This morning, Thursday, April 25th, Desire2Learn Inc. deployed Service Pack 9 to our D2L learning environment.

Along with some tool fixes (as outlined below), D2L has made a much-requested change to the interface. The course navigation bar no longer disappears when users are viewing full-screen pages, such as the “Enter Grades” tool. Issues with downloading files in the Dropbox and Content tools’ file attachments through Internet Explorer 8 have also been resolved.

In addition, these are some tool specific fixes from the Service Pack:

• Discussions:
  1. On the Group Restrictions page for a discussion topic, returned results now work properly when you select All Forums in the Forum drop-down list when previously no results were returned.
  2. After users perform a Role Switch and then access Discussions, they can now perform actions only allowed by the switched role permissions, and no longer possess the original role permissions.
• Grades:
  1. Lengthy grade category descriptions now wrap correctly; this eliminates the need for horizontal scrolling.
  2. Formulas for Calculated Final Grade and Adjusted Final Grade now copy correctly when Grades are copied in Copy Course Components.
  3. In Grades’ Enter Grades page, each grade item’s Properties information no longer displays “Weight” properties if the grading system is not a Weighted system.
• Dropbox:
  1. The Dropbox Folders page and Folder Submissions page now correctly indicate the number of submissions that are “Unread” and “read” after file submissions are viewed online or downloaded.
  2. In Dropbox folders with Turnitin OriginalityCheck enabled, an error no longer occurs when a GradeMark Available to Students date is set in the past. This error occurred most frequently in OrginialityCheck-enabled Dropbox folders that were copied from another org unit.
• Chat: Previously, chat messages had a maximum limit of 400 characters. This limit has been removed.
• Content:
  1. The Content Browser widget did not update release conditions when conditions were met. Release conditions are now computed when the widget loads so students can see content that becomes available.
  2. Inserting a quicklink no longer updates the topic title if it is not empty.
• User Progress: User visits to Content topics and modules and navigation through them with the Next or Previous buttons are now correctly tracked.
• HTML Editor: Image resizing is now supported in Firefox for both instances.
• Homepages: Duplicated instances of a custom widget can now be styled independently without affecting all instance of that widget.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UW-W D2L Support.