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Manage Local Repositories
Brightspace Learning Repository is an online library for storing, managing, and sharing your learning resources (learning objects). A learning object can be a quiz, a presentation, an image, a video, or any other kind of document or file you use to create course content and learning materials for online learning. When you…
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Create a repository to store harvested metadata from an external source
On the navbar, click LOR. From the tool navigation, click Manage. From the New Repository button, click Metadata Repository. On the New Metadata Repository page, enter a name and description for the new metadata repository. These fields can use Unicode. Click Add Resource and type the URL for the harvester to access the…
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Set metadata views and templates
Do any of the following: * To select the default metadata fields that users encounter when publishing an object, enable the d2l.Tools.LOR.Publish.MetadataView configuration variable. * To set a template with certain values already pre-filled, enable the d2l.Tools.LOR.Publish.MetadataTemplate configuration variable.
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About Bulk LOR Upload (BLU)
The Brightspace Learning Repository Bulk Upload utility, also known as Bulk LOR Upload (BLU), enables you to upload many learning objects or assets into a Learning Object Repository (LOR) without using the LOR web interface. This is useful for publishing curriculum outlines, syllabuses, or defined assets from your document…
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Authentication and authorization capabilities with third party systems
Brightspace Learning Repository has the same capabilities as Brightspace in terms of integration with: Integration type Capabilities Student Information Systems (SIS) * The user data fields, import formats, IMS Standards, scheduling options, etc., that Brightspace supports are also supported by Brightspace Learning…
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Enable an RSS feed for a repository
From the Admin Tools menu, click Config Variable Browser. Enable the following configuration variables:* d2l.Tools.LOR.RSS.AllowBrowsePathRSS * d2l.Tools.LOR.RSS.AllowRepositoryRSS * d2l.Tools.LOR.RSS.AllowCollectionRSS To limit the number of items in a feed, set the d2l.Tools.LOR.RSS.MaxFeedItems configuration variable.
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Create a repository to federate learning objects from an external source
Navigate to the LOR. From the tool navigation, click Manage. From the New Repository button, click Federated Repository. On the New Federated Repository page, enter a name and description. These fields can use Unicode. In the Server Location text box, enter a URL. This is used to perform federated search against the…
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Setup files for the Brightspace Learning Repository Bulk Upload utility
For the Brightspace Learning Repository Bulk Upload utility, setup files are text files placed in the input directory. Once a setup file is processed, it is moved to the output directory. Assets and other files remain in the input directory. Each setup file begins with a line that denotes the type of setup file, followed…
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Enforce metadata tagging
If you require users in your organization to fill in certain metadata fields when publishing learning objects, you must create or edit a custom metadata view in Metadata Administration. Set this custom view as the default metadata view in the d2l.Tools.LOR.Publish.MetadataView configuration variable to ensure users…
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Brightspace Learning Repository system integration scenarios
Scenario Capabilities Search Brightspace Learning Repository from external tool (a different LMS, another repository, a portal, etc). * Harvesting using OAI-PMH protocol supports out-of-the-box solution allowing repositories to be searched via the protocol. * Federated Search via SRU is supported. Searching External…