the course tile in the
My Courses widget and the course homepage.
Instructors can remove the banner using an option on the Course Offering Information page.
Figure 21: When instructors are required to opt in to using the course banner, they must select the Display the image in a
banner on the course homepage checkbox.
When this feature is turned on, instructors are required to set a banner for their courses. In the Course Offering Information
dialog box, instructors can select the course image.
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Figure 22: Instructors can choose a course banner image using the Course Offering Information box by clicking the More Options
menu
The Brightspace Daylight Experience features are now optimized for production environments when using the Google Chrome
or Apple Safari browsers. The core tools and workflows in Brightspace Learning Environment have been tested extensively on
these two browsers. In the coming months, D2L will continue to make updates across the product suite that reflect Daylight
design and will continue to optimize the Daylight Experience in other browser environments. Turning on Daylight does not
modify your content or other settings in Brightspace. All workflows and features in the Brightspace Daylight experience are
available on all supported browsers; however, D2L is continuing to optimize performance and improve page load times on
browsers other than Chrome and Safari.
Configuration Variable
Look and Feel
On-Premise
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to
the ability to add a course image
banner to their course homepage
or review the banner if it is turned
on by default.
Note that the maximum display size for the Your administrator must have Daylight turned on
course image banner is 1230 by 200 pixels. and a permission set before you can use this
Larger images and images with different
feature.
aspect ratios are automatically resized
appropriately.
CONTENT
Content - Se parat e Org fi le s from Shared file s | Update 10.6.4
Instructors can now be set up to only view, or view and edit files in the Shared Files area. Instructors can store templates and
files in the Shared Files area and other instructors can then import these files into their courses when creating content. If you
have the view only permission and you would like to edit a file in the Shared Files area, you are prompted to save a copy of the
file in the Course Offering Files area. If you have the view and edit files permissions, you are prompted to either save a copy of
the file they want to edit in the Course Offering Files area, create a new file within the Shared Files area, or overwrite the
existing file within the Shared Files area.
This feature implements PIE Ideas D1522 and D2705.
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Figure 23: Add a file to Content from Shared Files
Global Change
Organization Wide
Role Permissions
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to change in workflow.
Your administrator must turn on the permissions set before you
can use this feature.
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Content - Support de fault MIME t ype mapping | Update 10.6.4
Instructors can now upload new file types into their courses and learners can download them without encountering an error.
This feature changes the default behavior when learners try to download new file types that instructors have uploaded into
course content and have linked to within an HTML file.
Global Change
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors who
can upload new file types into
course content and link to them
within an HTML file.
Restricted file types (like *.exe) still cannot be
uploaded into Content. There is no change to
upload functionality or restrictions.
N/A
Slight impact to students who
can download new file types
linked to within their course
content without encountering
an error.
N/A
Note that any new special file types that must be
opened with a specific application instead of being
downloaded, for example, a new media type, must
be registered as the correct MIME type and require
a code change in Brightspace Learning Environment.
N/A
DISCUSSIONS
D is cuss ions - Improve me nt s t o g roup discuss ions | New 10.6.9
Brightspace Learning Environment 10.6.9 simplifies the management of group discussion topics.
New Topic workflow - When you are creating a new topic, on the Properties tab, the topic type defaults to Open topic.
Administrators and instructors can select the new Group or section topic option instead. Once you create and save the topic,
you cannot change the topic type. If you selected the topic type as open, you can access the original Group Restrictions area on
the Restrictions tab.
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Figure 24: New topic Properties tab

New Group Category workflow - To create a new group category the original way, select the Create one topic per group
radio button. To create group categories the new way, select the Create one topic with threads separated by group radio
button.
Figure 25: Create group discussion – default
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Figure 26: Create group discussion - new option

Creating / reading / participating in group discussions - One discussion topic is created for an entire group and posts within
it are associated with specific groups. As a result, instructors observe less scrolling on the discussion list. Instructors can
use the new All Groups filter on the topic to view all posts or to only view posts for a specific group. Inside a discussion
thread, users can see which group the thread belongs to.
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Figure 27: New thread - choice of group
Figure 28: Groups filter
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Figure 29: View discussion thread

Assessments - Only one grade item is required. This makes assessing discussion topics faster as instructors do not have to
navigate in and out of topics to complete an assessment.

Copying groups - Now, when instructors copy groups to new courses, the group setup (grade item, assessment option,
etc.) is also copied over.
There is no change in workflow for students as they can only see one discussion topic and the posts within it that are associated
with their group, as expected.
This feature implements PIE items D113, D185, D386, D511, and D3362.
Configuration Variable
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to the change in the group
discussions user interface and due to the change in workflow
related to assessing group discussions and reading topics in the
discussion list.
To use the updated create group discussions user interface, your
administrator must turn on this feature at the site.
Once the feature is turned on, instructors can also use the
updated create group discussions user interface.
Contact your administrator if you do not see the updated create
group discussions user interface.
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D is cuss ions - R e ading view use r int e rface changes | Update 10.6.9
When viewing a discussion topic, the properties are now listed together, directly below the topic's name. This includes
availability and locking information along with other details set by the instructor. The filtering options are now displayed in a
Filter by drop-down list above individual posts to allow sorting by unread, flagged, and unapproved posts.
Note: These changes only apply to viewing a discussion topic in the Reading View in the Discussions tool. It doesn’t apply to
viewing a discussion topic in the Grid View or from within the Content tool.
Figure 30: Topic properties and filtering options have an updated look
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to N/A
change in location of the topic
properties and filtering dropdown menu.
N/A
Slight impact to students due to
change in location of the topic
properties and filtering dropdown menu.
N/A
N/A
DOCUMENT VIEWER
Do cument Vie we r - Vie wing e x pe rie nce | Updated 10.6.8
This enhanced viewing experience allows instructors to view PDF and image files in their original format.
Global Change
Organization Wide
Tool Change
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due
to an updated viewing
experience for PDF and image
files in Assignments and
Brightspace Learning
Repository.
N/A
N/A
GRADES
Grades - Inc lude g roup and se ct ion information in grade exports | New 10.6.6
When exporting grades from the grade book, under User Details, there is a new option to include group and section
membership information for each user. This allows for more detailed analysis of grade exports outside of Brightspace Learning
Environment.
Note: These group and section membership export options are only available if the course you are working in contains groups
or sections.
This feature implements PIE items D1840 and D2281.
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Figure 31: The option to include group and section information is available in grade exports.
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Slight impact to instructors who
export grades from courses with
multiple sections or groups due to
availability of new User Details
options.
These group and section membership export options are
only available if the course you are working in contains
groups or sections.
Next Steps
When exporting grades, you can
optionally include Group or Section
details for each student by
selecting the corresponding option
under User Details.
Grades - Grade book workf low and updated calculations for exemptions | New 10.6.8
Instructors can now use an exemption as a reason why a learner has not completed a grade item. Previously, a blank grade
could mean the student hasn’t submitted the item, and a zero (0) could mean either exempt, ungraded, or failure. Having a
specific exemption setting supports the differentiation for students. Instructors can now exempt numeric, selectbox, pass/fail,
calculated, formula, and text item types; however, instructors cannot exempt a learner from a final calculated grade or a final
adjusted grade.
When an instructor exempts a grade item for a learner, the following pages are affected:

Instructor pages: Enter Grades, Grade User, Grade Category, Grade Item, Import Preview.

Student pages: My Grades.

User Progress: Summary and Grades tabs.

Grade Category and Grade User pages display exemptions, but do not support adding or removing exemptions.
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Figure 32: Instructors can exempt a student from an assignment. The exemption appears in the Scheme field of the grade table.
Configuration Variable
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors who set
and remove grade exemptions, and
to students who view their grades
page that can contain exemption
entries.
Exemptions affect the calculations of formula grades,
Your administrator must have the
calculated grade, grade categories, and final grades.
feature turned on and permission
When an exemption is set or cleared, it creates an Event set before you can use this feature.
Log entry.
Grades - Exe mpt e d g rade it e m e f fe ct s on release conditions | New 10.6.8
Instructors can set release conditions to provide new content to learners after a particular grade item is complete. Since Grade
Exemptions do not count as completed grade items nor do they count as incomplete grade items, there are two release
conditions that are affected by exemptions:

Grade value on grade item

No grade received
These release items now respect the exemption and do not trigger on the presence of a grade exemption.
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Configuration Variable
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors who
set and remove grade
exemptions, and have release
conditions set that depend on
grades.
Exemptions affect the calculations of formula
grades, calculated grade, grade categories, and
final grades. When an exemption is set or cleared,
it creates an Event Log entry.
Your administrator must have
the feature turned on and a
permission set before you can
use this feature.
Grades - Grade e x empt ions can be imported and exported | New 10.6.8
The process that exports and imports grade data now includes exemptions. Post-processing for export activities can
differentiate between a student with a grade, without a grade, and with an exemption.
Configuration Variable
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors who set and remove grade
exemptions, and to students who view their grades page that can
contain exemption entries.
Your administrator must have this feature turned on and a
permission set before you can use this feature.
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Grades - Show e x e mpt e d g rade it e ms in Clas s Progres s | New 10.6.8
Exempted grades appear in the Grades tab on a student’s User Progress page, but do not appear in the Grades section of the
Summary Tab or the bar graph for received grades at the top of both Grades sections.
Figure 33: Grade Exemptions appear on the student’s User Progress page.
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors who
set and remove grade
exemptions, and view
exemptions in the Class Progress.
Exemptions affect the calculations of formula
grades, calculated grades, grade categories, and
final grades. When an exemption is set or cleared,
it creates an Event Log entry.
Your administrator must have
this feature turned on before
you can use this feature.
Grades - Aut omat ical ly re le a se final g rades | Updated 10.6.9
This feature allows final grades to be released automatically to learners so that instructors don’t have to manually release them
as students enroll in a course. Final grades released before the end of a course serve as current grades for students and can
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show them their progress throughout the term. If you have the role permission, you can change the setting for your course(s)
without affecting the site’s default.
This feature implements PIE item D173.
Figure 34: Automatically release final grade option in Grades Settings
Figure 35: Automatically release final grade option in Grades Setup Wizard
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Configuration Variable
Global Change
Organization Wide
Role Permissions
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to
the availability of a new option in
the Grades tool.
If instructors turn on this option, new final grades in the
course release automatically without affecting the
organization default.
Your administrator must have this
feature turned on and a permission
set before you can use this feature.
If your administrator turns on the feature, and if they've For final grades to release
enabled the required permission, instructors can turn off automatically to learners in a
this option for their course(s) without affecting the site. course, in Grades Settings, in the
Calculation Options tab, select the
Note that if instructors enable this option, the release
Automatically release final grade
status of existing final grades is not affected. That is,
option. Alternatively, in Step 2 of
unreleased grades aren't released automatically; they
the Grades Setup Wizard, select the
must still be released manually.
Automatically release final grade
option.
Grades - Exe mpt a le arne r f rom mult iple grade items | New 10.6.11
The grade exemption workflow in Grades has been updated to allow instructors to exempt students from multiple grade items
at one time, through the use of multi-select checkboxes.
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Figure 36: Bulk exemptions of grade items
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to the update to the grade
exemption workflow.
Your administrator must have this feature turned on before you
can use this feature.
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HTML EDITOR
HTML Ed itor - TinyMCE | Updat ed 1 0 .6 .6
TinyMCE has been updated to version 4.4.2 as part of quarterly maintenance.
Tool Change
HTML Ed itor - Cut and Past e │ Update d 10.6.7
Users can now copy and paste content from a Microsoft Word document or HTML source and the content retains the look and
feel of the source document. In the HTML Editor, use CTRL+V to paste in the content. Select a formatting option for the pasted
content: remove formatting or keep formatting.
This feature implements PIE item D2627.
Note: When copying and pasting from a different program, webpage, and/or from a page in a D2L course, you don’t have the
option to remove formatting in the HTML Editor. Please paste the text into a Microsoft Word first, copy the text, then paste it
into the HTML Editor without formatting. This would help avoid issues with copying extraneous source code in discussion
posts, content topics, and announcement items. View FAQ 1654 Frozen Discussions in Reading View in the Minnesota State’s
D2L Knowledge Base for more information.
Figure 37: You can copy and paste content from Microsoft Word using the CTRL+V keys on your device’s keyboard.
Global Change
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Slight impact to all users who can
now paste content from MS Word
or an HTML site and have the look
and feel of that content retained.
Improved paste functionality is the result of an update to N/A
the plugin.
Next Steps
HTML Ed itor - Mat h Edit or | Updat e d 1 0.6.10
The Math Editor in the HTML Editor tool has been updated. Now, when equations are inserted into the HTML Editor, instructors
can see the equations inline while they are editing their work.
Figure 38: Math editor
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Users Only
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to all users who can
now preview math equations
within the HTML Editor tool.
N/A
N/A
INTEGRATIONS
URKUND Plag ia rism Che cke r - UR KUND Plagiar ism Checker integration avai lable | New 10.6.10
The URKUND Plagiarism Checker integration is now available for Brightspace Learning Environment.
Figure 39: Instructor view of the URKUND integration
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Figure 40: Submission detail information
Configuration Variable
Global Change
Integration
Organization Wide
Workflow
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Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to the availability of URKUND
Plagiarism Checker integration to be used with the Assignments
tool.
Your administrator must have this feature turned on before you
can use this feature. The URKUND integration must be available at
your site before you can use this feature.
Access the URKUND integration from your course and set which
assignment submission folders you want to use the plagiarism
control feature. After student submissions are processed, a score
and report are available to access. For support assistance contact
URKUND directly.
Slight impact to students due to new workflow for accessing
assignments analyzed for plagiarism using the URKUND
integration.
On the navbar, click URKUND to view your submissions that have
been checked for plagiarism.
V irtual Cla ssrooms and Vide o Ass ig nments - Live Captioning Role availab le | New 10.6.11
Virtual Classrooms can have a user assigned to caption a meeting while it is in session. The captions are visible in live and
recorded presentations for any users subscribed to view captions.
Integration
Role Permissions
Tool Change
Users Only
Impact of Change
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to the ability to designate a
stenographer for Virtual Classrooms presentations.
1. To designate a stenographer select the Layout menu and
choose Closed Captioning from the available options.
2. Pick from the available languages and click Take Ownership.
3. Text can then be entered and is visible to anyone viewing the
captioning for the presentation.
Slight impact to students due to the ability to view captions in
live and recorded presentations.
To view available captions, subscribe to closed captioning when
accessing a presentation.
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V irtual Cla ssrooms and Vide o Ass ig nments - Breakout rooms avai lable in Vi rtual Cla ssrooms
Premium | Ne w 10 .6 .1 1
To quickly divide a class into smaller teams for isolated discussions, instructors can now create breakout rooms in Virtual
Classrooms Premium.
Integration
Tool Change
Users Only
Workflow
Impact of Change
Slight impact to Instructors due to
change in workflow when using
Virtual Classrooms Premium.
Slight impact to students due to the
availability of breakout rooms.
Technical Details
Instructors have the ability to start, monitor, and close
breakout rooms.
N/A
Next Steps
In the Virtual Classrooms Users
pane, click the gear icon and select
Breakout Rooms. Set the number
of rooms, the time limit for the
rooms, and if recording of rooms is
available to students.
An invitation to join a breakout
room is received once the room
settings are finalized by your
instructor. In the dialog box click
Yes to join the breakout room in a
new browser tab.
INTELLIGENT AGENTS
Int el ligent Ag ent s - Tool Improve me nt s | New 10.6.4
Brightspace Learning Environment 10.6.4 introduces new features and functionality for Intelligent Agents:

A new history page allows users creating Intelligent Agents to see each time the agent runs, which users it identifies, what
emails have been sent, and details on any errors that occurred during the agent run. You can view this page by clicking
View History on the Edit Agent page. It is also available from the context menu of the agent on the Agent List page. You
can view the history of the most recently executed run directly from Results of Last Run in the agent list. This lists how
many users were identified, and/or error information. This feature implements PIE item D158.

A new mode for running Intelligent Agents allows users to select Practice Run from the agent context menu on the Agent
List page. This runs the agent, and reports back a list of users who met the specified criteria. Users identified in a practice
run are not notified or emailed. A practice run does not count as an action when using the Take action only the first time
the agent’s criteria are satisfied for a user type of agent. As with existing Intelligent Agents, the agent must be turned on
to trigger a practice run. In conjunction with the new history page, users can also now see the history of all practice runs.
This feature partially implements PIE item D2312.
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
In Intelligent Agents Settings, instructors can now set custom values for the Name that emails come from and Reply-To
address for responses so that the automated emails can appear to come from the instructor instead of from a helpdesk.
Learners can reply directly to the agent emails and replies are directed to the instructor. If instructors want their emails to
continue to come from a helpdesk and do not want to have a reply-to function, they don't have to take any action to
maintain the existing behavior. The course values for Name that emails come from and Reply-To address for responses
are not copied during copy course components and instructors need to update these fields post-copy. This feature
implements PIE items D157 and D2884.
When an instructor uses custom values, the Name that emails come from displays to learners as the person from whom
the email is sent, both in the email header and in Messages alerts in the minibar. When learners reply to an email,
responses route to the email address specified in Reply-To address for responses.

There is no longer a 4000-character limit on email text from Intelligent Agents. This is now unlimited. This feature
implements PIE item D1979.

The Agent Name field in an Intelligent Agent previously truncated to 50 characters. It now has an available length of 128
characters.

Existing Intelligent Agents without any conditions attached to them (“empty” agents) no longer run and spam all users.
When an empty agent is triggered, it fails with an error and is automatically turned off. This error info is available on the
history page. This feature implements PIE items D1158 and D1159.

Users can now copy Intelligent Agents within the same course from a new context menu item for each agent listed in the
Agent List. The copy is called "Copy of <name>" and is turned off by default. This feature implements PIE item D2858.
Figure 41: The results of agent runs can now be viewed on a history page
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Figure 42: Users creating Intelligent Agents can now test them with a Practice Run option
Figure 43: Instructors can now customize the From name in Intelligent Agent emails
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Figure 44: Instructors can now also receive replies to Intelligent Agent emails directly
Global Change
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to users creating
Intelligent Agents due to a tool
change providing a new history
page within Intelligent Agents.
Some data from agent runs done prior to the release of N/A
this feature is migrated to the new history page. For
example, users see past agent runs listed, however no
email information is available. For agents where Take
action only the first time the agent’s criteria are
satisfied for a user is set, migrations include which users
received emails on past runs, so that re-notification does
not occur.
Slight impact to users creating
Intelligent Agents due to a tool
change that allows for practice
runs of Intelligent Agents.
N/A
N/A
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to
tool change that allows for custom
values to be used for the Name
that emails come from and ReplyTo address for responses fields in
Intelligent Agent Settings.
Instructors who want their agents to continue to come
from a helpdesk and who do not want to have a reply-to
function can do nothing and the existing behavior is
maintained.
N/A
Instructors who want to override the system values with
their own name and/or email can do this via the Settings
page in Intelligent Agents in their course.
The course values for Name that emails come from and
Reply-To address for responses are not copied during
copy course components.
Slight impact to instructors due to
tool change that allows for
increased number of characters in
the email text from Intelligent
Agents.
N/A
N/A
Slight impact to instructors due to
tool change that allows for
increased number of characters in
the Agent Name field of an
Intelligent Agent.
N/A
N/A
Slight impact to instructors creating
Intelligent Agents due to new
workflow for existing Intelligent
Agents for which no conditions are
attached.
When an "empty" agent is triggered (i.e. an agent for
N/A
which previous release conditions that were applied to
the agent have been deleted through other means), it
will fail with an error and be automatically disabled. This
error information is available on the new history page.
Slight impact to instructors due to
tool change that allows instructors
to copy Intelligent Agents within a
course.
N/A
N/A
Intel ligent Ag ent s - Tool Improve me nt s | New 10.6.7
Brightspace Learning Environment 10.6.7 introduces new features and functionality for Intelligent Agents:

Scheduled intelligent agents stop running and are automatically disabled if the course is inactive, over (end date passed),
or deleted. You can still set up a practice run or a manual run of an intelligent agent at any time in a course with a passed
end date. This feature implements PIE item D1156.
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Users can now multi-select and delete agents on the Agent List page. The new Restore Agents page allows you to restore deleted
agents. All restored agents maintain existing properties and history. Deleted agents do not run if they have a recurring schedule.
This feature implements PIE item D2664.
Figure 45: Intelligent Agents Settings page
Figure 46: Intelligent Agents Settings page

The Practice Run and Run Now options work on disabled agents. You no longer have to enable the agent prior to selecting
these options. The enable/disable status only affects scheduled runs and not the agent. Enabled now means that the
schedule is enabled for an agent.

There are three new replace strings available for use when composing the email sent with an agent:

{LastLoginDate} - The date the initiating user last logged in or Never if they have not logged in. This lang term can be
edited. The date format is Tuesday, September 20, 2016 9:39 AM EDT, for example.

{LastCourseAccessDate} - The date the initiating user last accessed the course or Never if they have not accessed the
course. This lang term can be edited. The date format is Tuesday, September 20, 2016 9:39 AM EDT, for example. This
feature implements PIE item D2762.

{OrgUnitId} - The org unit ID required to make quicklinks work in the emails sent with an agent.
There is inline help for replace strings with updated text that includes the three new replace strings.
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Figure 47: Intelligent Agents Settings page
The Agent List page contains a new column that lists the Next Run Date for scheduled agents. There is no next run date if a
schedule is not enabled.
Figure 48: Intelligent Agents Settings page
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
The Intelligent Agents Settings page contains a note that indicates the time of day the scheduled agents will run.
Figure 49: Intelligent Agents Settings page
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due to
multiple improvements to the
Intelligent Agents tool.
N/A
N/A
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LTI
LTI - Content -It e m Me ssag e 1 .0 | Ne w 10.6.5
Instructors can select and insert content from the third party tool into Brightspace Learning Environment. Depending on the
type of third party tool, the tool will be added to one or both of the following locations in Brightspace Learning Environment:

Content > Add Existing menu option or the Insert Quicklink option in the HTML Editor - used to add content as Quicklinks

Insert Stuff option in the HTML Editor - used to add items as Objects
Configuration Variable
Global Change
Integration
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Moderate impact to instructors
who can add Quicklinks in
Brightspace Learning Environment
using the Content > Add Existing or
Insert Quicklink options and
objects using the Insert Stuff
option.
Technical Details
Next Steps
N/A
Your administrator must have this
feature turned on before you can
use this feature.
LTI - Content -It e m Me ssag e Se rv ice for Course Import | New 10.6.6
This feature is the application of LTI Content-Item Message 1.0 to Course Import. Instructors can now use the standard ContentItem Message as the content picker for inserting third-party common cartridge packages into Brightspace Learning
Environment. This can be done using Course Import from Table of Contents or Import/Export/Copy Components in
Brightspace Learning Environment.
Configuration Variable
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Moderate impact to instructors
who can use the Course Import
(CIM) plugin to import common
cartridge packages from a thirdparty tool provider into
Brightspace Learning
Environment.
N/A
Your administrator must have
this feature turned on before
you can use this feature.
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QUIZZES
Quizzes and Surve y s - D ire ct e x port of report data to Mic rosoft Ex cel – Updated 10.6.5
You can export quizzes and surveys data using the Export to Excel button in Quizzes and Surveys. The Excel format supports
Unicode and accented characters.
Figure 50: The Quiz Attempts screen now includes the Export To Excel button
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Figure 51: The User Statistics tab now includes the Export To Excel button
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Figure 52: The Question Statistics tab now includes the Export To Excel button
Workflow
Impact of Change
Slight impact to instructors who
export report data for Surveys and
Quizzes.
Tool Change
Technical Details
N/A
Next Steps
In the report areas within Surveys
and Quizzes, click the Export to
Excel button. You can view the
resulting XLSX file using Microsoft
Excel.
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Quizzes - Cre at e / Edit Mult iple Choice Questions | Updated 10.6.7
This feature is a visual redesign of the Quizzes tool that improves and modernizes its look and feel. This feature also enables
responsive multiple choice question editing layouts.
Instructors can opt-in or opt-out of this new look and feel. There is no change in the workflow related to creating and editing
multiple choice questions.
This feature implements PIE items D977, D1452, and D3320.
Figure 53: Initial launch of the new question creation experience
Figure 54: Editing Question and preview screen
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Configuration Variable
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Moderate impact to instructors due Click Leave it on to use the new create / edit multiple
to the change in the Quizzes >
choice questions user interface.
create/edit multiple choice
Click Turn it off to return to the original user interface.
question user interface.
Next Steps
Your administrator must have this
feature turned on before you can use
this feature. Contact your
administrator if you do not see the
new create / edit Multiple Choice
question user interface.
Quizzes - Cre at e / e dit True or False questions | Updated 10.6.8
Building upon the visual redesign of the Quizzes tool, this feature enables responsive True or False (T/F) creating / editing
layouts.
Instructors can opt-in or opt-out of this new look and feel. There is no change in the workflow related to creating and editing
True or False questions.
Figure 55: Creating a True or False question in the new interface for the Quizzes tool
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Configuration Variable
Global Change
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Moderate impact to instructors due To use the new create / edit True or False questions user
to the change in the Quizzes >
interface, click Leave it on.
create / edit True or False question
To return to the original user interface, click Turn it off.
user interface.
Your administrator must have this
configuration variable turned on
before you can use this feature.
If you do not see the new create /
edit True or False question user
interface, contact your
administrator.
Quizzes - Cre at e / e dit Long Answe r questions | Updated 10.6.9
As another stage in the visual redesign of the Quizzes tool, the Long Answer (LA) question creation and editing layouts have
been updated. Additionally, on the question creation page, a drop-down menu now gives users the ability to select the type of
question they want to create.
Instructors can opt in or opt out of this new look and feel. There is no change in the workflow related to creating and editing
Long Answer questions.
Figure 56: Creating a Long Answer question in the updated interface for the Quizzes tool
Configuration Variable
Global Change
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Look and Feel
Impact of Change
Tool Change
Technical Details
Moderate impact to instructors due To use the new create/edit Long Answer questions user
to the change in the Quizzes >
interface, in the Welcome to the new Question Creation
create/edit Long Answer question
Experience! flyout, click Leave it on.
user interface.
To return to the original user interface, in the Welcome
to the new Question Creation Experience! flyout, click
Turn it off.
Next Steps
Your administrator must have this
configuration variable turned on
before you can use this feature.
If you do not see the new
create/edit Long Answer question
user interface, contact your
administrator.
Quizzes - Cre at e / e dit Short Answe r questions | Updated 10.6.10
As another stage in the visual redesign of the Quizzes tool, the Short Answer (SA) question creation and editing layouts have
been updated. Instructors can opt in or out of this new look and feel.
Some additional updates were made to Short Answer questions along with the visual redesign:

All answers for a blank are assessed using the same comparison method, that is, either Text (case insensitive text), CaseSensitive Text, or Regular Expression. Each blank can still be assessed using a different method. In the original experience,
each answer for a blank can be assessed using a different method.

Points for each blank are calculated automatically and evenly distributed. In the original experience, each blank can be
weighted differently.
Figure 57: Creating a Short Answer question in the updated interface in the Quizzes tool
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Configuration Variable
Global Change
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Moderate impact to instructors due
to the change in the Quizzes >
create/edit Short Answer question
user interface.
To use the new create/edit Short Answer questions user Your administrator must have this
interface, in the Welcome to the new Question Creation configuration variable turned on
Experience! flyout, click Leave it on. To return to the
before you can use this feature.
original user interface for the org unit, click Turn it off.
If you do not see the new
create/edit Short Answer question
user interface, contact your
administrator.
Quizzes - Improve ment s to t he ne w quizzing experience | Updated 10.6.11
This release introduces further improvements to the new quizzing experience for True or False, Multiple Choice, Long Answer,
and Short Answer quiz questions, which include the following:

If instructors opt out of the new quizzing experience, they are prompted to provide a reason why they are opting out.

An option has been added that enables users to save the current question and copy the content to a new question that
can be edited.
Figure 58: Opt out reason
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Figure 59: Save and Copy
Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due
to improvements made to the
new quizzing experience.
N/A
Your administrator must have
this feature turned on before
you can use these new features
and the new experience itself.
Quizzes - Enhance me nt s to Short Answer questions | Updated 10.6.11
Short Answer questions have been enhanced. Instructors can select the new Students must answer all blanks correctly grading
option, which is an all or nothing grading option. Learners must answer all short answer questions accurately to receive marks.
Figure 60: Grading Option - Students must answer all blanks correctly
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Global Change
Look and Feel
Organization Wide
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Large impact to instructors due N/A
to enhancements made to Short
Answer questions.
Next Steps
Your administrator must have
this feature turned on before
you can use this feature and the
new experience itself.
SCORM
SC ORM - New Brig ht space SC OR M solut ion | New 10.6.11
A new SCORM solution is available for the Brightspace platform. The new features and improvements include the following:

Integrates a new, robust SCORM Engine and Content Player to support importing, playing, and tracking interaction data for
all versions of SCORM.

Basic search capabilities of an instructor's own SCORM content.

Static and dynamic linking of SCORM objects, and linking to multiple courses.

Makes use of the new SCORM Engine to open and play SCORM objects in a new browser tab to optimize screen real
estate, instead of objects playing inline as they do in the existing solution.

Equivalent navigation between the Brightspace Learning Environment interface and the SCORM interface, and between
versions 1.2 and 2004 of SCORM objects.

Students are only marked for one attempt on the content when they open the SCORM object in full screen mode, instead
of being marked for an additional attempt as they are in the existing solution. Additionally, SCORM objects in full screen no
longer play over top of objects playing inline since in the new solution, SCORM objects automatically and only open and
play in a new window.

Has its foundation in the new Content Service, which provides standardized content access and management.
The new SCORM solution still allows users to do the following:

Instructors can import, export, and copy courses that include course content and SCORM objects, both SCORM 1.2 and
2004.

Students can play and interact with a course that includes course content and SCORM objects, both SCORM 1.2 and 2004.
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
Instructors can view high-level interaction data for their SCORM objects. In the future, more detailed interaction data will
be available.

Instructors can connect SCORM objects with grade items that automatically enter into a grade book, if that functionality is
enabled within their instance.
Figure 61: New SCORM Object option in the Content tool
Figure 62: New SCORM Object selection/upload dialog window with basic search field
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Figure 63: Static and dynamic linking options
Figure 64: SCORM Object in a content module with Open in New Window option
Figure 65: Sample SCORM Object open and ready to play in new browser tab
Configuration Variable
Look and Feel
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Role Permissions
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due Existing SCORM content does not transfer to the
to changes in some workflows
new solution. Existing content remains where it is,
within the new SCORM solution. and users interact with it in the same manner as
before. All new content that is uploaded leverages
the new capabilities and workflows.
Your administrator must have
this feature turned on before
you can use this new solution.
Slight impact to students due to
changes in the look and feel
when they access SCORM
objects in Brightspace Learning
Environment.
N/A
N/A
USER PROGRESS
User Progress - Use r Prog re s s t ool i s now the Class Progress tool | Updated 10.6.7
To improve language consistency in the Brightspace platform, the User Progress tool is now called the Class Progress tool.
Related page names and tool references elsewhere in the Brightspace platform reflect this change. User Progress is still used on
pages where a single learner’s progress displays, but Class Progress is used where the progress of all users in a class displays.
Figure 66: Class Progress tool under Learner Management in Course Administration
Configuration Variable
Global Change
Role Permissions
Tool Change
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors due
to tool name change from User
Progress to Class Progress.
In Course Administration under Learner
Management, Class Progress now displays.
N/A
User Progress - Dropped Grade s appe ar on Summar y and Grades tabs | New 10.6.8
In the User Progress tool, it is important that instructors and learners are aware of which grade items are dropped. Changes to
the User Progress tool now provide more clear information about which grades are included in the calculation of a final mark
and clearly indicate which items are included in category totals. Changes include:

On the Grades section of the summary page, dropped items do not appear.

On the Grades Detail page, dropped items are indicated by Dropped! Not included in the final grade.

An exclamation mark appears beside dropped items, and the hover text reads Dropped.

The bar graph on the top of both the Grades and Summary pages does not include dropped items.

The Grades bar graph on the Class Progress screen does not include dropped items.

Drop rules appear under each category.
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Figure 67: Grade items and categories show the drop rules and the grade items that have been dropped and are not included in
the final grade.
Configuration Variable
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Slight impact to instructors and
N/A
students who can now better see
how grade items affect final grades
Next Steps
Your administrator must have this
feature turned on before you can
use this feature.
User Progress - Improve d di splay o f g rade item weights | Updated 10.6.8
Gradebook items now display the weight of the item as part of the final mark. Weights for both the weight of each item and
category and the marks achieved in both item and category provide the student with information about how they are
progressing at every point in the course. This is important because individual grade items often have different weights toward
the final mark, and reviewing grades without knowing their weight does not help a student understand the relative success of
their progress in the course. For example, a student may achieve a very high mark in a grade item that contributes very little to
the final mark, and may do very poorly on a mark that contributes a high weight to the final mark. Without knowing the weights
of each grade item, the student might incorrectly assume that they all contribute to an equally weighted average.
Students can view their grades within the gradebook with the weight achieved, which makes the views consistent in both User
Progress and Grades.
The following pages show the grade items with weights toward the final grade:

Grades (detail) tab of User Progress
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
Grades (summary) tab of User Progress
Figure 68: On the detail view of the Grades tab, each category shows the weight value, the achieved value toward the final
grade, and the achieved percentage mark. You can expand the category to see each grade item.
Figure 69: On the summary view of the Grades tab, each category shows the weight value, the achieved value toward the final
grade, and the achieved percentage mark.
Configuration Variable
Look and Feel
Tool Change
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to instructors and
students who now have a more
robust view of how grade items
contribute to final grades.
N/A
Your administrator must have this
feature turned on before you can
use this feature.
VIDEO NOTE
V ideo Note - EMEA re g ion support | New 10.6.6
The microservice used by Video Note is now deployed in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, allowing students
and instructors in that region to use Video Note in Brightspace Learning Environment.
Global Change
System Requirement Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
No impact to instructors.
Video Note is a light-weight video recording service that
allows students and instructors to record short videos
with a webcam. These videos can be added where video
attachments are supported and when the HTML Editor’s
Insert Stuff option is available.
For detailed information regarding
data residency, privacy, and
transmission, refer to the updated
Microservices in the Brightspace
Cloud guide when it is released.
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