About This Document
This document provides support for administrators and was developed based on questions and feedback the team received from the community, webinars, and opt-out feedback. The document is divided into the follow sections:
- An Introduction to Core Workflow Improvements: Assignments
- Comparison between New and Classic Assignment Creation
- Comparison between New and Classic Assignment Evaluation
- Explore and Test Assignment Updates on a Test Site
An Introduction to Core Workflow Improvements: Assignments
Through our ongoing engagement with you, including client conversations and user research sessions, we recognize that improving core workflows, those most frequently used interactions in Brightspace Learning Environment, are a priority for you.
Over the last year, we’ve been reimagining the creation and evaluation experience for one of our most popular tools: Assignments. Our goal is to simplify common tasks for first-time or infrequent users as well as to make it easy to access our most advanced features that our most experienced power-users love.
You may have seen announcements as we have been adding to each experience over the past year, and now we are ready for all of you to use it! You may be wondering how to navigate the new experiences. To help, we have put together these handy guides.
Comparison Between New and Classic Assignment Creation
Comparison Between New and Classic Assignment Evaluation
Explore and Test Assignment Updates on a Test Site
If your institution hasn’t had the opportunity to view or test the new assignment updates, we highly recommend you start on a test site or chose specific Orgs to test and explore.
To enable the new Assignment creation experience:
1. Select Admin Tools > Configuration Variable Browser
2. Find the config: d2l.Tools.Dropbox.CreateExperienceOptIn
3. Set the config d2l.Tools.Dropbox.CreateExperienceOptIn (Org Unit) to On for the appropriate Orgs.
4. Visit the Assignments tool in an appropriate Org and press the New Assignment button.
To enable the new Assignment evaluation experience:
1. Select Admin Tools > Configuration Variable Browser
2. Find the config: d2l.Tools.Activities.CEAssignmentsOptIn
3. Set the config d2l.Tools.Activities.CEAssignmentsOptIn (Org Unit) to On for the appropriate Orgs.
4. Visit an assignment submission to evaluate in an appropriate Org.
Other helpful resources:
