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Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Set Major Version 9
Written by: Sagar Warghade, Senior Product Manager Insights Report Builder allows you to create and personalize your reports and dashboards using the data available within Brightspace Data Sets (BDS). As the BDS evolves and changes over time, you can take advantage of these enhancements. Any changes to BDS will impact on…
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Intent to EOL SMS Notifications
By: Megan Shuker, Group Product Manager End of Life Date: 20.24.07 What are SMS Notifications? SMS (Short Message Service) notifications allow users to subscribe to select alert bell notifications so that they are forwarded to a mobile phone number. Why are we doing this? When we originally built our SMS notifications, the…
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Intent to EOL Game Based Learning
By Megan Shuker, Group Product Manager Planned End of Life Date: 20.24.07 What is GBL? Game Based Learning (GBL) is a tool built into Brightspace that enables our Clients to create an immersive game like experience inside of Brightspace. Instructors or Course creators can create a GBL map with a sequence of activity nodes…
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Security Audit Logs without Upcharge Policy
Authored by: D2L Product Operations D2L assists all K-12 customers in responding to security questions and incidents at no additional charge. This assistance includes product and server log analysis for response to security/penetration testing, compromised user accounts, email phishing and vulnerabilities. Note that in…
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Leveraging User Attributes in Brightspace Data Set Reporting
Written by: Matt Walker, Senior Learning Administration Manager The following set of videos contains step-by-step instructions on how to download Brightspace Data Sets, unzipping and organizing the CSV files, loading the data into Excel using Power Query, and ultimately combining User Attributes data with Users data to…
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Create a Custom Certificate that uses Replace Strings
1. To create a certificate with editable form fields which include replace strings, you will require PDF editing software such as Adobe Pro. 2. Do one of the following: a. The Certificate can begin as a word document or PowerPoint which you save as a PDF. If you need to add blank spaces prepared as a field for a name or…
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Course Merchant Support
About Course Merchant Learn more about Course Merchant for course enrollment, registration, and e-commerce. Documentation and Resources Course Merchant is a shopping cart capable of integration into Brightspace™ by D2L. Course Merchant is a search-friendly and brand matched e-commerce storefront that allows anyone,…
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Activity Visibility Improvements
Originally published August 8, 2019 At D2L, we aim to improve how efficient you can be while using Brightspace. Previously, we had multiple terms to mean that an activity is not visible (inactive, draft, hidden). We also had four different controls and four different workflows to switch visibility. There are now numerous…
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Enabling Third-Party cookies on a mobile device
Why do I need to enable Third-Party cookies for Kaltura? Some users may see the following error message when trying to view the Kaltura player: "It seems your browser is blocking 3rd party session cookies required for the Kaltura application. To resolve this issue, please update your settings to allow 3rd party cookies."…
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Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 9
By: Monica Gaertner, Product Manager With the December 2023/20.23.12 release, we introduce a new major BDS version: 9 (d2l.Tools.BrightspaceDataSets.Version: 9.0). As our Brightspace Data Sets Change Management Policy indicates, we provide a 4-month adoption period for major changes because we recognize adopting major…