Learners can now create Activity Feed posts on a course homepage. Previously, learners were only able to comment on posts created by their instructors. A new posting option in the Manage commenting and posting widget dialog allows instructors to enable or disable learners from posting in their course feed.
User profile images now display beside each post.
Assignments
Annotation of submissions to the assignments tool is now available within the website.
Instructors can now annotate in full screen mode.
Instructors can now choose to annotate on a per assignment basis.
Users can now rotate the page using annotation tools.
There is now an option to turn on anonymized learner names and marking.
This helps to avoid unconscious bias in the grading and feedback process.
Instructors can now configure assignments to use anonymous learner names. When the feature is turned on, instructors can only see an anonymized learner name on the assignment submission. User names are revealed to instructors once feedback is published. A publish all feedback button is available in assignments with anonymous marking enabled.
Quizzes
Instructors can now evaluate quizzes in full screen mode.
Rubrics
There is a new rubric creation experience available with the following changes:
Quickly create and edit rubric levels and criteria inline using an auto-save experience
Easily change rubric type and scoring method during rubric creation
Re-order criterion via drag and drop or keyboard
Improved logic for point-based rubrics, where new levels automatically follow existing point scoring sequences
Individual criterion cells in custom point rubrics dynamically scale when editing the criterion out-of value
Overall Score is visually separated from the rubric, displaying in its own section
To improve on the new rubric creation experience, rubric creation has been changed to a single-page workflow. Clicking New in the Rubrics tool immediately brings the user to the rubric authoring page. As well, the two previous Rubric Tool options Properties and Levels and Criteria are now condensed into a single Edit option.
Rubric scores are transferred to the grade item score by default.