March 2025 Learning Hub Updates

To provide greater flexibility when issuing awards, instructors can now use the Issue Date field in the Issue Award dialog. Instructors can manually enter an Issue Date when issuing awards, allowing them to backdate awards as needed. The Issue Date field defaults to the current date.

Previously, instructors could only edit the issue date of an award via API.

Figure: The Issue Date field appears below the Select an Award field in the Issue Award dialog.

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to administrators and instructors due to the ability to edit the issue date of awards without using the API.

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.
• This functionality is not dependent on any new or existing configuration variables.

The new quiz evaluation experience, introduced in September 2024/20.24.09, initially supported a subset of question types, including Multiple Choice, Written Response, True or False, Short Answer, Fill in the Blank, and Multi-Select. It also allowed Question Pools containing these question types.

To fully support the new quiz evaluation experience, this release expands support to include the following additional quiz question types:

• Arithmetic
• Matching
• Ordering
• Multi Short Answer
• Significant Figures

With full question type support, organizations can now transition entirely to the new quiz evaluation experience for a seamless and feature-complete workflow.

For additional information about the new quiz evaluation experience and planned updates, refer to the Release of the new quiz evaluation experience blog post.

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to instructors due to the additional question types in the new quiz evaluation experience.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.

To enable:

• This functionality is released as OFF and can be enabled by setting the d2l.Tools.Activities.CEQuizzesOptIn configuration variable to ON (Opt-in) for the org unit type. When enabled, instructors can turn on the new quiz evaluation experience directly on the page they are grading. If the configuration variable is turned OFF, instructors cannot opt in to the new experience.
• This functionality is dependent on the Quizzes > Grade Submitted Quizzes permission.

This release introduces rubric level ranges in rubric headings, improving clarity for instructors and learners:

• Instructors can now see rubric level ranges while creating and evaluating rubrics, except for holistic rubrics and non-sequential custom points.
• Learners can view rubric level ranges in assessments, ensuring a clear understanding of point distributions.

Previously, instructors had to manually explain rubric level ranges to learners. This feature enhances consistency and reduces ambiguity.

The new d2l.Tools.EnableRubricLevelRanges configuration variable (default: OFF) controls the visibility of rubric level ranges. If d2l.Tools.EnableRubricLevelRanges is enabled (ON), the following behavior is expected:

• Instructors can see the rubric level ranges when creating and evaluating rubrics, except for holistic rubrics and custom points that are not sequential.Figure: Define the scoring levels and criteria when creating or editing a rubric. Adjust custom points by entering values in the corresponding fields under each level column.
• Learners can see the rubric criteria level range when viewing rubrics, except for holistic rubrics and custom points that are not sequential.

This feature implements the following PIE items:

• D10881 (Hide rubric overall grade range and make it clearer)
• D8693 (Make Rubric Levels Ranges)

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to administrators, who can enable or disable the rubric criteria level range visuals.
• Moderate impact on instructors, who gain clarity when designing rubrics by adding rubric criteria level range.
• Slight impact to learners, who can easily interpret rubric scoring.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.

To enable:

• Set the d2l.Tools.EnableRubricLevelRanges configuration variable (default: OFF) to ON.
• This functionality is not dependent on any new or existing permissions.