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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: The updates to Course Management described on this page are available in test environments of Brightspace only as of the February 2025/20.25.02 release. Both the new Courses tool and the old Course Management tool will be available in the test environment ONLY during the…
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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…
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Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 10
Our goal is to provide our customers with data access in a performant, complete, and understandable way. This means we need to periodically have major version releases for Brightspace Data Sets (BDS). In addition to making some major changes, we also made some minor changes, such as introducing new columns. In the upcoming…
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Link Path Detection within Brightspace Editor
By: Elaine Jones, Product Manager Overview In our October 20.24.10 release we introduced a new configuration variable, d2l.Tools.WYSIWYG.LinkPathDetection for Brightspace Editor. This configuration variable, when enabled, displays warnings to users who are creating or editing HTML content where the URLs to objects (such…
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A Guide to Coaching Students for Effective Peer Review
Written by Lynsey Duncan, Senior Instructional Designer, Learning and Creative Services Peer review can be a very useful and helpful tool to use in your class… when done correctly. Too often, learners don’t know how to be an effective peer reviewer, and therefore the value of the whole activity is lost. Do you want to…
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Release of the New Quiz Evaluation Experience
By: Monica Gaertner, Product Manager The new Quiz Evaluation experience was released in the September 2024/20.24.9 release of Brightspace. The new experience provides an updated look and feel to your grading workflow with a focus on optimizing instructor productivity by making the quiz evaluation experience easier to use.…
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New Configuration Variable for Advanced Assessments
Written by: Jackie Guan, Product Manager, D2L. Advanced Assessments (AA) is a set of features that enable instructors and admins to create and evaluate assignments with one or more instructors, manage instructor workflows with delegation, and restrict which instructors in the course can publish evaluations. These features…