DLE Weekly Update: Quiz Accommodations and New Video on Assignments

Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2021

Quiz Accommodations 

The February system update introduced an exciting feature that will help you be more efficient when allowing extra time for some of your students to complete their quizzes. The system now lets you to grant learners accommodations through the Classlist tool, for all the quizzes at once, without the need to go through the Special Access options.

Accommodation options currently available include: more time to complete quizzes and the ability to bypass right-click restrictions in quizzes. The right-click restriction is the ability for learners to right-click in the quiz while taking the quiz, option we don’t usually recommend, as it interferes with some of the screen readers.

Once granted, these accommodations apply to all quizzes in a course for that particular learner. The additional time can be applied in terms of quiz time multipliers (for example, 1.5x quiz time) or +minutes (for example, an additional 30 minutes) on every quiz in a course.

Note: If you need to overwrite an accommodation for a learner for one particular quiz, note that you can still use the Special Access options, on the quiz’s Restrictions tab. 

Further accommodation options and enhancements are planned for this year. Stay tuned!

New Video on How to Create Assignments in Brightspace

In addition to the information on the Assignments Tool published in the last week’s DLE Weekly Update, this week we have a new video on How to Create Assignments in Brightspace. This great video was created by Tamara and Vanessa, two of our DLE Support Specialists.