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Updates to Course Management
Written By: Andrew Ko, Product Manager Important update: Extended adoption period to transition from Course Management to Courses tool In the February 2025/20.25.02 release, we introduced the new Courses tool to test environments only of Brightspace only. We will introduce Courses to production environments of Brightspace…
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Lumi Chat in the Approved Support Contact (ASC) portal
Introduction We are excited to share that we are releasing the powerful capabilities of Lumi Chat in the ASC Support Portal in February 2025! The Approved Support Contact (ASC) Support Portal An Approved Support Contact (ASC) can log in to Brightspace Community and access the ASC Support Portal to create and manage support…
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Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 10
Our goal is to provide our customers with data access in a performant, complete, and understandable way. This means we need to periodically have major version releases for Brightspace Data Sets (BDS). In addition to making some major changes, we also made some minor changes, such as introducing new columns. In the upcoming…
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Link Path Detection within Brightspace Editor
By: Elaine Jones, Product Manager Overview In our October 20.24.10 release we introduced a new configuration variable, d2l.Tools.WYSIWYG.LinkPathDetection for Brightspace Editor. This configuration variable, when enabled, displays warnings to users who are creating or editing HTML content where the URLs to objects (such…
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A Guide to Coaching Students for Effective Peer Review
Written by Lynsey Duncan, Senior Instructional Designer, Learning and Creative Services Peer review can be a very useful and helpful tool to use in your class… when done correctly. Too often, learners don’t know how to be an effective peer reviewer, and therefore the value of the whole activity is lost. Do you want to…
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Release of the New Quiz Evaluation Experience
By: Monica Gaertner, Product Manager The new Quiz Evaluation experience was released in the September 2024/20.24.9 release of Brightspace. The new experience provides an updated look and feel to your grading workflow with a focus on optimizing instructor productivity by making the quiz evaluation experience easier to use.…
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New Configuration Variable for Advanced Assessments
Written by: Jackie Guan, Product Manager, D2L. Advanced Assessments (AA) is a set of features that enable instructors and admins to create and evaluate assignments with one or more instructors, manage instructor workflows with delegation, and restrict which instructors in the course can publish evaluations. These features…
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Transforming Creator+ Practices to Data-Enabled Practice Activities
By Kathleen Murphy, Senior Product Manager Creator+ What Get ready for an exciting upgrade! With the release of Data-Enabled Practices, we're transforming the way you work. The D2L Transition Services team is on a mission to revamp all legacy Creator+ Practices, turning them into dynamic, data-enabled Creator+ Practice…
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D2L Lumi for Creator+ Practice Generation Overview
Written by: Joseph Chapman, Group Product Manager, D2L. AI capabilities are now part of Creator+ as of the July 2024/20.24.7 release. D2L Lumi for Creator+ provides a new streamlined creation workflow for Practices. Key features in 20.24.7 include: Leverage D2L Lumi to create Practice types: Dropdown Fill in the Blanks,…
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D2L Lumi Pro for Brightspace Idea Generation for Discussions Overview
Written by: Joseph Chapman, Group Product Manager, D2L. Course creators and educators can accelerate the creation process when building new or uplifting existing discussions with idea recommendations powered by D2L Lumi. AI-generated ideas are inspired by Brightspace content to help ensure timeliness and relevancy. Key…