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Brightspace API Authentication Guide - OAuth 2.0
The Brightspace API provides developers with two Authentication approaches: OAuth 2.0 and our own proprietary Id Key Auth. This Authentication Guide focuses on OAuth 2.0. Please note that we encourage you to use the OAuth 2.0 standard as that is where we at D2L are investing. OAuth 2.0 OAuth 2.0 is an open standard…
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Changes to the Group Category creation API workflow
In our April 2022 release, we made some changes to groups to address issues with timeouts while groups were being created within Brightspace. The changes we made meant that the creation of group categories, their child groups and any enrollments are now processed by a background task ensuring that groups are always created…
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Getting Started with Brightspace API Automation
Brightspace API is available to all D2L customers and partners running Brightspace Core. Brightspace API Automation is a series of free, self-serve resources and tools that enable your organization to automate processes and quickly solve problems using the API. Accessible API Automation is based on Postman, a powerful,…
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Using Postman with the Brightspace API
Originally published February 20, 2019 Note that Postman is a third-party development tool. D2L recommends that you assess Postman's fit within your organization prior to using it. D2L and Integration Standards At D2L we have and will continue to be strong supporters of integration standards. In late 2016 we added OAuth…
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Course Copy and LTI - FAQs
Question: If I'm copying an existing course with content to another course, will the child course (copied course) contain the reference of the parent course Id when passed in an LTI request or is there another way I can get the parent context_id? Answer originally posted on 4/21/2014 in the ValenceUsers forum by Viktor…