D2L Updates | eLearning Support | Bemidji State University

Recent Updates

In Groups: Instructors can now enroll more than 200 students per group in a category. The new enrollment limit is 3,000 students per group. As usual, the students must be enrolled in the current course.
In Quizzes: Instructors now have a simple way to print a quiz for students to complete offline. The new Print Quiz page also provides instructors the option to print the quiz with the answer key (in-line with the questions). Instructors may have the option to print different versions of the quiz (if they use randomization or shuffle options in their quiz).

In Assignments: Instructors can setup a new “file or text submission” assignment to allow a student to submit one or both in a single submission.
In D2L Brightspace: The minimum supported browser versions have been updated.
In Groups: Instructors can now bulk enroll or bulk unenroll students in existing groups using a CSV or TXT file.
In Quizzes: Instructors can now reopen a student’s submitted quiz attempt and the student can continue their attempt.
In Rubrics: Instructors can reset rubric scoring (while keeping any entered feedback) using the new Clear Selections option.

In Awards: The issuer’s first and last name may now display on certificates for awards. Note: Replace strings are added to PDF certificate templates, such as in Adobe Acrobat. The issuer’s name (if added to templates) appears on manually issued awards after June 19, 2025.
In Content: When creating a new HTML file as an instructor, 11 new templates are available in the ‘Select a Document Template’ menu. These include new accordions and tabs templates. (Note: This does not alter existing content pages.)

In Assignments: Instructors can now retract published feedback in bulk for selected students or for all students at once.
In Groups: Instructors can export group enrollments data to a CSV file using the new Export button.
In Notifications: From a notification email, you can unsubscribe from all Brightspace email notifications using the new unsubscribe link.
In Quizzes: The New Quiz Evaluation Experience is now the only experience for instructors when grading quiz attempts. Instructors can no longer opt-out of the new experience.

In Assignments and Discussions: Instructors can now add bulk feedback to student assessments for selected students or all students at once.
In Grades: Students can access their quiz attempt feedback from the Grades tool. Students can continue to access their quiz attempt feedback from the Quizzes tool.
In Media Library: Some buttons have been renamed or moved on the page in the Media Library, but the same functionality exists for students and instructors.

In Awards: Instructors can now enter an issue date when manually issuing awards to students.
In HTML Editor: Instructors may notice a warning when copying and pasting an image to a different course. This warning is to notify the instructor and recommends the object be inserted into the HTML Editor using the toolbar options.
In Quizzes: All question types are now supported in the new quiz evaluation experience for instructors.
In Rubrics: For instructors and students, a level point range has been added to better clarify analytic rubrics.

In HTML Editor: The accessibility checker icon has been updated to a human figure within a circle for better clarity.
In Quizzes: Instructors can now filter quiz statistics by a section or a group.

In D2L Brightspace, the minimum supported browser versions have been updated.
In Rubrics, instructors can quickly set ungraded levels for rubric criteria to a minimum or maximum value. This is available for analytical type rubrics in assignments, discussions and written response quiz questions (new evaluation experience).
In Widgets, the ‘Office 365’ widget has been renamed to ‘Microsoft 365’ in D2L Brightspace.

In Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes: A new ‘learner view of grade’ displays the grade scheme as quick reference for the instructor. For Quizzes, instructors must opt into the new evaluation experience to access this feature.
In Rubrics: The Criteria descriptions can now be up to 500 characters. (Previously, they had a 256-character limit.)

In Assignments: The Advanced Assessment workflow has been updated to ensure students are assigned to at least one evaluator.
In Brightspace Pulse: The Pulse app will be updated throughout the next two months to improve the user experience, including the mobile browser integration.
In Groups: Deleted individual groups and categories of groups can now be restored through the Groups tool Recycle Bin.

This release contains no features or changes for instructors and students.

In Quizzes: The new Quiz Evaluation Experience is available for instructors to try out when evaluating student quiz attempts.
In Quizzes: Instructors can attach rubrics to written response questions and score those responses with rubrics when using the new quiz evaluation experience.
In Quizzes: Students can review unscored rubrics for written response questions when taking a quiz and review rubrics with feedback after their instructor has graded their quiz attempt.

Report any D2L Brightspace issues to the MinnState IT service desk.