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Improved table sorting enhances accessibility and usability in Brightspace
This article complements the announcement in our March 2025/20.25.03 release notes about the accessibility and usability enhancements to complex sorting in tables. It serves as a reference about this feature until full documentation becomes available in Brightspace Community on 1 May 2025. This update maintains the…
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Learning Accelerators, Teams Assignments Generally Available for D2L Brightspace
We are pleased to announce general availability of the Teams Assignments integration for D2L Brightspace. Brightspace is the latest Learning Management System to move to GA with this powerful integration, with more on the way. The Teams Assignments integration brings the power of Microsoft Learning Accelerators and…
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Updating Analytics Builder for Brightspace Data Sets Major Versions
Analytics Builder empowers users to explore and visualize their Brightspace data effortlessly. With built-in data pipeline management, you can focus on gaining insights rather than handling data complexity. It enables you to analyze key learning metrics and create custom visualizations without worrying about version…
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Improving groups with increased enrollment limits
By: Elaine Jones, Product Manager Introduction Within Brightspace, our Groups tool allows for a maximum of 200 users to be enrolled into a single group within a category. We have heard from many of you through in-person conversations and ideas on our Product Idea Exchange that this limitation is too restrictive, and with…
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Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Sets Major Versions
Insights Report Builder allows you to create and personalize reports and dashboards using data from Brightspace Data Sets (BDS). As the BDS evolve and change over time, you can take advantage of these enhancements. Be aware that any changes to BDS will impact Insights Report Builder. Refer to Impact of Minor & Major…
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D2L's Course Package Translation Service (CPTS)
What is CPTS? D2L’s Course Package Translation Service (CPTS) simplifies the process of translating and localizing Brightspace course content. Whether you want to connect with new markets or better serve your existing learners, CPTS is designed to save time, ensure quality, and deliver impactful learning experiences in any…
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Updates to Course Management
Written By: Andrew Ko, Product Manager Important update regarding Courses tool configuration variables and Form Elements As of the June 2025/20.25.06 release new Courses configuration variables were introduced to control Department and Semester requirements in the Course creation process. The new Courses tool configuration…
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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…