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Introducing New Manage Members Workflows in Manage Groups
By: Elaine Jones, Product Manager Introduction Managing group members can be time-consuming, especially in courses with many groups. The new Manage Members page is designed to make that work easier, with simpler workflows for viewing, updating, and balancing group membership. It will be available to users who opt into the…
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Tips for auto-grading short answer quiz questions
By: Monica Gaertner, Senior Product Manager Instructors, do you have students who believe that an auto-graded quiz question was wrongly marked as incorrect? Here is an example from a Short Answer question type. An instructor sets up a short answer question like this: When a student takes the quiz they answer the question…
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Enhancing Outcome Set Management and Achievement Scales
Written By: Michelle Tran, Associate Product Manager, Brightspace Product Management In this blog post, we will highlight the key updates that will be introduced in the July Release 20.26.07. The release brings many meaningful improvements to the Outcome Set management experience in Brightspace. We will explore, how it…
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End of Life (EOL) Notice: Payment Gateway in Course Catalog
As part of our ongoing effort to maintain a secure, modern, and reliable learning platform, we are announcing the End of Life (EOL) of the Payment Gateway functionality within Course Catalog. As of April 22, 2026, Payment Gateway functionality is no longer available in Course Catalog. Why this change is happening The…
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Retirement of Quizzes "Disable Right Click" Setting
Up to August 2022, the "Disable Right Click” option was available to instructors when editing a Quiz under Edit Quiz > Properties > Optional Advanced Properties > Disable Right Click. The intention of this feature was to improve the security of a quiz by making it more difficult for learners to copy or print the quiz and…
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Assignments Tool Permissions Configuration Guidelines
By: Josh Roach, Software Developer As a developer on the Assignments team, I review and fix various defects and dev-assists that are reported by clients and internal stakeholders each week. We wanted to document some best practices around how permissions for the Assignments tool should be configured in order for it to…
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Brightspace Editor – Updating to the latest version across production to assist in troubleshooting efforts of license key errors
Updating to the latest version across production to assist in troubleshooting efforts of license key errors as of February 25th, 2026 As of 11.20am EST on February 25th, the Brightspace Editor was rolled back to version 7.7.0 across production environments. We identified 2 issues across users who reported an error using…
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Awards Share to Badgr Deprecated
Written by: Johnny Bayerl, Associate Product Manager, D2L. Introduction Since the original release of Brightspace Awards tool in 2016, D2L has been committed to supporting open digital credentials. This commitment enables learners to take their badges and certificates with them to external platforms that follow 1EdTech’s…
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Introducing Service Users and server-to-server authentication for Brightspace
By Joshua Vienneau, Senior Product Manager This article explains how integrators and administrators can leverage Brightspace Service Users and OAuth 2.0 client credentials to authenticate secure server-to-server integrations, automate workflows, and manage machine-to-machine API access without human accounts. Introduction…
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Group Assignments in Advanced Assessments
By: Jackie Guan, Product Manager Introducing Group Assignments in Advanced Assessment We’re excited to announce a new enhancement to Advanced Assessment (AA): Group Assignments. Advanced Assessment was introduced in Oct 2024 with Co-Marking, Delegation and Multi-Evaluator capabilities to help admins and lead instructors…