Providing information about supported learning technologies at uWaterloo. Our primary learning system, Waterloo LEARN, receives monthly system updates from our vendor, D2L. Highlights of those updates will be posted here.
What's New?
Instructors are now able to export the event log for an entire Quiz. Before, instructors were only able to see an individual student's quiz event log online. Now they can export the event log for all quiz attempts to a csv file. This new feature can be found on the Grade Quiz page.
A new look and feel has been introduced for holistic rubrics within the Discussion tool. The display has been updated to make it easier to understand.
Turnitin Originality Reports will now be available to instructors even after the course has ended.
What's New?
D2L has updated their list of supported web browsers. Both Safari and Edge are now supported and should pass using the Check My System widget on the LEARN System Home Page.
New 'Not' Operator Condition Types have been added to Release Conditions. Some examples include: Not visited content topic, No submission to dropbox, and No completed quiz attempt.
Fixes:
The following are changes that were brought to Waterloo LEARN with the December 2015 D2L update:
- Dropboxes can now be setup with a Turnitin exemption for individual students. If a student has opted-out of using Turnitin for their assignments, an instructor can add an exemption for them within the course. Their assignments will not be submitted to Turnitin, even if Turnitin has been enabled for the Dropbox.
There were no significant changes brought to Waterloo LEARN with the November 2015 D2L update.
The following are changes that were brought to Waterloo LEARN with the October 2015 D2L update:
- The TA Level-1.5, TA Level-2, and TA Level-3 role rights have been restored to their pre-August settings. A change in D2L's August 2015 update made it necessary to allow these TA levels to edit dropbox folders, as a temporary workaround to ensure they could continue to grade student submissions. A fix was applied with this update to allow the elevated rights to be removed.
The following are changes that were brought to Waterloo LEARN with the September 2015 D2L update:
The following are changes that were brought to Waterloo LEARN with the August 2015 D2L update:
The following are changes that were brought to Waterloo LEARN with the July 2015 D2L update:
The following are changes that were brought to Waterloo LEARN with the June 2015 D2L update:
- The Assess Student menu item has been has been added to the View Topic page in Discussions while using Reading View. The menu item is not available in Grid View.
The following are changes that were brought to Waterloo LEARN with the May 2015 D2L update:
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