{"id":56743,"date":"2013-04-25T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/?p=56743"},"modified":"2013-04-25T08:35:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T13:35:29","slug":"desire2learn-service-update-42513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/2013\/04\/25\/desire2learn-service-update-42513\/","title":{"rendered":"Desire2Learn Service Update (4\/25\/13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25071\" title=\"d2l_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/files\/2012\/04\/d2l_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"72\" \/>This morning, Thursday, April 25th, Desire2Learn Inc. deployed Service Pack 9 to our D2L learning environment.<\/p>\n<p>Along with some tool fixes (as outlined below), D2L has made a much-requested change to the interface. <strong>The course navigation bar no longer disappears when users are viewing full-screen pages, such as the &#8220;Enter Grades&#8221; tool.<\/strong> Issues with downloading files in the Dropbox and Content tools&#8217; file attachments through Internet Explorer 8 have also been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, these are some tool specific fixes from the Service Pack:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Discussions<\/strong>:\n<ol>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grades<\/strong>:\n<ol>\n<li>Lengthy grade category descriptions now wrap correctly; this eliminates the need for horizontal scrolling.<\/li>\n<li>Formulas for Calculated Final Grade and Adjusted Final Grade now copy correctly when Grades are copied in Copy Course Components.<\/li>\n<li>In Grades&#8217; Enter Grades page, each grade item&#8217;s Properties information no longer displays &#8220;Weight&#8221; properties if the grading system is not a Weighted system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dropbox<\/strong>:\n<ol>\n<li>The Dropbox Folders page and Folder Submissions page now correctly indicate the number of submissions that are &#8220;Unread&#8221; and &#8220;read&#8221; after file submissions are viewed online or downloaded.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chat:<\/strong> Previously, chat messages had a maximum limit of 400 characters. This limit has been removed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Content:<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Inserting a quicklink no longer updates the topic title if it is not empty.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>User Progress:<\/strong> User visits to Content topics and modules and navigation through them with the Next or Previous buttons are now correctly tracked.<\/li>\n<li><strong>HTML Editor:<\/strong> Image resizing is now supported in Firefox for both instances.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Homepages:<\/strong> Duplicated instances of a custom widget can now be styled independently without affecting all instance of that widget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any questions or concerns, please contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/desire2learn\/contact-d2l-support\" target=\"_blank\">UW-W D2L Support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Thursday, April 25th, Desire2Learn Inc. deployed Service Pack 9 to our D2L learning environment. 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