Account and Course Settings:
Assignment Default Due Time Field
Summary: The Assignment Default Due time can be modified in Account Settings and Course Settings. These settings are inherited across subaccounts and courses.
Change Benefit: This change allows admins and instructors to adjust the Assignments Default Due time to fit the course’s needs.
Feature Workflow: The Assignment Default Due Time Field will display in Account Settings and Course Settings.
Gradebook:
Apply Score to Ungraded Assignments
Summary: This Apply Score to Ungraded Assignments feature allows scores to be applied to multiple ungraded submissions at once.
Change Benefit :This change allows instructors to apply scores to ungraded submissions en masse from an assignment group and Total column menus in the Gradebook.
Feature Workflow: The options menu from an assignment group or the Total column in the Gradebook allows instructors to select to Apply Score to Ungraded.
New Quizzes
Fill in the Blank Question Type Allows Rich Content Editor:
Summary: In Quizzes, this feature allows Instructors to add content as part of the question stem and make portions of the content fillable in the student response.
Change Benefit: This change allows instructors to create fill-in-the-blank questions with rich content such as scientific or mathematical formulas or a table. Additionally, instructors can format fill-in-the-blank questions to appear on separate, distinct lines.
Feature Workflow: When adding a fill-in-the-blank question, type a statement in the rich content editor and surround a word with backticks to indicate where a student fills in the answer. In the Answer Type drop-down menu, select the Dropdown option [1], enter the correct answers and distractor answers, if needed. Possible Answer Types include a dropdown, open entry, or word bank [2].
This Course Item Bank Filter
Summary: In New Quizzes item banks, the This Course filter has been added to the filter options.
Change Benefit: This change adds a new item bank filter in New Quizzes.
Feature Workflow: The This Course filter displays existing item banks within the current course. The This Course filter will be the default selection when navigating to Item Banks from within a course.
Rich Content Editor
Icon Maker
Summary: The Rich Content Editor allows instructors to create simple icons for their courses.
Change Benefit: This change provides instructors the ability to incorporate simple icons for their courses without using an external tool. The Icon Maker allows simple customized iconography to be created directly within the Rich Content Editor.
Feature Workflow: In the Rich Content Editor, click the Icon Maker icon.
To create new icons, click the Create Icon Maker Icon option [1]. The Saved Icon Maker Icons option is where prior icons are managed [2].
When the icon has been completed, click the Apply button to add it to the text box and Saved Icon Maker Icons.
When complete, icons display in the content editor.
At release, the Icon Maker feature only supports predefined images. The ability to upload custom images will be added in a future deploy.
Submission Comments
Emojis in Submission Comments
Summary: When adding submission comments, instructors and students can add emojis using the Emoji Picker.
Change Benefit: This change allows instructors and students to convey messages through use of emojis as visual indicators in addition to written comments.
Feature Workflow: When this feature option is enabled, instructors can add emojis to comments in SpeedGrader using the emoji icon available in the comment box.
Instructors and students can add emojis in comments added in the context tray from Gradebook.
Students can add emojis to comments added to their submissions.
We have removed emojis from the library that may be deemed inappropriate for use. Admins can block additional emojis from the emoji picker under the Blocked Emoji section in account settings.
