Product blogs
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Introducing New Display Pages for Assessable Activities in New Content Experience
By: Ed Vannatter, Senior Product Manager; Stefano Nicoli, Senior Product Manager; Susan Kleisath, Product Manager Introduction Brightspace assessable activities inside the New Content Experience (NCE) are getting an exciting makeover in the January (20.24.1) update! These new pages will be available for Assignments,…
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Intent to End of Life Notice: Hosted Homepage Widget Expansion Pack
By: Kathleen Murphy, Manager, Learning Solutions End of Life Date: September 2024 release Several widgets that were once custom hosted widgets will now be available within Brightspace as system widgets for purchase as a part of the Homepage Widget Expansion Pack. Custom hosted widgets that will be replaced with system…
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Update to Survey Brightspace Data Sets
By: Natalie Deane, Senior Product Manager Removal of Survey Question Answer Options While performing some infrastructure updates and improvements we undertook a review of the existing Survey Brightspace Data Sets (BDS). During this review it became clear that the Survey Question Answer Options BDS is not providing value…
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Keeping on top of Brightspace Data Sets updates
Written by: Monica Gaertner, Product Manager I have heard from some clients that keeping on top of Brightspace Data Set (BDS) updates can be challenging. You need to go through both the Release Notes and the Product and Services Preview to find the updates specific to Data Hub. Additionally, sometimes the people who are…
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D2L's New Beta Program Announced!
First off, what is the new Beta Program? The new Beta Program at D2L is a new name for the (historically known) Dev Pilot and Early Access Programs for D2L's early-stage product releases. This new program is a result of efforts to increase clarity in our naming conventions for product releases while also adding structure…
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Google Integrations Introduction
Here at D2L, we believe in enabling our clients to have access to the tools they know and love right from within Brightspace. Whether that be through open standards like LTI, or with deep integrations, your Brightspace should serve as a hub for all your favorite tools. One of the most popular tools we find…
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Change Management of Brightspace Data Sets Major Version within Insights Report Builder
Written By: Sagar Warghade, Senior Product Manager, Data and Analytics Insights Report Builder (IRB) provides you with access to your Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) so that you can leverage them easily to meet your reporting needs. IRB is not for long-term storage of obsolete versions of Brightspace Data Sets. To ensure the…
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Mixed Content Blocking and Browser Changes for Secure Pages
This post was written in collaboration with Christine Passmore and Christin Wallace. Original post in the Desire2Learn Community on September 12, 2013 The Learning Environment is a secure website, and much of the external content comes from unsecured sites. Web browsers continue to evolve with how they handle this mixed…
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Getting Started with Brightspace Data: Learner Usage and Microsoft Excel
Since the initial release of Brightspace Data Hub, we have seen incredible usage of our Brightspace Data Sets and continue to hear great stories about how our customers are leveraging the data available through Brightspace Data Hub. This blog post is intended for those customers looking to get started with Brightspace…
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How Do I Determine My Trusted URL?
Originally posted by Sarah-Beth Bianchi (December 8, 2014) How do I determine my App's Trusted URL?The Trusted URL is simply a URL in your infrastructure that you will use to receive User ID\Key pairs. The x_target parameter that you append to your API calls must match this value in order for authentication to proceed. You…