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+<html><h1><b>***UPDATES: PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ABOUT AVENUE TO LEARN:***</br></br> <a href="https://avenuehelp.mcmaster.ca">https://avenuehelp.mcmaster.ca</a></b></h1></br></br></br> </html>
 ====== December 2018 Update ======
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 ====== December 21, 2018 Update ======
+=== Introducing Activity Feed ===
+The Activity Feed provides a central location for instructors to post messages and links to course materials, web links, and files on Google Drive. It gives learners the ability to quickly access links to important materials, and comment on messages made by instructors and classmates.
+Activity Feed is an alternative to the Announcements tool. Activity Feed has a social media feel, allowing responses to posts, depending on configuration. Please see the separate page (will be linked here when finished) for configuration options and how to enable in your course. There are one major benefit to the Activity Feed tool - it can shift non-assessed discussions to the front page and allow courses that are more dialogic to enable that in a central place within Avenue. While the tool is not completed, most of the functionality that exists in Announcements currently is in place in Activity Feed as of this release. Originally release in June 2017, we delayed this release until there were some additional features built-in, including controls on whether a post can be responded to or not. We feel that the tool has reached a maturity and is suitable for release to the McMaster community.
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+=== Rubric Data Now Appears in Gradebook ===
+One common issue with Avenue to Learn has been the disjointed assessment process, where you assess in one place with a rubric and the rubric information is displayed in different places and ways depending on the tool. The first iteration of the standardization of rubric data is done. All rubrics are accessible through the tools that they were assessed in and through the Gradebook.
+=== Anonymous Marking ===
+The Assignments tool will now allow instructors to set submissions to be anonymous. While Instructors will still be able to identify students who have submitted, when assessing TAs and Instructors will not have that information at hand. It should go without saying, if you are thinking about using anonymous marking please remember to tell students to remove associating file names and cover sheets from their submissions. This tool is D2L's first step towards a peer marking ability, so we are happy to see this one become available and are excited at what that might bring in the future.
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 When learners complete the quiz and click Go to Submit Quiz, they are taken to the Quiz Submission Confirmation screen where they can either submit the quiz or return to one of the quiz questions using the Quiz Info menu.
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+//For questions or concerns, Avenue support is available from Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM at (905) 525-9140 ext. 23757 or by completing the intake form located at http://avenue.mcmaster.ca/support/ //

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