Release notes — July 1, 2026

Highlights

• Brightspace is now called D2L — All references to Brightspace in the product have been updated to D2L, matching the terminology instructors use.
• Intro videos that adapt to the session — A new intro video slide type plays the appropriate introduction automatically depending on whether a session starts as an individual or a group session.
• Captions on Breakout Originals — Reviewed every Breakout Originals experience in production and attached caption files where they were missing.

Accessibility

• Addressed accessibility findings from a university audit, including keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and colour contrast across key areas of the product.
• Moved the mute control for auto-playing audio to the top of the view experience dialog so keyboard-only users can reach it quickly (WCAG 1.4.2).

Improvements and fixes

• Fixed participants being able to start a session from the homepage when the minimum group size hadn't been met.
• Fixed instructors receiving duplicate assignment results emails, including one for a cancelled assignment.
• Fixed the demo waiting room skipping the device check shown in standard rooms, which allowed joining with a misconfigured device.
• Fixed sessions being schedulable before an experience's start date.
• Fixed the browser back button not keeping the assignment management view in step with the URL, which required pressing back repeatedly.
• Fixed an expanded slide description overflowing onto the slides list on the agenda tab, with no way to collapse it.
• Fixed the catalog breadcrumb on an experience page returning to the library instead of the catalog you came from.
• Fixed rescheduling an incomplete session pre-filling the old date and immediately showing a validation error.
• Fixed dynamic exhibits displaying at a different size from image and markdown exhibits.
• Fixed participant search returning nothing when started from any page other than the first.
• Fixed absent participants not being removed from their group after a session.
• Fixed the talk track field showing a validation error before anything had been typed into it.