This morning, Thursday, May 30th, Desire2Learn Inc. deployed Service Pack 10 to our D2L learning environment.
Included fixes to tools in this service pack are as follows:
Dropbox:
- In a group dropbox folder, each now completes successfully without error when searching to view submissions by “Submitted groups” and selecting the check box “Only show users with unread submissions”.
- When viewing a dropbox folder submission in the native document viewer or as a download, the submission is now always marked as “Read”.
- When Turnitin’s OriginalityCheck is enabled for a dropbox folder’s submissions, and comments with or without numeric scores are entered via Turnitin’s GradeMark, a Markup icon now appears to the submitter, linking to the commented section.
- A usability improvement was made to the “Retract published feedback” option for dropbox folder submissions: A retracted evaluation now reverts to Draft status, and the grade book will display a cleared score and feedback.
- Links to Originality Reports for dropbox folder submissions now remain correct and no longer break.
Quizzes/Question Library:
- Exporting quiz results via CSV format no longer causes an error if the quiz contains a section with Display Option “Display message and image” enabled that contains an empty message.
- Usability improved for Matching questions: Students can now respond by selecting from a drop-down list of answer options instead of manually typing entries into text fields.
- When grading from a quiz’s Questions tab, grade changes are now accurately updated and reflected in the grade book.
Content:
- The User Progress Content report on the number of visits (# Visits), and the number of visits recorded in the Content tool are now counted the same way regardless of the time spent visiting each Content topic
- Viewing SCORM reports with an entry that has a total time spent over 999 minutes no longer causes an error.
News: News items’ attachments now properly display in the News widget after they are copied to a course via Import/Export/Copy Components.
Surveys: A performance improvement has been made to the page loading time when creating new Surveys. Timeout errors no longer occur.
Assignment Grader: A bug has been corrected that now allows posting a rubric-based evaluation for Dropbox submissions.
Calendar: Several performance improvements have been made to the Calendar tool, especially when it deals with a large number of events.
Import Course Components: Importing matching questions from a Blackboard 9.1 package now correctly imports the answers as well. Previously, imported matches did not have the correct match values; instead, all matches had the first answer item set as the correct choice.
Equation Editor: The “\\” symbol now inserts a new line in the LaTeX format in the Equation Editor.
HTML Editor:
- In Discussions and Homepage tools, text in HTML Editor no longer overlaps regardless of font size.
- In Firefox and Internet Explorer, long, unbroken strings of text entered into HTML Editor now wrap correctly once they reach the edge of the editor container.
- iPad users can now use the full functionality of HTML Editor.
- Users can now safely copy existing News items and paste them into new News items without errors.
- Images inserted using the HTML Editor can now have up to 200 characters in alternative text.
Minibar: The Search for a Course selector now searches for all keywords entered into the text field. Search no longer seeks an exact match for the search phrase.
File Management: In Manage Files, file and folder context menus now open in the correct position for both Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left user interface modes.
If you have any questions or concerns about this service pack and the tools updates, please contact UW-W D2L Support.