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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…
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Brightspace Data Sets Change Management Policy
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 while protecting that important data contract.…
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5 Tips for Using Manager Dashboard & Learning Groups
Create Custom Attributes Create custom attributesThe default User Attributes (including a user’s employee role, manager, location, company, hire date, etc.) cover a range of information about each user, but have you ever wanted to create a Learning Group based on more granular information? If so, D2L can create custom…
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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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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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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 two 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. You might be wondering – why do we now have two BDSs for course access? This blog post describes each of these data sets so that you can understand the differences. The vision for course access data is to…