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SOMETHING BIG IS COMING TO COMMUNITY TODAY!
⭐Tuesday April 9th a new Community Search Experience rolls out!️ ⭐
🔎 Search bars on EVERY Community Page (including in Knowledge Bases)
🔎 More content indexed including:- Developer Documentation
- Brightspace Learning Center Content
- Blogs
- YouTube Videos
🔎 Save searches and search results you use frequently
🔎 Access to more filters like Brightspace Tool Tags on Discussions!️
Resources
📣 Learn and share about the New Ways to Search Community
📣 Check out the April Release Note to learn more about the new Search Features🗳️Share Your Feedback On The New Search Tool With Us🗳️
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Hi everyone!
We are so thrilled to announce the release of the relaunched ASC Support Portal!
As of today, May 9th, 2024 all ASCs can access a new button on the Community homepage to connect with the experience.New Features
The new portal includes
- improved case filtering
- self-serve access to download case reports
- suggested solutions targeted to your case summary
- a brand new way to add or remove contacts to a case to improve your ability to monitor and communicate progress
New Resources
- New ASC Tutorial Video
- Learn how to create a case or service request
- Learn how to Manage Existing Cases
Additional Resources:
Important Notes
- ASCs will have access to all legacy case data and information in the new portal
- ASCs will have access to both the New and Legacy experience until May 29th
- We want to keep improving the experience!
Please share your feedback with us so we can keep building a better Community Together.
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We have added a brand new resource into the D2L Brightspace Learning Center! 🎉
Introduction to Cybersecurity for K-12 School System Leaders
What is the course about?
As technology has become pervasive across K-12 schools, so too has the cybersecurity threat from bad actors to penetrate school systems, hack sensitive data, and hold schools ransom.
This course was developed by D2L and Sinclair College in response to this significant cybersecurity threat, and the need for system leaders to acquire the general knowledge and approaches necessary to protect your community and the continuity of learning.
Participants will learn about cybersecurity threats, mitigation practices, and key steps for breach prevention and response. Interactive activities will help you assess and improve your understanding, while actionable tools and frameworks will support your organization in evaluating and improving your district's preparedness.
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NEW Brightspace Toolkit for Accessibility in UDL Learning Center Course 🧰
The Brightspace Learning Center is proud to announce a new offering we've added to our list of amazing resources on Accessibility!
About the course
This course is for people who want to be mindful of accessibility practices when they adopt Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in their learning context. It will help you apply the principles and guidelines of UDL in ways that are accessible to learners with disabilities. You'll also learn about the tools in Brightspace that will help you make learning accessible.
Who is the course for?
Whether you are an educator, developer, instructional designer, administrator, or learning and development professional, this course is for you! It has been designed to aid with:
- Understanding the importance of accessibility in the practice of Universal Design for Learning
- Learning to identify features in Brightspace that supports accessibility and Universal Design for Learning principles
- Incorporating UDL in a course by being mindful of the needs of learners with disabilities
Learn More and Access the Course:
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Fusion Workshop: Unpanelling Leadership- Women, Identity, and Building String Networks!
Whether you are connecting on-site in Toronto or virtually, don't miss this transformative experience designed to empower female-identifying people in Leadership!
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🚨 NEW LEARNING CENTER RESOURCE: The Great Brightspace Race 🏁
About this Course
Gamification is the key theme for this Learning Center resource 🎲
Designed by one of D2L's Senior Instructional Designers, the Great Brightspace Race takes you on a tour of Canada and D2L’s North American offices as you learn about Release Conditions and how they can be used to tailor your course to each individual learner. Learn about how you can create a learning path, offer support to learners who need it, and reward learners who are nailing it!
Access the full article and the course here: The Great Brightspace Race
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NEW Brightspace HTML Templates Version 5.0!
That's right, we've now released our newest version of HTML Templates. You can find information on this update and a free download in our HTML Templates (Version 5.0) Community article. Additionally, you will be linked out to the HTML Templates course in the Learning Center where you can see the new templates in action! 👏
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Did you grab those templates just as soon as they came out?
I bet you did- ya Moose Sleuth!
*Please note the zip file has been updated as of Thursday August 15th
HTML Templates (Version 5.0)This Community is made up of truly committed and caring people. One of our Members contacted us about a heading structure error. We've corrected that with this updated zip file. Thank you for helping us to build better Community Resources Together 🧡
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COMING SOON!
⭐Your Community Experience is about to get BETTER! ⭐🗳️Share Your Feedback Or Questions With Us🗳️
This 🍁Fall we're releasing a bunch of brand-new Community improvements including:
⚡ Suggested Results in Question Workflows: Automatically search across Community as you type a new question to get answers faster than ever.
📢 Community Announcement Banners: Stay connected with important updates with these announcements that will appear on specific Category pages, and even in Knowledge Bases.
🕵🏾♀️ ASC Homepage Known/Fixed Issues Automated Search: Instantly filter for Known/Fixed Issues that may offer a known work around or new workflow to help you get back to learning material faster
🚌 Filter for Learning Center Courses from Community Search using Course Tags: Looking for a course that has free downloads and is available to everyone? You'll soon have easy tag filters to connect you with just the right material
👍🏿 Share your feedback on specific Documentation Articles: use the new feedback feature to vote on, and share detailed feedback on specific articles in the Community
🚄 Faster Search Loading: Watch your page of search results load faster with this next release
🎫 Event Tags for Group or Community Wide Events: Learn which events are Group specific or Community Wide with these new tags coming soon to your search experience
💬 Find the Best Answers, Faster: Question results will show an "Accepted" tag to help you find the best answers to your Brightspace questions. The search results page will also now index all comments on questions.
⭐ Saved Filters: When you select search filters on the Search Results Page and change your content source (ex. from Articles to Discussion), if you change your content source back (ex. back to Articles from Discussions) your search filters will not be erased.
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Just Released!
⭐ Get Ready for an Enhanced Community Experience! ⭐
🗳️ We Want to Hear from You - Share Your Feedback or Questions! 🗳️
We're so excited to introduce these new Community enhancements:
⚡ Suggested Results in Question Workflows (English Only): Now, get answers more quickly than ever with automatic searches across the Community as you type your questions.
📢 Community Announcement Banners (English Only): Keep up-to-date with essential news through announcements on specific Category pages and within Knowledge Bases.
🕵🏾♀️ ASC Homepage Known Issues Automated Search (English Only): Immediately find Known/Fixed Issues that may provide a workaround or a new workflow, speeding up your return to teaching and learning + Brand new ASC Global Search Bar!
🚌 Learning Center Course Filters in Community Search via Course Tags (English Only): In search of a course with free downloads open to all? Utilize simple tag filters to find the perfect material.
👍🏿 Specific Documentation Article Feedback (English Only): Use the new feedback feature to vote and provide detailed feedback on particular Community articles.
🚄 Quicker Search Loading Times: Your search results page is about to load faster than ever with this update.
🎫 Event Tags for Group or Community-Wide Events (English Only): Identify Group-specific or Community-wide events with ease using the new tags in your search experience.
💬 Quicker Access to the Best Answers (English Only): Look for the "Accepted" tag on question results to quickly find the most reliable answers to your Brightspace inquiries. You'll also find all comments on questions can be found from your search.
⭐ Persistent Saved Filters: Maintain your selected search filters on the Search Results Page even when switching content sources (e.g., from Articles to Discussion and back), ensuring your filters stay intact.
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📣 New Resource Coming soon! 📣
Exciting news, Brightspace Community! We've got something special coming your way. A new resource is coming to the Brightspace Learning Center on January 16th! 🎉
If you're a fan of the Quiz Question Convertor Tool, you won't want to miss this. We think you're going to love what's coming next!
Stay tuned for more details! ⭐️
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The Wait is Over! 🎉
Calling all Administrators and Instructors 🚨
Introducing the ⭐️ Quiz Printer Widget ⭐️ for Brightspace Quizzes, a brand new resource available in our Brightspace Learning Center! This widget makes it easy to create printer-friendly versions of your quizzes, directly from your Course Offering homepages.
Ready to get started? Check out our Quiz Printer Widget Community article for more details!
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There is a lot of great information in the Quiz Printer Widget for Brightspace Quizzes mentioned on the community page. It is well worth a look. I thought you should know, Setup the Widget takes you to a Page Not Found.
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@Deb.H.306
I think you Moose-Sleuthed a quick link that got past our QA on the content topic description.
May I trouble you to confirm that this was the link that was making trouble, and if you're correctly being redirected to the content topic "Setup the Widget" now?
Thank you so much for your note- feedback like this helps everyone
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Good morning,
It looks like they have fixed it.
Deb
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Happy Fri-YAY Community, we have some incredible announcements for you today!
1. Our D2L Product Roadmap is now updated for February-July 2025!- Find out what's coming up next for Brightspace, Lumi, Creator+, Performance+, and Link!
2. We've launched a brand-new Course Package Translation Service (CPTS)!
- Why Choose CPTS?
- Break Language Barriers – Create inclusive, accessible learning for all.
Save Time & Resources – Our expert Localization team handles the translations.
Flexible Solutions – Choose Machine, Human, or Hybrid Translation for the best balance of speed and quality.
3. Our Community & Documentation Roadmap is Updated for February-April 2025!
- Find out what's coming next for the ASC Support Portal, Community Search improvements, Community Profile Updates, new Brightspace Tutorials and more!
- Find out what's coming up next for Brightspace, Lumi, Creator+, Performance+, and Link!
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It's been a busy couple of weeks here in Community and we'd love to connect you with a few updates and recent changes
1) In February 2025 we launched LUMI Chat in the Approved Support Contact (ASC) Support Portal
In addition to being able to connect directly with an expert, ASCs will also have access to a generative AI powered
search right from the chat tool. Generative AI in this tool means ASCs won't just see recommendations for articles, but a summary of the key details from the articles that address your question, plus a link to the reference material.
2) Now Available D2L’s Course Package Translation Service (CPTS)!CPTS makes it easy to translate and localize Brightspace course content into any language—saving you time while
ensuring high-quality learning experiences.
Why Choose CPTS?
Break Language Barriers – Create inclusive, accessible learning for all.
Save Time & Resources – Our expert Localization team handles the translations.
Flexible Solutions – Choose Machine, Human, or Hybrid Translation for the best balance of speed and quality.How It Works:
Define your needs with our Localization team.
Get a customized quote.
We handle the translation using top industry tools.
Receive a fully translated course package, ready for import into Brightspace!
3) Update to HTML Templates V5.This update is specific to the supporting zip files. These new versions address two issues:
- client.min.css and client.min.js are now present in the shared.zip and D2L - HTML TEmplates V3_V5_2408a.zip files. These are placeholder files for use by the D2L Learning Services team on client engagements to add custom styling and interactivity. This resolves an error message some clients reported in the console log.
- an update to course.zip has been made that now allows tab headers to be edited in the Editor view not just the source code
These are not expected to alter look or behaviour in the pages users may have created with the prior zip files provided (October 2024).
This update can better facilitate assistance from D2L Team members if support is needed with templates in future.
You may choose to download and replace the old zip files with these new ones, but D2L Clients are not required to update their template files with this latest update. -
What's New in the Learning Center?
🚀 Just Launched
Leadership 201: Blueprint for Brightspace Brilliance
This course is designed to answer a common question, “What does a good course look like?” Whether you are just beginning to develop content in Brightspace or have been leveraging the platform for some time, there are a few key elements that contribute to a brilliant course. An effective online learning experience is more than just uploading materials—it’s about intentional design, learner engagement, and creating a seamless learning journey.
🎫 Connect in the Upcoming Event to learn more
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🏆 Community Spotlight: D2L Champions 2024 🏆
Say Hello to Terri Brown, Director of e-Learning at East Georgia State College. Terri was nominated for this Community Spotlight for her contributions to the 2024 Fusion Lab. Terri brings a unique perspective, having experienced Brightspace as a student, faculty member, and now administrator. She uses that insight to support her college community in powerful ways!
Her go-to Community resource? The Quiz Printer widget, which helps faculty quickly generate printable versions of final exams -- a small but mighty win for their organization!
