Tuesday, 19 July 2016

General Brightspace update session on tool enhancements

General update by D2L on various tools
Attendee:- Sheryl

Awards
Awards have had a bit of an update including ability for students to access PDF copy of certificate even if they are no longer enrolled in the course.
Enhanced ability to import external badges

Paid for Service
Custom data export bundles allows you to access data reports. Need to look at this in further detail as session didn't go into detail and this could be a way of extracting some of the data we are keen to extract to CSV.

Discussions
Score a rubric while assessing discussion post
Rubric score rolls up to topic score automatically
Include forum description in child topics

Dropbox
Track deleted submissions
Ability to restore back to dropbox
Also can restore deleted news items

Groups
When creating or enrolling a group category a group prefix is now available.
Advanced search option for groups but needs to be turned on in the config variables
It allows for advanced search and group enrolment enhancements

Quizzing
Quiz attempts per user overide can do on a per student basis. Needs to be turned on as a config variable.

Copy selected components workflow has been enhanced to include:-
copy course history
Bulk tool configuration
Support for LTI links to be copied course to course

Intelligent agents & release conditions
Practice run of intelligent agents
Can now do any one-off queries without sending an email
List of who the intelligent agent was run for and when
Copy agents within a course
Agents with no conditions are disabled automatically
Agent emails are no longer truncated
Added the ability to change who the agent is coming from rather than the current random D2L address. This would make the intelligent agent feature more personal for Te Kura.**
All the above Included in August 10.64 release
Looking at Intelligent agents being able to send texts rather than emails. This is on the product update plan so is not available yet. If were keen to do this we need to vote on the PIE on the community.







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