Written by: Lavniet Dhillon, Product Manager
Update published April 5, 2024
In the contemporary landscape of data-driven practices, educational institutions and organizational Learning and Development (L&D) teams heavily depend on learning analytics to extract essential insights to help facilitate well-informed decision-making. At D2L, we recognize the inherent challenges in obtaining such insights – from simplifying data integration and maintenance to ensuring effective communication of results through data visualizations; we've got you covered.
Our Insights Report Builder empowers users to delve deeper into data and visualizations using their existing skills and knowledge of Brightspace Data Sets (BDS), without grappling with the complexities associated with direct interaction with a data warehouse.
In our ongoing commitment to enhance user experience, we are dedicated to making our products more straightforward, consistent, and valuable to meet your evolving requirements. We are excited to announce that, starting April 2024, we will be leveraging Amazon QuickSight as the visualization engine for Insights Report Builder, further elevating the capabilities of our platform.
Our primary strategic cloud infrastructure provider is AWS. The upgrade of the Insights Report Builder visualization infrastructure to AWS reinforces our strong partnership and trust in their services. Amazon QuickSight is FedRAMP-, HIPAA-, PCI DSS–, ISO-, and SOC-eligible, ensuring compliance with industry-specific and regulatory requirements. This infrastructure update assures a solid foundation and unlocks the possibilities of various future capabilities, such as - customized reporting templates for swift value realization, enhanced insights through correlated data, integration of analytics reports in Brightspace for in-context visualization, and the convenience of a natural language and generative AI assistant for seamless insights creation and consumption. We're eager to collaborate with you to bring forth these exciting capabilities.
Before exploring these new capabilities, our initial step is to facilitate a smooth upgrade to this new infrastructure for you. We acknowledge that this represents a substantial change, and we are committed to partnering with you to make the process as seamless as possible. Rest assured, we have a comprehensive plan in place, complete with key milestones designed to guide you through every step of the upgrade.
Key Dates and Phases:
April 2024: Analytics Builder available to new customers
- Analytics Builder will be available to all new Performance+ customers.
<To be announced>: Analytics Builder availability for all customers
May to July 2024: Transition Phase
- We'll migrate data assets from Insights Report Builder to Analytics Builder for all customers. We will contact you to ensure a smooth transition. Our transition plan will focus on reducing the impact on your organization and ensuring you have the time and resources necessary for this upgrade. You can expect to hear more about this in the coming months.
August to December 2024: Teardown Phase
- Insights Report Builder will be retired once we have ensured your transition to Analytics Builder is complete.
We aim to maintain uninterrupted support for your current learning analytics reporting needs during this transition and ensure that future requirements are met with the upcoming change. Should you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch with us through your D2L account representative.