Assessments - Only one grade item is required. This makes assessing discussion topics faster as instructors do not have to navigate in and out of topics to complete an assessment. Copying groups - Now, when instructors copy groups to new courses, the group setup (grade item, assessment option, etc.) is also copied over. is no change in workflow for learners as they can only see one discussion topic and the posts within it that are associated with their group, as expected. This feature implements PIE items D113, D185, D386, D511, and D3362. Configuration Variable Global Change Look and Feel Organization Wide Tool Change Workflow Impact of Change Technical Details Next Steps Slight impact to administrators These features are turned off by default and are To use the updated create group due to the change in the group configured by the following new configuration discussions user interface, discussions user interface. variable: administrators must turn on the d2l.Tools.Discuss.EnableGroupFilteredTopics. configuration variable. Once the configuration variable is turned on, instructors can also use the updated create discussions user interface. D2L recommends turning this configuration variable on for test instances. Slight impact to instructors due These features are turned off by default. Contact your administrator if to the change in the group you do not see the updated discussions user interface and create discussions user due to the change in workflow interface. related to assessing group D2L recommends using these discussions and reading topics in features in a test environment. the discussion list.
Assessments - Only one grade item is required. This makes assessing discussion topics faster as instructors do not have to navigate in and out of topics to complete an assessment. Copying groups - Now, when instructors copy groups to new courses, the group setup (grade item, assessment option, etc.) is also copied over. is no change in workflow for learners as they can only see one discussion topic and the posts within it that are associated with their group, as expected. This feature implements PIE items D113, D185, D386, D511, and D3362. Configuration Variable Global Change Look and Feel Organization Wide Tool Change Workflow Impact of Change Technical Details Next Steps Slight impact to administrators due to the change in the group discussions user interface. These features are turned off by default and are configured by the following new configuration variable: d2l.Tools.Discuss.EnableGroupFilteredTopics. To use the updated create group discussions user interface, administrators must turn on the configuration variable. Once the configuration variable is turned on, instructors can also use the updated create discussions user interface. D2L recommends turning this configuration variable on for test instances. Slight impact to instructors due to the change in the group discussions user interface and due to the change in workflow related to assessing group discussions and reading topics in the discussion list. These features are turned off by default. Contact your administrator if you do not see the updated create discussions user interface. D2L recommends using these features in a test environment.
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