This article summarizes upcoming disruptive changes, including changes in default behavior and removal of functionality. Changes in default behavior can include the introduction of new features (opt-in), as well as changes in default functionality (defaulted-on, forced-off). Near the beginning of every month, there are updates to this page, on a rolling 12-month time frame, with the earliest time-frame appearing at the top of the list. When a historical change has been complete for a full calendar year, it no longer appears on the Historical Changes table.
Note: To determine the date when an update is scheduled based on the version number, you can also read the version as a year and month. For example: 20.24.11 (year= 2024, month =11/November), or 20.25.5 (year= 2025, month = 5/May).
Upcoming Changes
Retirement & EOL
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Historical changes |
Known Future Updates |
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| Self Assessment End of Life
Self assessments can be migrated to the Quizzes tool, where they have similar functionality.
Refer to: Intent to EOL Self Assessments
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20.26.09: Intent to EOL Announcement. An End of Life notice will be displayed within the Self Assessment tool. |
20.27.01: No new Self Assessments can be created within the Self Assessment tool. A migration utility will be available within the Quizzes tool to automatically migrate all Self Assessments within your course into the Quizzes tool.
20.27.05: The Self Assessment tool will no longer be available.
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EOL of LTI 1.1
Refer to: LTI 1.1 Deprecation Plan
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20.26.09: Intent to EOL Announcement. |
20.27.02: No new LTI 1.1 integrations will be possible.
20.27.08: LTI 1.1 launches will no longer work.
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EOL of Classic Content
Refer to: Intent to EOL Classic Content
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20.26.10: Intent to EOL Announcement.
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20.28.06: New Content Experience ON (Configurable)
20.29.06: New Content Experience ON (Not Configurable)
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EOL of Learner Experience
Refer to: Intent to EOL Learner Experience
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20.26.10: Intent to EOL Announcement. |
20.29.06: OFF (Not Configurable) |
Historical changes
Note: In accordance with our content retention policy, we only retain content from the current and previous calendar year. Any features that became the default setting before 2025 have been removed.
| Tool/Product Update |
Historical changes |
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| New Display pages for Assessable Activities
(Assignment, Quiz, Discussion, and Instructor LTI) in New Content Experience
Refer to: Introducing New Display Pages for Assessable Activities in New Content Experience
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20.24.03: Available (OFF)
20.26.06: ON (Overridable)
20.26.09: Default
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| Enhanced Table of Contents in New Content Experience
Refer to: July 2025/20.25.07 Release Notes
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20.25.07: Available (OFF)
20.26.06: ON (Overridable)
20.26.09: Default
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Rubric Icon in Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes
Rubric icons are added to the Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes list views along with Quiz Question List views to indicate where Rubrics are used.
Refer to: July 2025/20.25.07 Release Notes
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20.26.06: Available (OFF)
20.26.07: ON (Overridable)
20.26.09: Default
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| Increased Groups Per Category
Refer to: Groups Management – A refresh of the manage groups page and increased numbers of groups per category
Note: With this change, groups per category limitations will also be enforced through API routes.
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20.26.07: Default |
| EOL of BDS Major Version 10
Refer to: Announcing Data Hub Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) Major Version 11
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20.25.11: Announcement of upcoming version 11 release
20.26.02: Version 11 available
20.26.06: Version 10 EOL
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Course Updater
With the ability to bulk update course status and start/end dates within Courses, Course Updater is becoming disabled.
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20.25.07: Released Ability to bulk update course status and start/end dates within Courses.
20.25.10: Removed the selection cap of 50 in Courses
20.26.03: EOL
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Legacy Course Management Experience
Refer to: About Courses
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20.26.02: EOL Legacy Course Management
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New Course Management Experience
Refer to: About Courses
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20.25.02: ON in test environments
20.25.06: ON in all environments
20.26.01: Default (Old Course Management Tool is removed)
20.26.02: Default in all environments (EOL of Legacy Course Management)
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| EOL of BDS Major Version 9
Refer to: Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 10 - Brightspace
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20.25.02: Announcement of upcoming version 10 release
20.25.04: Version 10 available
20.25.10: Version 9 EOL
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| Increased Enrollment Limits for Groups
Refer to: Improving groups with increased enrollment limits
Note: With this change, enrollment limitations into groups will also be enforced through API routes and Bulk User Management.
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20.25.08: Default
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“Learning Outcomes - Programs” renamed to “Learning Outcomes - Outcome Sets”
Refer to: Renaming Programs to Outcome Sets
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20.25.07: Default
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| Browsers: New minimum supported version
Note: Minimum supported versions are updated every January and July.
Refer to: Browser Support
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20.25.07
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New Quiz Evaluation Experience
Refer to: Release of the New Quiz Evaluation Experience
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20.24.09: Available (OFF)
20.25.03: Support for all question types
20.25.04: ON (Overridable)
20.25.07: Default
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Legend
Available (OFF) - Experience/feature is off by default and can be enabled by admins. Previously listed as OFF
User Opt-Out - Experience or function is now the leading experience but customers can still revert to the legacy experience. Administrative override available if required. This setting will set the new experience by default, with users having the ability to opt-out back to the legacy experience. Previously listed as ON/User opt-in or ON/User opt-out.
ON - Experience or feature is on. Administrative override is still available. This is used to move all customers to the new experience, and users do not have the option to Opt-In or Opt-Out. Admins have the ability to override.
Default - The new experience or feature has replaced the legacy experience or feature. There is no administrative override available.
Removed - Functionality has been removed and is no longer available.
EOL - A tool or product has been removed and signifies the End of Life of the item.