Aug-Oct 2024 Nov-Jan 2025
Administration  
Māori Language Pack | GA |

Introducing the Māori Language Pack to support customers in Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Updated Course Management Experience With New UI and Easier Workflows | GA |

Create and edit new course offerings and templates quickly and easily with the updated Course Management Experience.

Assessment
[Achievement+] Outcome Achievement Dashboard Org Unit Filtering | GA |

Improve filtering in the Outcome Achievement Dashboard for Org Units. This addition allows users to filter achievement results in the dashboard to various levels of the organization.

[Achievement+] Outcome Hierarchy in Course Achievement Overview | GA |

Gain efficiencies in determining achievement and alignment to organizational goals from the course level with this new D2L Achievement+ add-on package. Updates to the recently released Course Achievement Overview visualization in Mastery View show the full outcome hierarchy within this visualization. Visualizing parent outcomes in Mastery View ensures instructors have clarity on how their course-level learning outcomes align with larger organization goals.

Assignments: Assessment Workflow Enhancements Continued | GA |

Help customers with large class sizes better manage their instructor workloads and reduce bias with the ability to utilize multiple evaluators through the new Co-Marking, Delegation and Multi-Evaluator features in Assignments.

Learning Outcomes: Release Conditions for Course Overall Achievement | GA |

Adding a new Release Condition that can be triggered when a learner meets a specific level of overall achievement of a learning outcome within a course.

New Evaluation Experience for Quizzes - Opt-In Release | GA |

Updating the look and feel of your grading workflow with the new quiz evaluation experience. We are focusing on instructor productivity by making the quiz evaluation experience easier to use.

Rubrics on Written Response Quiz Questions | GA |

Attaching Rubrics to Written Response Quiz questions to consistently evaluate this type of quiz question. The new evaluation experience for quizzes is required to access this feature.

Learning Outcomes: Release Conditions for Activity Learning Outcome Achievement | GA |

Allow users to trigger content, activities and other elements based on the achievement of learning outcomes aligned to activities.

Rubrics: Increase Criterion Name Character Limit | GA |

Provide more clarity to learners and instructors with support for additional characters for Rubric criterion descriptions. The text description limit will be increased to 500 characters so that more information can be provided during the assessment and review process without the need to extensively edit larger descriptions down to fit a smaller character limit.

Data & Analytics
Artificial Intelligence: Align Outcomes to Activities | LA |

Streamlining workflows for content creators with generative AI technology while maintaining human control and oversight over outcome alignments. Educators and course creators can save time with AI-suggested outcome alignments to activities in Brightspace.

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Artificial Intelligence: Launch of Brightspace AI add-on | LA |

Gain access to AI-assisted workflows within Brightspace with a subscription to this new package.

A new add-on is available starting the July release.

AI capabilities are not yet available in the Singapore region.


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Artificial Intelligence: Module Summaries | Beta Program - Restricted |

Streamlining workflows to ensure learners are prepared, engaged, and ready for upcoming course material with AI-generated summaries based on inner contents of a module. This capability will initially be available as a Beta.

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Brightspace Data Sets: Identify Assignments Created With AI Assistance | GA |

Empowering users with AI-powered tools that provide accountability and transparency with the new AIUtilization column in the Assignment Summary Data Set, providing insights to administrators and key stakeholders about the use of AI-inspired assignments in Brightspace.

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Brightspace Data Sets: Identify Discussion Topics Created With AI Assistance | GA |

Empowering users with AI-powered tools that provide accountability and transparency with the new AIUtilization column in the Assignment Summary Data Set, providing insights to administrators and key stakeholders about the use of AI-inspired assignments in Brightspace.

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Brightspace Data Sets: Identify Questions Created With AI Assistance | GA |

Empowering users with AI-powered tools that provide accountability and transparency with the new AIUtilization column in the Assignment Summary Data Set, providing insights to administrators and key stakeholders about the use of AI-inspired assignments in Brightspace.

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Analytics Builder: Ability to Embed Reports in Brightspace | GA |

Integrate custom analytics within Brightspace using embedded dashboards from Analytics Builder.


Analytics Builder is available to Performance+ customers.

Analytics Builder: Ability to Share With Groups | GA |

Easily share dashboards with pre-built user groups in Analytics Builder, facilitating report distribution. These user groups are based on organizational roles within Brightspace.

Analytics Builder is available to Performance+ customers.

Analytics Builder: Available to All Performance+ Customers | GA |

Announcing the General Availability Launch of Analytics Builder, a comprehensive analytics platform designed to empower organizations with actionable insights and data-driven decision-making capabilities.


Analytics Builder is available to Performance+ customers.

Artificial Intelligence: Generate Content Pages From Existing Material | Beta Program - Restricted |

Accelerate the creation of new learning material by converting common file types into Brightspace course content.

D2L is dedicated to enhancing user experience by integrating AI-powered tools designed to streamline content creation workflows. Our new generative AI capabilities will assist users in creating content more efficiently while maintaining essential human control and oversight to ensure quality and accuracy. This capability will initially be available as a Beta.

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Artificial Intelligence: Provide Convenient and Timely Study Support | Beta Program - Restricted |

Support learner study time with recommended remedial content.

D2L is committed to embracing the power of AI as we blend technology and learning to transform the way the world learns. This capability will initially be available as a Beta.

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Extensibility
Brightspace Extensions: A New Framework for Connected Apps | GA |

Introducing a new framework for connected applications and the foundation for managing all things extensibility in one place. This initial release is focused on supporting embedded partner applications and the administrative workflows for finding, adding and deploying Brightspace Extensions.

SIS-IPSIS: D2L Standard CSV and OneRoster 1.1 - New Queued Status | GA |

Informing administrators through a new status that IPSIS has received a batch request or file to process but IPSIS is currently waiting to process it. Previously, administrators can be uncertain if IPSIS knows about incoming files or has queued up a batch, particularly during system busy times when there can be longer-than-normal delays between batch processing.

 
Find Learning
Course Completion Enhancements | GA |

Track course completion with a new option that uses Release Conditions instead of Content Topic completion. Instructors can define one or more release conditions to determine the completion of a coursewhich will be reflected within Manager Dashboard as well as the My Courses Widget.

Manager Dashboard & Learning Groups Completion Enhancements | GA |

Have the option to manually override course completions. This will provide access to new APIs to retrieve completion status and to override course completion.

A new Course Homepage widget is available to display Course Completion to learners.

The completion status of a course will also serve as a conditional release trigger, enabling the issuance of Awards and the generation of intelligent agent notifications and more.

Monitoring & Results
Portfolio: Instructor Adds Assignment | GA |

Curate learners' work in Portfolio to highlight their best efforts and illustrate their academic progress over time. In this release, instructors can now include submitted assignments in learners' Portfolios.

Continuous Professional Development | GA |

Enable learners to set professional development targets across a set of subjects.

Teaching & Learning
Brightspace Data Sets: Learner Usage Data for Creator+ Practices | GA |

Access Creator+ Practices Usage dataset which includes data identifying the learner and details about their interactions for all data-enabled Practices to help better understand the impact of Practices on learner achievement and engagement. Practices remain optional and this data will not impact course completion or grades.

Brightspace Data Sets: Learner Engagement Data for Creator+ Elements | GA |

Find out if Learners are engaging with interactive Elements and how often with the Creator+ Elements Engagement dataset.

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