July 2026 Edition
This section provides a preview of product and feature delivery plans for September 2026/20.26.09 and October 2026/20.26.10 releases. The Product and Services Preview document replaces the former 60/90 day Review/Preview.
Important: The most recent and accurate version of Release Notes apply to near-term delivery plans for the upcoming August 2026/20.26.08 release. This page is a preview of planned release features only. As stated in the Safe Harbor Statement,
the information provided herein is subject to change at any time, at the discretion of D2L, and D2L makes no commitment to update the information.
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Enablement Information
Information about the default state of a released feature, function or change in a Brightspace site is included to provide additional information, supporting change preparation, or planning in your organization.
Availability (Enabled State)
Advanced knowledge about whether customers can control access to the feature, function, or changes. This allows Administrators, trainers and supporting roles in an organization an opportunity to know which items are controllable and which are not.
- On: Indicates that the feature’s default state is visible/on and that there is no override or setting to control this state by any user.
- Off: Indicates that the feature’s default state is hidden/off and that there is no override or setting to control this state by any user.
- On (Overridable): Indicates the features default state and that it can be controlled or overridden by a user. For example, a new permission that is automatically selected for specific roles, or an editable config variable default that is on both offer opportunities to configure or override the default states.
- Off (Overridable): Indicates the features default state and that it can be controlled or overridden by a Brightspace user. For example, a new permission that is not selected, a new setting or new config variable that is off by default both provide opportunities to review and enable if desired.
Site Actions (Enablement Method)
For any feature, function, or change that is controllable, this section indicate the role settings, permissions, config variables, tool, or application settings you use to control the feature.
This allows Administrators, trainers, or supporting roles in an organization the opportunity to make decisions earlier and better plan for any work required to support any updates or changes.
Some examples include the following:
- Role Settings
- Role Permissions
- Config variables
- In Tool settings (such as Grades Settings or Widget customization)
- In Application settings (such as Pulse Settings)
September 2026 / 20.26.09
API — Modify Grade Categories via API
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator, API Developer
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
This release will add a new API route for Grade Categories. This update gives administrators the ability to modify Grade Categories via API.
Administrators will be able to utilize the following API route: Update an existing Grade Category (PUT /d2l/api/le/(version)/(orgUnitId)/grades/categories/(categoryId))
Details of the new API route will be available in the Brightspace Developer Platform documentation.
API — Add support to retrieve and update assignment submission retention option
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: API Developer
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
API support for Assignment Submissions options will be added to the existing Dropbox.DropboxFolder and Dropbox.DropboxFolderUpdateData services. This update will allow customers to retrieve and update the following Assignment Submissions attributes: All submissions, Only one submission, and Only the most recent submission.
This update will support bulk changes to assignment settings and automated course management workflows.
Brightspace — Rubric Icons for Assignments, Discussions & Quizzes adoption period ending
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The adoption period for rubric icons in Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes will end with the 20.26.09 release. This feature displays a rubric icon in activity lists when a rubric is associated, and in quiz question lists for rubric-associated questions.
This feature is controlled by D2l.tools.activities.ShowRubricsIcon. The configuration variable was introduced as OFF in 20.26.06 and enabled in 20.26.07. In 20.26.09, D2l.tools.activities.ShowRubricsIcon will be removed and the feature will be enabled for all clients.
Bulk User Management — User management available to all customers via BUM
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator, API Developer
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Distributed administrators (sub-org admins) will be able to leverage the Bulk User
Management tool to manage users within their sub-organization in bulk.
Groups — Bulk editing group names and codes
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor
Site Availability: Off (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: Configuration Variable (Org)
Additional Information Overview
As part of continued improvements to our new Manage Groups experience, currently available via opt in, we will introduce a new function that allows for bulk editing group names and codes within a category. Instructors will be able to choose to edit all or many group names or codes manually.
IPSIS — Enhance Successful Blackbaud Assignment Creation by Using Grading Period IDs in Grades Export
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Instructors will be able to export standalone grade items, such as participation or in-class assignments, to Blackbaud SIS without first associating them with a Brightspace activity.
When configuring a grade item for export, instructors will select a Blackbaud grading period instead of an academic term. The selected grading period will be included in the export, and its end date will be used when exporting standalone grade items to meet Blackbaud’s date requirement.
For grade items associated with a Brightspace activity, the activity’s due date or end date will continue to be used during export. Because the selected grading period will now be included in the export, the activity date will need to fall within the selected Blackbaud grading period.
IPSIS — Update Org Defined ID for Banner/Colleague identifier changes
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
This feature will enable clients to re-align Org Defined IDs of Brightspace user records with updated SIS identifiers, preserving the user's existing account, progress, and enrollments while maintaining synchronization between IPSIS and Ellucian ILP.
Clients may need to update a user's Org Defined ID when:
- A learner or faculty is assigned a new identifier in the SIS.
- Data corrections are made in Banner/Colleague after the user already exists in Brightspace.
- IPSIS imports begin failing because Brightspace and the SIS reference different identifiers for the same person.
- An administrator needs to resolve mapping conflicts that would otherwise result in duplicate user accounts or failed enrollments.
New Content Experience — Removing the Preview as a Student button
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor
Site Availability: N/A
Site Enablement Actions: N/A
Additional Information Overview
The Preview as a Student button will be removed from the New Content Experience settings at the top of the table of contents.
Currently, using this option presents a limited view that estimates what a learner might see in New Content Experience. Some of the misleading limitations of Preview as a Student is it incorrectly shows objects with availability dates and release conditions, and shows the instructor view for Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions rather than what learners would actually see. Additionally, this option only displays a view of Content as it might appear to the Learner, and not the rest of the course. This currently leads to confusion and misunderstanding about what
Students see within a course.
The following options for viewing what a learner might see will remain available and supported:
- Brightspace Role Switch
- Impersonation of a test/demo user
New Content Experience— Side navigation is now collapsible and draggable
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The side navigation in New Content Experience will be collapsible and draggable. This will allow for additional space when viewing content topics. At this time, the feature will only be available in the Immersive View of New Content Experience.
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New Content Experience — Enhanced Table of Contents is the only TOC view
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The configuration variable d2l.Tools.Content.EnableLessonsEnhancedTOC will be removed.
The enhanced Table of Contents will have the following improvements:
- Unlimited depth of content topics and modules
- Learner Completion Progress Tracking indicators on topics and module rollup
- Course Overview displayed if used previously in Classic Content
- Improved accessibility and keyboard controls so all users can more easily restructure their course
- Ability to expand and collapse modules without navigating so users can stay oriented while exploring the course
- Right click to open content items in a new window so users can view two or more topics at one time
- Condensed display lets users on smaller devices see more of the course at one time
- Visual design and behaviors are more consistent with other parts of the Brightspace platform
New Content Experience — Assessable Activities are only displayed inline
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The configuration variable d2l.Tools.Content.LessonsRenderActivitiesInline will be removed.
This means that all assessable activities (Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions, and Instructor LTI) in the New Content Experience will be displayed in-line by default.
Quizzes — Update Quiz Objects BDS with a new Hide Annotation Tools column and update Valence API for Quizzes to support hiding annotation tools
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator, API Developer
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Data administrators will be able to identify which quizzes have the Hide Question Annotation Tools option enabled. A new column will be added to the Quiz Objects dataset:
- Column name:
HideAnnotationTools - Column description: Indicates whether the quiz has Hide Question Annotation Tools enabled
- Column type:
bit - Size:
1 - Nullable:
No
API developers will be able to enable or disable the Hide Question Annotation Tools option for quizzes through the API. The Valence API for Quizzes will be updated accordingly.
Widgets — Work To Do widget will allow users to dismiss overdue items
Planned Release | 20.26.09
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Learner, Administrator
Site Availability: Off
Site Enablement Actions: Role Permission
Additional Information Overview
To help learners better manage activities in the Work To Do widget, a new Dismiss overdue activities permission will be available for learner roles. Learners with this permission will be able to dismiss overdue activities from the Work To Do widget and the Work To Do tool.
Learners with this permission will see a dismiss icon next to activities in the overdue section. Selecting the icon will remove the activity from the list.
October 2026 / 20.26.10
Analytics Builder — Visibility into SPICE usage for Analytics Builder
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Administrator, Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Analytics Builder authors will be able to view SPICE usage and capacity details in one place, helping data teams identify high-consumption datasets and resources more effectively.
API — New APIs to retrieve and link rubrics across course activities
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: API Developer, Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Two new API capabilities will be introduced to support rubric alignment workflows.
- Retrieve rubric alignments
A new endpoint will allow clients to retrieve all rubric associations within a course. Supported activity types will include Assignments, Discussions, Grades, and Quiz Questions such as Written Response. This capability will help instructional designers audit rubric usage and identify alignment gaps. - Create rubric alignments
A new endpoint will allow clients to programmatically link rubrics to course activities. Multiple rubric associations per activity will be supported. This capability will help curriculum integrators automate setup workflows and support consistent evaluation criteria across assessments.
Brightspace — Polish language pack will be available
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: All
Site Availability: Off (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: Language/Locale Management
Additional Information Overview
With this release, the Polish language pack will be available in Brightspace. This update will support broader language accessibility for organizations that require Polish language support.
Brightspace — Russian language pack will be available
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: All
Site Availability: Off (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: Language/Locale Management
Additional Information Overview
With this release, the Russian language pack will be available in Brightspace. This update will support broader language accessibility for organizations that require Russian language support.
Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to the Discussion Topic User Scores Brightspace Data Set
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The Discussion Topic User Scores Brightspace Data Set will be updated with the following changes:
- Updated column —
Version (bigint, not nullable)
The meaning of this column will change from RowVersion to Computed Modification Version, resulting in updated values for all rows. - New column —
IsDeleted (bit)
Indicates whether a discussion topic user score was hard deleted. This can occur through Data Purge or Course Reset.
Portfolio — Updates to Portfolio filter interface for category management
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: All
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The Portfolio category filter experience will be updated to improve category management. The Go to Category Manager button will be moved outside the filter area, and interface labels will be clarified.
Key improvements will include:
- renaming Categorize All to Apply Categories
- adding distinct labels for class-level and school-level category management
- adding a new Manage Categories option that will link to class categories only
These changes will be applied in both the evidence approval view and the individual evidence view to provide a more consistent navigation experience across Portfolio.
Quizzes — Expand API support for Questions
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: API Developer, Integration Vendor
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The existing Question APIs will be expanded to support create, read, update, and delete operations for all question types, as well as question retrieval by ID.
Quizzes — True/False question type will render more consistently across all quizzing areas
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Learner
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
The True/False question type will be updated to render more consistently across all quiz areas, including question creation, preview, quiz taking, results display, and print.
Widgets — Work To Do widget will display a View Course Work link for all learners
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Learner
Site Availability: N/A
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Currently, only learners with permission to view the Work To Do widget at the organization level can access the View All Work link, which opens a full-screen view of overdue and upcoming activities across all courses. Learners with this permission only at the course offering level can see up to six activities in the Work To Do widget.
This update will introduce a new View Course Work link that will allow users to open the Work To Do tool for the specific course offering they are viewing. This will ensure that all overdue and upcoming activities for that course are visible to the learner.
Widgets — Work To Do widget will display times for upcoming and overdue activities
Planned Release | 20.26.10
Change and Enablement Information
Role / Audience: Learner
Site Availability: N/A
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Currently, the Work To Do widget displays only the date an activity is due or ends. With this update, the widget and tool will also display the time an activity is due or ends in the learner’s local time zone.
This update will give learners more precise visibility into when upcoming and overdue activities need to be completed.
Change history
- 16-07-2026: Published the July Product and Services Preview
- 11-06-2026: Published the June Product and Services Preview
- 14-05-2026: Published the May Product and Services Preview
- 16-04-2026: Published the April Product and Services Preview
- 26-03-2026: Updated API — Support Delegated Administration of Users within the Users API to API — Support Distributed Administration of Users within the Users API
- 12-03-2026: Published the March Product and Services Preview
- 24-02-2026: Updated Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to Rubric Assessment Dataset to clarify the upcoming changes
- 12-02-2026: Published the February Product and Services Preview
- 15-01-2026: Published the January Product and Services Preview
- 05-01-2026: Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to Content Objects Brightspace Data Set to the list of features planned for 20.26.03. Removed Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to Question Relationships Brightspace Data Set from the list of features planned for 20.26.03.
- 12-12-2025: Published the December Product and Services Preview
- 13-11-2025: Published the November Product and Services Preview
- 21-10-2025: Published the October Product and Services Preview
- 18-09-2025:
- Removed Annotations (Nutrient) — Update the third party software that powers Assignment Annotations (Nutrient) from version 1.3.0 to 1.6.0 from the list of features planned for 20.25.11
- Administration and System Settings — Improved Admin Tools Menu Experience - the transition period for enforcing the new Admin Tools Menu experience has been extended from December 2025 - 20.25.12 to February 2026 - 20.26.02. The config variable name was also corrected, from to d2l.Preferences.NewAdminCogMenu to d2l.Preferences.NewAdminToolsMenu
- Data Access / Data Hub — Updates to Release Condition Results Brightspace Data Set is now planned for 20.25.11
- Fixed typos and made revisions to improve consistency and clarity
- 17-09-2025: "Usability Improvement - Update legacy style tabs to D2L's modern tabs" is now planned for the 20.25.12 release
- 16-09-2025: Published the September Product and Services Preview
- 20-08-2025: Published the August Product and Services Preview
- 22-07-2025: Removed Assignments - Support Bulk feedback Submission in Assignments and Discussions Submission Page from the list of features planned for the 20.25.10 release
- 21-07-2025:
- Added more information to Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Grade Results Data Set
- 17-07-2025:
- Corrected duplicated heading content for HWEP - Slim Announcements Permissions Update
- Added missing item for Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Quiz Attempts Brightspace Data Set
- Corrected heading for Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Question Relationships Brightspace Data Set
- 16-07-2025 - Published the July Product and Services Preview
- 13-06-2025 - Published the June 2025 Product and Services Preview
- 04-June-2025 - Corrected duplicated heading and removed Course Management - Enable delegated administration of courses to support distributed administration initiatives from 20.25.07 release
- 03-June-2025 - Corrected misplaced information for Lessons/New Content Experience items
- 28-May-2025 - Updated list of features coming in 20.25.07
- 26-May-2025 - Removed internal-facing metadata
- 15-May-2025 - Published the May 2025 Product and Services Preview
- 22-April-2025 - Updated the following preview features:
- Outcomes - Implement Outcome Set (prev Programs) Management with Achievement Scale Setting for Better Reporting is changed to Renaming 'Programs' to 'Outcome Sets' for Better User Familiarity
- Updated the Additional Information section of Rubrics - Adding Ability to Clear Rubric Selections to Save Instructors Time in Evaluation
- 8-April-2025 - Published the April 2025 Product and Services Preview
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