May 2025 Brightspace Updates
This month there are only a few important updates to Brightspace. Below are the highlights of this month’s updates and improvements. For a full list of updates from D2L, click the link in the References section at the bottom of this page.
Assignments – Retract feedback in bulk on the Submissions page
The Submissions page in the Assignments tool now aligns with Discussions and Quizzes, allowing instructors to retract feedback in bulk. This update improves consistency and eliminates the need to use multiple tools for retraction tasks. Previously, instructors could only retract feedback individually in the Assignments tool.
The bulk Retract Feedback option allows instructors to choose how many learners to retract published feedback from.
Selective retraction is also supported. Instructors can select users by checking the box next to their names and then clicking More Actions > Retract Feedback.
The More Actions > Retract All option retracts feedback for all users, regardless of which users are selected.
Figure: From the Submissions page, click More Actions and select Retract All to remove published feedback in bulk.
After clicking Retract All, instructors are notified of the number of evaluations to be retracted and must confirm by clicking Retract.
Figure: A confirmation dialog displays the number of learners affected. Click Retract to proceed or Cancel to exit.
Quick Eval – Evaluate learners across Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes
This release enables instructors to quickly iterate through their list of submissions in Quick Eval even if those submissions are sourced from different activity types or courses. For example, an instructor has activities to grade in Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes and has been assigned items that appear in Quick Eval Submissions. The instructor directly accesses each submission to evaluate the items instead of navigating back to Quick Eval and going into each item again.
Previously, instructors had to click into each submission to view the evaluation and then click Back to Quick Eval to go to the Submissions view and then find the next submission to evaluate. With this release instructors are redirected to the next evaluation as listed in the Quick Eval.
Figure: From the Submissions view, select a submission and click on the linked learner’s name. In the activity evaluation page, use the forward and backward arrows to toggle to the next or previous learner to evaluate.
Quizzes – Updated Learner Submission View
The quiz submission page now features a sleeker, modernized layout. The previous banner image has been replaced with a checkmark icon, along with other visual updates.
Figure: The quiz submission page before this update.
Figure: The quiz submission page after this update.
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