Product blogs
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Intent to End of Life Notice for: Picture Library
End of Life Date: January 2020 release The Picture Library widget was developed in the early 2000's and has had declining use and popularity since then. It was primarily used to display a series of custom images in a widget on a course homepage. It has not been included in new Brightspace sites since 2016.??? Why are we…
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Quick Eval, Assessment, and The Future of Evaluation in Brightspace.
With the launch of Quick Eval and the move to Daylight we've been asking ourselves what position Assignment Grader should have in our future roadmap. Quick Eval brings assessment of Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions into one handy place where you can easily find and prioritize your evaluations. We’ve recently added the…
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Brightspace API Rate Limiting Update
Originally published February 10, 2020 API Rate Limit Logging has now been in place since October of 2019. Since then we have been monitoring the Rate Limit logs that have been generated. We have also spent time meeting with many customers and partners to discuss the log data. The following is a summary of how we have…
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Getting Started using Virtual Classroom Partner Data Sets
TEMPLATE - VirtualClassroomUsage.xlsx Originally published June 30, 2020 This article is intended to provide information on how you can leverage the Virtual Classroom Partner Data Set and provides a few practical examples of how to leverage this product. Data hub houses all the data exports from within Brightspace and…
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Course Access vs Course Access Log – why do we have 2 Brightspace Data Sets for course access?
With the April 2022 release you will find a new Brightspace Data Set (BDS) within Data Hub named Course Access Log and you might be wondering – why do we now have 2 BDSs for course access? In this blog post I will describe each of these data sets so that you can understand the differences. The vision for course access data…
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Read&Write Now Better Than Ever In Brightspace
When moving towards online learning, students that struggle with reading often see these struggles increase with the greater reliance on technology. This is why we are excited to announce a new and improved experience with Read&Write by texthelp. In January, texthelp released a new version of Read&Write that now works…
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Third-Party Cookie Issues for LTI Tools
In February 2020, Google released version 80 of its Chrome browser, which introduces Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies sometime in 2022 . With their phased approach, they also introduced a same-site cookie attribute.. In March 2020, Apple released Safari 13.1, which turned full cookie blocking privacy feature…
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Ferramentas Brightspace para O Ensino Superior (versão impressa)
Infographic_Print_PORTUGUESE.pdf To access Ferramentas Brightspace para O Ensino Superior (versão impressa) select the attachment. Open the downloaded PDF file and begin designing your plan for increased usage of Brightspace. NOTE: This attachment is optimized for printing. For a copy designed to be used online with…
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A Tale of Two Data Driven Questions
Originally Published December 5, 2018 In today’s higher education landscape, it is more important than ever to make decisions based on factual data and to be able to analyze data. In 1981, Ronald Coase, a Nobel Prize Laureate and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, made the following…
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Using Differential Files with Data Sets Lacking Soft-Delete Indicators
What is a Soft-Delete Indicator? This is a column on the data set that indicates that the item has been deleted in the interface and will no longer appear in the Brightspace UI. In the context of differentials, it is a way of indicating that the row is no longer in use and potentially can be removed from your data store.…