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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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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…
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Brightspace Mobile Updates: Brightspace Parent & Guardian is now part of Brightspace Pulse
Written By: Michelle Tran, Associate Product Manager, Brightspace Product Management What’s new? To simplify the mobile experience for families, Brightspace Parent & Guardian functionality is now integrated directly into the Brightspace Pulse app. Parents and guardians can use Brightspace Pulse as their single supported…
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D2L's Partner Ecosystem
By: Bronwen Clayfield-Jewett, Senior Technical Partner Manager Why D2L Partners exist D2L Partners extend the value of Brightspace by providing specialized capabilities, functionalities, and expertise that complement the core platform. Through these partnerships, D2L can accelerate innovation, deliver customer value more…
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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…