February 2024 Updates

The Self-Registration tool was deactivated on February 12, 2024 and is now replaced by the Discover Tool.

Courses in the Learning Hub can be made “discoverable” in order to allow staff and students to self-enroll in a course. Only courses that have switched on Discover, will appear in the search results.

To locate the Discover tool, log into the Learning Hub > myTools > Discover

For more information on Discover and How to it set up

Users with the appropriate role permissions (approvers) can now perform bulk actions on enrollment requests in Discover. This feature simplifies managing multiple requests from the Manage Requests page.

This release also introduces a new Delete Enrollment Requests permission that enables approvers to delete enrollment requests.

Approvers can:

• Select and process multiple enrollment requests simultaneously, including options to approve, decline, or delete.
• Send a collective comment to all declined enrollment requests.

Note: Approvers with the Delete Enrollment Requests permission can delete multiple requests in Pending, Approved, or Declined statuses. Deleting an Approved request does not unenroll a user from the related course. If an approver deletes a pending or declined enrollment request, learners can request enrollment again, if that course is visible in Discover.

Important: Approvers cannot restore deleted enrollment requests. Learners are not notified when an approver deletes an enrollment request. D2L recommends that approvers notify users of any deleted enrollment requests.

Previously, approvers were limited to handling one enrollment request at a time, without the capability to approve, decline, delete, or comment on multiple requests concurrently.

Figure: Approvers can select multiple enrollment requests and perform bulk actions on them.

Figure: Approvers can send a collective comment when declining multiple enrollment requests.

For more information on Discover and how to set it up

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to administrators due to the requirement to enable the Delete Enrollment Requests permission for approvers that want to delete enrollment requests.
• Moderate impact to approvers due to the ability to approve, decline, or delete multiple enrollment requests at once.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.

The question mark (?) icon that appears next to questions in Question Library is removed to prevent visual clutter. However, the folder icon that appears in Question Library next to each section remains.

This change only impacts Question Library and the question mark icon remains in other areas of Brightspace.

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to instructors who can no longer see the question mark icon next to questions in Question Library.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.