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Content: Strategy and Progress
By: Louise Plunkett, International Product Strategy Director and Susan McInnes, Senior Product Manager Whether you are new to Content or have been working with it for some time, this article provides an overview of Content and the direction of future investment. What is Content? Content (formerly known as New Content…
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Managing SPICE Allocation
By: Joseph Chapman, Group Product Manager As part of Analytics Builder, your organization is entitled to an allocation of an in-memory query and storage engine called SPICE. As your data and reporting needs grow over time, you may need to reduce or reallocate your SPICE usage to stay within these limits. This article helps…
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Intent to EOL Learner Experience
By: Susan McInnes, Senior Product Manager End of Life Date: June 2029 D2L is announcing the intent to begin the End of Life (EOL) process for Learner Experience in Brightspace. This article outlines what is changing, the planned timeline, and how customers can prepare. As of June 2029, Brightspace will offer only the New…
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Intent to EOL Classic Content
By: Susan McInnes, Senior Product Manager End of Life Date: June 2029 D2L is announcing the intent to begin the End of Life (EOL) process for Classic Content in Brightspace. This article outlines what is changing, the planned timeline, and how customers can prepare. As of June 2029, Brightspace will offer only the New…
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Introducing the D2L Learning Operations Hub
D2L's Learning Operations Hub enhances the administrator experience with improved oversight, control, and automation for recurring learning cycles. The first iteration of the solution focuses on improving the administration and monitoring of compliance-driven learning experiences, such as onboarding and role-based…
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Intent to EOL Self Assessments
By: Monica Gaertner, Senior Product Manager D2L is passionate about creating solutions that ignite the desire to learn. We are constantly updating our product offerings to bring new solutions and features to market. As part of the ongoing life cycle of product innovation, we sometimes discontinue the sale and support of…
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Introducing Recommendations in Course Merchant
By: Dave Carroll, Senior Product Manager With a growing catalog of courses, helping learners find the right training can be just as important as offering it. That’s where Recommendations comes in. Help learners discover more Recommendations is a new Course Merchant capability that lets administrators showcase featured,…
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Migrate Self Assessment Questions to Quizzes in Brightspace: A Step-by-Step Guide
By Natalia Dias, Transition Services Consultant Self-assessments (SA) are useful for private learner reflection, but Quizzes provide a more flexible and valuable experience for most practice and formative assessment scenarios. With Quizzes, instructors can view learner responses, access question statistics, use release…
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Self Assessments vs. Quizzes: Choosing the Best Tool for Practice and Feedback
By Natalia Dias, Transition Services Consultant There are lots of ways to help learners check their understanding in Brightspace. Two tools that may seem similar at first are Self-Assessments and Quizzes. Both can be used for practice. Both support the same Brightspace question types. Both can pull questions from the…
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From Student to Innovator: How a D2L Co-op Helped Shape the Future of Quiz Taking
By: Monica Gaertner, Senior Product Manager Sometimes the best product ideas come from the people who use them every day. For Benjamin Wong, a third-year Computer Science and Statistics student at the University of British Columbia, that moment came during a final exam. As a student, Benjamin found himself wishing for…