D2L Brightspace

Respondus LockDown BrowserYou can now use Respondus LockDown Browser on specific quizzes to improve security during the assessment. LockDown Browser prevents visiting other websites or applications, printing, and copying and pasting during the quiz. This tool is being added to improve quiz integrity and combat the use of AI tools during your exams.

Quizzes UI Improvements

The quiz evaluation experience now includes an Incorrect filter that lets instructors quickly view quickly view answers marked incorrect. Feedback fields automatically expand as needed, providing more space to review and enter feedback. You can now filter the quiz questions to review only the questions a learner answered incorrectly. Helps instructors identify trends and determine whether updates to questions or instructional materials are needed.

• Improves the consistency and usability of the Import options in Browse Question Library.
  • Available import options vary depending on whether the quiz contains sections:
    • The main Import action remains a button for quizzes with no sections.
    • The Import to Section option is now a separate button for quizzes with sections.

New Content Experience

We are starting the evaluation of D2L’s “New Content Experience” (NCE) update, which is the replacement for the current content tool. There is no deadline yet, but NCE has been available for a few years and we’re getting more indications that a timeline is coming. NCE offers a larger interface for students to view and interact with course materials. We still have extensive review work to do and will share more as we learn.

H5P

Interface improvements

H5P’s interface has been improved to make it easier to create and edit activities within Brightspace. The larger interface is a welcome improvement according to early adopters on the team.

H5P OER Hub

You can now search from a large library of H5P activities and share your own with the world via OER Hub. This new feature lives within the H5P interface and makes it much easier for you to share your activities with coworkers and the rest of the world alike. I’m really excited about this feature. Shoot me an email to let me know what you think.

Digital Courseware Integrations

Also known as “LTIs” or 3rd party integrations.

• MyOpenMath – Updating to LTI 1.3, Old links will continue to work until we retire the deprecated LTI 1.1 link. Please update your courses with the new links.
• Films on Demand – Updating to LTI 1.3. Old links will continue to work until we retire the deprecated LTI 1.1 link. Please update your courses with the new links.
• Respondus LockDown Browser – Updating to LTI 1.3
• Vista Higher Learning – New LTI 1.3 integration for Spanish & French
• Currently evaluating ADAPT from LibreTexts

You can find and see the integration request process in Spaces.

Kaltura

• Extended Audio Descriptions (EADs) can now be added by end users. Once processed, end users can also use the caption & enrich editor within My Media to update the EADs.

Zoom

New “Simplified” Web Interface

Zoom has () that more closely mirrors the client application. We will be allowing folks to “opt-in” to the new experience on June 17, 2026. All users will be required to use the new interface by September 6, 2026.

Zoom AI Companion

By September, we’ll be making Zoom AI Companion available for faculty and staff to enable on their accounts. It will be off by default, but you will be able to enable AI Companion in meetings to take notes and provide a summary of your Zoom meeting. If you would like to try this before September, email dlhelp@pcc.edu for access.

We’ve collected a list of recent updates and changes to the online learning ecosystem for spring term. Updates are listed under each application. Updates are not exhaustive but rather focus on the items that are most important to instructors and students or have the most impact.

D2L Brightspace

Respondus LockDown Browser

You can now use Respondus LockDown Browser on specific quizzes to improve security during the assessment. LockDown Browser prevents visiting other websites or applications, printing, and copying and pasting during the quiz. This tool is being added to improve quiz integrity and combat the use of AI tools during your exams.

• Info for Instructors
• Info for Students

Discover available for students

Students can now find and self-enroll in courses that have been set up to use Discover. So far, we only have one class, Math Skills Videos, but anticipate more to come. Please do not add your credit classes to Discover for student privacy reasons.

Improvements to Gradebook Navigation

Small arrow buttons have been added to the gradebook to make it easier to navigate horizontally in large gradebooks.

Kaltura My Media

Adding Extended Audio Descriptions

You can now add Extended Audio Descriptions to your media entries in My Media.

Yuja Panorama

Winter term accessibility scores

The following departments had an average course accessibility score over 90!

• 9CWD
• 9PH
• ASL
• BA
• CADD
• CIS
• CJA
• COMM
• CS
• DA
• DH
• EC
• ED
• EMS
• ESR
• FN
• GD
• GER
• GRN
• HE
• HEC
• HIM
• HST
• IRW
• ITP
• J
• LIB
• MA
• MP
• MSD
• MT
• NAS
• OMT
• PE
• PHL
• RD
• SOC

Spring course scores are being collected and shared in preparation for the April 24, 2026 ADA compliance deadline. If you need support in your class, please reach out to dlhelp@pcc.edu or schedule an appointment with one of our ITS.

H5P

Interface improvements

H5P’s interface has been improved to make it easier to create and edit activities within Brightspace. The larger interface is a welcome improvement according to early adopters on the team.

H5P OER Hub

You can now search from a large library of H5P activities and share your own with the world with OER Hub. This new feature lives within the H5P interface and makes it much easier for you to share your activities with coworkers and the rest of the world alike. I’m really excited about this feature.

Learners can retry Fill in the Blanks after fully correct answers

Learners can now retry Fill in the Blanks questions even if their previous submission was fully correct, supporting active recall, reinforcing learning, and building confidence and mastery.

Other bug fixes

There are other fixes and updates in the .

VoiceThread

SSO update

VoiceThread single sign-on now uses the college’s EntraID platform for authentication. While few users log in to VoiceThread directly, those who do will now use the standard process for other Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ tools.

Private responses

On May 1st, VoiceThread will allow instructors to decide if they want to allow users to send private feedback to users. This can encourage engagement between students, between you and students, etc.

Zoom

Zoom 7.0 is coming. The interface updates will slowly roll out to users over the coming months. We don’t have very good information to share yet, so we’ll provide more information as we receive it. So far, is all we have to work with. It will have the biggest impact on admins and support staff who manage multiple tools, but we haven’t seen the actual updates yet. Sorry for the cryptic update.

D2L Brightspace

Quizzes – Hide Quiz Question Points (October 2025)

Instructors can now hide the point value for quiz questions to ensure learners focus on all questions equally, without the risk of inferring the number of correct answers based on point value.

Creator+/H5P – New content picker in Authoring tools menu (October 2025)

• Instructors now have direct access to H5P content types through a new picker in the Authoring Tools menu.
  
• Selecting H5P Interactives from the menu now opens a modal dialog in Brightspace, allowing instructors to filter, search, and select H5P content types more efficiently.
  

Announcements – Email a copy of an announcement to your Classlist (November 2025)

• When an instructor selects the new checkbox, the system emails the content of the announcement to all users in the Classlist on publishing.
• Users who are not subscribed to receive a notification for announcements will also receive an email, ensuring that important information contained within the announcement is delivered to every learner.
  

Grades – Bulk edit exclude items from final grade (November 2025)

• Instructors can now use the Exclude from Final column when bulk editing grade items in the Grades tool. Selecting this option excludes the grade item from the final grade calculation.
  

Discussion Due Dates (December 26, 2025)

• Discussions now feature true due dates, which can be added to new topics or existing topics! !
  

Quizzes: Zero-Point Questions (December 26, 2025)

• Make quiz questions worth zero-points. Applies to new and existing quiz questions. !
  

Yuja Panorama

As we work towards , Panorama is an essential tool in tracking our progress. We’re keen to see improvements over time more-so than specific scores. (Though we do see you faculty making significant updates! There were 98 courses in Fall term with a score of 100%).

Here are a few highlights from fall term that we’ve also shared with deans and faculty department chairs:

• Over 300,000 course files were scanned
• Over 6,300 files were improved by faculty with Panorama
• Students downloaded over 3,200 alternate formats
• 1,300 courses show some level in improvement since week 3 of fall
• 1,100 courses now have a score of 90% or better

Bug Fixes

Bug fixes and updates to the PDF scanning and reviewing in November improved how well the documents compare to WCAG 2.1 AA requirements, but it also came with a decrease in the scores of many existing documents. The decrease in score is a bummer, but on the positive side, Yuja continues to spend significant effort on development, which may affect scores in the future as well.

AI for Alt Text

If you are in the WYSIWYG editor and launch Panorama, you can now use AI to help generate alt text on images. YMMV (Your mileage may vary) with the accuracy of the text. We still think you as the subject matter expert are far more capable of creating meaningful alt text. It does not currently work in the View Report tool and we’ve notified them of the discrepancy.

Improved Highlighting of Accessibility Issues on Documents/PDFs (Nov/Dec)

Accessibility previews now benefit from a more advanced matching approach that interprets document structure with greater resilience to format changes. The upgraded system aligns visual regions in a more context-aware way, producing bounding boxes that track the true location of issues far more reliably.

Turn Math Images in Documents into Accessible Searchable Content (October)

When converting documents to an OCR HTML Alternative Format, Panorama will now convert any images of math formulas to MathML, ensuring complex equations are accessible to screen readers and searchable for easier studying.

Zoom

Zoom version 6.7 includes some updates to the user interface (UI). The changes are fairly minimal, but we wanted to share a few screenshots.

Zoom Client

The list of tools now displays along the left side of the client window. You will see some updates to the list of tools as the college rolls out Zoom Phones.

In-Meeting controls

This update includes a simplified in-meeting toolbar that shows only essential features. Users can customize it by:

• right-clicking to pin frequent features
• Dragging items from More menu to toolbar
• Rearranging primary toolbar buttons
• The customizable More menu improves feature discovery.

The controls for some features like virtual backgrounds and video settings now show up on the side rather than a pop-up menu.