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December 2025 D2L Brightspace Release
Effective December 18, 2025, new and updated features within D2L Brightspace are available to Students as part of the monthly update.
Release highlights include updates to D2L Brightspace (overall), Discussions and Quizzes.
D2L Brightspace
Tab groups have new modern style
With the December 2025 release, there are improvements to accessibility and usability with an update to the older tab groups style in multiple tools (like the Classlist tool).
The older tab groups style has been updated to align with the modern tab groups style that already exists in other parts of D2L Brightspace. For example, in the modern tab groups style, there is less white space between the tabs.
Figure: Previous tab style for All, Students, and Instructor tabs in the Classlist tool.
Figure: New tab style for All, Students, and Instructor tabs in the Classlist tool.
Discussions
Due date on discussion topic
With the December 2025 release, your instructor may set a due date for a discussion topic. To be notified of the upcoming discussion due date, you can enable the Discussions - discussion topic due date or end date is 2 days away option under Instant Notifications on the Notifications page.
For the discussion due date, additional improvements are available in:
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Discussions: The due date appears under the topic's title.
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Content: The due date displays for the discussion topic.
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Calendar: The topic's due date appears in the class calendar.
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Notifications: When enabled, the due date triggers an automatic minibar notification in D2L Brightspace, email notification, and push notification (via Brightspace Pulse app if downloaded).
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Work to Do widget: The topic's upcoming or overdue due date displays.
Figure: The due date appears under the topic's title.
Figure: You can enable the Discussions - discussion topic due date or end date is 2 days away option under Instant Notifications on the Notifications page.
Quizzes
Zero points for a question when taking an attempt at a quiz
With the December 2025 release, your instructor may assign 0 (zero) points to a quiz question to collect non-graded information, for example, your feedback or personal input. When taking an attempt at the quiz, zero points will be listed next to the question number. The question should not count toward your quiz score.
Figure: For students, an example of a question during a quiz displaying a statement on academic integrity with answer options for True and False, and zero points listed by the question number.