Product blogs
-
Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Set Major Version 7
Insights Report Builder (formerly Self-Serve Analytics) provides you with the ability to create and personalize your own reports and dashboards using the data available within Brightspace Data Sets (BDS). As the BDS evolve and change over time, you are able to take advantage of these enhancements. Any changes to BDS will…
-
Brightspace for Parents is being renamed to Brightspace Parent & Guardian
By Natalie Deane, Product Manager, Brightspace Parent & Guardian (formerly Brightspace for Parents) An updated Name Based on client feedback and alignment to product vision the Product and Marketing teams began a journey over the past few months to change the Brightspace for Parents name to better represent the people…
-
An Example for Analyzing Course Access in Insights Report Builder
With the April 2022 release you will find a new Brightspace Data Set (BDS) within Data Hub named Course Access Log (review this blog post for further details). Since we understand that most of our customers want to analyze all course access data together, you might be wondering – how can I analyze both this new data set…
-
Clarifying Archived Rubric Workflows
Clarifying Archived Rubric Workflows By Mike Moore & Megan Shuker Managers, Product Management Updated September 2022 One of the things users often love about Brightspace is its configurability. The downside to this configurability is that sometimes, settings can be confusing. For “archived rubrics,” this appears to be the…
-
Everything You Need to Explore Data and Analytics with Brightspace
Whether you’re new to data and analytics or have been working with it for some time, here are a set of assets and resources that will support your success with data and analytics in Brightspace. 1. Just started thinking about data and analytics?Part One: Easy Analytics (within a course) (30 min video)Audience: Instructors…
-
Outcomes Assessment: How-To
Outcomes Assessment How To.docx Outcomes Assessment: Trialing or Using This guide describes how to enable the Learning Outcomes features of Brightspace Platform trial or production courses. In Brightspace Platform December 2018/10.8.8 release (10.8.8), we introduced the first features for Learning Outcomes. The guide was…
-
Intent to End of Life Notice for IPSCT (Online Rooms)
End of Life Date: July 1, 2022 At D2L, 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 certain products and services. That time will be coming for the Integration Pack…
-
Preparing for Upcoming Changes in the Google File Picker
Preparing for Upcoming Changes in the Google File Picker The multiple Google files pickers currently used in Brightspace are now updated to be one file picker. While there is no change to the mechanics of selecting files, features related to account types and permissions are changing. The updated file picker supports PIE…
-
Comparing Quiz Creation Experiences
The following tables compare Classic Quiz creation functionality to the New Quiz Creation Experience. Properties ClassicNewLocation in New Name✓ ✓ Primary panel Category (existing/new)✓ ✓ Attempts & Completion Questions per page✓ ✓ Timing & Display Prevent moving backwards through pages✓ ✓ Timing & Display Shuffle…
-
Getting Started with Brightspace Data: Instructor Usage and Microsoft Excel
We continue to hear great stories about how our clients are leveraging Brightspace Data Sets to help drive better student outcomes. Back in June, we provided a simple Excel example to help you get started using the Learner Usage Advanced Data Set. The Learner Usage example focused on aggregating data across your…