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: For any planned high impact removal of functionality, D2L provides at least 12 months notice. 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: 20.22. 11 (year= 2022, month =11/November), or 20.23.5 (year= 2023, month = 5/May).
Upcoming Changes
Tool/Product Update | Historical changes | Known Future Updates |
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NEW New Content Experience/Lessons: New display pages for assessable activities See the product blog: Introducing New Display Pages for Assessable Activities in New Content Experience |
20.23.12: Available (Off) On: TBA Default Experience: TBA |
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NEW Hosted Homepage Widget Expansion Pack: Intent to End of Life |
20.23.7: Announced |
20.23.12: In-widget messaging 20.24.7: End of Life |
Performance+ Insights Report Builder: Updated Major Data Set minimum support to V8 and above. See the product blog: Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Set Major Version 8 |
20.22.9: Announced 20.22.1: V8 available (Off) 20.23.3: v6.0 and lower Removed 20.23.7: V8 (On) |
20.23.10: Version 7 removed from Insights. |
UPDATEDBrightspace Data Sets: Intent to remove LTI Links Shared data sets See more information: Changes to your LTI Data Sets |
20.23.7: Intent to Removal Announced |
20.24.1: Removed |
Browsers: New minimum supported version Note: Minimum supported versions are updated every January and July See more information: Browser Support |
20.23.1, 20.23.7 |
20.24.1 |
Chat Tool EOL, including end of life for Chat Objects and Chat Sessions Log Brightspace Data Sets. See more information: Intent to End Of Life Notice for: Chat |
20.23.6: Announced |
20.24.1: EOL |
Custom Brightspace Community Search Widget: EOL See more information: End of Life Information for: Brightspace Community Search Widget |
20.23.6: Announced |
20.23.9: Widget content removed |
Quizzes Synchronous quizzes See the product blog: Quiz Timing Improvements - Phase 3 |
20.23.6: Announced through Product and Services Preview |
20.23.9: On/Default |
Discussions: New Discussion Create and Edit experience is available See the product blog: Introducing the New Discussion Creation Experience |
20.23.4: Available (Off) 20.23.5: Opt-Out 20.23.7: On |
20.23.12 Default |
Assignments: Updates available to consistent availability dates See the product blog: New Assignments Date Feature - Updated Date Availability, Visibility, And Access Options |
20.23.6: (On) 20.22.12 Available (Off) |
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Creator+ Capture 9.5: EOL - Capture 9.5 is being Replaced with Capture X. See the product blog: Intent to End-of-Life Legacy Capture technology |
20.22.07: Announced 20.22.11: Capture X Available |
20.23.11: Cap9.5 EOL |
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 2022 have been removed.
Tool/Product Update | Historical changes |
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App Finder: LTI 1.1 and App Finder Website to be replaced by IntegrationHub See the product blog: Intent to End of Life Notice for App Finder |
20.23.5: Announced 20.23.8: LTI 1.1 EOL; Website EOL |
Data Sets:New major BDS version 8.0 See the product blogs: Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 8 and Insights Report Builder and Brightspace Data Sets Major Version 8 |
20.22.9 Announced 20.23.1: Available (Off) 20.23.7: Default |
Quizzes:New Create and Edit Experience is available See the product blog: Welcome to the New Quiz Creation Experience |
20.22.6: Available (Off) 20.22.12: User Opt-out 20.23.7: Default |
Capture App:End of Support for Capture App Note: Capture 9.5 clients continue to use Capture App in Capture 9.5. Capture 10 clients move to the new Capture Web. |
20.23.6 - End of Support for Capture App 20.23.4 Announced |
Content: New Content Experience (Lessons) - New Edit. Experience is available. See the product blog: New Content Experience: Content Is Getting A Refresh |
20.21.8: Available (Off) 20.22.5: User Opt-out 20.22.12: On 20.23.3: Default |
SIS - Holding Tank End of Life: See the product blog: End of Life Notice for SIS - Holding Tank |
20.21.3: Announced 20.22.9: End of life |
TLS 1.1 to TLS 1.2 Upgrade: |
20.22.2: Announced 20.22.8: Update complete |
Integration Pack for Synchronous Communication Tools (IPSCT) Also known as Online Rooms See the product blog: Intent to End of Life Notice for IPSCT (Online Rooms) |
20.22.4: Announced May 31, 2022 - OFF (test sites) 20.22.6: OFF (Production - all sites where tools are not on or not used in the last 12 months) July 1, 2022: EOL |
Insights: Assessment Quality Dashboard New Experience |
20.21.12: OFF 20.22.3: ON 20.22.6: Default ON |
Discussions: New Discussions Evaluation Experience See the product blog: Welcome to our new Discussion Evaluation Experience Blog Post |
20.21.8: OFF 20.21.9: ON/OPT-OUT 20.21.12: ON 20.22.1: DEFAULT |
Reporting Tool: Intent to End of Life See the product blog: Intent to End of Life Notice for Reporting Tool Note: EOL dates are not tied to CD Updates. |
July 31, 2021: EOL in Non-Prod Sites September, 2021: EOL in Production sites where the tool is disabled or not used Jan 1 2022: EOL |
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.