NYU Brightspace New Features and Updates

This page provides the latest information on newly available and upcoming features for NYU Brightspace. Note that, because Brightspace is developed by an external vendor, NYU IT does not control or have long-term insight into the product’s development roadmap. NYU IT will continue to keep this page updated on an ongoing basis, should changes occur.

On this page: What's New | What's Here | What's Coming | Previous Updates

Tools & Features - What’s New

Assignments

New date feature - updated date availability, visibility, and access options
- With this new update, instructors will be able to do the following:
  - Stop late submissions
  - Let students view assignment information and submissions after it ends
  - Post the start and end of an assignment to the Calendar
- For more information, please refer to the NYU Brightspace: Create an assignment article.

Quizzes

New create and edit experience
- This update consists of the following:
  - Redesigned create and edit screen has the same layout as Assignments
  - Newly created quizzes by default will auto-publish attempt results to learners and the gradebook
  - Ability to display availability date in Calendar
- For more information, please refer to the NYU Brightspace: Create and configure a Quiz article.

Tools & Features - What’s Here

Integrations

The following integrations have been upgraded to the LTI Advantage, providing more security and additional functionality:

Zoom
- Instructors now have access to Recording Analytics for Zoom meetings recordings.
- Instructors can now set custom start time and duration for meetings. Previously, start times and durations were set to 15 minute increments.
- Instructors can now configure Attendance Report Grades to automatically generate grades associated with meeting attendance, and push the grades to the NYU Brightspace Grades tool.
- Instructors can now set up Appointment Blocks in the Zoom integration in NYU Brightspace, and allow students in a course to book appointment slots.
Course Feedback
- Members of the Course Feedback Pilot can now access the Course Feedback tool via the integration in the NYU Brightspace home navigation bar. For more information, please refer to the Course Feedback Integration.
Turnitin
- AI Writing Detection is included in the Turnitin Similarity Reports, informing instructors of suspected use of AI writing tools in the student submission.
Course Reserves
- Deep Linking is now available for Course Reserves material, allowing instructors to easily add links to NYU Brightspace for the Course Reserves landing page and directly to specific Course Reserves material.
Elsevier Evolve
Perusall
- Assignment Deep Linking is now available for Perusall, allowing instructors to easily add links to NYU Brightspace for Perusall Assignments.
W.W. Norton InQuizitiv and Smartwork
Peerceptiv Tandon
- The Peerceptiv integration is now available to all Tandon course sites. Peerceptiv is managed by the Tandon School of Engineering. For support, contact to-coursedev@nyu.edu or visit NYU Servicelink.

Tools & Features - What’s Coming

The following are upcoming features and enhancements are being worked on by the vendor. As noted above, NYU IT does not control or have long-term insight into the product’s development roadmap.

Note: all upcoming features and their timing are subject to change by the vendor.