The highlights for August 2024 are a general feedback feature for New Quizzes and an interface change to manage Assign To, Due Dates, and Availability dates.
Teachers can set general feedback on New Quizzes (as opposed to question-specific feedback) that students see after submitting their attempt. Enter general feedback under the Settings tab of the New Quiz by toggling “Show custom feedback with results.”
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When editing full details for Assignments, graded Discussions, and Classic Quizzes, there is currently a “Manage Due Dates and Assign To” link where the Assign To, Due Date, and Available From & Until fields used to be. Last month, Instructure moved those fields to a tray that opens from the right side of the screen. (The tray can also be opened by clicking the “Assign To” button at the top of Assignments, Discussions, Pages, & Classic Quizzes, or by selecting “Assign To” in triple dot option menus in the Modules list, Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes, and Pages All of these new places to access these settings will remain.) Instructure announced that inline display of the Assign To, Due Date, and Available From & Until fields will return when editing Assignments, graded Discussions, and Classic Quizzes. This update is scheduled for the Wednesday, August 28, 2024 code deploy the rescheduled Thursday, August 29, 2024 code deploy. (Paragraph edited August 29, 2024.)
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