February 2019 Release
Assignments – Turnitin
Continuous Delivery and new things at PSCC
Assignments – Turnitin
Assignment Grader, Groups, Intelligent Agents, and Rubrics
Assignments, Content, Discussions, Quizzes, and Rubrics
Each semester for the past several years, there have been issues with student access to merged courses, but during the Fall 2018 semester, we experienced a dramatic increase in students who were unable to access their courses during the first 2 weeks of the semester. There were over 400 students who did not have access to […]
Assignments, Content, Homepages, Quizzes, and Widgets.
Assignments – New assignment types | New On paper submission and Observed in person assignment submission types are now available in Assignments. These new assignment submission types do not require users to make a file submission for them to be completed. This allows instructors to create assignments for a wide variety of activities, not just […]
Content – Print/Download Function added to Overview | New Users can now download and print an uploaded syllabus from the Course Overview area of Content . Note that if the d2l.System.Services.DocumentConversion.IsEnabled configuration variable is enabled, all document types except PDF will display the Download and Print options (PDF will only display the Download button). If the configuration variable is not enabled, only GIF, […]
Turnitin – Improvements to version 2 of the Turnitin Integration | Updated The following improvements have been made to version 2 of the Turnitin (TII) integration: Learners can also view GradeMark feedback in User Progress under Grades and in Content. Error and status messages are being improved upon. Rubrics – Improvements to rubric feedback for learners | […]
Assignments – An assignment folder can be set up to receive a block of text instead of a file. Instructors set whether a file is required or whether text can be submitted. Course admin – Courses can be sorted and filtered by semester and the users role in them. Homepages – Widgets will look different […]
Copy Course – now offers a date offset during copy. Grades – Linked discussion threads from the gradebook. A long-awaited feature. Groups – manage groups with new locked headers for easy navigating. HTML editor – emoticons are available. I know we’ve all been wanting this! ;~} Quizzes – Question pools replace random sections Rubrics – […]