February 2025 Learning Hub Updates

This release updates the Accessibility Checker icon in Brightspace Editor to improve user recognition and understanding.

Figure: The updated Accessibility Checker icon is now a human figure within a circle, replacing the eye symbol with a check mark for better clarity.

Figure: The previous Accessibility Checker icon of an eye and checkmark.

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to administrators and instructors due to the availability of a more recognizable Accessibility Checker icon.

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 configuration variables or permissions.

Users must validate their external email addresses whenever they use the Copy external mail on all sent messages option. This option is selected in either Email Settings or the Account Settings > Email tab.

Notes: An external email is considered any email outside of Brightspace, regardless of whether it is within your institution’s domain or not. Once you have an external email address configured, the text of the option changes to Send a copy of each outgoing message to [external email].

Figure: Users can configure the Copy external mail on all sent messages option in the Account Settings > Email tab

Figure: Once you have an external email address configured, the text of the option changes to Send a copy of each outgoing message to [external email].<![CDATA[
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Figure: Users can also configure the Copy external mail on all sent messages option in Email Settings. The text in this location also changes to Send a copy of each outgoing message to [external email].

Once users save their changes, the system sends a validation email message to the external email address. Users click the link in the email to validate the setting and email address. Unverified email addresses display a Not Verified – Click to Resend Verification Email status next to the Send a copy of each outgoing message to [external email] option. Users can resend validation emails, but the system does not copy messages to the external email address until it verifies the address. If users change their external email address, they must repeat the validation process.

Figure: Unverified emails are indicated with the Not Verified – Click to Resend Verification Email status. Users can click that status to resend the verification email.

Previously, Copy external mail on all sent messages did not require validation of external email. Any users who have previously configured Copy external mail on all sent messages do not require validation unless their external email address is altered.

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to all users due to the Copy external mail on all sent messages option requiring validation of external email addresses.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.

To enable:

• This functionality requires users to have the Email > Send Emails to External Email Addresses permission enabled for their role.
• This functionality is not dependent on any new or existing configuration variables.

Quiz statistics now include filters for Sections or Groups, allowing instructors to analyze specific sections and groups effectively. The new filter improves analytics for courses with large class sizes and multiple instructors.

Note: Filters appear only when sections or groups exist in the course, and instructors have permission to view multiple groups. For more information, refer to About Groups and Sections.

Figure: On the View Statistics page, select the desired filter option and click Apply. The filters apply to all three tabs: User Stats, Question Stats, and Question Details.

This feature implements the following PIE items:

• D2161 (Filter quiz statistics by section)
• D10106 (Statistics – Sort by section or group)

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to instructors due to the ability to filter quiz statistics by Sections or Groups.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.

To enable:

• This functionality is automatically enabled for all users.
• To filter quiz statistics by Sections or Groups, users must have the required Groups and Sections permissions applied to their roles.
• This functionality is not dependent on any new or existing configuration variables.