Brightspace Platform 10.5.3 Release
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Brightspace Platform 10.5.3 Release Notes
Highlights from the 10.5.3 release
Contents
Highlights from the 10.5.3 release........................................................................................ 1
Release Notes ...................................................................................................................... 2
D2L Learning Environment .............................................................................................................. 2
Awards - Icon and template libraries management | Updated ................................... 2
Copy Course Components - Improved copy content settings | Updated .................... 4
QuickLinks - QuickLinks tool no longer inserts http:// by default | Updated ............. 6
User Progress - Identify when learners access their courses | New............................ 7
User Progress - Identify if learners download content at the topic, module, …..........
or table of contents level | New .................................................................................. 8
Integrations .................................................................................................................................... 10
Brightspace® App Finder - Usability Enhancements | New ....................................... 10
ReadSpeaker docReader - Turn on tool directly | Updated ...................................... 11
Fixed Issues ........................................................................................................................ 13
Calendar ......................................................................................................................................... 13
PRB0048718 ............................................................................................................... 13
Classlist ........................................................................................................................................... 13
PRB0050070 ............................................................................................................... 13
Content .......................................................................................................................................... 13
PRB0050118 ............................................................................................................... 13
PRB0050072 ............................................................................................................... 14
Copy Course Content .................................................................................................................... 14
PRB0049766 ............................................................................................................... 14
PRB0049611 ............................................................................................................... 14
Discussions ..................................................................................................................................... 15
PRB0049294 ............................................................................................................... 15
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Dropbox.......................................................................................................................................... 15
PRB0048091 ............................................................................................................... 15
PRB0049422 ............................................................................................................... 16
PRB0050026 ............................................................................................................... 16
Grades ............................................................................................................................................ 17
PRB0040525 ............................................................................................................... 17
PRB0050139 ............................................................................................................... 17
PRB0047537 ............................................................................................................... 17
Brightspace Platform ..................................................................................................................... 18
PRB0050117 ............................................................................................................... 18
PRB0044341 ............................................................................................................... 18
PRB0048550 ............................................................................................................... 18
PRB0049981 ............................................................................................................... 19
HTML Editor ................................................................................................................................... 19
PRB0049597 ............................................................................................................... 19
Links ................................................................................................................................................ 20
PRB0049226 ............................................................................................................... 20
PRB0049759 ............................................................................................................... 20
Navigation ...................................................................................................................................... 20
PRB0050039 ............................................................................................................... 20
PRB0044792 ............................................................................................................... 21
News ............................................................................................................................................... 21
PRB0050227 ............................................................................................................... 21
Org Unit Editor ............................................................................................................................... 22
PRB0043608 ............................................................................................................... 22
Quizzes ........................................................................................................................................... 22
PRB0049833 ............................................................................................................... 22
PRB0050233 ............................................................................................................... 22
PRB0049536 ............................................................................................................... 23
PRB0049380 ............................................................................................................... 23
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PRB0048714 ............................................................................................................... 23
Rubrics ............................................................................................................................................ 24
PRB0043065 ............................................................................................................... 24
D2L Valence ................................................................................................................................... 24
PRB0049748 ............................................................................................................... 24
Widgets .......................................................................................................................................... 25
PRB0049556 ............................................................................................................... 25
Known Issues ..................................................................................................................... 26
Chat ................................................................................................................................................ 26
PRB0049785 ............................................................................................................... 26
Classlist ........................................................................................................................................... 26
PRB0041370 ............................................................................................................... 26
Config Variable Browser ................................................................................................................ 27
PRB0045225 ............................................................................................................... 27
Content .......................................................................................................................................... 27
PRB0043564 ............................................................................................................... 27
PRB0044274 ............................................................................................................... 28
PRB0050258 ............................................................................................................... 28
PRB0045114 ............................................................................................................... 28
PRB0050145 ............................................................................................................... 29
PRB0050175 ............................................................................................................... 29
D2L Learning Repository ............................................................................................................... 30
PRB0050200 ............................................................................................................... 30
Discussions ..................................................................................................................................... 30
PRB0050248 ............................................................................................................... 30
PRB0050109 ............................................................................................................... 30
Dropbox.......................................................................................................................................... 31
PRB0049749 ............................................................................................................... 31
Document Viewer Framework ...................................................................................................... 31
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PRB0044124 ............................................................................................................... 31
Email ............................................................................................................................................... 32
PRB0050171 ............................................................................................................... 32
Glossary .......................................................................................................................................... 32
PRB0045773 ............................................................................................................... 32
HTML Editor ................................................................................................................................... 32
PRB0049997 ............................................................................................................... 32
Integration and Extensibility ......................................................................................................... 33
PRB0050215 ............................................................................................................... 33
PRB0050232 ............................................................................................................... 33
Quizzes ........................................................................................................................................... 33
PRB0050029 ............................................................................................................... 33
PRB0050130 ............................................................................................................... 34
PRB0050114 ............................................................................................................... 34
News ............................................................................................................................................... 34
PRB0050218 ............................................................................................................... 34
SCORM ........................................................................................................................................... 35
PRB0049661 ............................................................................................................... 35
Surveys ........................................................................................................................................... 35
PRB0050102 ............................................................................................................... 35
System Check ................................................................................................................................. 36
PRB0050088 ............................................................................................................... 36
Widgets .......................................................................................................................................... 36
PRB0049556 ............................................................................................................... 36
About D2L .......................................................................................................................... 37
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Brightspace Platform 10.5.3 Release Notes
Highlights from the 10.5.3 release
Highlights from the 10.5.3 release
The following release notes are for clients installing D2L Learning Environment 10.5.3 (October 2015). If you are
upgrading from 10.3.0, the maximum supported Service Pack (SP) is 10.3.0 SP 22. If you are at SP 23 or higher, you
must wait for D2L Learning Environment 10.5.4 (November 2015). For more information about upgrade paths, refer to
the Continuous Delivery Upgrade Paths document. For more information about platform requirements, see the
Platform Requirements document.
10.5.3 has several new feature improvements as well as fixed issues. In this document, you will find the necessary
details to understand the feature changes, why they were made, and how they impact D2L Learning Environment.
Note that between the preview release notes and the publication of these release notes, the following features were
added:

Awards tool updates for administrators

Enhancements to Brightspace App Finder

ReadSpeaker docReader updates for administrators
You can use this document in support of communicating the changes to your organization. We welcome your feedback
and questions about this release in the Brightspace Community.
To view the Fixed Issues List and Known Issues List for 10.5.3, see the 2015-10 Release Notes folder on the Brightspace
Community.
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D2L Learning Environment
Awards - I con and t e mplat e l ibrarie s management | Updated
Administrators can now add to or delete from the award icon library and the certificate templates library. This enables
administrators to manage the default values the organization makes available to their users of the Awards tool.
This feature implements PIE item D2688.
Figure 1: Upload New Icon and Delete Icon options on the Award Icon Library page
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Figure 2: Upload New Template and Delete Certificate options on the Certificate Templates page
Organization Wide
Role Permissions
Tool Change
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to
administrators who can now
manage which default icons
and templates are available
to Awards tool users in their
organization.
The following permissions are necessary for
administrators to manage defaults in the
libraries:
n/a
Awards – Can Manage Default Icon Library
Awards – Can Manage Default Certificate
Templates
The options to upload and delete award icons
and certificate templates are found in the
Awards tool, on the Award Icon Library page
and the Certificate Templates page,
respectively.
Copy Course Compone nt s - Improve d copy content settings | Updated
The Content Display Settings copy the settings controlled by org unit configuration, including Content Arrangement
and Navigation display options, and completion status tracking. You can access these settings from the Content >
Settings popup window. Previously, if you selected Content display settings from the Copy Selected Components
workflow, these items were not properly copied. This update ensures that the Content Settings are all copied as
expected when you use the Copy Course Components and Bulk Course Copy options.
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The middle part of this dialog (Content Authoring) contains settings that are not included in a course copy.
Figure 3: Bulk Course Configuration - Content Display Settings
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Tool Change
Users Only
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Minimal Change to clients.
The result of these changes is
that the feature now works
as expected.
In previous versions of D2L Learning
Environment, this screen of the Bulk Course
Configuration feature did not function as
expected. You can select the following options:
For new courses, any
changes to organization level
content settings cascade to
the new course. Courses with
their own settings do not
inherit these settings.
Display your content by content type, or
unsorted in the module view.
Choose to display the navigation buttons and
content browser in the Content viewer.
Indicate whether you want the completion of
course copy jobs to be manually or
automatically selected during job creation, or
whether completion tracking is not required.
When you select any of these settings, the
source course's settings are copied over to the
destination course, and the destination course
no longer inherits the organization level
settings.
Qui ckL inks - Qu ic kLink s t ool no long e r inserts http:// b y default | Updated
The URL field in the Quicklinks tool no longer has http:// automatically inserted to assist users in forming URLs with
correct syntax. The field is now blank before you enter a URL.
Users Only
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Very minor impact to users.
Users who add Quicklinks
must now type http:// to
ensure the URL has proper
syntax.
n/a
Ensure that you enter the
correct protocol at the
beginning of your URL links.
User Progress - Ide nt if y whe n le arne rs access their course s | New
In the User Progress tool, instructors can now easily identify when learners access their courses. From the new Course
Access indicator, instructors can view detailed course access information such as when a learner last accessed the
course and the total number of days they accessed the course.
Figure 4: The Course Access indicator in the User Progress tool
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Configuration Variable
Look and Feel
System Requirement Change
Tool Change
Workflow
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
This feature represents a
major change to system
requirements.
To capture and aggregate course access events
for the User Progress, this feature requires the
Brightspace Data Platform and Brightspace
Insights.
If you do not currently have
the Brightspace Data
Platform and Brightspace
Insights, contact your D2L
Account Manager.
If you do not have your events stored in the
Brightspace Data Platform and have not
purchased Brightspace Insights, this feature is
unavailable.
This feature represents a
moderate change to the
workflow and look and feel
of the User Progress tool.
From the User Progress tool, instructors access n/a
the new Course Access indicator for a specific
course.
When Course Access is enabled, the Login
History indicator no longer contains a Last
Accessed Course field.
From the User Progress Settings, a Course
Access check box is available for including
course access data in the User Progress report.
User Progress - Ide nt if y i f le arne rs download content at the topic, module, or table of contents level |
New
In the User Progress tool, instructors can now identify if learners download content at the topic, module, or table of
contents level. Instructors can view download metrics from the Summary and Content indicators for a specific course.
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When combined with other content access metrics, this provides instructors with a more detailed picture of learner
engagement.
Figure 5: Content Progress showing a download from Table of Contents (all course files), a Module download (Week 2), and individual
Topic downloads
Look and Feel
System Requirement Change
Tool Change
Workflow
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
This feature represents a
major change to system
requirements.
To capture and aggregate content download
events for the User Progress, this feature
requires the Brightspace Data Platform and
Brightspace Insights.
If you do not currently have
the Brightspace Data
Platform and Brightspace
Insights, contact your D2L
Account Manager.
If you do not have your events stored in the
Brightspace Data Platform and have not
purchased Brightspace Insights, this feature is
unavailable.
This feature represents a
moderate change to the
workflow and look and feel
of the User Progress tool.
From the User Progress tool, instructors can
view the following information for a specific
course:

The Summary indicator
displays visited content topics and
download states.

The Content indicator
displays showing a download from
Table of Contents (all course files), a
Module download (such as Week 2),
and individual Topic downloads.
n/a
Integrations
Br ightspace® App Finde r - Usabi lit y Enhancements | New
Enhancements have been made to Brightspace App Finder to improve usability. General enhancements are as follows:

The homepage now features case studies showcasing how apps meet the needs of organizations like yours.

A “New” sash now appears on all apps that are new to the Brightspace App Finder catalog for two weeks after
they are added.

On each application’s page, three new fields have been added called Accessibility compliance, Language
availability, and Privacy compliance.
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The following features apply to Brightspace App Finder if it has been integrated into an organization’s instance of D2L
Learning Environment:

Administrators can now set the default view to the My Apps page, if the appropriate LTI parameters are
configured.

Administrators can now add customized notes to an application's page that only administrators and instructors
from your organization can view.

Application providers can now upload persona-based help documents to Brightspace App Finder that users of that
persona, for example, administrators or instructors, can view.
Integration
Look and Feel
Tool Change
Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to users due to
minor changes to the user
interface and added
functionality to the
integrated Brightspace App
Finder.
To set the default view to the My Apps page,
n/a
while you are creating an external learning tool
link to Brightspace App Finder, create a custom
parameter that is named default-view and set
the value to my-apps=1.
R eadSpeaker docR eade r - Turn on t ool direct ly | Updated
In the past, administrators had to engage D2L Support to see the ReadSpeaker docReader integration in Organization
Tools so that they could turn it on and configure it for their organization. Now, ReadSpeaker docReader is visible in
Organization Tools to all clients with a ReadSpeaker account so administrators can turn it on and configure it more
directly, without first having to engage D2L Support.
Integration
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Impact of Change
Technical Details
Next Steps
Slight impact to
administrators who can now
turn on the ReadSpeaker
docReader integration
themselves.
ReadSpeaker docReader is included in Admin
Tools > Organization Tools, and is set to off by
default. The associated configuration variables
are found in the Config Variable Browser tool.
To turn on ReadSpeaker
docReader, click the
corresponding toggle in
Organization Tools. Set the
docReader configuration
variables in the Config
Variable Browser tool using
account information from
ReadSpeaker.
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Fixed Issues
Fixed Issues
Calendar
PRB0048718
In some cases, users encountered authentication errors if they did not have the View Course Contents permission.
Users no longer have authentication errors if they have Manage Org Unit Events permissions.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create a user with Manage Org Unit Events permissions.
2.
Observe that the user is able to create and edit events in the Calendar.
Classlist
PRB0050070
In some cases, printing an empty classlist resulted in an internal error.
You can now print empty classlists without errors.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create a new course offering and enroll and enroll an instructor in the course.
2.
As an instructor, open the classlist for the course and observe that there are no learners in the list.
3.
Click Print.
4.
Observe that a list with no students printed, as expected.
Content
PRB0050118
In some cases, the process for retrieving content in nested structures (submodules) caused poor performance in CPU
usage and tempdb usage processes.
Some database performance improvements were added for retrieving content in nested structures (submodules).
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create some content in a submodule.
2.
Observe that when you attempt to access the content, the retrieval no longer causes performance issues.
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Fixed Issues
PRB0050072
In some cases, the logic for due date for a Dropbox item was different depending on whether you created the due date
from Dropbox or Content. In Content you were not able to set a due date that is the same as the start or end date for
the item; however, in Dropbox, you could set them as the same date. This caused invalid date errors.
Both Dropbox and Content now have consistent logic to allow the due date to be the same as the start or end date.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create a new Dropbox folder using the Dropbox tool.
2.
Set a start date or end date that is the same as a due date.
3.
Observe that there are no errors.
Copy Course Content
PRB 0 0 49766
In some cases, content description text in the Overview area that was exported and imported into another course did
not overwrite the description text as expected.
The course overview text is now properly imported using course export and course import.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create a course in the Overview tab, add a description.
2.
Using the course you just created as the source, export the course package using Import/Export/Copy
Components.
3.
Create a different course and in the Overview tab, add a different description.
4.
Import the course package you just exported.
5.
Observe that the description in the second course is overwritten as expected.
PRB 0049611
In some cases, if the question collection is empty, the associated files in the question collections for the Description,
Header, and Footer fields are not copied into a new course.
All associated fields are now copied into new courses.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
Create a quiz with no questions.
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2.
Associate files in the Description, Introduction, Header, Footer, and Submission View fields.
3.
Copy the selected quiz into a new course, ensuring you have included the associated files.
4.
Observe that all the associated files are copied into the new course.
Discussions
PRB0049294
In some cases, printing discussions using the Firefox® web browser did not automatically wrap the text to fit in the
print screen. As a result, some text was cut off.
Discussion threads in the Firefox web browser now correctly resize to fit the print screen.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
In D2L Learning Environment, navigate to Discussions.
2.
From the Reading View for a topic, ensure that a discussion thread contains more than approximately 150
characters.
3.
Click on the drop-down list beside the Discussions thread title.
4.
Select Print Thread.
5.
Observe that the printed thread no longer cuts off the text.
Dropbox
PRB004809 1
In some cases, if an instructor was not enrolled in a section or they did not have Access All Course Sections
permissions, the instructor encountered an internal error when attempting to grade a Dropbox folder submission.
Instructors can now grade dropbox folder submissions for users who are not enrolled in the same sections as the
learners.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
Create a course with sections.
2.
Create a Dropbox folder in the course.
3.
As a student, submit a file to the folder.
4.
Create a user in a role that has no access to sections, but is able to grade submissions, such as an instructor or
teaching assistant.
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5.
Enroll the user into the course you created and select a section.
6.
Find the user in the User > Manage Enrollments area and unenroll from the section.
7.
In the course offering, impersonate the user you created in step 4.
8.
Click on the Dropbox folder that contains the submission.
9.
Observe that no errors occur.
PRB0049422
In some cases, when a Dropbox folder was copied from another course, users could not add that Dropbox folder to
their D2L ePortfolio.
Users can now copy Dropbox folders that have been copied using Copy Course Components.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create a Dropbox folder and ensure that the Allow users to add this folder to their D2L ePortfolio is selected.
2.
Add an Out of grade scheme.
3.
Copy the Dropbox folder to another course.
4.
As a student, submit an assignment to the Dropbox folder.
5.
As an instructor, grade the submission.
6.
As a student browse to D2L ePortfolio > Add other items > Course Results and choose the course and Dropbox
folder.
7.
Observe that Dropbox folder appears as expected.
PRB0050026
In some cases instructors were only able to provide or delete Dropbox folder feedback if the instructor had Add/Edit
folders permissions.
Instructors can now provide feedback if they have Give Feedback, View Feedback, and Delete Feedback permissions.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create a user and provide Give Feedback, View Feedback, and Delete Feedback permissions.
2.
Attempt to provide feedback to a Dropbox.
3.
Observe that no error occurs.
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Grades
PRB0040525
In some cases, when exporting a grade item that uses a custom grade scheme, the Assigned Values did not export and
import into the new grade scheme.
Grade items with custom grade schemes now export and import correctly.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create a custom Grade Scheme in a course.
2.
Enter values in the Assigned Values fields.
3.
Enter a grade item that uses this custom grade scheme.
4.
Click Edit Course > Import/Export/Copy Components.
5.
Export the grade item with the custom grade scheme.
6.
Review the export.xml file and observe that the assigned value appears as expected.
PRB0050139
In some cases, D2L Learning Environment database queries for recalculating grades caused spikes in the CPU usage and
tempdb processes.
The database queries for recalculating grades has now been improved.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Observe that the database queries for recalculating grades no longer degrades CPU availability.
PRB0047537
In some cases, the grade scheme symbol did not appear if the item was marked as Bonus.
Now, the Bonus grade scheme symbol item appears in the Enter grades scheme as expected.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create a course.
2.
In Grades, create a new grade scheme.
3.
Save the grade scheme and make it the default.
4.
In the Manage Grades area, create a new grade item.
5.
Select the Bonus option.
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6.
Click Save.
7.
Navigate to Grades > Settings > Personal Display Settings, and ensure you select Grade Scheme Symbol, Color,
and Points in the Managing View.
8.
Enroll a user in the course to which the new scheme is applied.
9.
Access Grades, and provide a score for the bonus grade item you created.
10. Navigate to Enter Grades > Standard View.
11. Observe that the Bonus grade scheme symbol appears as expected.
Brightspace Platform
PRB0050117
In some cases, the process for retrieving quicklinks caused poor performance in CPU usage and tempdb usage
processes.
Some database performance improvements were added for retrieving quicklinks.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create an item that contains a quicklink.
2.
Observe that when you click the quicklink, the retrieval no longer causes performance issues.
PRB0044341
In some cases, certain release conditions were not correctly created when D2L already contained a large number of
existing release conditions.
A datatype conversion now exists in the database to support growing release condition data so the errors no longer
occur.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Create a points-type rubric attached to a Dropbox folder.
2.
Create a release condition on a quiz that requires that a certain level is achieved on the rubric you created.
3.
Create another points-type rubric attached to another Dropbox folder.
4.
Create another release condition on a quiz that requires that a certain level is achieved on the rubric you created.
PRB0048550
In some cases, searching by Last Login in the Manage Users section resulted in inaccurate search results.
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Fixed Issues
The Last Login filter has been changed to provide all login results from a chosen day.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
On a site where many users log in daily, click
> Manage Users.
2.
Click Show Search Options.
3.
Under Last Login, select By Date and check After.
4.
Set the date to the previous day.
5.
Observe that the search results display all users who logged in on the previous calendar day, not the users who
logged in in the previous 24 hours to when you ran the search.
PRB0049981
In some cases, users could not authenticate on Brightspace Platform as a result of expired GUIDs in the Single Sign On
authentication database.
This issue has been resolved.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Attempt to authenticate using Single Sign On methods.
2.
Observe that no errors occur.
HTML Editor
PRB0049597
In some cases, Internet Explorer 11 users could not change table borders or background colors in HTML Editor.
HTML Editor users can now select border and background for inserted tables as expected.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Open HTML Editor for an object, such as a news item.
2.
Add a table.
3.
With the table selected, open the Table Properties.
4.
Change the border color or background color.
5.
Click Update.
6.
Observe that you are able to make the table property changes without errors.
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Fixed Issues
Links
PRB0049226
In some cases, LTI links were not authenticating with 3rd parties if the sent parameter included empty user lists.
Users identified as the IMS Mentor role now only send a list of mentees as part of the LTI parameters if the user list is
non-empty.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
In IMS Configurations, configure a role to be an instructor, faculty member, and mentor.
2.
Enroll a user with that role into a course.
3.
Log in as the user.
4.
Navigate to the course content area and click a link.
5.
Observe that no errors occur.
PRB0049759
In some cases, a change in the way in LTI launched resulted in duplicate keys not being properly resolved.
Duplicate keys now resolve correctly.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
Add an external learning tool to D2L Learning Environment.
2.
In the launch URL, add a query string parameter called launch.
3.
Launch the external learning tool and see that the oauth signature is not validated.
Navigation
PRB0050039
In some cases, when you added custom links to the navbar that were limited to specific roles, you encountered an
error for every disallowed role.
Custom navbar links restricted to specific roles no longer cause extra errors to be logged in the logging database.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
Beside the navbar, click
to add a custom link.
2.
Click Custom Links > Create Link.
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3.
Create a new custom link.
4.
Select the Limit to specific roles check box.
5.
Restrict the custom link to Administrators only.
6.
Click Save.
7.
Click Navbars.
8.
Click the active navbar.
9.
Click Add Links.
10. Select the custom link you created.
11. Click Save and Close.
12. Impersonate an instructor or student.
13. Observe that the custom link does not appear, and no errors are logged to the logging database.
PRB0044792
In some cases, users encountered a timeout error when they tried to load the custom links list.
Performance improvements were added to return faster results when using Manage Navigation to load the
organization's custom links.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
In D2L Learning Environment, click
> Manage Navigation & Themes.
2.
Click Custom Links.
3.
Observe that you no longer receive an internal error.
News
PRB0050227
In some cases creating a News item at the organization level caused blocking on the database.
As a result of improvements to the News item creation process, there is no database blocking when a large set of users
is notified about a new News item.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
At the organization level, create a News item at a high-traffic time of day that is intended for a high-volume
number of users.
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2.
Observe that there is no database blocking as a result of the News.
Org Unit Editor
PRB0043608
In the Org Unit Editor, a period (.) was not permitted in a path.
Periods are no longer illegal characters.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
Create an org unit with a period in the path.
2.
Observe that no errors occur.
Quizzes
PRB0049833
In some cases, if an instructor submitted an in-progress quiz attempt for a learner using the Impersonate icon next to
the in-progress status in the Grade Quiz area, when the page refreshed, an entire D2L Learning Environment session
appeared inside the quiz frame.
Now, the learner's quiz attempt loads correctly in the quiz frame as expected, and the instructor can successfully
submit the quiz.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
As an instructor, browse to the Grade Quiz area.
2.
Click Impersonate.
3.
Submit the quiz.
4.
Observe that the quiz is successfully submitted and the page appears as expected.
PRB0050233
In some cases, when users attempted to retrieve their quiz scores, D2L Learning Environment performance was
impaired.
Performance improvements have been made to the submissions area of Quizzes.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Observe that in the quiz submission area, performance is no longer impaired.
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Fixed Issues
PRB0049536
In some cases, if you selected the Update All Attempts radio button for a question on the Quiz > Grade > Questions
Tab, you did not see the attempted answers for the question.
You can now see all attempted answers for the question.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
Create a Quiz, make it active and add a sample question.
2.
Select Allow attempt to be set as graded immediately upon completion.
3.
As a learner, complete the quiz.
4.
As an instructor, in Quizzes, browse to the quiz.
5.
Select Grade > Questions > Update All Attempts.
6.
Select the question in the quiz.
7.
Observe that the answers display as expected.
PRB0049380
In Fill in the Blank questions in Quizzes, if you used an acute diacritic (`) instead of an apostrophe, the character
displayed as {data.literal:qu} when viewing the quiz attempt.
The acute diacritic no longer displays incorrectly when viewing quiz attempts.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
Create a quiz with a Fill in the Blank question.
2.
Update the submission view to show all questions.
3.
Preview the quiz and in the Fill in the Blank question, enter the text: qu`.
4.
Save and submit the quiz.
5.
Review the quiz attempt and notice that qu` is no longer replaced with {data.literal:qu}.
PRB0048714
In the Quiz Event log, users' IP addresses logged for the Quiz Completion event were previously displaying the address
stored in the d2l.System.Infrastructure.ForwardingIpAddresses config variable.
The Quiz Completion event, like the other events for starting attempt and saving questions, now correctly displays the
user's actual logged IP address.
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To reproduce the fix:
1.
In Config Variable Browser, set the forwarding IP value for d2l.System.Infrastructure.ForwardingIpAddresses.
2.
Create a course, enroll students, and create a new quiz.
3.
As a student in the course, take the quiz.
4.
As an admininstrator, navigate to Quizzes.
5.
Select Grade > Attempt.
6.
Select the attempt you just completed.
7.
Click Quizzes Event Log.
8.
Select Show IP.
9.
Observe that the IP correctly displays the user's logged IP address.
Rubrics
PRB0043065
In some cases, if the values for all the levels of all criteria in a rubric had 0 points assigned, you encountered an internal
error.
Having 0 points assigned to all levels of criteria in a rubric no longer cause an internal error.
To reproduce this fix:
1.
Create a rubric where values for all criteria are 0 points.
2.
Create a new dropbox folder.
3.
As a learner, submit a file to the dropbox folder.
4.
As an instructor, attempt to grade the submission using the rubric you created.
5.
Click Save.
6.
Observe there is no longer an internal error.
D2L Valence
PRB0049748
In some cases, D2L Valence users could not delete courses when they had the Delete Course Offerings and Templates
permissions enabled at the Org Level, but not at any other level.
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Fixed Issues
D2L Valence users with Delete Course Offerings and Templates can now delete course offerings.
Note: This defect still exists for Course Templates and is being tracked in
PRB0050069.
To reproduce the fix:
1.
Ensure that a role has Delete Course Offerings and Templates permissions at the Org level.
2.
Create a course.
3.
Delete the course.
4.
Observe that you are not forbidden from deleting the course.
Widgets
PRB 0049556
In some cases, if you might not be able to see the Role selector on the My Courses Widget if the last 1024 enrollments
have the same role.
The Role selector is available regardless of the number of enrollments exist within a single role.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Set the My Courses Widget to have a roles filter.
2.
Create a new user.
3.
Create 1025 courses.
4.
Enroll the user in 1024 courses as one role
5.
Enroll the user in the 1025th course as a different role.
6.
Observe that you can no longer see the roles filter.
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Known Issues
Chat
PRB0049785
In some cases, Chat sound effects are not audible on iPad or Android tablets.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Log in to D2L Learning Environment with an iPad or Android tablet.
2.
In a course, navigate to Chat.
3.
Click Settings.
4.
Set the sound for Incoming Message Sound, Person Enters Chat Sound, or Person Leaves Chat Sound.
5.
Click the Test Sound icon.
6.
Observe that there is no sound generated.
Classlist
PRB0041370
In some cases, instructors may encounter an error if they try to view grades for students who have withdrawn from the
course.
As a workaround, enroll the withdrawn user in a role that cannot see the course, then view the quiz submission.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create a course and add a quiz.
2.
Link the quiz to a grade item and set it to automatically push the quiz score to the grade item.
3.
Enroll a learner with permission to take quizzes.
4.
Impersonate the learner and complete the quiz attempt.
5.
Verify the grade on the quiz attempt has been pushed to the grade book.
6.
As an instructor, using Classlist, unenroll the learner.
7.
For the learner you have unenrolled, click View Grades.
8.
Locate the quiz and click the Submission button.
9.
Note the error.
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Known Issues
Config Variable Browser
PRB0045225
In some cases, when an administrator views the Change History for a specific organization, changes from all orgs are
displayed.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
As an administrator, log in to an instance of D2L Learning Environment with multiple organizations.
2.
Select
3.
Add a value for the org, or change an existing one.
4.
Log into a second org in the D2L Learning Environment.
5.
Open Config Variable Browser.
6.
Navigate to d2l.tools.grades.
7.
Click View Change History.
8.
Note that in the scope column, all orgs in the D2L Learning Environment that have been changed.
> Config Variable Browser > Tools > Grades > Default Grades.
Content
PRB0043564
In some cases, content topics and modules in draft state prevent the the All Content Topics Visited release condition
from being met for quiz and dropbox folders.
As a workaround individually add release conditions for the topics that need to be visited prior to releasing the next
item.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create a course.
2.
Create a content topic and set it to published.
3.
Create a content topic and set it to draft.
4.
Create a quiz and set it to active.
5.
Add a release condition for all content topics to be visited.
6.
Enroll a learner in the course and impersonate the learner.
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7.
Visit the published content topic.
8.
Try to access the quiz and notice that it is not yet released.
9.
As an instructor, set the draft content topic to published.
10. Impersonate the learner and visit the second published topic.
11. Try to access the quiz and notice that it is now available.
PRB0044274
In some cases, Adobe Captivate audio and video are not properly synchronized when the tracks are saved separately.
As a workaround, download the files and view locally on your computer.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create a course.
2.
Import a set of Adobe Captivate files with separate audio and video segments.
3.
Attempt to play a file and observe that the audio and video are not synchronized.
PRB0050258
In some cases, if you create a topic or a discussion forum in Content and delete the forum or topic in Discussions, the
link may appear valid until you click the link.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
As an administrator or instructor, open any course.
2.
Navigate to Edit Course > Course Builder.
3.
In Create module, create a discussion forum with an associated topic.
4.
Delete the topic from the Discussions pane.
5.
Navigate to Content.
6.
Observe that the link appears to be valid.
7.
Click the link and observe the external error.
PRB0045114
In some cases, when content files are downloaded that contain Swedish characters or diacritics in the title, you might
be unable to navigate using the module Table of Contents.
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To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create a word document with a title that contains Swedish characters.
2.
Using Manage Files, upload the document into a course.
3.
In Content, create a new module, then create a new HTML page.
4.
On the HTML page, add a quicklink to the Word document you created.
5.
Click the Table of Contents or module drop down arrow, then click Download.
6.
Unzip the file.
7.
Observe that the file name was changed to remove the Swedish characters.
8.
Navigate to the HTML file called Table of Contents and click on a link with a Swedish character.
9.
Observe the broken link error.
PRB0050145
In some cases, when group enrollment and release conditions are set for modules, users might incorrectly see modules
that have not yet met the release conditions.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create a group and enroll one learner.
2.
Under content, in a module, set a Start Date in the Future Date field.
3.
Add a release condition for the group enrollment of group one.
4.
Impersonate a student from the class list who is not enrolled in the group.
5.
Observe that the module is visible to all learners enrolled in the course regardless of the group enrollments,
PRB0050175
In some cases, the navigation buttons within a module do not recognize topics that have been reordered to the
beginning or end of a module.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create two modules, each with a few topics.
2.
Move one of the content topics from one of the modules to the beginning of the other module.
3.
Navigate to the second content topic in the destination module.
4.
Use the module navigation arrows to try to navigate back to the content topic you moved.
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5.
Observe that you are moved to the previous module, not the moved topic in the current module.
D2L Learning Repository
PRB0050200
In some cases, quizzes that contain reports cannot be imported from the D2L Learning Repository into D2L Learning
Environment.
As a workaround, add the quiz to the D2L Learning Repository prior to adding any reports.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create a quiz.
2.
In the Reports Setup tab, click Add Report.
3.
Name and use any Report Type.
4.
Publish the report to the D2L Learning Repository
5.
From D2L Learning Environment, try to retrieve the quiz object.
6.
Note the error messages.
Discussions
PRB0050248
In some cases, inactive users appear in Discussions statistics.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create a course and add a discussion thread.
2.
Enroll a learner in the course.
3.
As the learner, post a message to the discussion thread.
4.
As an instructor, in the User tool, deactivate the learner.
5.
In the discussion thread, view the statistics and notice that the inactive user remains listed.
PRB0050109
In some cases, pinned threads in Discussions might not stay pinned in the grid view.
To reproduce this issue:
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1.
As an instructor, create a forum and a topic.
2.
Access the topic, create a thread, and pin the discussion thread.
3.
As a learner, reply to the thread.
4.
As an instructor, observe that the thread is no longer pinned.
Dropbox
PRB0049749
In some cases, if an instructor assigns a grade value of zero (0) in Turnitin, the grade is not transferred to the Dropbox
score.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create a course.
2.
In the course, create a Dropbox folder that uses Turnitin.
3.
Enroll a learner in the course.
4.
As a learner, submit a file to the Dropbox folder.
5.
As an instructor, using the Turnitin document viewer, assign the file a grade of zero (0).
6.
In the D2L Learning Environment, navigate to the Dropbox feedback page.
7.
Click Refresh.
8.
Observe that the zero (0) grade does not appear.
Document Viewer Framework
PRB0044124
In some cases, documents may not render correctly if the document contains large images or tables.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Import a document with large tables spanning three or more pages into Content.
2.
Click the content so the DocViewer renders the document and attempts to open it.
3.
Observe that some of the table content is not properly displayed.
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Email
PRB0050171
In some cases, the Email All Users in a Group/Section option puts email address in the To field instead of the BCC field.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Ensure d2l.tools.mail.emailselectedrecipientsinbcc is turned on.
2.
Create a course.
3.
Enroll a few users in the course in a role that is not cascading and does not have access to manage groups.
4.
Create a group and enroll users in the group.
5.
Impersonate a user in the group
6.
Click Email All Users in a Group.
7.
Observe that the email addresses default to the To field.
Glossary
PRB0045773
In some cases, importing terms through CSV display that contain accents or diacritics imported through display the
ASCII character code instead of the expected character
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Access the Glossary for a course.
2.
Import a CSV file that contains terms with accents or diacritics, such as cedilla, tilde, oomlaut, or grave accent.
3.
Observe that the term containing the accents or diacritics appear with ASCII character codes instead of the
expected character.
HTML Editor
PRB0049997
In some cases, HTML code might be removed after you save the file.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
In Content, create a module and a new HTML file.
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2.
In the HTML source editor, paste the following code: <p class="maintext"><a id="displayText2"
href="javascript:toggle('2');">Check your answer</a><p>
3.
Click Save.
4.
Open the HTML source editor again, observe that the code is changed to: <p class="maintext"><a>Check your
answer</a></p>.
Integration and Extensibility
PRB0050215
In some cases, you might not be able to add the Google Apps domain in Google Apps Administration.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Identify a domain that is used for Google Apps but is not using Google Mail Services.
2.
Try to add the domain to Google Apps Administration > Manage Domains.
3.
Observe that the domain name is invalid.
PRB0050232
In some cases, the Google Apps and Access Google Apps Widget do not render as expected and users must authorize
their Google Account.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Log in to D2L Learning Environment with GAAPS enabled.
2.
Ensure that the Org value for d2l.3rdParty.GoogleApps.AdminEmail is empty.
3.
Click Link to your Google Apps account or Create your Google Apps account.
4.
Observe that the Google Apps or Access Google Apps widget does not render as expected.
Quizzes
PRB0050029
In some cases, if you make bulk edits to quizzes with end dates, the inactive quizzes incorrectly appear in the calendar.
As a workaround, for each inactive quiz, change the status to active then inactive to remove the quiz from the
calendar.
To reproduce this issue:
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1.
Create a few quizzes using Quizzes.
2.
Set end dates for all the quizzes.
3.
Check Display in Calendar for each quiz.
4.
Mark the quizzes as active.
5.
Observe that the quizzes appear in the calendar.
6.
Make some of the quizzes inactive, but leave the end date unchanged.
7.
Observe that the inactive quizzes no longer appear in the calendar.
8.
In Quizzes, click Bulk Edit.
9.
Make some of the quizzes inactive and click Save.
10. Observe that the inactive quizzes you changed using Bulk Edit continue to appear in the calendar.
PRB0050130
In some cases, the color contrast on radio buttons does not meet WCAG standards.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
In a course, participate in a quiz that contains radio button.
2.
Examine the color contrast of the button and the focused indicator.
PRB0050114
In some cases, users with difficulty perceiving color or other vision impairments may not be able to differentiate when
the point of regard is focused on buttons in the interface.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
In a course, preview a quiz.
2.
Use the tab key to set the point of regard until you are focused on a button.
3.
Observe that color is the only indicator for the focus.
News
PRB0050218
In some cases, users are incorrectly able to delete or edit news items where they do not have the appropriate
permissions.
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Known Issues
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create two courses and create news items in both.
2.
Enable the Aggregating News config variables and add the courses to the org units.
3.
Enroll as a user in one course as an end user and in the other as an instructor.
4.
Edit the permissions in News so the end user role can add/delete news items at the course offering level.
5.
Edit the permissions in News so the instructor role cannot add/delete news items at the course offering level.
6.
As the instructor, go into a course and notice that you can edit aggregated news items from the other course
without appropriate permissions.
SCORM
PRB0049661
In some cases, SCORM reports interaction details for very large classlists may result in an error.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
In a course with a class list of more than 8000 learners, browse to the SCORM reports.
2.
Click Interaction Details.
3.
Observe the error.
Surveys
PRB0050102
In some cases, you may observe incorrect characters in reports that are exported to CSV format.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Create a new Surveys in a course.
2.
In one of the survey questions, include characters with diacritics such as cedilla, tilde, oomlaut, or grave accent.
3.
Make the survey active.
4.
Click the Reports tab.
5.
Create a new summary report with default settings and save changes.
6.
As a learner, take the survey.
7.
As an instructor or administrator, run the report in HTML and CSV formats.
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8.
Observe that in the results, CSV format includes text errors.
System Check
PRB0050088
In some cases, health check and monitoring incorrectly creates and deletes Holding Tank users on client sites.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Check how many HT_ users are set as deleted in the main LE database:
select count(*) from users
where username like '%$$HT_%'
2.
In D2L Learning Environment, click
> Admin Tools > Health Check.
3.
Check how many HT_ users are now set as deleted in the database.
select count(*) from users
where username like '%$$HT_%'
4.
Notice that the count has increased by 1.
Widgets
PRB00 49556
In some cases, the expand and collapse option does not update until you move the focus. As a result, the screen reader
reads that the expand or collapse option is in the incorrect state.
To reproduce this issue:
1.
Launch an NVDA screen reader and enable the speech viewer tool.
2.
Use the Tab key to focus on any Collapse or Expand button on any widget.
3.
Press Enter, but do not move the focus.
4.
The screen reader does not acknowledge that the button has changed to the opposite state.
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About D2L
About D2L
A global leader in EdTech, D2L is the creator of Brightspace, the world’s first integrated learning platform.
The company partners with thought-leading organizations to improve learning through data-driven technology that
helps deliver a personalized experience to every learner, regardless of geography or ability. D2L’s open and extensible
platform is used by more than 1,100 clients and almost 15 million individual learners in higher education, K–12,
healthcare, government, and the enterprise sector—including Fortune 1000 companies.
The company has operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Singapore.
www.brightspace.com (http://www.brightspace.com) | www.D2L.com (http://www.d2l.com)
Contact Us
Phone:
1.519.772.0325 (Worldwide)
Toll Free:
1.888.772.0325 (North America)
0.808.234.4235 (United Kingdom and Europe)
0.800.452.069 (New Zealand)
1.800.656.210 (Australia)
0.800.891.4507 (Brazil)
Fax:
1.519.772.0324
Email:
info@brightspace.com
Twitter:
@Brightspace
Web:
www.brightspace.com
(http://www.brightspace.com) | www.D2L.com
(http://www.d2l.com)
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About D2L
© 2015 D2L Corporation.
The D2L family of companies includes D2L Corporation, D2L Ltd, D2L Australia Pty Ltd, D2L Europe Ltd, D2L Asia Pte Ltd, and D2L
Brasil Soluções de Tecnologia para Educação Ltda.
Brightspace, D2L, and other marks ("D2L marks") are trademarks of D2L Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Please visit d2l.com/trademarks for a list of other D2L marks.
Adobe and Captivate are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or
other countries.
Apple, iPad, and Apple Voiceover are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Microsoft, Microsoft Word, and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United
States and/or other countries.
ReadSpeaker and docReader are trademarks of Readspeaker Holding, B.V. in the United States and/or other countries.
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