Whether you’re new to data and analytics or have been working with it for some time, here are a set of assets and resources that will support your success with data and analytics in Brightspace.
1. Just started thinking about data and analytics?Part One: Easy Analytics (within a course) (30 min video)
Audience: Instructors
Tools: In-Tool Reporting, Class and User Progress
This session aims to highlight the different areas of your course that you can access data, focusing on what information you can find out on different activities, tips and tricks with the class progress tool, and how you can create some simple reports using Intelligent Agents.
Part Two: Exploring Resources for Creating a Data Strategy (30 min video)
Audience: Administrators and Leadership
This webinar will break down the process of creating a data strategy and look at the resources available in the D2L Community to help support each step.
Part Three: Using Brightspace Data Sets with Excel (30 min video)
Audience: Administrators
Tools: Data Hub and Data Sets
This webinar will look at the different types of datasets within Brightspace and some simple excel workflows to create meaningful reports.
2. Resources for Administrators
- What's the difference? Data Hub, Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) and Advanced Data Sets (ADS) (article)
- Common Reporting Questions (article)
- How do I set up Advanced Data Sets (ADS)? (3.5 min video)
- What are Advanced Data Sets (ADS)? (documentation)
- HINT - Check out our Instructor Usage and Learner Usage (ADS) data table visualizations. These allow you to copy and paste your CSV export into a tab and the following tabs give you visualizations of the data you put in. See below for templates with instructions.
3. Working with Performance+ (Add-On)
The Performance+ add-on package delivers powerful analytics tools to help administrators, educators, and learners save quality time while maximizing impact and driving success. Performance+ includes Brightspace Insights, Insights Report Builder (formerly Self-Serve Analytics), Student Success System and LeaP.
- What is Performance+ (2 min video)
- Performance+ – (documentation) - Everything you need to know about getting started with and setting up the Insights dashboards, the Insights Report Builder (formerly Self-Serve Analytics) and the Brightspace Student Success System.
- LeaP – (documentation) – Everything you need to know about getting started with LeaP (our adaptive learning engine).
Data analytics and visualizations
- Insights Portal - Easy reporting visualizations Measure Cross-Course Learner Engagement with the Engagement Dashboard
- Learner (Specific) Engagement Dashboard
- Insights Report Builder (formerly Self-Serve Analytics)/Domo Knowledge Base
- New to Insights Report Builder? Check out this great walk-through for Authors (15 min video) and other detailed walk-throughs.
- Insights Report Builder (formerly Self-Serve Analytics) - Create your own personalized reports and dashboards What is the Insights Report Builder (formerly Self-Serve Analytics)?
- Understand your Brightspace usage with the Adoption Dashboard
- Deep Dive: Using the Adoption Dashboard
- Learn how to build your reports and dashboards, understand your chart options and once you’re ready, take your reports and dashboards to the next level with advanced charting capabilities.
Also included in Performance+
- Brightspace’s Student Success System - Use predictive analytics to improve student success Understanding how the Brightspace Student Success System Works
- Brightspace’s LeaP - Empower learners to impact their own learning through adaptive analytics LeaP Instructor documentation
4. What’s coming up?
- D2L's Data Hub Change Management Policy
- Coming up in the next 3 months - Product and Services Preview
- Detailed product release notes - any updates to data will be reflected here
5. Need support?
Talk to our product experts and other clients through our Analytics and Data Access and Insights Report Builder (formerly Self-Serve Analytics) community groups. You’ve got questions? We’ve got answers.