December 2024 Release Overview
This post provides a summary of the upcoming changes including those features which we have highlighted due to their impact. This release is subject to change and we will do our best to keep the information up to date before the release to live on Thursday the 5th of December. For more in depth technical detail additional details are available on the release page.
- Improvements to grading assignments: New labels for late submissions
- Grade override improvements
- Group management: performance improvements
- Discussion enhancement: new post indicator
- Navigation added for LTI and SCORM items within learning modules
- Copy items from courses improvement
- Known Issues
Grade override improvements
To increase transparency when overriding grades, an Override indicator has been added to overridden grades on the Grades & Participation screen for Discussions.
The Undo Override workflow on the Discussion grading interface has been implemented, which mimics the Undo Override workflow in the Journal grading interface.
Discussion Enhancement: New Post Indicator
In an effort to help with directing engagement, a “New” indicator has been added that displays next to posts and replies that a user has not yet accessed.
Image 1. The “New” indicator alongside a post and a reply