May 2025 Learning Hub Updates

The Submissions page in the Assignments tool now aligns with Discussions and Quizzes, allowing instructors to retract feedback in bulk. This enhancement improves consistency and eliminates the need to use multiple tools for retraction tasks.

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.

Previously, instructors could only retract feedback individually in the Assignments tool.

This feature implements the following PIE items:

• D1361 (Allow method to bulk unpublish dropbox feedback)
• D5593 (Retract Assignment Feedback in Bulk)

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to instructors due to the ability to bulk retract evaluations from the assignment submission page.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.

To enable:

• This feature is enabled automatically.
• This functionality requires the Assignments > Give Feedback and Assignments > Delete Feedback permissions.
• This functionality is not dependent on any new or existing configuration variables.

To improve user experience and reduce unwanted emails, notification emails from Brightspace now include an Unsubscribe link. Selecting the link opens a confirmation screen that allows users to opt out of email notifications, including instant and summary notifications.

Previously, users without login access could not unsubscribe unless they logged in to adjust their notification settings.

Figure: The Unsubscribe All Notifications confirmation page appears after clicking Unsubscribe in an email.

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to instructors and learners who receive email notifications.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all Brightspace Core clients.

Instructors can now export group enrollment data from the Groups tool to support easier attendance tracking, group-specific class lists, and contact list creation.

A new Export button now appears in the Groups tool for users with the Manage Groups and Categories permission. Instructors can use this button to export group data to a CSV file. The exported content includes:

• Group category details
• Group names
• User enrollment information
• Enrollment dates

You can choose a specific group or all groups within a selected category to include in the export.

Previously, there was no built-in method to export group data or user enrollment dates from the Groups tool.

This feature implements the following PIE items:

• D295 (Export Groups: Export Group Enrolments and/or Statistics to a CSV spreadsheet)
• D9175 (Add times and dates of students enrolled in groups created)

This feature partially implements the following PIE items:

• D7413 (Viewing Group Category/Group Enrollments Quickly)
• D345 (Show all Group Categories (or more than one Group Category) on the main Groups page)
• D5236 (Printing Groups)
• D454 (Group Statistics: View the date and time students self-enrolled in a group)

Figure: From the Manage Groups page, click Export to download group data.

Figure: From the Export page, use the Select Category and Select Group drop-downs to choose the desired group set, then click Export to download group data.

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to administrators who must assign appropriate permissions to roles that want to use this feature.
• Slight impact to instructors who can export details of a group category and groups if permitted.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.

To enable:

• This functionality is automatically enabled for all users.
• Ensure the Groups and Sections Management >Manage Groups and Categories permission and User Information Privacy permissions are applied to the required roles.
• This functionality is not dependent on any new or existing configuration variables.

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.

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to learners due to the refreshed user interface (UI) of the quiz submission page.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients.

To enable:

• This feature is enabled automatically.
• This functionality is not dependent on any new or existing permissions and configuration variables.

This release introduces the new d2l.Tools.Quizzes.ShowSessionId (Org Unit) configuration variable (default: OFF), which allows administrators to control whether instructors can view the Session ID column in quiz attempt logs.

When enabled, instructors can use session IDs to discern when learners have multiple sessions within a quiz attempt, helping detect potential academic dishonesty.

Figure: Check the Session ID column when viewing Attempt Logs > Detailed.

Technical Details

Impact:

• Slight impact to administrators, who can control the visibility of session IDs in attempt logs using the d2l.Tools.Quizzes.ShowSessionId (Org Unit) configuration variable .
• Slight impact to instructors, who can view the Session ID column within Attempt Logs.

Availability:

• This feature is available to all clients