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Awards-Leaderboard Demo
If you missed us at Fusion, we showcased an Awards-Leaderboard demo that we are now releasing to the open source community! The repo below has a demo/sample solution to show what can be done with the Brightspace Awards APIs, OAuth 2.0, LTI and Node. The demo is useable as is (complete with working authentication examples)…
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Brightspace Data Sets Change Management Policy
Written by: Monica Gaertner, Product Manager A key feature of the Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) is a strong data contract, ensuring that the data we deliver works consistently and changes predictably. To facilitate this, we've developed a change management policy that outlines changes will be made in a way that adds value…
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5 Tips for Using Manager Dashboard & Learning Groups
Create custom attributes Use AND vs OR rules when creating Learning Groups Add multiple values for a user attribute View a user’s Company Name View detailed data by User Attributes Create custom attributes The default User Attributes (including a user’s employee role, manager, location, company, hire date, etc.) cover a…
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Course Completion Tracking in Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups
Originally published March 14, 2019 There have been many comments and questions about course completion tracking in Manager Dashboard & Learning Groups. Within this post I hope to answer those questions, address concerns and help you understand and plan for current limitations. Enabling Course Completion Tracking Course…
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Locked Learning Groups
What are Locked Learning Groups? So you’re interested in learning about Locked Learning Groups? You’re in the right place! But first, let’s talk about regular Learning Groups – Who are they for? What do they do? Why should you care? First off, note who has access to this tool. The Learning Groups tool is available to…
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Advanced Data Sets: Filtering by (Organizational) ‘Org Unit ID’
Originally published April 30, 2019 If you are new to reporting or Brightspace in general, the terms Org Unit and Org Unit ID are likely confusing, but it is the most valuable filter/parameter you can use to limit the data sets you generate to the scope needed for the specific reporting need. Four Advanced Data Sets (found…
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Brightspace Platform Single Sign-On (SSO)
PlatformSingleSign-On(SSO)-Admin.pdf
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Disaster Recovery - Brightspace Core & Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disaster Recovery.pdf Originally published November 16, 2018 Disaster Recovery Automatically Included Your learning management platform is the face of learning at your organization. It is an essential tool used every day to create, store and deliver content. It needs to be reliably accessible. Brightspace is a cloud-based…
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Adopting Daily Differentials & Weekly Fulls in Brightspace Data Sets
By Megan Walker, Product Manager, Data and Analytics, Product Management D2L Originally published 26 June 2018 Description of the Change In 10.7.11 (1804), we released the Daily Differentials in Brightspace Data Sets (BDS). Previously in Data Hub when you selected a BDS, you were only able to download the full data set…
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Video Assignments - March Update
Originally published March 5th, 2020 In March, Video Assignments will be receiving a few large (and awesome) updates. Additions to the current instructor view of an activity’s submissions. Alongside some UI improvements are changes to terms used. In addition, instructors now set the Auto Analysis score as the grade object…