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Table of Contents
- Interface Updates
- Announcements
- Added Option
- Discussions
- Peer Review Text Update
- Groups
- Course Name Added to Group Tray
- Rubrics
- Leaving Editor Warning
- Other Updates
- External Tools
- Updating the mediaType for launches from New Quizzes items
Interface Updates
Announcements
Added Option
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Affected Feature Areas |
Announcements |
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Account Setting to Enable |
None |
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Permissions |
Inherent to user role |
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Related Ideas |
Summary
On the Announcement Edit page, the Participants must respond to the topic before viewing other replies checkbox is added.
Change Benefit
This feature encourages independent thinking and engagement. By requiring participants to respond before seeing others' replies, it promotes original contributions and prevents bias from reading peers' responses first.
Feature Workflow
Announcements Participants Must Respond to the Topic before Viewing Other Replies Checkbox
The Participants must respond to the topic before viewing other replies checkbox is available when instructors choose to allow participants to comment.
Discussions
Peer Review Text Update
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Affected Feature Areas |
Graded Discussions |
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Account Setting to Enable |
None |
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Permissions |
Discussions-create |
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Related Ideas |
Summary
When assigning automatic peer reviews in a Discussion, the date label is changed to Assign Reviews, replacing the previous label, Reviews Due.
Change Benefit
This update ensures consistent language between peer-reviewed assignments and peer-reviewed discussions.
Feature Workflow
Peer Review Assign Reviews Text Update
When automatically assigning peer reviews, the date label is changed to Assign Reviews.
Groups
Course Name Added to Group Tray
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Affected Feature Areas |
Groups |
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Account Setting to Enable |
None |
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Permissions |
Inherent to User Role |
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Related Ideas |
Summary
In the Group Tray, groups display the associated course name.
Change Benefit
This feature helps users quickly identify each group’s course, reducing confusion and improving navigation.
Feature Workflow
Groups Course Name Added to Group Tray
In the Group Tray, students can view a group's course information.
Rubrics
Leaving Editor Warning
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Affected Feature Areas |
Rubrics |
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Account Setting to Enable |
None |
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Permissions |
Inherent to user Role |
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Related Ideas |
Summary
When exiting the Rubric Edit page, instructors see a warning indicating that unsaved work will be lost.
Change Benefit
This update helps prevent instructors from accidentally losing their work by alerting them to save changes before leaving the Rubric Editor page. This ensures that time and effort spent on editing rubrics aren't unintentionally lost.
Feature Workflow
Save Changes to Rubric Warning Modal
A Warning modal displays when exiting the Rubric Edit page.
Other Updates
External Tools
Updating the mediaType for launches from New Quizzes items
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Beta Environment Availability |
2024-11-18 |
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Production Environment Availability |
2024-12-08 |
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Affects User Interface |
No |
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Affected Feature Areas |
External Tools |
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Related Ideas |
None |
Summary
This update affects LTI tools that rely on the "mediaType" in the placements for module_menu, quiz_menu, and assignment_menu. The "mediaType" for New Quizzes launches is changing from:
Old value: "mediaType":"application/vnd.instructure.api.content-exports.assignment"
New value: "mediaType":"application/vnd.instructure.api.content-exports.quizzesnext"
Change Benefit
This update helps tools distinguish between regular assignments/old quizzes and New Quizzes.
Change Log
2024-11-22
