{"id":22408,"date":"2024-08-13T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T15:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/brightspace-august-2024-updates-changes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T15:55:25","slug":"brightspace-august-2024-updates-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/brightspace-august-2024-updates-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace August 2024 Updates\/Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Brightspace August 2024 Updates\/Changes<\/h2>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Gradebook Update<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When using the grade calculation \u201cDrop ungraded items,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hvcc.teamdynamix.com\/TDClient\/1967\/Portal\/KB\/ArticleDet?ID=149679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gradebook Set up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/kb\/articles\/26154-about-automatic-zero-grading-for-missing-submissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brightspace About Automatic Zero<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Integrated Tools Updates<\/h2>\n<p><em>Some updates have been made to tools over the last few months that are integrated into Brightspace.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">YuJa Video Updates<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>When creating a video quiz, you can now upload images as answers for multiple choice questions.<\/li>\n<li>Updates to the Video editor to increase usability, including the ability to mute sections of video.<\/li>\n<li>Improved live caption quality.<\/li>\n<li>You are now able to position watermarks on videos based on timestamps.<\/li>\n<li>The option to import YouTube videos to YuJa is being phased out (see update #18 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/updates.yuja.com\/yuja-enterprise-video-platform-update-july-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 2024 update<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Embedded YouTube videos are now available for playback quizzes and analytic data (see items 5 &amp; 6 on <a href=\"https:\/\/updates.yuja.com\/yuja-enterprise-video-platform-update-douglas-fir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this YuJa update<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">VoiceThread Updates<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you haven\u2019t used VoiceThread in a while, you\u2019ll 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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Audio description of slides<\/li>\n<li>Conversation view<\/li>\n<li>Jump to slides while commenting without having to flip through each slide<\/li>\n<li>Increased visibility for closed captions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For training or additional information on these updates see our <a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/august-training-opportunities-for-brightspace-yuja-qwickly-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">training opportunities for August<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Past Updates:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/brightspace-june-2024-updates-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2024 Brightspace Updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/upcoming-term-course-shell-availability-on-brightspace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upcoming Term Course Shell Availability on Brightspace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/new-tool-for-brightspace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qwickly: New Tool for Brightspace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/brightspace-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 2023 Brightspace Updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/brightspace-tips-episode-1-solutions-for-common-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brightspace Tips \u2013 Episode 1: Solutions for Common Issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/brightspace-important-information-on-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brightspace: Important Information about Student Email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:55:25 +0000 by\u00a0m.kong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Brightspace August 2024 Updates\/Changes Brightspace uses a Continuous Delivery model for monthly updates, some of the changes released in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}