Students and Instructors
Tooltips
The tooltips in the Dropbox and Discussions evaluation experiences now use in-browser experiences. This feature improves accessibility for screen-reader users and creates visual consistency across CourseLink.
Instructors Only
Dropbox – Advanced Assessment
As of this release, Advanced Assessment always displays the coordinate multi-evaluators regardless of allocation rule or number of evaluators selected. This ensures that instructors can return to and review or edit the options in Folder creation, even if the multi-evaluator assignment is in a course where the number of instructors has been reduced to one. This also allows instructors to potentially change the assignment to a single shared one if submissions and evaluations have not been received.
Dropbox – Update to assignment annotations
With this release, the software that powers annotations (PSPDFKit) in the Dropbox tool is updated from version 20.24.03 to 20.24.04. As part of this update, the unsupported PSPDFKit Bookmarks tool is disabled and the Bookmarks option in annotations is removed to avoid confusion. This update also fixes defects and prevents further defects related to PSPDFKit being out of date.
Previously, instructors could click Bookmarks and add bookmarks to the document. However, added bookmarks were not saved after refreshing the page.
Bongo (Video Assignments) – New Question Generation and Smart Scoring features now available for Bongo AI Coach
Bongo now provides suggested Q&A questions and response criteria (if using Smart Scoring) for the assignment based on reference material provided by instructors. Instructors can use questions and response criteria as is, or they can modify the selected questions and response criteria before saving the assignment.
The Q&A assignment type now includes the Smart Scoring evaluation type. When using this type, instructors can determine if they want to review the Smart Scoring evaluation, or if they want to publish scores automatically after the evaluation is complete.
For a complete list of updates and additional details about Bongo updates, refer to Bongo Help Center Current Release Notes.
Homepage Widget – Improvements to Single Profile widget
With this release, minor changes to padding and spacing have been introduced in the Single Profile Widget. This is part of an update to the Homepage Widget Expansion Pack to improve performance, accessibility, and responsiveness. As part of this update, users can access a new Select a Color dialog for picking the background color of the widget. To configure the widget users can now select Configure this widget from the widget menu and the Save button is at the bottom of the widget. Finally, the Display Name and Biography fields are now required.
Quizzes – Optimize productivity with an improved quiz evaluation experience
Grading workflows are now optimized in the quiz evaluation experience to improve instructor productivity. The new quiz evaluation experience can now be turned on in the quiz page you are grading.
In the main assessment area there are now two panels, which is consistent with other updated experiences in CourseLink. The following question types are supported in the new quiz evaluation experience:
- Multiple choice
- Written response
- True or false
- Short answer
- Fill in the blank
- Multi-select
- Question pools
All other types of questions (matching, arithmetic, significant figures, and multi-short answer) are not currently supported and will be added soon.
On the left panel, evaluators can filter by Pending evaluation or Retaken questions only, and can view attempt details, quiz questions, and answers. From this area, evaluators can leave feedback for specific quiz sections.
On the right panel, evaluators can enter or review the grade and feedback for the quiz attempt, or use other quiz management options, such as Edit Quiz, Preview Quiz, Reset Evaluation, and Quizzes Event Log, in the Evaluation Options menu.
Quizzes – Attach rubrics to written response questions
For CourseLink instructors using the new quiz evaluation experience, it is now possible to attach a rubric to written response (long answer) questions on a quiz.
Subsequently, within the quiz, instructors can use the rubric to grade the written response quiz questions. The rubric appears below the learner’s answer or the instructor can click Pop Out to open the learner response in a separate dialog, enabling the instructor to view the rubric and the written response in separate windows.
Learners can now see the rubric for written response quiz questions while they are taking the quiz. After the quiz is complete and graded, the learner can review the rubric in the graded quiz for any feedback the instructor provides during the evaluation.
Contact
If you have any questions about the updates, please contact CourseLink Support at:
courselink@uoguelph.ca
519-824-4120 ext. 56939