Product blogs
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Powered by D2L
By: Surekha Rao, Senior Manager in Product Management For more than two decades, D2L has been dedicated to our mission of "Transforming the way the world learns." As a global learning innovation company, we've been instrumental in helping organizations reshape the future of education and work. Our focus is on leading the…
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Security Audit Logs without Upcharge Policy
Authored by: D2L Product Operations D2L assists all K-12 customers in responding to security questions and incidents at no additional charge. This assistance includes product and server log analysis for response to security/penetration testing, compromised user accounts, email phishing and vulnerabilities. Note that in…
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Leveraging User Attributes in Brightspace Data Set Reporting
Written by: Matt Walker, Senior Learning Administration Manager The following set of videos contains step-by-step instructions on how to download Brightspace Data Sets, unzipping and organizing the CSV files, loading the data into Excel using Power Query, and ultimately combining User Attributes data with Users data to…
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Create a Custom Certificate that uses Replace Strings
1. To create a certificate with editable form fields which include replace strings, you will require PDF editing software such as Adobe Pro. 2. Do one of the following: a. The Certificate can begin as a word document or PowerPoint which you save as a PDF. If you need to add blank spaces prepared as a field for a name or…
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Course Merchant Support
About Course Merchant Learn more about Course Merchant for course enrollment, registration, and e-commerce. Documentation and Resources Course Merchant is a shopping cart capable of integration into Brightspace™ by D2L. Course Merchant supports user registration, SSO through to Brightspace, custom catalogs, multiple…
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Classic Content vs. New Content in Brightspace: Which One Is Right for You?
Written by Catrina Ascenuik & Shayne Fogle, Instructional Designers from D2L's Learning and Creative Services. This article outlines the differences between Brightspace's content experiences (Classic vs. New Content), to help you make the right decision on which one to use in your course. D2L offers two (and a half)…
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Activity Visibility Improvements
Originally published August 8, 2019 At D2L, we aim to improve how efficient you can be while using Brightspace. Previously, we had multiple terms to mean that an activity is not visible (inactive, draft, hidden). We also had 4 different controls and 4 different workflows to switch visibility. There are now numerous changes…
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Enabling Third-Party cookies on a mobile device
Why do I need to enable Third-Party cookies for Kaltura? Some users may see the following error message when trying to view the Kaltura player: "It seems your browser is blocking 3rd party session cookies required for the Kaltura application. To resolve this issue, please update your settings to allow 3rd party cookies."…
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Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 9
By: Monica Gaertner, Product Manager With the December 2023/20.23.12 release, we introduce a new major BDS version: 9 (d2l.Tools.BrightspaceDataSets.Version: 9.0). As our Brightspace Data Sets Change Management Policy indicates, we provide a 4-month adoption period for major changes because we recognize adopting major…
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Insights Report Builder – Visualization Infrastructure Upgrade
Written by: Sagar Warghade, Senior Product Manager In the contemporary landscape of data-driven practices, educational institutions and organizational Learning and Development (L&D) teams heavily depend on learning analytics to extract essential insights to help facilitate well-informed decision-making. At D2L, we…