Administrator Documentation

Set up Insights Dashboards

The Insights Portal contains 4 dashboards to date with plans for more.

D2L Deployment Services sets up and configures Brightspace Insights. After Brightspace Insights is enabled, administrators can grant Brightspace Insights roles and permissions to users.

Hosting requirements

The Brightspace Data Platform uses Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) for data storage. Your data is hosted in the same region as your LMS.

Configuration variables

Refer to Insights configuration variables.

Permissions

The following Brightspace Data Platform permissions and Insights permissions are required to use Brightspace Insights:

Brightspace Data Platform > Query Data Platform
Insights > See Insights Portal Tool
Insights > Can See Adoption Dashboard
Insights > Can See Engagement Dashboard
Insights > Can See Assessment Quality Dashboard

The following permissions are recommended for Brightspace Insights users:

View User Enrollments (allows users to run reports at the course level)
See Course Info (allows users to see course names returned by Brightspace APIs)
Tool Management > See Org Tool Management (allows users to see tools returned by Brightspace APIs)
See External Email Addresses for <role> (allows users to send email from the Engagement Dashboard)
- Also requires Send Emails to External Email Addresses or Send Emails to Internal Email Addresses