Continuous Delivery Updates for March 2024

Students and Instructors

User Profile – Twitter/X

With this release, the Twitter field in the User Profile tool now reflects the current name of X. This also updates the example shown on the page.

CourseLink Editor – Consistent link creation with the ability to choose link format

As of this release, inserting a link into CourseLink Editor opens the Add Link dialog which allows users to determine if their links open in a new window (set as the default) or in the current window. The text box in the Add Link dialog also allows users to add text to their link. This provides users with a consistent workflow and control over how links respond in their content.

The Add Link dialog with the link d2l.com and text D2L. Open in a new window is selected. Access it using the context menu, or with keyboard shortcuts.
Figure: You can access the new Add Link dialog using the context menu, or with keyboard shortcuts.

Additionally, the dialog includes a new Insert Quicklink option, allowing users to easily insert a quicklink. When using Insert Stuff > Insert Link or Insert Quicklink > Link, the same Link, Text, and Open In options are displayed ensuring consistent link creation.

Finally, this feature updates the icons shown in Insert Quicklink to ensure all icons use the new style.

The Insert Quicklink menu with the updated icon style. All icons are black and white.
Figure: The Insert Quicklink menu with the updated icon style.

Instructors Only

Quizzes – Improved experience for generating quiz reports

This release introduces a better experience for instructors when running and exporting quiz reports with large amounts of data. To avoid time-out failures and screen freezing, the following report types now run asynchronously:

  • Attempt Details
  • Question Statistics
  • Question Details
  • User Statistics
  • User Attempts

When reports are ready for downloading, CourseLink generates a notification that instructors can access from the bell icon in the navbar.

Export to Excel Quiz button clicked. Quiz reports are generated asynchronously. Instructors are notified when they are ready for download via the bell notification icon in the navbar.
Figure: Quiz reports are generated asynchronously. Instructors are notified when they are ready for download via the bell notification icon in the navbar.

McGraw Hill Connect – Widget and LTI 1.1 integrations

Please note that the McGraw Hill integration widget and all MH LTI 1.1 integrations will be removed after April 29, 2024.

Instructors should work with McGraw Hill to migrate content to the McGraw Hill Connect LTI 1.3 integration in the Content tool.

OpenEd Toolbox – PDF Splitter

This new custom tool found in the OpenEd Toolbox enables users to split a provided PDF file into multiple smaller PDFs, ensuring that each resulting PDF contains a target specified number of pages.

The PDF Splitter tool can be used by instructors when uploading scanned PDF files into Gradescope or by an SFC when uploading scanned paper questionnaires (SFQs) as a PDF into ABBYY.

A screenshot of the new custom PDF Splitter tool found under Miscellaneous in the OpenEd Toolbox. The tool asks for a source PDF and the number of pages per PDF file.
Figure: The new custom PDF Splitter tool found under Miscellaneous in the OpenEd Toolbox.

Contact

If you have any questions about the updates, please contact CourseLink Support at:

courselink@uoguelph.ca
519-824-4120 ext. 56939