Administrator Documentation

Documentation changes for administrators

Looking for what's new in Administrator topics? The following list provides links to all administrator help topics that have been newly created or updated. For more information about Brightspace features, refer to our Release Note Updates.

August 2025/20.25.08

Updated About Brightspace Data Sets versions to change the default major version to 10 and emphasize that the BDS version is updated every release.
Updated Brightspace Data Sets configuration variables to embed a link to the About Brightspace Data Sets versions topic.
Updated Administering Insights Report Builder to change the default major version to 10.
Updated Grades data sets to remove the IsExempt column from the Grade Results Brightspace Data Set.
Updated Questions data sets to correct the key and expand the definition of the CollectionId column in the Question Relationships BDS.
Updated Quizzes data sets to remove the Quiz Question Answer Options and Quiz Question Answers Brightspace Data Sets reference tables and replace the ERD.
Updated Rubrics data sets to correct the LevelAchievedId column key in the Rubric Assessment and Rubric Assessment Criteria BDS reference tables and ERD.
Updated Rubrics data sets to correct the definition of the Rubric Assessment BDS.
Updated Survey data sets to remove the Survey Question Answers Brightspace Data Set reference table and replace the ERD.
Updated List of Advanced Data Sets to include guidance on best practices.
Updated List of Advanced Data Sets to clarify how the Date Range filter works for the Instructor Usage ADS.
Updated About My CPD Records to embed a link to the My CPD Records information in Valence (Brightspace Developer Platform).
Updated Course Merchant Member Discounts to correct the available options for Customer Member Discount Code.
Updated Manage courses and course templates with the Courses tool to add three new placeholder for English videos and embedded their respective links.
Updated About Courses to replace the link of a video with an updated video.
Updated Create a list of authorized users and manage two-factor authentication (2FA) with new email 2FA option.
Updated Authentication configuration variables with new two factor authentication configuration variable.
Updated Brightspace Parent & Guardian permissions with new View as Parent/Guardian permission.
Updated the Quizzes configuration variables topic to add the new d2l.Tools.Quizzes.PrintQuizFeature configuration variable.
Updated the Set up Course Publisher topic to include information about setting up the Instructor role for Course Publisher.

July 2025/20.25.07

Updated Help Desk configuration variables with renamed configuration variables.
Updated Mail configuration variables to clarify behavior when setting d2l.Tools.Mail.DailyRecipientSendLimit and d2l.Tools.Mail.DailyRecipientLimitNotifications.
Updated Attendance data sets to add the new DateDeleted and DeletedBy columns to Attendance Schemes BDS.
Updated the size of the IPAddress column in the Quiz Attempts Log BDS on Quizzes data sets.
Updated the type and size of the Version column in both Creator+ Practices Adoption BDS and Creator+ Practices Engagement BDS on Creator+ data sets.
Updated Browser support with the browser versions that now have Legacy and Unsupported status.
Updated About My CPD Records to mention the new API routes for My CPD Records.
Updated My CPD Records Permissions to add the new View Other Users' CPD Records (API Only) and Manage Other Users' CPD Records (API Only) permissions.
Updated LE configuration variables to change the default value of d2l.Tools.LE.AllowBulkFeedback to ON.
Updated the Content configuration variables topic with a new configuration variable that enables the New Table of Contents, course Overview in Content, and unlimited depth of content, d2l.Tools.Content.EnableLessonsEnhancedTOC.
Updated the Set up Lessons topic with information on the new d2l.Tools.Content.EnableLessonsEnhancedTOC.configuration variable and removed references to the four-level depth limitation in the New Content Experience.
Updated the Brightspace Parent & Guardian permissions and Viewing parent/guardian-child relationships topics to include See Parent/Guardian Activity & Information permission that enables teachers view of parent activity and information.
Updated System Widgets Permissions topic to include the permissions required to enable the topic icons in the Content Navigator Widget.
Update Course Completion Tracking in Manager Dashboard topic to include that the content completion through the Visual Table of Contents widget only tracks users in roles visible in the Classlist.
Updated the Quizzes permissions topic to add information about the renamed Delete, Reopen, and Restore Attempts permission (formerly known as Reset and Restore Attempts).
Updated the Activities configuration variables topic to add information that the configuration variable d2l.Tools.Activities.CEQuizzesOptIn is now set to ON by default.
Replaced reference to Programs with new name Outcome Sets in all Achievement+ topics and Learning Outcomes-related topics.
Updated Manage Award icons and templates with corrected information on recently added replacement strings.
Updated the Create new Certificate Templates section of Manage Award icons and templates with corrected information about how certificates appear when conditionally released.
Updated Groups and Sections permissions with updated functionality for the Create/Edit/Delete Groups and Categories permission.
Updated Email permissions with new detail in the Send Limited Daily Emails for <role> permission.
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Updated the Manage courses and course templates with the Courses tool to include new bulk update functionality options for Courses tool.
Updated the About Courses topic to include new information about new filtering options in the Courses tab.
Updated the About Course Updater topic to include a reference to new Courses tool bulk update functionality.
Added new section Configure daily email send limits to the Set up email for your organization topic.