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Need Course Offering Enrollments ADS in Analytics Builder
I have created several dashboards within Analytics Builder for compliance trainings (ie Title 6/9, Digital Accessibility, etc) for stakeholders at my college. However, I am struggling to get an accurate list of the "current" enrollments for these course shells, as sometimes users are removed from the list. Previously, I…
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Dataflow is not runnable.
Hi! Posting here for the first time as I had to take over this role when a colleague left. Why am I getting this warning/error message for some of my dataflows? (screenshot above) Dataflow owner does not have access to all input datasets....THis may be due to PDP setting. I checked the PDP and my name is added to those…
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Rubric data sets - initial feedback for overall score or holistic rubrics?
On the rubrics data set documentation, there is mention of Overall Level Initial Feedback and there is a Feedback field in Rubric Object Levels. It seems that the overall score on analytic rubrics and holistic rubrics are logged similarly in these tables (since neither have criteria). However, when I look at our data, the…
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Outcome data sets latest update
Has anyone who pulls outcome data using Analytics Builder have any issues with data not showing up with the last update to the outcome data sets. Prior to the last update, data was showing up. Now nothing is showing up. I am using an SQL coding for this and it does use the Outcome Registry Owner data set. I have copied the…
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Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
Hi , Has anyone used GA4 and GTM to get the brightspace data and able to get granular info like tools usage, nav bar usage, course access and cohort comparision. Thanks
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SCORM Visits 9: is there meant to be more than one visit per user per SCORM?
My understanding of the SCORM Visits 9 dataset is that it should have a unique visit id each time the user visits the SCORM. My intuition defines a "visit" as the interactions between a user opening a SCORM and SCORM session being closed or timing out. However, the dataset almost exclusively (with 3 seemingly-random…
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Grades for withdrawn students - dropped items in data set do not match D2L UI
I'm attempting to get grades of 100+ withdrawn students from a course that ran last spring semester but I'm noticing that the wrong grade items are sometimes logged as dropped in the Grade Results data set. The grading system is points and Treat ungraded items as 0 was enabled at the start of the semester. All grade items…
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Updating an uploaded dataset?
What is the best way to update an uploaded dataset in AB? I thought I could potentially edit the dataset, then delete the original, and then upload a new version, but I keep getting an error when I try to delete the original. First I get a warning that it might break any analysis or dashboard, and when I say I want to…
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20.24.12 Data changes ?
I am looking at the release notes for December and I don't see any datatypes or constraints listed for the new columns like there have been in 20.24.7 - 20.24.10) Are the details of these changes listed somewhere else? I am just trying to have scripts in place before the change is applied.
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Question about New v10.0 plan
I have read the blog and looked at the notes related to 9.16/10.0 (20.25.04) and 10.4 (20.25.08) and after updating my notes on the upcoming changes I noticed that the following datasets that had been mentioned earlier as part of 10.x were neither included ( new notes) or excluded (the blog change log). Organizational Unit…
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Outcomes Aligned to Tool Objects no longer including all outcomes?
I had been using the Outcomes Aligned to Tool Objects dataset in my SQL query to re-create the Mastery View since there is no easy way to export that table from within D2L. However, this dataset now seems to be missing many outcomes. Has anyone else noticed that this has changed? Some outcomes are no longer logged under an…
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I thought Dashboards were auto updating. How do I get my dashboard to update every morning?
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Help with Scheduled CSV Option in Analytics Builder
Hello. We recently gained access to the new Analytics Builder, and I am comparing features between it and the Insights Report Builder. I was attempting to test scheduled sending of data, and I am only seeing a PDF option for dashboards. Does anyone know how to send CSV data on a schedule like you can in DOMO? I sure hope I…
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Data Model Question
We are considering Performance+. I would like to know if the data model used by Performance+ the same as the Data Hub BDS or does it provide access to data that is not available in the Data Hub. I have not been able to get a straight answer. It already seems like the Advanced Data Sets are not using the same data model as…
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Group assignments - Identifying non-submitters
Hi, We're just looking into building an Insights/Domo report to identify students that have not submitted assignments. We use Release Conditions and Special Access so in order to work out who hasn't submitted we need to know who is eligible to submit, so this is not necessarily every student on the Class List. We can work…
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Create Org Unit with Higherarchy Info in Analytics Builder
Hello, I am hoping to get some help on how to create something in Analytics Builder (Amazon Quicksights) where I can have all course offering org units as rows with their semester, department/program, and school parts of the hierarchy displayed as columns. In a simple form, this is what essentially I would want for the…
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Analytics Builder Dashboard Alerts working?
Should the alerts be functioning on an Analytics Builder Dashboard? I keep getting an error that it cannot load them: There was an error fetching alerts. It even seems to let me create an alert, but then I the window still gives me this error, so I can't tell if it really was created or not.
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Set User Grade - Calculated in Grade Objects Log in a course with no grade book set up
I'm trying to create a data flow to determine which courses are actively using the grade book. I think I'm just going to filter out all categories, Final Calculated, and Final Adjusted grade objects, and then look at the latest actions logged to make sure that grades have been entered and not just grade items created and…
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Spice vs Direct
In Analytics Builder, what is the difference between a SPICE and DIRECT query? Are there cases where one is better than the other?
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BDS Version 10
Is there documentation anywhere of the specific changes that are coming in v10 of BDS? The update from v8 - v9 was very time intensive for us, so any clue to the extent of the changes before they go into effect would be very helpful.
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Student Grade Reports
Hi Everyone! Our students have expressed the desire for the ability to monitor their grades in all of their current courses in one place. It sounds like D2L does not natively have the capability, but I was told that other organizations have engineered solutions. If your organization has done something like this, or you…
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Tracking online "truancy"
I am a student Brightspace help specialist at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College. I'm trying to figure out a way I can create a report that shows students who have never logged in to their online classes after the first five school days of a new semester. Often these students fall between the cracks because of tech…
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Exam Reports
Hey everyone! I am very new to D2L and our previous administrator recently left so I am trying to fill in. Our organization would like to create reports to see which of the exams in our programs are the most to least failed over a period of the last few years. With my limited understanding I am not able to find a way to…
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Can't import collections into postman
Hi all - I'm trying to go through the "Learning Postman using Brightspace" course and am unable to import any of the github collections into postman. I'm downloading the .json files and keep getting an invalid file error every time. I am new to all of this so I need the sample files in order to get through this tutorial. I…
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Outcome data help
Could someone get me start as to what data sets would be put together to get the data from Learning outcomes? I have been trying to figure it out, but I am just getting frustrated with it. I am new to this and could use the help. Thanks.
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Understanding ContentObjects Dataset: Tracking Edits to Discussions, Assignments, and Course Pages
Hello D2L Community, I am working with the ContentObjects dataset, and I am trying to use it to identify content edited by faculty in their courses, particularly to review pages and learning activities for accessibility and formatting. It seems the dataset captures details like content type, links modified or created, and…
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New Content vs Classic Content
I was looking through the data model and can't seem to find any way of knowing whether a course is using New Content or Classic Content. Am I missing something? We currently give the faculty a choice of how to represent their course shells. However, we would like to be able to collect information about the breakdown of…
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SQL Query on a Dataset I created in AB
I'm trying to find my footing in AB… and followed the course tutorial on including the full schemaName.tableName_version_number in the query. Does this mean I can only create a SQL query on the tables listed in the schema? Can I not create queries that references a customized dataset that I build or that has been shared in…
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Insights builder above Offerings question -New to Brightspace
Hello new friends! Im curious, just before i spend potentially hours into creating something that already exist. Also a fairly new report builder. Is it possible or is there something i am missing that we can get an enrollment count/ access broken down by layers above the course offering? For example, above…
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Tracking Uptake of Two-Factor Authentication
Hi, just wondering if any institutions are tracking uptake of 2FA? We want to see how many accounts are implementing 2FA over time, would the Local Authentication dataset be sufficient? If not, how are other institutions tracking how many users have 2FA enabled? Thanks!
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Withdrawn Students and Assignments
Second question for the night: I know that we can pull out data in gradebook for students who have withdrawn part way through a unit. Can I confirm, that same data isn't exposed in any of the Brightspace assignment data sets we have access to? Example is Student A submits 3 assignments before withdrawing from a unit.…
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Group Membership
Hi, Hoping I'm missing something obvious here. I'm trying to pull out a data set of all students in units and when/if they have submitted to assignments in each unit, and if so how many times and what score they have achieved. I've got most of that worked out, but I'm coming unstuck with the group assignments. Is there a…
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BDS Changes for 20.24.9
I see a new column 'AIUtilization' being added to several data sets. Will these columns only exist for those with one of the new D2L Lumi packages?
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Tracking Student Usage outside of Content items and activities
I'm interested in student usage of various tools in D2L, but I need clarification on what is actually tracked. In Tool Access from the Course Overview widget, I can see views for Announcements and Grades when I filter down to the Student role, but I'm not finding anything in the data sets that would allow me to see if a…
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Is there a dataset that will give me a list of all our courses with related information?
I'm fairly new to Brightspace. One thing I'm disappointed in is the database and all that is missing. Is there not a dataset that gives basic course information? Things that are specific to a course like the things you need to include when creating a course. Having to go to Course Management is tedious and that doesn't…
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Analytics Builder equivalent to Insights Report Builder recursive DataFlow?
Hello, all. I've looked for documentation or an example of this but without success. How do I accomplish in Analytics Builder (QuickSight) what I previously did using a recursive Magic ETL DataFlow in Insights Report Builder (DOMO)? If someone can point me to the help page(s) I've failed to find, I'll greatly appreciate…
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Course Access via PULSE is currently not being registered
Hi all, Are any of you using the BDS "Course Access Log" ? And are you aware that it has not registered new records since mid October 2023? It has been identified as a known issue - see article here: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/25920-course-access-log-brightspace-data-set-is-empty Our concern is that…
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Regarding Data Schema and Dictionary of Tables and Values
Hi, I am having difficulty trying to find the field names and tables in the ever-scrolling user interface of QuickSight. Is there a listing of the latest version 9 tables so i can do my SQL. I also tried running the SQL and it pop up that I dun have privilleges to run SQL on my existing BrightSpace Data Set. How can I do…
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Assessment Quality dashboard shows no quizzes but I can see the data in Quiz Attempts 9 in Domo
If data is already available in the data sets within Domo, is there a reason why that same data is not showing in the Insights dashboards? I'm looking for some quiz attempts that were logged yesterday, and I can easily see them when viewing the Quiz Attempts 9 data set within Domo, but when I go into the Assessment Quality…
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Hi All! Just wanted to share a new article for those of you just getting started: Which Data...
Hi All! Just wanted to share a new article for those of you just getting started: Which Data Should You Use For Your Report? Hope you find it helpful!
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BDS Updates and Column Data Types
Hello, When release notes come out about upcoming changes to Brightspace Data Sets, is it possible to get links to the information about the columns and their datatypes so we can make appropriate updates to databases? Or are these already provided if I find the specific pages for those datasets (such as the relational…
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Summary Changes/Diff
Is there a summary of changes to the datasets from major version to major version anywhere? In particluar the changes from 8 to 9 (to date) I realize that they are documented, individually with each CD and in the timeline, and that I can look at the BDS documentation for each of the datasets to see what is new, but I was…
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Group Assignments and Mastery View
Hi Folks, Is there anyway to pull Outcome achievement data from group assignments as it does not appear in Mastery View? Thanks
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Achievement of Learning Outcomes
Hi: I am new to Brightspace, but our university is very interested in creating reports based on learning outcomes. I know that there is nothing in the insights report builder that looks at the achievement of learning outcomes and this would me something I would need to do manually in Performance Plus. Does anyone have a…
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SCORM Internal and Interaction ID:
Hello! I currently am trying to analyze the results for a SCORM report. I have impersonated as different users to do a particular exam 3 times (so 3 attempts), and then exporting the SCORM data onto Excel and analyzing it. So far, I am able to understand the different columns such as UserID, Score, etc. However, there are…
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MediaObjects and AudioVideoProcessed in new Content Service/Media Library data sets
In the new Content Service/Media library data sets, I'm a little confused about ContentIDs that exist in MediaObjects but not AudioVideoProcessed. I've noticed that we have many more rows in MediaObjects compared to AudioVideoProcessed, even though I assumed it would be the opposite. Since most of the MediaObjects are not…
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New column "LoginSource" in BDS 9?
For the upcoming BDS 9, what does the new column "LoginSource" under User Logins contain to exactly? IP Address?
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Faculty use
Wondering how others are tracking faculty usage of the grade book(by semester) and also that Syllabus are being posted?
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Last System Login in Learner Usage
Hello Everyone, Does anyone know if the Last System Login field in the Learner Usage dataset refers to a computer, mobile device, or a combination of the two? If mobile is included, does having the app run in the background count as access? Thank you everyone! Justin
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API version for dataset retrieval?
Hi, I saw the very important announcement about dataset major version 9. https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/22681-motivations-behind-the-changes-in-data-hub-brightspace-data-set-bds-major-version-9 One thing I would like to see is the LP versions that are compatible with retrieving the data sets, published…