The following table catalogues changes to Brightspace features that are newly available as of this May 2025.
Update Category
Update Description
Related Guides
Quick Eval
This release enables instructors to quickly iterate through their list of submissions in Quick Eval even if those submissions are sourced from different activity types or courses. For example, an instructor has activities to grade in Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes and has been assigned items that appear in Quick Eval Submissions. The instructor directly accesses each submission to evaluate the items instead of navigating back to Quick Eval and going into each item again.
Coming Soon
Quizzes
The graphic shown when successfully submitting a quiz has been changed from a clipboard, pencil, calendar, and plant to a simple checkmark. There are no functional differences.
N/A
Previous Updates
April 2025
Update Category
Update Description
Related Guides
Classlist
The first column of the classlist has been changed to Learner from Last Name, First Name. Instructors can still sort the column by either first name or last.
N/A
Access Quiz Feedback
This new feature allows learners to quickly access quiz attempt feedback from the Grades page. Previously, learners could view quiz attempt feedback only in the Quizzes tool, depending on how the instructor configured the review process. This option remains available.
The New Quiz Evaluation experience is now enabled by default. Previously, instructors had to manually enable it.
N/A
March 2025
Update Category
Update Description
Related Guides
Awards
Instructors can manually enter an Issue Date when issuing awards, allowing them to backdate awards as needed. The Issue Date field defaults to the current date.
All question types are now supported in the New Quiz Evaluation Experience including the previously unsupported question types (Arithmetic, Matching, Ordering, Multi Short Answers, and Significant Figures).