Product blogs
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Brightspace Virtual Assistant Pilot
Interested in piloting the Brightspace Virtual Assistant in your learning environment for 2 months? If so, you’re in luck! During this period, your end users can: Interact with client-specific pre-mapped answers for frequently asked questions unrelated to Brightspace (ex. Financial Aid, Enrollment Questions, etc.) Get…
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Insights Report Builder and Brightspace Data Sets Major Version 8
By: Sagar Warghade, Senior Product Manager We introduced a new major Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) Version 8 in the 20.23.01 January release. We have since provided a 6-month adoption period for major changes per the change management policy, and now in the 20.23.07 July release, BDS Version 8 is set as the default version.…
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FAQ: SIS Course Merge tool
By: Lavniet Dhillon, Product Manager This FAQ provides answers to common queries and clarifications regarding the functionality, usage, and best practices of the SIS Course Merge tool. Whether you're a new user or seeking additional guidance, this FAQ addresses concerns and can help you make the most of this powerful tool…
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Streamline your course management with the new SIS Course Merge tool
By: Lavniet Dhillon, Product Manager We are excited to introduce our latest addition to the Brightspace product suite: the SIS Course Merge tool. Designed to enhance course management efficiency and simplify content delivery, this tool offers a seamless solution for merging multiple courses into a single, organized course…
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SIS Course Merge: Review and Transition plan for customers
By: Lavniet Dhillon, Product Manager Introducing SIS Course Merge Brightspace administrators who use Integration Packs for Student Information Systems (IPSIS) source systems currently manage courses and users with the IPSIS Section Association tool. This tool allows administrators to efficiently transfer sections to new or…
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Character Limitations within Brightspace
Written By: Elaine Jones, Product Manager D2L has been introducing character limitations to various fields within Brightspace over the last few years. While a previous blog post in 2021 introduced these changes, we wanted to provide an update on this work and to give an overview of recent changes. Figure: Example error…
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Standardization of Data Types in Brightspace Data Sets Documentation
by Mark Tse, Senior Software Developer, Platform Development D2L originally published Aug 13, 2020 As part of our documentation improvements, we plan to align all column data types in our Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) documentation and ERD diagrams to SQL Server data types in 20.20.10. This should help provide a more…
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Deciding Between Using Quizzes, Surveys or Self Assessments
originally published 24 March 2018 D2L offers a variety of formative and summative assessment tools, deciding which one to use is often seen as a challenge. This effective practice can help you make that decision. Quizzes Surveys Self-Assessments Feedback for learner Feedback is released based on setup of quiz by…
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Changes to your LTI Data Sets
LTI Links Shared Data Set Removal The LTI Links Shared data set will be removed with no plans to replace the data set. This data set lists the parent Org Unit(s) that a link is shared with and can be used within the organization. LTI Links can be shared explicitly with an org unit or be shared with an org unit’s…
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IPSIS - D2L Standard CSV Error Troubleshooting Guide
This document lists common log messages that can be received when beginning to develop D2L Standard CSV files or while continuing the administration of D2L Standard CSV after you have gone live with the integration. Note: This is not comprehensive for all possible log messages. More logs will be added to this listing as…