Product blogs
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End of Life Notice: Microsoft Legacy Edge
Key Dates and Information End of Life Date: August 1, 2021 Microsoft Legacy Edge is an older generation browser from Microsoft. The new Chromium-based Edge has been available from Microsoft since January 2020. Microsoft Legacy Edge has reached its End of Life in March 2021 and is no longer supported or updated by…
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Register Brightspace Learning Environment with Microsoft Azure
Changes have been made to how you register Brightspace Learning Environment with Microsoft Azure due to Microsoft deprecating the Microsoft Discovery Service API. The updated information below directs you to Microsoft documentation on integrating applications with Azure Active Directory and is reflected in the Set up…
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Advanced Notice: Retirement of Quizzes "Disable Right Click" Setting
Retirement Date: August 2022 release The "Disable Right Click” option is 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 ability to…
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Addressing the Skills Gap with Micro-Credentialing: Part 2
Originally published November 29, 2019 How to Recognize Your Learners’ Brilliance! You were inspired by reading Part one of this article, and you’ve decided to try micro-credentials at your organization. Congratulations! You understand the value in creating micro-credentials, but now you need some guidance to move forward.…
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Brightspace Accessibility Checker
Article Author: Barry Dahl May 18, 2017 Just in time for GAAD 2017 Today (May 18) is 2017 Global Accessibility Awareness Day, or GAAD. Here at D2L, we pay attention to accessibility concerns every day, but still, this day is very special. It seems timely to toot our own horn today since we very recently added an…
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Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set Major Version 6.0 October 2020 Release
Originally published 9 April 2021 With the 20.20.10 October release, we introduced a new major d2l.Tools.BrightspaceDataSets.Version: 6.0. As our Change Management Policy indicates, we provide a 6-month adoption period for major changes because we recognize adopting major changes requires effort on your end to accommodate…
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Course Learning Outcome Evaluation (CLOE) Walkthrough
Updated August 13th, 2019 Video Walkthrough Power Point Slides The Course Learning Outcome Evaluation (CLOE) data export is one of the Advanced Data Sets which is now available in the Data Hub. This data export provides learner performance data for any assessment activity which is aligned to a learning objective with a…
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Holding Tank Transition Planning
Holding Tank Transition Planning With the End of Life of SIS – Holding Tank announced for September 1, 2022, you may be wondering how to prepare for the change. Do not worry, D2L is ready to help ensure this is a smooth transition for your site. Dedicated resources will be assisting you throughout the process and this page…
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Brightspace Capture X upgrade path for Legacy Capture clients
Written by Dave Carroll, Senior Product Manager D2L is deprecating the Legacy Brightspace Capture tech stack with a target date of Fall/Winter 2023. This move ensures that the resources required to maintain the aging Legacy platform can be reallocated to continue to innovate and improve the value of the Brightspace product…
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Reducing SPAM in Your Brightspace Email
The following are generic steps you can take to implement SPAM filtering rules on your email controller: 1. Determine what you classify as spam Do you wish to block emails from an entire domain?Do you wish to block emails from a source IP?Do you with to block emails from one user address?Do you wish to block emails…