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Brightspace Updates: Assignments
Each month Brightspace release a list of updates and upcoming changes. This article summarizes updates related to instructors using assignments in their courses.
July 2025 updates
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Assignment Submission View
Bulk Feedback
- Bulk feedback is a recently released option that manages feedback to all students in the course for a graded assignment topic.
- Bulk Feedback is available in an assignment submission view.
- The bulk feedback option is now turned on by default for all courses, instructors can choose to opt-out of this option until October 2025 when it will be permanently turned on.
- Bulk feedback has 3 options
- Publish all feedback publishes any feedback saved as a draft. This option is grayed out if there isn't unpublished feedback saved as a draft.
- Add feedback to all (this will add the same feedback to all student grades and delete any feedback you have already entered). This option is not recommended - previously entered feedback cannot be restored. This is located in the More Actions drop-down menu.
- Retract all feedback (this will delete any feedback you have added to individual student grades). This is located in the More Actions drop-down menu.
Note: The Assignment submission view can be accessed by choosing Assignments located under Course Menu, then for an individual assignment choose View Submissions from the assignment menu list (the chevron drop down menu located after the Assignment name).