November 2023 Learning Hub updates

The Publish All dialog for Assignments and Discussions is improved and standardized to show key information about learner evaluations. Dialog messaging is consistent for both Assignments and Discussions as it notes complete and incomplete learner evaluations and other key information, like how many learners have feedback and how many learners or groups are assigned to an activity. This change improves the user experience by including additional information about the status of learner evaluations and creating evaluation consistency across Brightspace.

Previously, the Publish All dialog did not display any information about learner evaluations or other key information, and the dialog messaging was not consistent across the Assignments and Discussions tools.

Figure: Review learner evaluation information in the Publish All dialog before clicking Publish.

This new configuration variable allows users to either select Restrict topic or Restrict topic and separate the threads as the default in the Group and Section Restrictions dialog. Before selection, the default option remains as Restrict topic.

Administrators can choose whether Restrict topic or Restrict topic and separate the threads is the default when users launch the Manage Restrictions dialog from the Availability Dates & Conditions accordion.

Note: This change does not impact topics with existing group and section restrictions.

Figure: Select either Restrict topic or Restrict topic and separate the threads to choose the default restriction in the New Discussions Creation Experience.