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Brightspace Data Sets: Understanding the Differential and Full Extraction Types
Originally published November 13, 2019 Brightspace Data Sets come in two different extraction types: Differential and Full. If you are new to working with Brightspace Data Sets you may be confused about which type of data set you need to be working with, or even what the different use cases are for each type. In this post…
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Intent to End of Life Notice for: Internet Explorer Support
Originally published July 31, 2019 Key Dates and Information End of Life Date: January 1, 2020 Internet Explorer is an older generation browser from Microsoft. Edge has been the latest Microsoft browser since 2015. Internet Explorer 11, the last version of Internet Explorer, has been in ‘maintenance’ mode for Brightspace…
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Intent to End of Life Notice for: ePortfolio Mobile
Originally published March 26, 2020 End of life date: August 30, 2020 ePortfolio is the mobile app built to assist students in collecting artifacts for their ePortfolio portfolio. ePortfolio mobile has been available since 2014, with the most recent update published over a year ago. ePortfolio as a whole has been in…
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Challenging Oppressive Terminology in Software Development Practices
Originally published June 30, 2020 In the last few weeks, the anti-racism protests and movements around the world have sparked a need for action and impact in many of us. At D2L, we stand against racism and support equality and justice, always. We are using this opportunity to take an inward look at ourselves, our…
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IPSIS - Legacy CSV to D2L Standard CSV - Versions, Migrations and Capabilities
Information System Integration Updates for D2L Standard CSV About this article D2L Standard CSV is one of the many Information System Integration options that are used by our customers to typically load and manage courses, semesters, users and enrollments into Brightspace from an Information System source via a series of…
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Brightspace Data Sets – Factors That Shape Your Data
By Mark Tse, Software Developer, Platform Development D2L With the launch of Brightspace Data Sets, our data strategy has evolved to provide clients with the raw, user-level data they need to answer nuanced questions that are specific to their institution. In this article, we will explore various factors that shape your…
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Updates to the New Engagement Dashboard
What is the Engagement Dashboard in Insights? The Engagement Dashboard provides advisors, and roles interested in cross course engagement for individual learners, a tool to identify non-engaged or at-risk learners and take informed action by including a holistic view of engagement. It pulls together all the ways a learner…
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Video Note Automatic Captioning
Video Note Automatic Captioning In Brightspace Core, Video Note can automatically transcribe video note recording as they are uploaded and provide captions to videos without the need to manually create and upload a .vvt file. Updates to the user interface allow you to modify the auto-generated transcript to correct any…
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How to obtain an OAuth 2.0 Refresh Token
By Alex Bedley – September 1, 2016 Updated February 4th, 2021 Who are OAuth 2.0 refresh tokens for? This article is of interest for developers creating applications that interact with Brightspace APIs on behalf of their users. This method of authentication is only recommended if your application is headless (not…
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Retirement of the Old My Courses Widget Sort Logic
Our My Courses widget has went through many iterations and changes since our initial release of Daylight. One of our changes in 2018 was introducing a new sorting order for courses using the “UpdatedSortLogic” configuration variable, intended to better organize the courses in the My Courses widget. The updated sort logic…