What's new?

This section describes the most recent changes to Brightspace Help, based on the latest release.

For detailed information about new features, fixed issues, and known issues in the latest release, see the current release notes on the Brightspace Community, an additional D2L resource where you can get help from community members, Brightspace experts, access blogs, and peruse FAQs, 24/7.

Note: The product number of Brightspace Learning Environment changed with the April 2019 release. The product number, which would have been 10.9.0 under the previous versioning convention, is instead 20.19.4. The base number, 20.19, represents the year and .4 represents the month, which will increment with each monthly release.

Revision Date	Summary of Changes
December 5, 2019	No updates
November 7, 2019	Brightspace Learning Environment: Updated the Where can I find my username topic to include information for Ontario educators. Updated the Search for courses and self-enroll using Discover topic to include the option to self-unenroll from courses.
October 3, 2019	Brightspace Learning Environment Updated the Brightspace Pulse topic to include updated iOS support. Updated the Brightspace Pulse platform requirements topic to update iOS support.
September 5, 2019	Brightspace Learning Environment Updated the View notifications in Brightspace Pulse topic to add Activity Feed notification support. Updated the Create Activity Feed post topic with information about new attachment workflow and inline rendering of attachments.
August 1, 2019	Brightspace Learning Environment: Updated the Change personal settings in Brightspace Learning Environment topic to reflect new and removed notification options. Updated the View course progress with the Class Progress tool topic for viewing progress on learning outcomes. Added the View course progress against learning outcomes topic to reflect the new Standards tab for viewing progress on learning outcomes. Updated the Navigate course content in the new Content experience (Lessons) topic to reflect user interface changes. Integrations Updated Completing a video assignment topic with additional detail and link for Video Assignments by Bongo.
July 4, 2019	Brightspace Learning Environment: Updated the Change personal settings in Brightspace Learning Environment topic to include changes to the user-profile badge. Added the new Using Blackboard Ally to view alternative accessible formats of content topic. Updated the Navigate course content in the new Content experience (Lessons) topic to reflect user interface changes. Added instructional videos to the following topics: Submit an assignment, Manage course events with the Calendar tool, Create a personal chat with the Chat tool, Find and contact other learners in your course with Classlist, Navigate course content in the classic Content experience, Navigate course content in the new Content experience (Lessons), Create a discussion thread, View your grades, Take a quiz, View course progress with the Class Progress tool, Change personal settings in Brightspace Learning Environment, Navigate Brightspace Learning Environment, Why can't I access the next quiz attempt?, and How do I delete an Assignments submission? Brightspace Portfolio: Added the Assign categories to tag evidence in Brightspace Portfolio topic and updated the Using My Portfolio topic to reflect the ability to assign categories to tag evidence. Brightspace Pulse: Updated the View notifications in Brightspace Pulse topic to reflect updated information about update notifications. Streamlined several topics by consolidating information.
June 6, 2019	Added the Search for courses and self-enroll using Discover topic. Updated the Change your chat settings topic.
May 2, 2019	Brightspace Binder Removed all legacy topics for Brightspace Binder. . Brightspace Learning Environment Updated Preferences configuration variables to remove the d2l.Preferences.FontFace legacy configuration variable. Removed the legacy topic Deprecated configuration variables. Added the following Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups topics: Setting course assignment restrictions for Managers and Manager Dashboard configuration to reflect new configuration settings for Manager Dashboard. Updated the following Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups topics: Understanding user attributes, Default attributes, Importing attributes, Download the CSV template from Brightspace, CSV Validation, Using IPSIS to import user attributes, and Import attributes manually with details for using the new reserved attribute in Manager Dashboard. Updated the Where can you use a rubric? and Controlling visibility of rubrics topics. Integrations Added the Enable IPSIS Administration and IPSIS Platform Tool and Enable IPSIS Administration Permissions topics.
April 4, 2019	Brightspace Learning Environment: Added the Create Activity Feed post topic. Updated the Using Passcards topic to include information on QR codes and user privacy. Added the Create a quicklink to a rubric in Content and Manage Rubrics through the Quicklinks menu topics. Integrations: Added the Update Sourced Id in IPSIS Dashboard topic.
March 7, 2019	Brightspace Learning Environment: Added the following topics: Access course content in the new Content experience (Lessons), Navigate the table of contents, and View course content. Renamed the View course content topic to Access course content in the classic Content experience. Integrations: Updated the Expectations topic for D2L Standard CSV. Updated the Expectations topic for One Roster.
February 7, 2019	Brightspace Learning Environment: Updated the Submit assignments topic to include a step on viewing Grammar feedback on submitting assignments. Added audio, video, image, and external content link types to the Supported Evidence types in Brightspace Portfolio topic.
January 3, 2019	Brightspace Learning Environment: Added a section about Hosting guidelines and best practices for the Brightspace environment. Added the New Experience: New / Edit Rubric topic. Updated the Classic Experience: New / Edit Rubric - Properties, Classic Experience: New / Edit Rubric - Levels and Criteria, and Classic Experience: New / Edit Rubric - Levels topics. Added the Enhanced course tiles topic to reflect new details that may display on course tiles in Brightspace Pulse. Integration Pack for Student Information Systems (IPSIS) document sections and Table of Contents re-arranged for better accessibility of information. Updated the Integration Pack for Student Information Systems (IPSIS), About the IPSIS Administration page, IPSIS Administration for SIS integrations, Mandatory Last Date of Attendance, IPSIS Administration for SIS integrations (non-Plug & Play), About the Audit Log page, Add Role mappings, and Default email message text topics. Added the Creating a new SIS Integration, Roles and Permissions, Source System Configurations, and About the Batches page topics. Removed the Initiate a batch process and Add an SIS endpoint topics.
December 6, 2018	Brightspace Learning Environment: Added the Supported Evidence types in Brightspace Portfolio topic. Added the Record Audio feature topic. Removed the CSV (CCB) mode topic. Removed the Test mode topic. Removed the d2l.Tools.Quizzes.NewExperienceOpt-In configuration variable. Integrations:
November 1, 2018	Brightspace Learning Environment: Added the Add closed captions to a video note topic, and updated the Create and insert a video note in HTML Editor topic. Renamed the Getting started topic to Get started with Brightspace Learning Environment. Updated the Learner topic to include links to popular topics. Updated the following Manager Dashboard topics: Understanding Manager Dashboard tool permissions, Overview of Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups, User role recommendations, Navigating the Manager Dashboard tool, Assign courses to your direct reports, Assign courses to other team members, Remove users from assigned courses to reflect permission setting changes for manager roles. Added new topics: Displaying course information for corporate learners and Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups permissions. Updated the Participate in discussions with other learners and Why are discussion posts not formatting correctly when I copy content over from another source? topics to clarify that the Discussions tool contains limitations when copying and pasting formatted content from other sources.
October 4, 2018	Brightspace Binder: (iOS) Modified the About document storage limits and Legal notice topics to reflect the removal of the Send to Binder functionality. (Web) Modified the About document storage limits and Legal notice topics to reflect the removal of the Send to Binder functionality. Brightspace Learning Environment: Added missing Impersonated Session History and Enrollments and Withdrawals topics to the TOC. Updated the How rubrics relate to your grade topic to remove references to rubrics in quizzes. Updated the following topics with rubrics updates in Assignments: How rubrics relate to your grade, Submit assignments, and View feedback in Assignments. Updates to reflect language term changes in Assignments have been added to all affected help topics. Added the Getting started section to include the following new topics: Find your Brightspace username, Log in to Brightspace Learning Environment, Navigating Brightspace Learning Environment, Change personal settings in Brightspace Learning Environment, and Log out of Brightspace Learning Environment. Updated the Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups topics: Setting due dates for assigned courses, Set a course due date for Learning Groups, Edit or remove a course due date in Learning Groups, and Set up automatic course assignments for learning groups to reflect new relative due date option for courses. Updated the Take a quiz topic. Brightspace for Parents: Updated the View learner information topic to include information on viewing content activity and different assignment types in the Upcoming Work and Recent Grades widgets.
September 6,	Brightspace Learning Environment: Updated the Submit assignments topic to include a note about viewing your Submission ID. Updated Brightspace Wiggio topics to remove information on Virtual Meetings, as they are no longer available. Updated the Where do I go to view feedback for quizzes, assignments, and discussions? topic to reference the Class Engagement tool. Brightspace for Parents: Updated the View learner information topic to include information on viewing detailed discussion activity in the Upcoming Work and Recent Grades widgets. Brightspace Portfolio: Manager Dashboard: Added new topics: Setting due dates for assigned courses, Set a course due date for Learning Groups, Edit or remove a course due date in Learning Groups, Viewing due dates and overdue course alerts, and View due dates and overdue course alerts. Updated the topics Assigning courses to learning groups, Set up automatic course assignments for learning groups to reflect new course due date functions. Microservices: Added Assigned Learning Service and updated Overview of released microservices. Integrations: Removed all Critique^It Assignments tool topics. Updated links to new external documentation resources by YouSeeU to reflect updates to Virtual Classrooms in the topics Create a virtual classroom session and Edit or cancel a virtual classroom session.
August 2, 2018	Brightspace Learning Environment: Added the Where do I go to view feedback for quizzes, assignments, and discussions topic, which formerly only appeared in the Brightspace Help. Added User Progress and Content to the locations a learner can view feedback. Updated the Brightspace Data Set: Quiz Attempts and Brightspace Data Set: Survey Attempts topics to reflect the addition of in-progress attempts to the data sets. Updated the Re-order grade categories and items and Best practices for entering grades topics to reflect changes to grade item sorting for gradebooks that contain 200+ grade items. Brightspace for Parents: Updated the View learner information topic to include information on viewing discussion activity in the Upcoming Work and Recent Grades widgets. Brightspace Pulse: Updated the Courses and course content in Brightspace Pulse and View courses and course content topics to reflect updated navigation in the Courses tab. Integrations: Updated links in the topic Completing a video assignment. Updated the About Turnitin topic to include additional locations where learners can view feedback.
July 5, 2018	Brightspace Learning Environment: Updated the Submit assignments topic to include the note about submissions made to Turnitin enabled folders. Updated the View feedback in Assignments topic to include information on viewing formative feedback in GradeMark. Updated the View assignment details topic to include information on viewing rubric feedback, and the ability to download learner submissions.
June 7, 2018	Brightspace Learning Environment: The Assess users in discussion threads topic now includes information about the links available to discussion posts in the Assess Post pop-up Updated the How rubrics relate to your grade topic to include interface changes for rubric feedback. Updated the View assignment details topic to include the latest features. Updated the Virtual Classrooms and Video Assignments by YouSeeU Learner topics to remove links to the legacy version of the YouSeeU help website.
May 3, 2018	Brightspace Learning Environment: . Updates to Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups topics to reflect updated interface and workflows. Updated the View assignment details topic with additional features including written feedback and assignment score.
April 5, 2018	Brightspace for Parents: Added the View assignment details topic. Updated the View learner information topic to include the new view activity details feature. Update the Receive a weekly activity summary topic to include the custom email verification feature. Updated the Weekly activity summaries for parents topic to add the new Set custom email for notifications permission required for verifying custom email addresses. Brightspace Learning Environment: Added Virtual Classrooms and Video Assignments by YouSeeU Learner topics. Updated the following topics to add read operation: About the Course Section Management Service (CSMS), About the Course Template Management Service (CTMS), About the Group Management Service (GMS), About the Member Management Service (MMS), About the Person Management Service (PMS), About the Section Association Management Service (SAMS).
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January 4, 2018	Brightspace Learning Environment: Updated the steps in the Take a quiz topic. Added the About the Plug N Play UI Batches Screen and Retry Latest Batch topics. Brightspace Platform Requirements: Updated the Course Import Compatibility topic to add support for converting Moodle Lessons. Brightspace for Parents: Updated the View learner information topic to include viewing final course grades and grade feedback. Added the Receive a weekly activity summary topic to include the new weekly activity summary feature.
December 7, 2017	Brightspace Learning Environment: Integrations: Updated the link in the Critique It Assignments Tool - Learner guide > View feedback for a Critique It assignment topic.
November, 2, 2017	Brightspace Help: Increased the font size of topic breadcrumbs. Added a border to the topic table of contents. Increased the page width, allowing more content to display on the screen. Brightspace Learning Environment: Added the topic Download materials from Lessons.
October 5, 2017	Brightspace Learning Environment: Integrations: Added the Critique^It Assignments tool.
September 7, 2017	Brightspace Help: Added language support for French, Portuguese, and Spanish
August 3,2017	Brightspace Help: New look and feel Improved navigation Improved searching Videos included in task-based topics Glossary terms Responsive HTML for desktops, tablets, and mobile devices Brightspace Portfolio: Brightspace Learning Environment: Added About assignment posts and Create an assignment post topics to Activity Feed information. Daylight: Added Enabling Image-Based Navigation topic.