What’s New at D2L

Amplify Your Content Strategy With Generative AI Solutions

Our Generative AI beta program is now available to help educators and content creators easily and quickly generate practice questions and quiz questions using existing course content. Try it now in our Creator+ demo experience.

Unlock Enhanced Data

Discover a host of improvements in the latest Data Hub version 9.0, designed to streamline quizzing, user logins, awards, grades and roles. Experience a more efficient and user-friendly platform to elevate your workflow.

Gain Insightful Organization-wide Oversight

Elevate your course management with the SIS Course Merge Audit Log. Granting users the power to access detailed records of merge and unmerge actions provides unparalleled transparency, empowering you to make informed decisions.

Encourage Precision Grading

Administrators now have the ability to enable negative marking, giving instructors the power to discourage guessing and incentivize accuracy. This innovative feature enhances the grading strategy, fostering a more accurate assessment environment.

Optimize Achievement Tracking

Keep a finger on the pulse of your courses by leveraging the new outcomes course achievement scale dataset. Understand which scales and achievement thresholds are being utilized, offering valuable insights into course progress and performance.

Change the Way You Test

Educators now have the capability to conduct synchronous quizzes, allowing all learners to take the quiz simultaneously or have the quiz timer expire at the same time for all participants.

Leverage New Functionality in Content Authoring/Author Your Own High-Impact Courses

Educators of all skill levels have been crafting beautiful and instructionally sound content using familiar D2L Brightspace workflows in Creator+ since its release. Now, educators can insert Creator+ elements right into their layout.

Experience Schedule Clarity

Learners can stay on top of upcoming assessments effortlessly. Now, Quiz availability dates will seamlessly integrate into your calendar, displaying both start and end dates for added clarity.

Benefit From Improved Announcements Functionality

Updating tools and improving consistency across the platform—and without disruption—continues to be a priority.

• Keep important and relevant information at the forefront with the ability to pin announcements to the top of the Announcements widget.
• Share announcements across courses with the click of a button.

Streamline Workflows in Discover

Enjoy a host of new and improved features in course management. Recent changes include:

• A new Enrollment Rules Builder page where users can create and manage a rule easily.
• Search for existing rules from the Create Enrollment Rule page.
• Add or remove existing rules from the Course Offering page.

Effectively Distribute Feedback

Providing effective feedback is a crucial part of learning. Recent updates to Brightspace make it easier for learners to access feedback:

• Updated interface in the Grades tool.
• Feedback files attached to Assignments will now display within Grades.

Harness the New Discussion Topic Editing Experience

Originally introduced in December 2022, the New Topic Editing Experience is now universally enabled.

Streamline Course Reset

The latest update introduces a new interface that ensures instructors have the necessary information at their fingertips to confidently reset course offerings.

• Now featuring Semester, Department, OrgUnitid, alongside course code, start and end dates, and active status, instructors can easily identify they’re resetting the correct course.
• Additional dialog has been added to alert instructors about ongoing activities in the course, such as unevaluated assignments, quiz attempts and recent user access.

Unlock New Editing Capabilities

Now, in the New Content Experience, you can easily add and manage Release Conditions directly from the Create/Edit pages. This update streamlines your workflow and is consistent with the process for Assignments, Quizzes and Discussions.