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PIE Feedback Review Window
By: Megan Walker, Director of Product Planning D2L’s Product Idea Exchange (PIE) has long served as a key channel for customers to share ideas and influence our roadmap. Many of your suggestions have shaped features delivered in our monthly releases. Thank you for your valuable contributions. We’re now enhancing the PIE…
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Renaming Programs to Outcome Sets
By Natalie Deane, Senior Product Manager We are excited to announce that we plan to rename Programs to Outcome Sets in the July 2025/20.25.07 release. What is changing? We are renaming Programs to Outcome Sets across Brightspace to adopt a more widely understood term. This change applies to both Brightspace Core and…
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Improved table sorting enhances accessibility and usability in Brightspace
This article complements the announcement in our March 2025/20.25.03 release notes about the accessibility and usability enhancements to complex sorting in tables. It serves as a reference about this feature until full documentation becomes available in Brightspace Community on 1 May 2025. This update maintains the…
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Learning Accelerators, Teams Assignments Generally Available for D2L Brightspace
We are pleased to announce general availability of the Teams Assignments integration for D2L Brightspace. Brightspace is the latest Learning Management System to move to GA with this powerful integration, with more on the way. The Teams Assignments integration brings the power of Microsoft Learning Accelerators and…
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Updating Analytics Builder for Brightspace Data Sets Major Versions
Analytics Builder empowers users to explore and visualize their Brightspace data effortlessly. With built-in data pipeline management, you can focus on gaining insights rather than handling data complexity. It enables you to analyze key learning metrics and create custom visualizations without worrying about version…
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Improving groups with increased enrollment limits
By: Elaine Jones, Product Manager Introduction Within Brightspace, our groups tool allows for a maximum of 200 users to be enrolled into a single group within a category. We have heard from many of you through in-person conversations and ideas on our Product Idea Exchange that this limitation is too restrictive, and with…
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Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Sets Major Versions
Insights Report Builder allows you to create and personalize reports and dashboards using data from Brightspace Data Sets (BDS). As the BDS evolve and change over time, you can take advantage of these enhancements. Be aware that any changes to BDS will impact Insights Report Builder. Refer to Impact of Minor & Major…
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Breaking Barriers: Expanding Global Learning with D2L’s Course Package Translation Service (CPTS)
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, education knows no borders. Reaching global learners means creating engaging, multilingual course content that transcends language and cultural barriers. But for educators and organizations, tackling this challenge can feel overwhelming. That’s where D2L’s Course Package…
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Updates to Course Management
Written By: Andrew Ko, Product Manager Important update: Extended adoption period to transition from Course Management to Courses tool In the February 2025/20.25.02 release, we introduced the new Courses tool to test environments only of Brightspace only. We will introduce Courses to production environments of Brightspace…
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Lumi Chat in the Approved Support Contact (ASC) portal
Introduction We are excited to share that we are releasing the powerful capabilities of Lumi Chat in the ASC Support Portal in February 2025! The Approved Support Contact (ASC) Support Portal An Approved Support Contact (ASC) can log in to Brightspace Community and access the ASC Support Portal to create and manage support…