Release Notes — Brightspace

Known Issues List Updates

Stefanie.B.518 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:13:20 +0000

Reporting and Data Sets for Createspace

Lee.M.415 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:44:59 +0000

We just got Createspace adn I was lettign our Instructionla design team know about it.
Looking at he Documentation fro administrators on the Community site under Createspace > About > Technical considerations for administrators the first bullet point says: "Reporting and Data Sets: Createspace uses a unique organization unit type for modules and objects created within the library. This may impact organizational reporting and Brightspace Data Sets (BDS)."

Notice here is says, "Createspace uses a unique organization unit type for modules and objects created within the library." No example or other information is give regarding this. What "organization unit type" is used? When I look at the Organizational Units data sets infomration, nothing is said about a new type of which type is used for Createspace items.

There is nothing in the release information about this either, at least not that I saw.

How are we supposed to know what "type" is a Createspace object?

Release Notes Updates

Stefanie.B.518 — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:39:05 +0000

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How can I tell where Self Assessments have been used on our site?

Janet.O.779 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:24:03 +0000

The https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/35371-september-2026-20-26-09 release notes indicate that the Self Assessment tool is approaching End of Life.

I doubt that anyone on our site has used that tool, but I'd like to verify that is truly the case. Can I find that out via a specific data set, or do I need to ask my Customer Success Specialist for a report?

[I looked at the documentation about https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/4531-questions-data-sets and looked at our Question Relationships Brightspace data set already, but I haven't yet found anything that seems to include what I want to know… at least not in a humanly-readable manner.]

Regarding the new automated quality assurance process

CS.K.3849 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:12:03 +0000

I just saw the preview for the Release Notes for next month (October 2026). And in that, I saw that an automated quality assurance process was going to implemented for customers in the US and Canada. And for clarity, I want if this is in reference to the surveys we receive after tickets are completed or something else?

September 2026/20.26.09 Release Notes

Jaymi.W.61 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:52:26 +0000

I see that September release makes Enhanced Table of Contents the only Table of Contents view. We like everything about the Enhanced Table of Contents except "Learner completion progress indicators for topics and modules." We find this gives our students a false sense of what they have completed. I know there is an option to have the students "mark as complete" instead of it being done automatically and that there is a config variable to make "mark as complete" the default. But the config variable will only apply to future courses, not existing courses. Is there a way to turn off Learner completion progress indicators for topics and modules?

Accessibility with the New Content Navigation

Debby.M.1740 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:43:43 +0000

Anyone having reports of trouble with visually impaired students navigating the left column with the recent change in content area?

Any timeline anticipated for LockDown Browser LTI 1.3 support?

Janet.O.779 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:10:58 +0000

The https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/34059-march-2026-20-26-03 state, "Brightspace's Respondus LockDown Browser integration will soon support LTI 1.3. Clients must work directly with Respondus to activate LTI 1.3. There is a new d2l.3rdParty.Respondus.LockdownLTI13LinkId variable required as part of the configuration."

I don't see this mentioned elsewhere on Brightspace Community yet (i.e., in https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/5567-product-and-services-preview%29. , or https://www.d2l.com/product-roadmap/ ). Does "soon" mean this year, or perhaps next year?

How to link a service user to an oAuth tool

Arald.d.320 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:38:22 +0000

In the release noets for the november release the Service Users are announced. The release notes tell you wher to find them and how to create them but I mis documentation about how to link them to an oAuth2.0 tool. Ther doesn't seem to be any documentation about that part.

What Controls Which Apps Display in Find Apps Page?

Andrew.H.603 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:29:48 +0000

I was trying out the new Find Apps page added as part of the July 2026 release in Brightspace. What I couldn't figure out is what controls which apps display on that page. I'm somewhat familiar with the Integration Hub page (https://integrationhub.brightspace.com/) but it seems like way more apps are listed there than on the Find Apps page.

References

Lillian.H.5857 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:47:45 +0000

How do I create a reference hyperlink to my course study notes in Brightspace?

Where have the release notes gone?

Birgitte.B.96 — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:58:44 +0000

Hi. I usually find release notes here: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/categories/release-notes-en

But this morning I find only discussion posts and not the usual lists of notes, etc..

Where have the rel. notes gone?

Fixed Issues List Updates

Community.T.9768 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:10:41 +0000

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When a hotfix is required, it will always be scheduled on your hotfix day. Your hotfix day is based on your Continuous Delivery (CD) update schedule. For example: If your hotfix day is Tuesday and the Fixed Issues List indicates 20.23.x hotfix (all), we will be scheduling a hotfix for all customers and your hotfix will be scheduled for the next, upcoming Tuesday.

Hotfix days adhere to the following schedule:

Sunday:
- Wave 3 Americas
- Wave 5 Americas (if your CD update is on Wednesday with 9:00PM start)
Monday:
- Wave 3 and 4 APAC
- Wave 3 and 4 Europe
- Wave 4 Americas (if your CD update is on Thursday or Friday)
- Wave 5 Americas (if your CD update is on Wednesday with 6:00pm start)
Tuesday:
- Wave 5 APAC
- Wave 5 Europe
- Wave 5 Americas (if your CD update is on Thursday or Friday)

In the event that a hotfix needs to be deployed sooner than your regular hotfix day, it is communicated through a Hotfix Notification email.

Where to find

Kevin.P.993 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:07:51 +0000

Hello Everyone

May I just ask where can we find our Archived Courses?

Thank you

course management legacy- inactivated

Brian.R.369 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:24:20 +0000

How can we filter a search by faculty name in course offerings now that course management is no longer available?

What is "Active Display" in the Assignments tool?

Shelley.L.680 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:23:33 +0000

In the current (Feb 2026) Release Notes, in one of the changes for the Assignments tool, I see the mention of "Active Display", capitalized, as though this were a brand or other proper name for something. This term is mentioned in a handful of places in D2L's online documentation, but without any real context in any of those cases. I've never seen this term before, and I've been supporting D2L Brightspace for 10 years.

What is it? How do we know if it's something we have, or how/if it's relevant to our situation?

If you are introducing new terms into your documentation, could you please make a point of defining them somewhere (even if only in their first mention), so that the term is searchable, we can find it, and figure out what you're referring to?

How to bulk inactivate courses after End Of Life for Course Updater tool?

Birgitte.B.96 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:01:29 +0000

Hi. I have just seen in the Product and Services Preview that an end-of-life for the Course Updater tool is planned for March 2026. We did not know that it the CU tool had been given a sunset adn were planning to use it for our housekeeping process. We had planned step 1. to be: inactivate the courses that are within scope of our housekeeping criteria (they would all be children of the same semester). By inactivating before purging, we would simulate the purge and users (who do not have access to inactivated courses) would experience that the courses are gone. If any mistakes in identifying the courses to be purges ahed been made, then we would still be able to correct it, because the course had only been inactivated and not purged.
Where can we bulk inactivate courses (preferably by semester) once the Course updater tool is no longer available? I do not see the potion in Courses or in the Org Unit Editor.

Does permission Content Service / Search for [ROLE] exist?

Birgitte.B.96 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:43:51 +0000

Hi all. In the December notes it is mentioned in "Media Library – Share folders using role-based collaborators | New" that permission

Content Service > Search for [ROLE] is required to search for users in a given role to add them as collaborators.

I do not see that permission in the Permissions matrix? Is a typo? Is it perhaps based on the role interaction "Search for [ROLE]" on organisation level?

Academic sucess

sanique.J.1545 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:17:34 +0000

Assignment Academic Success Plan Assignment.docx

Locating Source Courses

Brittany.W.629 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:01:22 +0000

Is there a way to have Source Courses appear in the "My Courses" widget or on the waffle-icon drawer where you can pin courses? Or is the only way to access Source Courses via the "Source Courses" tab under the new Courses tool?