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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…
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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
To create a certificate with editable form fields which include replace strings, you will require PDF editing software such as Adobe Pro. The Certificate can begin as a word document or PowerPoint which you save as a PDF. Do one of the following: If you need to add blank spaces prepared as a field for a name or date to…