June 2025 – 3900.118 Release

• Add resizable dividers to Documents
• Student Activity Log: Simplify review of student content access
• Create Jumbled Sentence Questions
• Perform Bulk Category Changes in Item Management
• Navigate the Markable Items tab in the Gradebook
• Enhance student engagement with discussion activity indicator
• Enhanced overall appearance and usability of Knowledge Checks
• Known Issues

Add resizable dividers to Documents

Instructors can now find a divider block in Documents. Dividers can be used to help students easily identify related and unrelated sections. This new feature aims to improve the readability and structure of educational materials.

Key Features: 

• Flexible: Dividers can be used in various ways to suit different instructional needs.
• Resizable: Dividers can be resized across up to four columns, providing flexible options.

Image 1. The new option to add a divider is now included among the various block types.

Image 2. The divider block spans three columns in the Document.

Student Activity Log: Simplify review of student content access

To enhance tracking and reviewing student engagement, two new features have been added to the Student Activity Log . These updates streamline the evaluation process and provide more comprehensive data for instructors.

• Content Access Filter: The Student Activity Log now includes a filter for content access, recording information not available elsewhere, such as Kaltura content. This allows instructors to easily review students’ access without needing to download and manually filter CSV files, saving time and simplifying the process.
• Enhanced LTI Access Filter: The LTI access filter now includes all types of LTI items, including LTI placeholders. This provides instructors with more detailed insights into how students interact with LTI elements in their courses.

Image 1. The Content Access and LTI Access filters are in the Event menu.

Create Jumbled Sentence Questions

Instructors can now create jumbled sentence questions for online exams. This feature lets instructors define one or more paragraphs with blanks for students to complete. Additionally, instructors can:

• Define distractors to challenge students
• Add automated feedback for correct and incorrect answers
• Designate questions as extra credit
• Use accessibility tools, such as keyboard-only workflows, to create this question type

To create a variable, insert the variable in square brackets within the paragraph. Each variable is automatically recognised as the correct answer. Instructors can enable partial credit to award points for partially correct responses. For example, if half of the answers are correct, half of the max points are awarded.

Variables can include the following characters:

• Letters
• Digits (0-9)
• Full-stops (.)
• Underscores (_)
• Hyphens (-)

The question text and variable input are validated for syntax correctness, notifying instructors of any errors, such as a missing bracket.

Example paragraph with variables:

Single water molecules are held together by [covalent] bonds and multiple water molecules are held together by [hydrogen] bonds. The kind of bond where atoms are sharing electrons but are not sharing them equally is [polar covalent bond].

Saved questions display variables in bold and underlined in purple for clarity. Instructors can also manually add feedback to student responses and use the Edit/Regrade workflow during grading.

Image 1: Instructor creates a jumbled sentence question type.

For students, answer options are displayed in a random order, ensuring fairness in the assessment experience.

Students can:

• Identify if a question is marked as extra credit
• Answer questions using assistive technology
• Auto-save their responses as they work
• Reset the question to clear all selections

Perform Bulk Category Changes in Item Management

Building on the new Item Management Gradebook view, instructors can now perform bulk category changes for Gradebook items. Instructors can select one or more Gradebook columns on the Item Management page and assign them to an existing category.

This feature allows instructors to efficiently organize and manage Gradebook items. Changing the category of a Gradebook item updates the category label for display purposes without altering the item itself. The process follows the familiar Bulk Edit interface pattern, where instructors can select items, select Change Category, and use the modal to view and select available categories.

Image 1: Instructor is bulk changing the category for multiple selected Gradebook items. 

Navigate the Markable Items tab in the Gradebook

The Markable Items tab uses a table-based layout to improve navigation and interaction for instructors who use keyboards and screen readers. This makes the Gradebook more accessible for all instructors.

Markable Items tab by keyboard

1. Use the Tab key to go to the Markable Items tab.
2. Tab to the Markable Items table header to enter the table.
3. Use the arrow keys to navigate the table.
4. The Tab key will take you out of the table and to the Close button. Shift + Tab returns you to the Settings button.

Markable Items tab with screen readers

Screen reader users can navigate to the Markable Items tab using the keyboard instructions. You can also use the specialised keyboard combination for your screen reader to go directly to the table.

• JAWS: Use Insert + Control + T
• NVDA: Use T, then Control + Down arrow to enter the table
• VoiceOver: Use Control + Option + Command + Right arrow key to choose the table option

1. Once in the table, screen reader users can use table navigation (Control + Alt + arrow keys) to navigate the table.
2. If you want to add content, use the down arrow to go to the More options button at the end of the row. The next down arrow will be the Add content button.

Note for JAWS users

1. JAWS users can move left or right in any row by using table navigation keys.
2. To move up and down between assignment rows, navigate to the Item column first.

Enhance student engagement with discussion activity indicator

The discussion experience has been enhanced by adding another indicator of activity. This addition encourages student engagement and makes it easier for instructors to track student activity.

• Unread Discussion Posts: The Discussions page now shows the number of unread discussion posts from anywhere in a course.

Image 1. From the Course Content page, the link to the Discussions page now has a number beside it that indicates the number of new discussion posts.

Enhanced overall appearance and usability of Knowledge Checks

There are several adjustments to the appearance and responsive behaviour of Knowledge Checks to look out for. These changes will look to enhance the visual effects and usability for both instructors and students.

Instructors and students

• Answer Choices: The letters of answer choices now display at the top of each answer option, rather than in the middle.
• Answer Labels: Correct and incorrect answer labels have been moved from the side of an answer option to the top.
• Question Text Padding: Padding on the right side of question text that extended past the answer text has been removed.
• Small Screen Adjustments: On very small screens, the “Correct answer” label is now shortened to “Correct.”

Instructors

• Answer Metrics: Answer metrics now appear at the top of answer text alongside the correct and incorrect answer labels.
• Visual Indicators: Instead of highlighting questions with red and green to indicate the correctness of the answer, a colored bar now appears at the top of a question.
• Result Labels: Result labels are now displayed in lowercase instead of all capital letters.
• Small Screen Padding: Padding to the left and right of the Knowledge Check results has been removed for smaller screens.
• Participation Count: The number of students who participated is no longer shown as a fraction. Instead, students are described as part of a number. For example, “2 of 8 students participated.”

Image 1. The instructor view of Knowledge Check results in 3900.116.

Image 2. The instructor view of Knowledge Check results in 3900.118.

For students there have been several changes to enhance the mobile and small screen experience.

• Submit Button: The Submit button now occupies the entire space at the bottom of a question, rather than just partial space on the right.
• Feedback Layout: For correct answers, the checkmark indicator, correct answer feedback, and Reset button now stack vertically instead of being on a single row. This change also applies to incorrect answer feedback and the Try again button.
• Answer Selection Indicator: On all screens, the answer a student selects now has a purple line to indicate it has been chosen.

Image 3. The student view of an incorrect answer in a Knowledge Check in 3900.116.

Image 4. The student view of an incorrect answer in a Knowledge Check in 3900.118.

Known Issues

This update will look to fix an issue related to the retrieval of deleted tests or assignments. Previously, when a user deleted a test or assignment containing attempts, the grade history would not show who cleared the grades. However, now when downloading the Gradebook and selecting “Include Deleted Items”, the “Attempt Grade Cleared” record will show the user name, role, IP address and name. – #90233

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