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To view the change log for this release note landing page, see Document Change History at the bottom of this page.
Brightspace – Updated visual branding | New
To reflect D2L's growth and evolution as a company, on January 12, 2022, we updated our visual brand to better reflect who we are today and will be in the future. Over the next several releases, the new visual brand will be updated in the default logos and icons that appear in Brightspace web applications and mobile apps. These updates do not impact brand overrides in existing Brightspace instances. For more information on the new visual branding, browse to: https://www.d2l.com/brand/.
Figure: The new visual brand on the Brightspace navbar.
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Slight impact to users due to new visual branding in default Brightspace instances.
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Availability: This feature is available to all clients.
To enable: This functionality is automatically enabled; however, these updates do not impact brand overrides in existing Brightspace instances.
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Content – Print and Download in fullscreen | Updated
The Print and Download buttons are now available when viewing a topic in fullscreen, using the classic Content experience.
Previously, the options to print and download a topic only appeared on the main Content view, and when users opened a topic in fullscreen by clicking View content in new window, those options were not available.
Figure: Top of a fullscreen topic page, with the new Print and Download buttons in the top right.
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Slight impact to learners due to the availability of print and download options in a new location.
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Availability: This feature is available to all clients.
To enable: Ensure the Compile and Print Content and Download Content Topics permissions are enabled for learners at the org level.
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Data Hub – Added column to Attendance User Sessions | Updated
This release adds the new LastModifiedBy column to the existing Attendance User Sessions Brightspace Data Set, to capture which user last edited the attendance data for a learner.
Previously, this data set only captured the date when the attendance data was last edited.
This feature implements PIE item D7710.
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Moderate impact to administrators due to the addition of a new column to an existing Brightspace Data Set.
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Availability: This feature is available to Brightspace Insights and Brightspace Core clients in all regions.
To Enable: Ensure the Can Access Brightspace Data Sets permission is granted to administrators at the org level. New and changed data sets appear the first time the data set runs after the version update. Ensure the d2l.Tools.BrightspaceDataSets.Version configuration variable is set to version 6 or 7.
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Discover – Custom user attribute-based access to courses | New
To ensure that only relevant courses are visible to users with specific user attributes in an organization, administrators can now configure custom user attribute-based access to individual courses in Discover. For example, a corporate organization may want to ensure that leadership courses are only visible to managers in specific departments. Previously, all courses configured to display in Discover were visible to any role within the organization.
Important: This feature requires the User Attributes tool, which requires Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups enabled in your Brightspace instance. If your organization is not set up for Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups, you can only specify role-based rules for courses available in Discover.
As an administrator or instructor, navigate to the course you want to add a user attribute-based rule to.
From the Course Offering Information page, ensure that the Make this course available in Discover so Learners can self-enroll option is enabled. The Add Enrollment Rule option appears.
After clicking the Add Enrollment Rule option, select a custom user attribute and corresponding value. If applicable, select multiple values. The number of users matching the rule display.
Click Done or Add Another Condition.
From the Course Offering Information page, click Save.
This feature implements PIE items D5670, and D1000.
This feature addresses the following accessibility criteria:
Figure: The new Add Enrollment Rule option for Discover in the Course Offering Information page
Figure: The Add Enrollment dialog box, displaying a rule containing one custom user attribute and two values.
Figure: The Enrollment Rules for a course in the Course Offering Information page
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Moderate impact to administrators due to new configuration options for courses in Discover.
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Availability: This feature is available to Brightspace Core clients in all regions that are using Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups.
To enable: Ensure that Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups are enabled in your Brightspace instance. In addition, ensure that custom user attributes are created with the User Attributes tool. If custom user attributes are not available, Role in Organization is the only enrollment rule you can create for a course. For more information, see Overview of Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups and Understanding User Attributes.
Ensure that users creating rules are granted the existing Change Visibility in Discover permission. Previously, this permission only allowed users to configure courses for self-enrollment with the Discover tool. With this release, this permission also determines if the user can create and edit enrollment rules. If a user does not have the Change Visibility in Discover permission and still has access to the Course Offering Information page, the Make this course available in Discover so Learners can self-enroll option and Enrollment Rules display as read-only.
From the Course Offering Information page, ensure that the Make this course available in Discover so Learners can self-enroll option is enabled. For more information on setting up Discover, see Set up Discover.
For custom user attribute-based access to a course, an enrollment rule contains one or more conditions, with each condition containing one custom user attribute with one or more values. You can create a maximum of 10 enrollment rules per course, with each enrollment rule containing a maximum of 10 conditions and 10 custom user attributes per condition.
Multiple enrollment rules are treated as "or" statements and custom user attributes are treated as "or" statements in conditions. Adding another condition treats each condition as an "and" statement.
If you make a course unavailable from Discover, any enrollment rules are permanently removed from the course.
Users with the Manage Discover permission can still edit the Featured section in Discover. In addition, they can still search for courses in the Browse Discover Library page and add any of those courses to the Featured section, regardless of whether they are entitled to the courses or not. When viewing the Featured section, enrollment rules continue to apply so that any user editing the selected courses in the Featured section might not see all selected courses there.
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Slight impact to instructors and learners due to a streamlined list of courses on the Discover homepage.
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Discover – Role-based access to courses | New
To ensure that only relevant courses are visible to specific roles in an organization, administrators can now configure role-based access to individual courses in Discover. For example, a university may want to ensure that professional development courses are only visible to instructors. Previously, all courses configured to display in Discover were visible to any role within the organization.
As an administrator or instructor, navigate to the course you want to add a role-based rule to.
From the Course Offering Information page, ensure that the Make this course available in Discover so Learners can self-enroll option is enabled. The Add Enrollment Rule option appears.
After clicking the Add Enrollment Rule option, choose one or more role values for the Role in Organization attribute. The number of users matching the rule display.
Click Done.
From the Course Offering Information page, click Save.
This feature implements PIE items D5670, and D1000.
This feature addresses the following accessibility criteria:
Figure: The new Add Enrollment Rule option for Discover in the Course Offering Information page.
Figure: The Add Enrollment dialog box, displaying a rule containing the Role in Organization attribute and two role values.
Figure: The Enrollment Rules for a course in the Course Offering Information page.
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Moderate impact to administrators due to new configuration options for courses in Discover.
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Availability: This feature is available to Brightspace Core clients in all regions.
To enable: Ensure that users creating rules are granted the existing Change Visibility in Discover permission. Previously, this permission only allowed users to configure courses for self-enrollment with the Discover tool. With this release, this permission also determines if the user can create and edit enrollment rules. If a user does not have the Change Visibility in Discover permission and still has access to the Course Offering Information page, the Make this course available in Discover so Learners can self-enroll option and Enrollment Rules display as read-only.
From the Course Offering Information page, ensure that the Make this course available in Discover so Learners can self-enroll option is enabled. For more information on setting up Discover, see Set up Discover.
For role-based access to a course, you can add one enrollment rule, with one role condition that contains one or more role values. You can add a maximum of 10 role values.
If you make a course unavailable from Discover, any enrollment rules are permanently removed from the course.
Users with the Manage Discover permission can still edit the Featured section in Discover. In addition, they can still search for courses in the Browse Discover Library page and add any of those courses to the Featured section, regardless of whether they are entitled to the courses or not. When viewing the Featured section, enrollment rules continue to apply so that any user editing the selected courses in the Featured section might not see all selected courses there.
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Slight impact to instructors and learners due to a streamlined list of courses on the Discover homepage.
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Brightspace Editor – Additional Page Attributes (Language and Title) | Updated
This feature adds a new tab to the existing Attributes menu of Brightspace Editor, allowing users to enter page attributes for language and/or title when viewed. This new menu only appears in legacy Content, Lessons, and Custom Widgets.
Figure: The new Page Attributes tab in the Attributes menu.
This feature also adds two new configuration variables, that provide users the option to have the language attribute and/or title element on HTML pages applied on render, without having to manually enter in the attributes for each page. These attributes are:
If enabled, the title is set to the content topic title, and/or the language is set to the locale for the orgunit the content originates from. With this change, users of assistive technology are provided descriptive information about the document they are viewing.
Note: The new configuration variables apply only to legacy Content.
Previously, users had to manually add code into the source editor to either add language or title page attributes.
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Slight impact to administrators due to the ability to enable Language and/or Title attributes appear on HTML pages.
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Availability: This feature is available to all clients.
To Enable: Ensure that the d2l.Tools.Content.ApplyPageTitleElement configuration attribute is set to ON for Titles to display. Ensure that the d2l.Tools.Content.ApplyPageLangAttribute configuration attribute is set to ON for Language to display.
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Slight impact to instructors due to the ability to add Language and/or Title attributes to pages.
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Insights Report Builder – Security and ETL improvements | Updated
This release introduces several improvements to Insights Report Builder:
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OrgRoleId is now a Trusted Attribute. Authors can use it to create Personalized Data Permissions (PDP) policies to define which roles have access to their cards and pages.
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Magic ETL v2 is now enabled. Authors can toggle it on and off when creating or editing DataFlows. All new DataFlows now use v2 by default. For more details, refer to What's New in the New Magic ETL on Domo Help Center.
Figure: Toggle labeled Try the new Magic ETL in Insights Report Builder.
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Moderate impact to administrators due to a new trusted attribute and the ability to turn the new ETL on and off.
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Availability: This feature is available to all Performance+ clients.
To Enable: This feature is automatically enabled for Insights Report Builder users. Users must have the Can Use Insights Report Builder permission to view the feature.
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Intelligent Agents – Agent List page changes | Updated
This feature adds the following new functionality to the Agent List page, where users manage the Intelligent Agents they have created:
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The ability to create, assign, and manage categories; and
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A new Bulk Edit for some agent details: title, category, and active/inactive state.
This feature also updates the icons denoting the active/inactive state of each agent.
Figure: The new Intelligent Agent List page, with the bulk edit and category management functionality.
This feature implements PIE Item D7196.
This feature addresses the following accessibility criteria:
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Slight impact to instructors due to the ability to assign and managed agent categories and Bulk Edit agent details.
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Availability: This feature is available to all clients.
To Enable: This functionality is automatically enabled for Intelligent Agent users.
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Lessons/New Content Experience – Embedded View added to new Edit page for LOR Link topics | Updated
Building upon the Content - Date management and display for LOR Links in Lessons | New feature released in January 2022 / 20.22.1, this feature this adds an embedded view of the LOR object on the Edit page. This update brings consistency to the Create and Edit workflows for all activities in Brightspace Lessons/New Content Experience.
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Slight impact to administrators due to new editing options with the Edit page in the New Content Experience
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Availability: This feature is available to all clients.
To Enable: Ensure that the d2l.Tools.Content.LessonsCreateExperienceOptIn configuration variable is enabled so that instructors can use the new Edit page.
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Ouriginal – Similarity Score on View Submissions page | New
Instructors can now view learner Ouriginal similarity scores when viewing assignment submissions. The similarity score is presented as a percentage-similar icon and is visible on the Users tab. A score with a higher percentage indicates that the document is more similar to a document found in Ouriginal's body of content. Instructors can click on the percent-similar icon to view a detailed report. If a warning icon is present above the percent-similar icon, Brightspace failed to retrieve a similarity score for this document.
Previously, instructors needed to use the Urkund LTI app to view similarity scores.
Figure: View Assignments page with Ouriginal similarity score visible
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Moderate impact to instructors due to the visibility of Ouriginal similarity scores on assignment Submissions pages.
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Availability: This feature is available to all Ouriginal (previously referred to as URKUND) clients.
To Enable: This functionality is automatically enabled for Ouriginal users.
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- *Added on 3-February-2022 Added the Brightspace – Updated visual branding | New feature.
- *Added on 3-February-2022 In this release, Data Hub minor version 6.15 / 7.3 includes updates to how Activity Exemptions Log data set files are generated, improving performance and accuracy. There are no user-facing changes in this update.
- *Added on 3-February-2022 Updated the Brightspace Editor – Additional Page Attributes (Language and Title) | Updated feature with the correct configuration variable and names, as well as updated feature title.
- *Added on 3-February-2022 Announcing end of support for Capture Hardware.
- *Added on 3-February-2022 Updated the Discover – Custom user attribute-based access to courses | New and Discover – Role-based access to courses | New features to accurately reflect the associated PIE items.