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Insights Portal Improvements
In July we released a new version of the Adoption dashboard, which marked an important milestone in finalizing the transition of our Insights Portal dashboards to a new user interface started last year and expanding their functionality to better align with the needs of users. These updates are based on our continuous…
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How to get data from Brightspace into usable reports: An Overview
Originally published November 16, 2018 Does your organization want to report on data coming from Brightspace? There are of course reports available in Brightspace, and they should be your first destination. If your needs can be met by those, fantastic! You may have a more unique reporting need though, and therefore you…
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Evolving the Audio-Video Experience
Our Mandate: Consolidate and improve the audio-video (A-V) experience in Brightspace Core We know that our clients have come to expect high-quality A-V content as an essential part of the modern learning experience in Brightspace. During the last few years, we saw a major increase in the number of users accessing and…
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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. Note: This guide is written for legacy API v1.43. The steps below do not work when calling 1.44+ versions. What information can I currently…
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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…