Feb-Apr 2025 | May-Jul 2025 | |
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Brightspace |
Assessment - bulk feedback | Make large classes feel like small classes with new bulk controls in Assignments and Discussions. Send text feedback to any group of students at once, so they get the right personalized guidance and you get your evenings free. Assessment - filter Quiz statistics | Keep track of the fine details, even in the largest class sizes, with new filters on Brightspace Quiz Statistics views. Filtering by section or group lets you narrow in to the data you need, no matter the number of learners. Assessment - question evaluation | Save instructor time and streamline grading workflows with the new Quiz Evaluation experience, now with support for all native Brightspace question types. Assessment - rubric ranges | Build student confidence and save instructor time with rubric range displays. Points-based rubrics can now display as a range of points for each criteria level, not just the default point value. Awards - date of issue | Add flexibility to your Brightspace-issued certificates and badges with new date controls. When you need to manually adjust or issue an award to a learner, backdating the award issued date is just a click away. Awards - new Certificate ID | Increase confidence in your Brightspace-issued certificates with a traceable Certificate ID. The new Certificate ID is available in public Award pages, LinkedIn, and the Awards data set. Integration - LTI grade flexibility | Take control of your external learning tool grades. Choose whether your LTI content topics write to your gradebook or not, right in the New Content Experience editor. Integration - richer LTI tracking | Manage and measure your LTI integrations with more info on how they're being used in every course. The LTI Links data set now tells you when each link was created, what LTI deployment it belongs to, and even how it's being used - as a basic launch, a widget, a quiz question, and more. IPSIS - faster enrollment synchronization | Scale up with confidence, with smarter and faster SIS enrollment synchronization. Brightspace puts the pedal to the medal by detecting exactly what's changed since the last sync. Available to all clients integrating Brightspace and their SIS via OneRoster REST. IPSIS - preserve data after the school term ends | Gain flexibility and align to school policy by choosing which data should persist in Brightspace beyond the end of each school term. Available for clients using the GG4L OneRoster REST integration with PowerSchool SIS. IPSIS - smart data diagnostics | Reduce your tech stress by letting Brightspace diagnose your data woes. SIS logs now point out duplicate or conflicting username and ID info, saving you precious time trawling through complex SIS data. Available to all clients using IPSIS, including OneRoster and D2L Standard CSV integration styles. New Content Experience - next gen navigation | Move learners through course content with more context and clarity in the New Content Experience. Shiny new next and previous buttons get everyone where they need to go next. New Content Experience - topic descriptions |
Give learners context and provide connective tissue throughout your course with descriptions for every content topic in the New Content Experience. |
Admin - new Courses tool | Save administrator time with a new design for creating, copying, and retrieving courses and templates within Brightspace admin tools. Assessment - bulk retraction | Adjust grades and feedback without stress. Now you can retract Assignment feedback for any number of students at once, making re-grading or other updates fast and easy. Assessment - reopen quiz attempts | Want to give a little extra grace to someone who just ran out of time? Instructors can now reopen a finished quiz attempt and let the learner back in, even if the timer has run out and the end date has passed by. New Content Experience - table of contents enhancements | Navigate course content with greater ease and flexibility with improvements to the Table of Contents UI. Users can now seamlessly drag and drop modules with up to five levels of nesting, making course organization more intuitive. Additionally, enhanced accessibility ensures a more inclusive experience, while learner progress indicators provide clearer insights into individual topic completion. New Content Experience - visibility controls |
Show your learners as much or as little as they need with new visibility controls. Assessments and content topics can have start and end availability dates, and now you can control whether that means they are invisible to learners outside the date range, or show up only as a title that can't be clicked, or can be viewed but not touched. |
Lumi |
AI review | Fly to the heights of AI and stay grounded in safety and oversight. Lumi leads the way in reporting exactly where AI is used throughout the platform, and now you can see exacty which items have or haven't been reviewed by a human. Automatic module summaries | Help learners prepare and engage quickly with summary descriptions. Lumi can read your upcoming lesson, module, or weekly unit and produce a text summary to help everyone get ready to learn. Create online learning content from offline files | Take the knowledge locked up in documents or presentations and turn them into real learning materials. Lumi can read your file and produce a Brightspace module filled with content pages broken out by topic or concept. Expanded language support | Take Lumi international with full support for French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch. New language support is vetted with real learners, instructors, and authors before release, so you can go multilingual with confidence. Study help for learners |
Help learners in the moment with intelligent study support. Lumi now hands out intelligent advice at the close of each quiz - congratulating learners on the topics they've mastered, and taking them straight to the material they need to review in order to master the rest. |
Expanded outcomes alignment | Adopt outcomes across your whole teaching and learning suite, faster than ever. Lumi's Assignment support is now supplemented by automatically suggested outcome alignments for Discussion activities and Content pages. Teaching recommendations |
Get ahead of the curve with always-on instructional insights. Lumi can now act as your instructional consultant, suggesting interventions or course adjustments to help everyone succeed. | Beta |
Creator+ |
Library management for file types |
Manage and update a single copy of any media or content file, no matter how many courses you use it in. Media Library has a fresh new look and support for much more than just audio and video - including SCORM objects, Office documents, images, and PDF files. |
Accessible hotspot questions | Reach every learner with accessible hotspot questions and H5P. Accessible hotspots are now a fully scorable question type, so you can use them as a formative knowledge check or place them in a Brightspace quiz - without sacrificing accessibility. Folder management for media assets | Grow your Media Library with new organizational controls. Media Library hosts and streams millions of minutes of audio and video in Brightspace, and the new folder organization design will let you confidently add a million more. H5P interactives in Quizzes |
Expand your quizzing horizons! Creator+ authors can now use H5P interactives as questions in any Brightspace Quiz. | Beta |
Performance+ |
External data support | Build more comprehensive learning reports with new support for external data in Analytics Builder. Pull in data from your SIS, your CRM, your HR systems, or any source you like. New dashboard: associations | Review the learning progress of all your members with a new dashboard built just for Associations. Analytics Builder dashboards can be used as-is, or edited to make them all your own. New dashboard: instructor and advisor engagement | Help instructors and student advisors get the most out of Brightspace with a new dashboard focused on adoption and usage patterns by instructional staff. Analytics Builder dashboards can be used as-is, or edited to make them all your own. New dashboard: online attendance |
Monitor, report on, and intervene where needed with a new dashboard detailing learner attendance. Analytics Builder dashboards can be used as-is, or edited to make them all your own. |
Advanced Data Sets for Analytics Builder |
Start building dashboards and reports even more quickly, and let Performance+ handle the queries and joins for you. Analytics Builder now supports Brightspace Advanced Data Sets, pre-calculated data views designed to answer your most pressing questions before you even start diving into the raw learning data. |
Link |
Grade automation | Automate grade workflows faster than ever. New grade APIs let you trigger a Link recipe whenever grades are updated or released, and process those grades singly or in bulk with our no-code automation approach. Workato connector |
Build no-code integrations with D2L Link’s Brightspace connector, now available in the Workato Community Library. |