June 2025 Edition
This page provides a preview of product and feature delivery plans for August 2025/20.25.08 and September 2025/20.25.09 releases. The Product and Services Preview document replaces the former 60/90 day Review/Preview.
Important: The most recent and accurate version of Release Notes apply to near-term delivery plans for the upcoming July 2025/20.25.07 release. This page is a preview of planned release features only. As stated in the Safe Harbor Statement, the information provided herein is subject to change at any time, at the discretion of D2L, and D2L makes no commitment to update the information.
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Enablement Information
Information about the default state of a released feature, function or change in a Brightspace site is included to provide additional information, supporting change preparation, or planning in your organization.
Availability (Enabled State)
Advanced knowledge about whether customers can control access to the feature, function, or changes. This allows Administrators, trainers and supporting roles in an organization an opportunity to know which items are controllable and which are not.
- On: Indicates that the feature’s default state is visible/on and that there is no override or setting to control this state by any user.
- Off: Indicates that the feature’s default state is hidden/off and that there is no override or setting to control this state by any user.
- On (Overridable): Indicates the features default state and that it can be controlled or overridden by a user. For example, a new permission that is automatically selected for specific roles, or an editable config variable default that is on both offer opportunities to configure or override the default states.
- Off (Overridable): Indicates the features default state and that it can be controlled or overridden by a Brightspace user. For example, a new permission that is not selected, a new setting or new config variable that is off by default both provide opportunities to review and enable if desired.
Site Actions (Enablement Method)
For any feature, function, or change that is controllable, how are they controllable. This allows Administrators, trainers, or supporting roles in an organization the opportunity to make decisions earlier and better plan for any work required to support any updates or changes. Some examples include;
- Role Settings
- Role Permissions
- Config variables
- In Tool settings (such as Grades Settings or Widget customization)
- In Application settings (such as Pulse Settings)
August 2025 / 20.25.08 Preview
Quizzes - Print a Quiz to be taken offline
Planned Release | 20.25.08
Change and Enablement information:
Role / Audience: Instructor
Site Availability: On (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: Config Variable (Org Unit)
Additional Information Overview:
Provides instructors with a simple way to print a quiz that supports all native Brightspace question types, shuffling, question pools and multiple versions as well as an Answer Key.
Data Access / Data Hub - Set Data Hub Brightspace Data Sets Major Version to 10
Planned Release | 20.25.08
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator, Internal D2L Teams, Administrator
Site Availability: None
Site Enablement: None
Additional Information Overview
For a summary of these changes, see: Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 10 - Brightspace
Analytics Builder - Set Analytics Builder Brightspace Data Sets Major Version to 10
Planned Release | 20.25.08
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator, Internal D2L Teams, Administrator
Site Availability: None
Site Enablement Actions: None
Additional Information Overview
BDS Major Version 10 is available in Analytics Builder. Programmatic updates should take care of the majority of the usage. However, for changes that cannot be programmatically done there will be a notification. For more information about this change, see: Updating Analytics Builder for Brightspace Data Sets Major Versions - Brightspace
Insights Report Builder - Set Insights Report Builder Brightspace Data Sets Major Version to 10
Planned Release | 20.25.08
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: None
Site Enablement Actions: None
Additional Information Overview
BDS Major Version 10 will be available in IRB. For more information about this change, see: Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Sets Major Versions - Brightspace
Groups/Section Management - Groups now support increased enrollment limits of up to 3000 users.
Planned Release | 20.25.08
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Administrator
Site Availability: None
Site Enablement Actions: (None) Automatic
Additional Information Overview
When creating groups within the Groups tool, the current limit allows for 200 users per group. We are increasing this limit to 3000 users per group, allowing for increased group sizes for larger classes. This change was previously introduced on our High Impact Changes Timeline found here
https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/32286
.
Group types that allow for setting a number of users will support values up to 3000 to be entered. Regardless of what method of enrollment is used to place a user into a group, this new 3000 limit will be enforced, this includes enrollments via Groups Import tool, manual enrollment into individual groups, API route or Bulk User Management.
Local Auth Security - Local Authentication Security updated to allow for emailed 2FA codes.
Planned Release | 20.25.08
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Administrator
Site Availability: Off (Customer Overridable)
Site Enablement Actions: Config Variable
Additional Information Overview
When configuring 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) for local Brightspace logins, users will be able to have a login code sent directly to their external email address that is registered with Brightspace. Currently users can only retrieve a 2FA code by setting up an authenticator app to acquire a code during login.
With this new option, users can choose to set up either the authenticator app, email, or both options when they configure 2FA for their account. During login codes from either method will allow users to login securely.
This new option will be behind a configuration variable, allowing Administrators to determine whether to allow emailed codes for their users who utilize local logins with 2FA within Brightspace.
September 2025 / 20.25.09 Preview
LTI / External Learning Tools - Brightspace assignment submissions can now be processed for AI, Originality, Grammar and more by third party processing tools using new LTI standards
Planned Release | 20.25.09
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Instructor, Integration Vendor, Administrator
Site Availability: Off
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
No additional information.
Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Grade Results Data set
Planned Release | 20.25.09
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
Add a new column - IsDeleted - which tracks deleted grade results.
All Datetime and Bit fields will be updated to use consistent formatting.
For more information about this change, see: Enhancing Consistency : Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets - Brightspace
Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Release Condition Results Brightspace Data Set
Planned Release | 20.25.09
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
New column - Deleted Date - will be added to show the date and time when the release condition result was deleted. The field can be null. (Datetime2)
Note that the BDS will include records that have been deleted (release condition result has been deleted), with the deletion indicated by the new Deleted Date column going forward - no historically deleted result condition results will be available.
Additionally, there is a change in the way associated data deletion is handled:
The associated data is the release condition (indicated by the ResultId) and/or the Org Unit (indicated by the OrgUnitId).
- When a release condition is deleted, records for the associated release condition results will remain in the BDS going forward. Release condition results for release conditions that were deleted before these updates will not be included in the BDS.
- When an org unit is deleted, records for the associated release condition results will remain in the BDS for all historical data as well as going forward, without any past time limit.
- The reason for the difference in how deleted release conditions and deleted org units are handled is because a deleted org unit can be undeleted/restored, unlike deleted release conditions. Therefore, release condition results that are associated with an org unit could become useful data again in the future if the org unit is restored/undeleted.
- Clients can join the Release Condition Results data with other BDS to know if a release condition result record is associated with a deleted release condition (by joining with ReleaseConditionObjects) or a deleted org unit (by joining with OrganizationalUnits). Clients would already need to join with those other data sets to make sense of their Release Condition Results data.
Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Quiz Attempts Data Set
Planned Release | 20.25.09
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None (Automatic)
Additional Information Overview
All Datetime and Bit fields will be updated to use consistent formatting. For more information about this change, see: Enhancing Consistency : Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets - Brightspace
Data Access / Data Hub - Updates to Question Relationships Brightspace Data Set
Planned Release | 20.25.09
Change and Enablement information
Role / Audience: Data Administrator
Site Availability: On
Site Enablement Actions: None
Additional Information Overview
Creation Date field is now nullable. Previously, the field was not nullable.
Unique Constraint change: Unique Constraint is on the ObjectId and QuestionId fields. Previously, Unique Constraint was on the ObjectId and QuestionVersionId fields.
All Datetime and Bit fields will be updated to use consistent formatting. For more information about this change, see: Enhancing Consistency : Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets - Brightspace
Change history
- 13-06-2025 - Published the June 2025 Product and Services Preview.
- 04-June-2025 - Corrected duplicated heading and removed Course Management - Enable delegated administration of courses to support distributed administration initiatives from 20.25.07 release.
- 03-June-2025 - Corrected misplaced information for Lessons/New Content Experience items.
- 28-May-2025 - Updated list of features coming in 20.25.07
- 26-May-2025 - Removed internal-facing metadata.
- 15-May-2025 - Published the May 2025 Product and Services Preview.
- 22-April-2025 - Updated the following preview features:
- Outcomes - Implement Outcome Set (prev Programs) Management with Achievement Scale Setting for Better Reporting is changed to Renaming 'Programs' to 'Outcome Sets' for Better User Familiarity.
- Updated the Additional Information section of Rubrics - Adding Ability to Clear Rubric Selections to Save Instructors Time in Evaluation.
- 8-April-2025 - Published the April 2025 Product and Services Preview.
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