Brightspace August 2024 Updates/Changes
Brightspace uses a Continuous Delivery model for monthly updates, some of the changes released in August 2024 have an impact on faculty use. Below are the changes that you may see.
Gradebook Update
When using the grade calculation “Drop ungraded items,” the assignment will now auto grade as a 0 in the gradebook after the due date for the item. Previously this setting would leave ungraded items as dropped in the gradebook.
Additional information:
Integrated Tools Updates
Some updates have been made to tools over the last few months that are integrated into Brightspace.
YuJa Video Updates
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- When creating a video quiz, you can now upload images as answers for multiple choice questions.
- Updates to the Video editor to increase usability, including the ability to mute sections of video.
- Improved live caption quality.
- You are now able to position watermarks on videos based on timestamps.
- The option to import YouTube videos to YuJa is being phased out (see update #18 on the July 2024 update)
- Embedded YouTube videos are now available for playback quizzes and analytic data (see items 5 & 6 on this YuJa update)
VoiceThread Updates
If you haven’t used VoiceThread in a while, you’ll see that there is a whole new interface that has been rolled out. Many of the updates have been targeted to make VoiceThread more accessible.
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- Audio description of slides
- Conversation view
- Jump to slides while commenting without having to flip through each slide
- Increased visibility for closed captions
For training or additional information on these updates see our training opportunities for August.