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Falcon Online June 2024 Updates

Assignments – Microsoft 365 options available in File Upload

The option to directly upload a file from Microsoft OneDrive® is now available when editing and evaluating an assignment. Users can upload a file by clicking File Upload, and then clicking OneDrive Files in the Add a File window. Previously, the OneDrive files could only be added as link attachments. These links connected learners to the file within its location, but the file was not uploaded to the assignment. Now, files stored in OneDrive are directly added to the assignment, eliminating the need for instructors to provide sharing permissions to learners.

Falcon Online Editor – Updated storage location for feedback attachments in Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes

When instructors access Assignments, Discussions, or Quizzes and use the Insert Stuff file picker to attach feedback, the files are stored in a designated Feedback Files location for learner feedback. Learners can review their feedback files from the Grades page, just like files attached from Feedback Files. Previously, when an instructor attached feedback files through the Insert Stuff file picker, the files were stored in Manage Files and feedback was unavailable from the Grades tool. This feature implements the following PIE item:

• D2629 (Student view of Grades tool - easy access to ALL Grades and feedback regardless of assessment tool)

Manage Dates – Bulk edit and offset dates for recurring Intelligent Agents

Instructors can edit and offset multiple intelligent agents already set up with a recurring schedule (for example, daily or weekly). In addition to editing an intelligent agent in the Intelligent Agents tool, instructors can now use Bulk Edit Dates to add or remove a new start date or end date or use Bulk Offset Dates to offset the start date or end date from the Manage Dates tool.

Previously, intelligent agents had to be manually edited or offset in the Intelligent Agents tool.

As of this release, intelligent agents with a one-time run schedule do not appear in Manage Dates and must be updated in the Intelligent Agents tool. Editing intelligent agents with a one-time run schedule in Manage Dates is under consideration for future enhancement.

This feature implements the following PIE items:

• D3475 (Intelligent Agents start dates and end dates visible on the list page)
• D4843 (Edit dates on multiple Intelligent Agents at once)
• D6643 and D7321 (Include Intelligent Agents in Manage Dates)
• D9154 and D9899 (Bulk Offset Intelligent Agent run dates with Manage Dates)

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Our next continuous delivery update is scheduled for June 20th. Please refer to the Falcon Online for Faculty InfoGuide for additional information on all the Falcon Online tools.

Faith Testerman
Coordinator IV - IT Instructional Resources
Faith.Testerman@DaytonaState.edu
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