Brightspace Data Sets Updates
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Hello Everyone - Just wanted to let you know that we have just updated the Keeping on top of Brightspace Data Sets updates blog with the latest information - please check it out!
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Hello Everyone - Just wanted to let you know that we have just updated the Keeping on top of Brightspace Data Sets updates blog with the latest information - please check it out!
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Hello Again Everyone - ust wanted to let you know that we have just updated the Keeping on top of Brightspace Data Sets updates blog with the latest information - please check it out!
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We're trying to link together all our quiz data, and we're seeing that likely datasets are either incomplete or empty altogether.
Quiz Question Answer Options BDS is empty
Quiz Question Answers BDS only has about 10% of the total number of questions we have in quizzes.
Question Library BDS we think is complete.
just checking if there's something obvious we're missing before creating a ticket :)
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Hello Theo, are you looking at the FULL datasets or the Differential Datasets ? The differentials will only have data if there were any changes since the last time it ran. Thanks.
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Full datasets thanks Roxana
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the diferentials are empty, as the quizzes haven't been changed for quite a while
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Thanks for responding Theo. I recommend two more checks :
- Do you know if the quizzes in your organization include answer options for these question types: Short Answer, Fill in the Blanks, and Multi-Short Answer? Based on the documentation here : this is the type of data you should expect in this dataset.
- Are there any Differential datasets for Quiz Question Answer Options that have any data ?
If the answer is Yes for 1 or 2 , please create a case, otherwise it should be expected based on setup.
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
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these are all MCQs (multichoice)
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thanks Roxana, Quiz Question Answer Options are all blank, differential and full.
as the answer to Q2 is 'no', I think you're saying that would be expected based on setup? not sure I follow that.
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If Question Library BDS is complete- which we think it is, we would expect that Quiz Question Answer Options would give the answers relating to the Question Library values? does that make sense?
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Multiple choice questions are not going to appear in the Quiz Question Answer Options data sets. Only if there are Short Answer, Fill in the Blanks, and Multi-Short Answer question types in your organization it will be revealed in the datasets.
What I meant by "based on setup" is data reveleaved in the datasets are based on the quiz setup by the administrators, course designers or teacher ( depending on the roles and permissions setup by the administrator group in your organization). Whoever created the quizzes is considered client setup.
If you would like to test that dataset, my suggestion is to create a test quiz in your Sandbox course with Short Answer, Fill in the Blanks, and Multi-Short Answer and notice if the data is there in the dataset after next generation time.
A small reminder that Brightspace Datasets are running on a set schedule and knowing that schedule will give you an idea when you can download the correct dataset.
Hope this helps.
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Quiz Question Answer Options BDS will only contain a subset of the questions available in the datasets. A great Entity Relationship Diagram can be seen here : .
On another note, Brightspace Data Sets ( BDS) are limited to the 150 million rows of the most recent data EXCEPT for the following which are limited by DATE (info from ) :
- 3 years of data (all of the previous two calendar years and the current calendar year to date):
- Content User Completion
- Content User Progress
- Pre-Requisite Conditions Met
- Quiz User Answer Responses
- Quiz User Answers
- Session History
If none of this information is useful and you feel there is still a problem, even after testing with test data that should appear in Quiz User Answer Responses BDS, please feel free to contact D2L Support.
- 3 years of data (all of the previous two calendar years and the current calendar year to date):
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thanks for all that info Rosana, I can see that our assumption that MCQ answers, are quiz question answers is not correct.
what we're trying to achieve is a way to report on all MCQ answers regardless of whether they were chosen or not.
Quiz User Answer Responses does give us the MCQ answer and indicates if it was correct, but obviously doesn't include any responses not selected by any user.
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Hello Everyone - I wanted to inform you that we've just updated the 'Keeping on Top of Brightspace Data Sets' blog with the latest information. Please check it out!"
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Hi Everyone - Following the December release, all our data sets named Organizational* (US spelling) have changed to Organisational* (UK spelling). The csv files still use the US spelling. This change wasn't mentioned in the December release notes. Has anyone else experienced this?
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@Matthew.W.82 The language used on the Data Hub page is based on the system Locale and active Language, as well as each user's preferred setting. If you noticed a change that did not correspond to any language changes then please submit a ticket with Support to investigate.
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Thanks for sharing these insights mate as I found it very much useful and informative.
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Could you please explain more about this?
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The Keeping on Top of Brightspace Data Sets blog has been updated with data sets that were just released in June, as well as the next 3 months of upcoming changes. Please check it out!
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what data set do colleges use to determine LDA (last date of attendance)
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Hi Lisa,
This really is not a one-size-fits-all solution — so much depends on how Colleges have deployed their Brightspace environments, how much Faculty Development has focused on report LDA, and most critically, how the College has defined LDA vis-a-vis institutional learning environment use policies and Registrar reporting requirements.
Start with existing practices — usually in the Registrar's office, and engage with the Faculty Development folks as to how the institution is currently solving this question, and look for avenues of improvement.-mike
(p.s. This would be an excellent topic for its own discussion thread. This thread exists primarily for folks to "follow" for "when new Brightspace Data Sets updates are announced in Keeping on top of Brightspace Data Sets updates." )
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The Keeping on Top of Brightspace Data Sets blog has been updated with the brand new data sets that came out in July, as well as the next 3 months of upcoming changes. Please check it out!
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The Keeping on Top of Brightspace Data Sets blog is now updated with upcoming changes from September through November 2024. Check it out!
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Note: The page you linked to lists a new column, TimeStarted, in the August release for the Survey User Answers data set, but I do not see that in the KB article (https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/26256-august-2024-20-24-8) or the platform itself.
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@Ben.S.335 great catch, I've removed the TimeStarted column from the blog.
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It's a bit late this month, but the Keeping on Top of Brightspace Data Sets blog is now updated! You can find a list of the upcoming changes from October through December 2024 in the link above.
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The Keeping on Top of Brightspace Data Sets blog is now updated with upcoming changes from November 2024 through January 2025, as well as an update about how we have begun communicating changes to the formatting of data in the Bit and DateTime2 columns (refer to Enhancing Consistency : Upcoming Updates to Brightspace for more details).
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The Keeping on Top of Brightspace Data Sets blog now includes details about changes that are coming with the BDS Major Version 10 release, as well as a link to the Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 10 blog post.
Further updates, including what's coming in February 2025, will be posed later this month.
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@Claire.D.2, The removal of LastAccessed, FirstLoginDate from the Users BDS in Version 10 is really bad news for my institutions. The goal of eliminating 'redundancy with datasets around user logins and sessions' is appreciated, but those other data sets do not cover all use cases (primarily historical information or quick validation). The inclusion of 'LastAccessed' in July 2020 was a great benefit, that is now being removed. How can we ensure those high-value columns stay in place?
