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Custom Hosted Widget Replacement Service
The Custom Hosted Widget Replacement Service is a feature of the Custom Hosted Widget EOL Support page. The replacement service scans the entire Brightspace site for instances of a custom hosted widget and replaces them with equivalent system widgets. This is particularly useful on sites where custom hosted widgets are…
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Brightspace ePortfolio vs Portfolio
Written By: Lindsay Malcolm, Product Marketing Specialist In the realm of online education, ePortfolios have become essential tools for showcasing student work, nurturing reflection, and facilitating meaningful learning experiences. Brightspace ePortfolio and Portfolio tools both offer seamless integration with other…
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Introducing Analytics Builder: Transforming Data into Actionable Insights
Written by: Lavniet Dhillon, Senior Product Manager We are excited to introduce Analytics Builder – the upgraded business intelligence tool in the D2L Performance+ Package . Analytics Builder empowers education leaders, corporate executives, and institutional stakeholders with critical insights into learner performance,…
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Intent to EOL Social Media Share Buttons
By: Elaine Jones, Product Manager End of Life Date: 20.24.6 What are the Social Media share buttons? Social Media share buttons appear in public Blogs, ePortfolio presentations that are externally visible, and LOR objects in public repositories. These share buttons allow users to share a URL to an object to social media…
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Classic Content vs. New Content in Brightspace: Which One Is Right for You?
Published October 2024 Originally Published October 2021 By: Catrina Ascenuik & Shayne Fogle, Instructional Designers from D2L's Learning and Creative Services team Updated by: Susan Kleisath, Product Manager D2L offers two and a half different content experiences in Brightspace. In this article, we are going to discuss…
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Creator+ Best Practice: Don’t Add Custom Code to Creator+ Assets
Written By: Kathleen Murphy, Manager, Learning Solutions Creator+ is a suite of solutions that enables all content Creators to diversify their content without applying custom code. Creator+ assets are not meant to be modified with any custom code. This means that code should not be applied to change how Creator+ Elements…
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Introducing Bulk Course Import
By: Erin White, Product Manager Introduction A fresh new tool for bulk importing course packages and content is arriving in the April (20.24.4) update! The Bulk Course Import tool provides a simplified and on-demand course import experience including a Bulk Course Import History dashboard where you can quickly and easily…
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Outcome Achievement Beta Program
Save time and effort with the introduction of expanded outcomes analytics capabilities directly with Brightspace! Beginning with the January 2024 (20.24.1) release, program administrators can pilot a new reporting option to aggregate learning outcome achievement results across courses. This functionality expands on the…
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Enhancing Consistency : Upcoming Updates to Brightspace Data Sets
As we continue to bring you new and updated Brightspace Data Sets (BDS), we are also working towards more consistency between our many BDS. You will notice a couple of changes to our Bit and DateTime columns filtering their way through to various BDS over the next several releases. We categorize these as Minor changes with…
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Leveraging Tool Level Reporting in Brightspace to Access Course Level Data
Written By: Ellie Fox, Learning Administration Manager A common challenge for administrators and instructors is finding efficient ways of accessing additional data points for reporting without spending the time to analyse Brightspace Data Sets. This article addresses the need for instructors who often require quick course…