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Brightspace uses a Continuous Delivery model for monthly updates; some of the changes released in July 2025 have an impact on faculty use. Below are the changes that you may see. Full release notes can be found here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n This update allows instructors to create assignments that accept submissions in the form of an uploaded file, text entered in the Brightspace editor, or both.<\/p>\n Instructors can now bulk enroll or unenroll users in existing groups using a CSV file to import through the Groups tool, helping to streamline group management for larger classes.<\/p>\n Note<\/strong>: The system provides a sample file and instructions. If using the sample file, the first row needs to be deleted as it will cause an error message when running if not removed.<\/em><\/p>\n With this update, the Visual Table of Contents widget now determines completion based on topic completion status, not visited state. Manual completion topics are considered complete as soon as they are marked complete in the Content tool, and the widget now accurately displays progress for manual completion topics. Other topic types including quicklinks to quizzes, assignments, and discussions are unaffected by this change. This behavior now aligns with how completion is tracked throughout the Content tool.<\/p>\n This update introduces the full HTML editor for question-level feedback in Quizzes, aligning it with the editors already available for Attempt Feedback and Overall Feedback, including support for the equation editor and file upload features.<\/p>\n Instructors can now reopen the most recently submitted quiz attempt, allowing learners to resume from where they left off. The new feature supports scenarios where learners run out of time or submit their attempt by mistake, improving overall quiz management flexibility.<\/p>\n Notes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Instructors can now view rubric statistics for rubrics associated with written response questions across all learners\u2019 first attempts at a quiz. Both Overall Statistics and Criteria Statistics are included with this update. Previously, rubric statistics were limited or inconsistent for written response questions. This provides instructors with consistent rubric statistics across all assessment types for better insight into how learners perform written response questions in particular.<\/p>\n Below are the recent updates for Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor.<\/p>\n Want training on using Lockdown Browser & Monitor?<\/span> <\/strong>Register for the upcoming <\/span>Respondus <\/span>Webinar.<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Or join our HVCC Training opportunity on\u00a0<\/span>August 26 <\/span>at 2:30 p.m.: <\/span><\/strong>Registration Link<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HVCC Respondus Training Agenda:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n There is a new appearance to the user interface when adding Turnitin PeerMark into the Content area in Brightspace.<\/p>\n Faculty are now able to create a New Assignment or Copy <\/span>PeerMark <\/span>Assignments<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u00a0from Existing Courses.<\/p>\n Reminder, course shells for upcoming semesters and terms will become available on Brightspace 30 days before their start dates. By having a coordinated time, we hope to limit impacts on course shells from master schedule changes. Also, students are set to be available in courses beginning 30 days before a term\u2019s start date. If you make your course active before a term start date, students can access any course content and activities available to them in the course.<\/p>\n If you wish to begin updates and edits to courses for upcoming semesters and terms before the 30 days, you can copy your courses into Z areas. If you need additional Z areas or need Z areas cleaned out, you can submit a help request using the following forms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:57:47 +0000 by\u00a0m.kong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brightspace July Updates Brightspace uses a Continuous Delivery model for monthly updates; some of the changes released in July…<\/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-24426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426","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=24426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}[NEW] Flexible text or file submission options in Assignments for enhanced learner choice<\/h2>\n
[NEW] Groups \u2013 Bulk enroll and unenroll users to Groups with CSV file import<\/h2>\n
[UPDATED] Improved completion reporting in Visual Table of Contents Widget<\/h2>\n
[NEW] Quizzes: Full HTML Editor for Question Feedback<\/h2>\n
[NEW] Quizzes: Reopen a submitted quiz attempt<\/h2>\n
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[NEW] Quizzes: Statistics available for rubrics on written response questions<\/h2>\n
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