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Deciding Between Using Manage Files, Public Files, or LOR
Originally published August 8, 2019 Updated June 1, 2022 D2L offers three ways to store and share files within your course or organization: Manage Files, Public Files, or Learning Object Repository (LOR). Deciding which tool to use is often seen as a challenge. This effective practice can help you make that decision.…
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Extending The Engagement Dashboard With The New Learner Engagement Dashboard
Originally published 14 July 2021 With the introduction of the new Engagement Dashboard and some of the great additional updates to it since its launch, we would like to introduce to you the New Learner Engagement Dashboard. As an extension of the Engagement Dashboard, the new Learner Engagement Dashboard provides you with…
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Understanding How Student Success System Works
Originally published 2 January 2020 What is Student Success System (S3)? Student Success System is an Early Intervention System that empowers institutions with predictive analytics to improve student success, retention, completion, and graduation rates. Student Success System can measure student performance starting from…
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Common Reporting Questions For All Data Comfort Levels Using Data Hub
Originally published March 27, 2020 There are many ways to get answers to common reporting questions via Data Hub. Here we have organized some ways to get your answers into three categories based on your familiarity with Brightspace Data and tools and experience working with data in general. You may find that you may need…
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Brightspace Data Sets Vs Advanced Data Sets
By Megan Walker, Product Manager, Data and Analytics, Product Management Originally published July 11, 2019 What’s the Difference between Advanced and Brightspace Data Sets? We often get asked the difference between Advanced Data Sets and Brightspace Data Sets. They each have their time and place so below is a description…
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Mail Exchanger (MX) Records Requirements
As part of the alignment to industry standards, depending on the type of mail being used, you might be required to maintain several additional DNS records. One of the following scenarios might apply to your organization: Scenario 1: Client uses D2L mail domain D2L handles the creation and management of the required email…
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Getting Started with Data: Metrics for Success and Data-driven decision making
Originally published February 15, 2019. Are you looking at your data? Do you know what data you have access to from your Brightspace learning environment? Do you know what decisions you could be (should be) making based on this data? The answer that I hear to at least one of these questions often is ‘No’. So, let’s take a…
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Microsoft Teams Meetings
Microsoft Teams Meetings Today we’re announcing an integration with Microsoft® Teams Meetings. We’ve heard from our users across the globe about the importance of staying connected and being able to collaborate virtually. Now users with Microsoft accounts can create, schedule, and share Teams Meetings from within…
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Welcome to Discover
Welcome to Discover, Brightspace’s internal course discovery and self-registration tool. The purpose of this blog is to provide you with an overview of recent improvements to Discover and show you some exciting previews of what we have planned for future releases. Review the following headings to learn about what new and…
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Introducing Soft-Deletes for the Brightspace Data Sets
by Amrita Thakur, Senior Product Manager, Product Management D2L Originally published 1 May 2018 Description of the Change We are now starting to introduce soft-deletes in Brightspace Data Sets. A soft-delete is defined as information that has been removed from the Brightspace Application and is no longer available in the…