Administrator Documentation

Create and delete org units

You can use the Org Unit Editor to create, archive, and restore org units in Brightspace.

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Note: You must have the required Org Unit Editor role permission applied to your role to perform these actions. Refer to Org Unit Editor permissions for more details.

Create an org unit

You can use the Org Unit Editor to create a new org unit.

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Tip: When you enter course offering and course section codes for your new org unit, D2L recommends the following naming conventions:

Course offering - <DEPT_ORG_SEMESTER>
Course sections - <DEPT_ORG_SEMESTER_SECTIONVALUE>

These recommended naming conventions will foster effective reporting (to aggregate data based on codes) and searching of features.

To create an org unit

From the Admin Tools menu, click Org Unit Editor.
Click Create Org Unit.
From the New Org Unit page, enter your org unit details:
- Select the Type of org unit you want to create.
- Enter an org unit Name.
- Enter a Code.
- Enter a Path.
- Enter a Parent ID or click Select Org Unit to search for a parent org unit.
Click Create.

Archive an org unit

You can archive org units. When you archive an org unit, Brightspace stores them and their properties until you choose to either restore them or delete them permanently.

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Important: Before archiving an org unit, you must detach all child org units from that org unit.

From the Admin Tools menu, click Org Unit Editor.
Click an org unit to display its Properties on the page.
Click Archive and confirm.

The org unit is moved to the Archived Org Units page.

Restore archived org units

You can also restore org units that you have archived.

To restore an org unit

From the Admin Tools menu, click Org Unit Editor.
Click View Archive.
Select the org units you want to restore.
Click Restore.