Academic Technology Updates for August 2026

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New updates are coming to MyCourses later this week! See below for details, and please contact helpdesk@ggc.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions.

MyCourses

Quizzes – Improved filter and source dropdowns in Question Library | Updated

This update improves the source and filter dropdowns in the Browse Existing Questions dialog to better align with MyCourses standards and provide a more consistent experience.

Both dropdowns now include a search option, helping instructors find sources and filters more quickly.

The updated source selector with a search bar highlighted in Question Library.
Figure: The Source dropdown with a search field in Question Library.
The updated filter selector with a search bar highlighted in Question Library.
Figure: The filter dropdown with a search field in Question Library.
Quizzes – Flag questions and strikethrough answer options | New

This release introduces the question annotation option in Quizzes. Students can flag quiz questions to revisit later and apply strikethrough formatting to answer options to help narrow their choices.

Students can select the bookmark icon The bookmark icon beside a quiz question to flag it for review. Flagged questions appear in the left navigation, allowing students to quickly return to them.

Students can also select the strikethrough icon The strikethrough icon beside answer options to eliminate choices they believe are incorrect.

The quiz interface displays multiple-choice questions, with flagged quiz questions highlighted and a strikethrough answer option.
Figure: A flagged quiz question with an answer option shown in strikethrough.

Instructors can disable these tools for students by selecting Hide question annotation tools in the Timing & Display section of the quiz edit page.

The Hide question annotation tools option highlighted in the Timing and Display section of a quiz creation page.
Figure: When creating or editing a quiz, in the Timing & Display section, select Hide question annotation tools to disable question flagging and answer option strikethrough for students.
Work To Do widget – Evaluation activities are hidden by default | Updated

The Work To Do widget now helps students with multiple roles, such as teaching assistants, focus on upcoming and overdue work by hiding evaluation activities by default. Previously, the widget displayed both personal course due dates and evaluation tasks for users with multiple roles, making it more difficult to track student deadlines.

The Overdue section of the Work To Do widget shoring one overdue assignment with the option to View All Work below.
Figure: The Work To Do widget now filters out evaluation activities by default for users with multiple roles.
Work To Do widget – Automatically marks modules as complete | Updated

This release updates the Work To Do widget so that when students complete all activities in a module, the module is automatically marked as complete and removed from the widget.

Students now see only activities that still require completion, reducing clutter in the widget.

Previously, completed modules that have due dates could continue to appear as overdue because the module itself was not automatically marked as complete. As a result, students could see overdue modules that no longer required action and could not be manually dismissed.

Note: This change applies only to modules completed after this release. Existing modules that are already overdue continue to appear as overdue.

The Overdue section of the Work To Do widget shoring one overdue assignment with the option to View All Work below.
Figure: In the Work To Do widget, completed modules no longer appear after all module activities are completed.

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