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October 2024 Update

In December 2023 we began rolling out small changes to the formatting of data in the Bit and DateTime2 columns, as detailed in Enhancing Consistency : Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets. We assumed the consistency changes would not have significant impact on our users. However, we have discovered through feedback that it is not true. Starting with the October 2024/20.24.10 release, we will now communicate planned Bit and DateTime2 formatting changes in this blog, and in the Release Notes.

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Please note: these updates are subject to change until the date of release

August 2025/20.25.08 | BDS v10.4

End of the adoption period for BDS Major Version 10. All clients who have not yet moved to BDS v10 are automatically moved with this release.
- Refer to Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 10 for more information.
- This also impacts Analytics Builder users; refer to Updating Analytics Builder for Brightspace Data Sets Major Versions for more information.
- This also impacts Insights Report Builder users; refer to Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Sets Major Versions for more information.
- Quiz Question Answer Options - remove BDS (replaced by Question Answer Options)
- Quiz Question Answers - remove BDS (replaced by Question Answers)
- Survey Question Answers - remove BDS (replaced by Question Answers)
Question Relationships - change CreationDate column from non-nullable to nullable
Changes to bit and datetime2 columns (refer to the Enhancing Consistency: Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets blog post) in the following Brightspace Data Sets:
- Question Relationships
- Quiz Attempts

July 2025/20.25.07 | BDS v9.19 / 10.3

Attendance Schemes - new columns: DateDeleted and DeletedBy

June 2025/20.25.06 | BDS v9.18 / 10.2

No BDS changes in this release

RELEASED

May 2025/20.25.05 | BDS v9.17 / 10.1

No BDS changes in this release

April 2025/20.25.4 | BDS v9.16 / 10.0

BDS major version 10 released
- Refer to Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 10 for more information.
Changes that are only in BDS v10.0:
- Grade Results - remove column: IsExempt
Changes that are in both BDS v9.16 and v10.0:
- Assignment Summary - change AIUtilization column to support value of 4
- Content Objects - change AIUtilization column to support value of 4
- Discussion Topics - change AIUtilization column to support value of 4
- Outcomes Aligned to Tool Objects - change AIUtilization column to support value of 4
- Question Answer Options - new BDS (replaces Quiz Question Answer Options)
- Question Answers - new BDS (replaces Quiz Question Answers and Survey Question Answers)
- Question Library - change AIUtilization column to support value of 4
- Quiz Objects - new column: AIStudySupport
Changes to bit and datetime2 columns (refer to the Enhancing Consistency: Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets blog post) in the following Brightspace Data Sets:
- Question Library

March 2025/20.25.03 | BDS v9.15

Awards Issued - new column: CertificateId

February 2025/20.25.02 | BDS v9.14

LTI Links - new columns: CreatedDate, DeploymentId, and LinkSubType
Quiz Attempts Log - new columns: UserId, IsDeleted
Changes to bit and datetime2 columns (refer to the Enhancing Consistency: Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets blog post) in the following Brightspace Data Sets:
- Quiz Attempts Log

January 2025/20.25.01 | BDS v9.13

Assignment Summary - new column: Instructions
New BDS for customers with My CPD Records:

December 2024/20.24.12 | BDS v9.12

Content Objects - new column: AIUtilization
Content User Completion - new columns: Version, LastModifiedBy, IsDeleted, AutomaticDateCompleted, and ManualDateCompleted
Content User Completion - data limit changed to default 150 million rows
Course Copy Logs - new column: StatusId
Grade Objects - new columns: ToolId, Version
Grade Objects - change columns TypeName and IsDeleted from nullable to non-nullable
Outcomes Aligned to Tool Objects - new column: AIUtilization
Outcomes Assessed Checkpoints - new column: AchievedLevelId
Rubric Object Criteria - existing column Name changes Size from 256 to 500
Changes to bit and datetime2 columns (refer to the Enhancing Consistency: Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets blog post) in the following Brightspace Data Sets:
- Grade Objects

November 2024/20.24.11 | BDS v9.11

No BDS changes in this release

October 2024/20.24.10 | BDS v9.10

Content User Progress - new column: Version
Content User Progress - data limit changed to default 150 million rows
Quiz User Answer Responses - new columns: LastModified and IsDeleted
Quiz User Answer Responses - data limit changed to default 150 million rows
Survey User Answer Responses - new columns: LastModified and IsDeleted
Changes to bit and datetime2 columns (refer to the Enhancing Consistency: Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets blog post) in the following Brightspace Data Sets:

September 2024/20.24.9 | BDS v9.9

Assignment Summary - new column: AIUtilization
Attendance Registers - new columns: DateDeleted and DeletedBy
Attendance Sessions - new columns: DateDeleted and DeletedBy
Attendance User Sessions - new columns: IsDeleted and Version
Discussion Topics - new column: AIUtilization
Organizational Units - change Organization column to no longer have SYSTEM value for recycled or deleted org units
Question Library - new column: AIUtilization

August 2024/20.24.8 | BDS v9.8

Creator+ Practices Engagement - new BDS
Quiz User Answers - new columns: OutOf, TimeStarted, IsBonus, IsDeleted, LastModified, LastModifiedBy, and QuizTimeCompleted
Quiz User Answers - data limit changed to default 150 million rows
Release Condition Objects - new columns: Guid1, Guid2
Survey User Answers - new columns: LastModified, LastModifiedBy, IsDeleted, and SurveyTimeCompleted

July 2024/20.24.7 | BDS v9.7

Creator+ Practices Adoption - new BDS
LTI Advantage Deployment Audit - new BDS
LTI Advantage Registration Audit - new BDS

June 2024/20.24.6 | BDS v9.6

New BDS for customers with D2l for Associations Package:

May 2024/20.24.5 | BDS v9.5

No BDS changes in this release

April 2024/20.24.4 | BDS v9.4

End of the adoption period for BDS Major Version 9. All clients who have not yet moved to BDS v9 are automatically moved with this release.
- Refer to Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 9 for more information.
- This also impacts Insights Report Builder users; refer to Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Set Major Version 9 for more information.
Checklist Completions - new columns: IsCompleted, DateDeleted, DeletedBy, and Version
LTI Link Migration Audit - new column: LegacyURL

March 2024/20.24.3 | BDS v9.3

No BDS changes in this release

February 2024/20.24.2 | BDS v8.13 & v9.2

LTI Links Shared - removed BDS
- Refer to Changes to your LTI Data Sets for more information.
Survey Question Answer Options - removed BDS
- Refer to Update to Survey Brightspace Data Sets for more information.
LTI Links - new columns: LastModifiedBy and IsDeleted
LTI Links - change Url column size from 1000 to 2000

January 2024/20.24.1 | BDS v8.12 & v9.1

Chat Objects and Chat Session Log - removed BDS
- Refer to Intent to End Of Life Notice for: Chat for more information.
Course Awards - new columns: LastModified, Credits, IsAssociated, and Version
Outcomes Assessed Checkpoints - new column: HasMetAchievementThreshold
Session History - data limit changed to default 150 million rows

December 2023/20.23.12 | BDS v8.11 & v9.0

BDS major version 9 released
- Refer to Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 9 for more information.
Changes that are only in BDS v9.0:
- Awards Issued - new columns: RevokedDate, RevokedReason, RevokedBy, LastModifiedBy, LastModifiedDate, and Version
- Awards Issued - remove columns: Type, IsRevoked, and Credits
- Awards Issued - change columns Criteria and Evidence from nullable to non-nullable
- Enrollments and Withdrawals - remove column: EnrollmentType
- Grade Schemes - remove columns: GradeSchemeRangeId and IsDeleted
- Quiz Attempts - new columns: IsSynchronous and DeductionPercentage
- Quiz Attempts - remove columns: GracePeriod and ExtendedDeadline
- Quiz Attempts - rename column: GradePeriodExceeded Behaviour to TimeLimitExceededBehaviour
- Quiz Objects - new columns: IsSynchronous and DeductionPercentage
- Quiz Objects - remove columns: TimeLimitGracePeriod, ShowClock, and TimeLimitExceededBehavior
- Role Details - new columns: LastModifiedDate and DeletedBy
- Role Details - remove columns: OrgId, ClassListDisplayRoleCategory, ClassListRoleCategory, ClassListRoleCategoryOrder, and Version
- Role Details - change size of columns: RoleName, Description, ClassListRoleName, RoleAlias, and RoleCode
- User Logins - new column: LoginSource
- User Logins - remove columns: TimeOff and OrgId
- User Logins - change column UserId from nullable to non-nullable
- User Logins - change column StatusType from varchar to nvarchar
- User Logins - change column LoginAttemptId from type bigint and size 8 to type nvarchar and size 36
- User Logins - data limit changed to default 150 million rows
Changes that are in both BDS v8.11 and v9.0:
- Discussion Posts - new column: Version
- Discussion Posts - data limit changed to default 150 million rows
- Discussion Posts Read Status - data limit changed to default 150 million rows
- PreRequisite Conditions Met - new columns: Action and LastModified
- PreRequisite Conditions Met - data limit changed to default 150 million rows

November 2023/20.23.11 | BDS v8.10

Audio Video Processed - new BDS
Media Consumption Log - new BDS
Media Objects - new BDS
Checklist Objects - new columns: DateDeleted and DeletedBy

October 2023/20.23.10 | BDS v8.9

Outcomes Course Specific Scales - new BDS
Checklist Item Details - new columns: DateDeleted, DeletedBy, and Version
Checklist Category Details - new columns: DateDeleted, DeletedBy, and Version
Course Access - data limit changed to default 150 million rows
LTI Launches - existing LTILinkId column changes from not nullable to nullable

September 2023/20.23.9 | BDS v8.8

The Brightspace Data Set Change Management Policy was updated.
Notice that Survey Question Answer Options will be removed in February 2024/20.24.2.
- Refer to Update to Survey Brightspace Data Sets for more information.
LTI Launches - no longer requires the Download LTI Launch Data Set permission

August 2023/20.23.8 | BDS v8.7

Rubrics Edit - new column: Version
Award Objects - new column: Criteria

July 2023/20.23.7 | BDS v8.6

Notice that LTI Links Shared will be removed in January 2024/20.24.1.
- Refer to Changes to your LTI Data Sets for more information.
Notice that Chat Objects and Chat Session Log will be removed in January 2024/20.24.1.
- Refer to Intent to End Of Life Notice for: Chat for more information.
End of the adoption period for BDS Major Version 8. All clients who have not yet moved to BDS v8 are automatically moved with this release.
- Refer to Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 8 for more information.
- This also impacts Insights Report Builder users; refer to Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Set Major Version 8 for more information.
SIS Course Merge Log - new BDS
Organizational Unit Parents - new column: DateDeleted

June 2023/20.23.6 | BDS v8.5

Session History - existing SessionId column changes type from Int to BigInt