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Assessment Quality Dashboard Updates
What is the Assessment Quality Dashboard in Insights? The Assessment Quality Dashboard provides instructors, instructional designers, and others interested in understanding Quiz efficacy, a tool to identify poorly performing assessments and take informed action to iteratively improve on those assessments. It compiles…
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Quizzes or SCORM: What is best for you
A goal many have when creating online courses is to maximize engagement and interaction – assessments and knowledge checks are great ways of achieving this and both SCORM and Brightspace quizzes are two of the many tools that are commonly used to create these experiences. There are some considerations to be made when using…
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Introducing SAML Administration
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Data Portability and the GDPR
DataPortability_GDPR_Admin.docx This resource provides an overview of Data Portability in Brightspace and the General Data Protection Regulation. It includes types of portable data as well as extracting portable data from Brightspace.
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How to get started with Data Hub's APIs: Brightspace Data Sets
Written By Don Brinn, Senior Test Developer 2 This article introduces using the Data Hub APIs to retrieve Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) and gives a practical example using the process. What information can I currently get from Data Hub? Currently, customers can access more than 130 Brightspace Data Sets and this keeps…
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Using Brightspace to Support with Summative Assessments
For many schools, final grades are just around the corner. How can you use your Brightspace Learning Environment to help lighten the assessment load and ensure your students have timely feedback about their final marks? Use the Quizzes tool to Grade Exams Efficiently Moving your final exam online has several benefits,…
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D2L Email and DMARC - Improving the User Experience
D2L has recently invested in hardware and technology to implement DMARC policies in the D2L Cloud. This is not a product change, although that is being planned (see PIE # D2689!), it is foundational work to improve how the application generates, sends, and receives mail in the future. Many other well-known email providers…
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Deep Dive: Using the Adoption Dashboard
Originally published May 1, 2019. Figure: The Adoption Dashboard menu. The Adoption Dashboard is the place where users can understand Brightspace usage, drive broader adoption of the platform and inform ROI discussions. There are currently 5 visualizations: Login Trend, Course Access Counts, Tool Usage Trend, Tool Usage…
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Using Instructor Usage Advanced Data Set to check for Course Readiness at Semester Start
Problem: Administrators – do you wish you had a way to check if courses are ready for semester start? Solution: If so – then consider using the Instructor Usage Advanced Data Set (ADS) provided within Data Hub. It provides information about how instructors are using Brightspace functionality within their courses. While…
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How to upgrade from ILP 4 to ILP 5 within Brightspace ?
If you have recently decided to upgrade from Ellucian ILP 4 to ILP 5, you might be wondering what that entails on the Brightspace Learning Environment side. The good news is you don't need a D2L implementation project when moving from ILP4 to ILP5. As an administrator, you can make the required changes in your Brightspace…