Changes to D2L Brightspace Notifications

Instructors often post important and time-sensitive information in the Announcements tool of their courses. To help ensure students receive this information, all users of D2L Brightspace will have their settings modified to receive email notifications when Announcements are posted or updated in D2L Brightspace starting Monday, December 27. This includes Announcements in all courses a person is enrolled in as well […]

D2L’s New Assignment Tool 

Since June 2020, the “New Assignment Creation Experience” has been available as an opt-in option for all D2L Brightspace courses. Starting on December 16, the “New Assignment Creation Experience” will become the only option for creating and editing assignments. While creating the assignment, you can choose:   to have the assignment be ungraded.   to have a Grade Item created […]

D2L Brightspace Discussions – Date Setting Options Updated for Spring 22 Courses!

The setting options available for date restrictions in D2L Brightspace Discussions have changed significantly for spring 2022 courses. If your spring 2022 courses have already been requested and created, you will see these options. The old date settings options will continue to display in fall 2021 courses until December 31, 2021. Effective December 31, 2021, the newer date settings will […]