The Department of Academic Technology will be conducting a necessary security enhancement upgrade in connection with some of the 3rd-party publishers used in the Brightspace/CLASSES LMS.
The 3rd-party publisher tools that will be affected by the change are Cengage and TestOut’s LabSim
If you are using these tools for your Summer 2023 courses, we advise waiting to connect the publisher content with your summer courses until after May 17, 2023. All other content can be added as usual. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this necessary update. Additional benefits from the update besides security enhancements include, but are not limited to:
- Assignment and Grade service (AGS):
- Supports multiple grade items linked to the same LTI link, removing the need for the LTI tool to use Brightspace APIs to support this workflow.
- Support for comment pass back from the external tool to the Classes LMS Gradebook.
- Support for the external tool to request updated grades from the Classes LMS gradebook to keep the tool's grades in sync.
- Deep Linking:
- Support for optional start, end and due dates that can be applied at the content topic level.
(The availability of specific features is based solely upon the platform and tools in use.)
If you have any questions or concerns please email us at: acadtech@pace.edu