December 2024 Updates

To support larger criteria descriptions, administrators and instructors can now add up to 500 characters to the description of the criteria when creating and editing rubrics. This new limit provides more context about learning expectations.

Full descriptions of criteria are available in the Learner view.

For instructors, when evaluating, up to three lines are displayed. To display the complete text, they must click more.

Figure: Click more to display the complete text for the rubric description.

Previously, the Criteria description field was limited to 256 characters.

Important: This change applies only to new rubric items created or edited after this release. Existing rubrics retain their original 256-character limit unless manually updated.

This feature implements the following PIE items:

• D6443 (Brightspace Rubrics – Expand characters allowed in description of criterion)
• D9982 (Increase the Character limit for the Rubric criteria description)
• D5135 (Rubric Criteria Description)

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to administrators and instructors due to the change of the character requirement for criteria in Rubrics.
• Slight impact to instructors and learners who now have more context about learning expectations.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.

To enable:

• This functionality is automatically enabled for all users.
• This functionality is not dependent on any new or existing permissions or configuration variables.