Administrators must have the Can Edit Config Variable Values permission to edit configuration variables. Changes to configuration variables can affect all users, all courses and your entire Brightspace system, depending on the variable scope. D2L recommends that only 1 or 2 administrators in your organization have permission to edit configuration variables. There is no view-only permission for configuration variables.
If you do not see the Config Variable Browser item in the Admin Tools menu, then you do not have permission to make changes to existing configurations variables for your Brightspace instance.
Edit a configuration variable
To edit a configuration variable
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Config Variable Browser.
- Do one of the following:
- Navigate to the variable you want to set.
- On the All Variables page, enter text into the Search All Variables field. For example, if you want to see what variables you can set for the Discussions tool, type discussions and press Enter.
- Click the name of the configuration variable that you want to set.
- In the Variable Properties section, choose a System Value or Org Value to edit and click the Edit value icon.
- Choose or enter a value.
- If you want to cascade the configuration settings to child org units, click Edit Cascading Org Unit Types and select the appropriate cascade type.
- Click Save.
Watch how to edit a configuration variable
Restore a default configuration variable value
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Config Variable Browser.
- Navigate to the variable you want to restore.
- Select the check boxes beside the items you want to remove.
- Click Remove Selected Values.