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Release Notes

High Impact Changes Timeline

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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

Tool/Product Update	Historical changes	Known Future Updates
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	20.24.03: Available (OFF) 20.26.06: ON (Overridable)	20.26.09: Default
Enhanced Table of Contents in New Content Experience Refer to: July 2025/20.25.07 Release Notes	20.25.07: Available (OFF) 20.26.06: ON (Overridable)	20.26.09: Default
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	20.26.06: Available (OFF) 20.26.07: ON (Overridable)	20.26.09: Default
New Manage Members workflows in Manage Groups Refer to: Introducing New Manage Members Workflows in Manage Groups		20.26.11: Default if opted-in to the new Manage Groups experience
Improved assignment creation from the Groups tool This feature updates the assignment creation page to be the same interface used when creating assignments in the assignment tool. This update only applies to creating an assignment from the group category management page. Refer to: February 2026/20.26.02 Release Notes	20.26.02: ON (Overridable) 20.26.05: ON (User Overridable) 20.26.07: Updated adoption timeline	20.26.12: Default
Manage Groups Updated Page Refer to: Groups Management – A refresh of the manage groups page and increased numbers of groups per category	20.26.07: Available (OFF)	20.27.02: ON (Overridable) 20.27.05: Default

Retirement & EOL

Tool/Product Update	Historical changes	Known Future Updates
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	20.26.09: Intend 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.
LTI 1.1 End of Life Refer to: LTI 1.1 Deprecation Plan		20.26.09: Announced 20.27.02: No new LTI 1.1 Integrations 20.27.08: LTI 1.1 launches no longer work
Classic Content End of Life Refer to: Intent to EOL Classic Content		20.26.10: Announced 20.28.06: New Content Experience ON (Configurable) 20.29.06: New Content Experience ON (Not Configurable)
Learner Experience End of Life Refer to: Intent to EOL Learner Experience		20.26.10: Announced 20.29.06: OFF (Not Configurable)
Brightspace Parent & Guardian App End of Life Brightspace Parent & Guardian App features are now part of the Brightspace Pulse app. Refer to: Brightspace Mobile Updates: Brightspace Parent & Guardian is now part of Brightspace Pulse	20.26.07: Announcement of End of Support	20.27.02: App removed from the App Store

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

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.

20.26.07: Default

EOL of BDS Major Version 10

Refer to: Announcing Data Hub Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) Major Version 11

20.25.11: Announcement of upcoming version 11 release

20.26.02: Version 11 available

20.26.06: Version 10 EOL

Course Updater

With the ability to bulk update course status and start/end dates within Courses, Course Updater is becoming disabled.

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

Legacy Course Management Experience

Refer to: About Courses

20.26.02: EOL Legacy Course Management

New Course Management Experience

Refer to: About Courses

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)

EOL of BDS Major Version 9

Refer to: Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 10 - Brightspace

20.25.02: Announcement of upcoming version 10 release

20.25.04: Version 10 available

20.25.10: Version 9 EOL

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.

20.25.08: Default

“Learning Outcomes - Programs” renamed to “Learning Outcomes - Outcome Sets”

Refer to: Renaming Programs to Outcome Sets

20.25.07: Default

Browsers: New minimum supported version

Note: Minimum supported versions are updated every January and July.

Refer to: Browser Support

20.25.07

New Quiz Evaluation Experience

Refer to: Release of the New Quiz Evaluation Experience

20.24.09: Available (OFF)

20.25.03: Support for all question types

20.25.04: ON (Overridable)

20.25.07: Default

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.

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