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D2L's New Beta Program Announced!
First off, what is the new Beta Program? The new Beta Program at D2L is a new name for the (historically known) Dev Pilot and Early Access Programs for D2L's early-stage product releases. This new program is a result of efforts to increase clarity in our naming conventions for product releases while also adding structure…
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Keeping on top of Brightspace Data Sets updates
Written by: Monica Gaertner, Product Manager I have heard from some clients that keeping on top of Brightspace Data Set (BDS) updates can be challenging. You need to go through both the Release Notes and the Product and Services Preview to find the updates specific to Data Hub. Additionally, sometimes the people who are…
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Update to Survey Brightspace Data Sets
By: Natalie Deane, Senior Product Manager Removal of Survey Question Answer Options While performing some infrastructure updates and improvements we undertook a review of the existing Survey Brightspace Data Sets (BDS). During this review it became clear that the Survey Question Answer Options BDS is not providing value…
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Intent to End of Life Notice: Hosted Homepage Widget Expansion Pack
By: Kathleen Murphy, Manager, Learning Solutions UPDATE End of Life Date: December 2024 release Several widgets that were once custom hosted widgets will now be available within Brightspace as system widgets for purchase as a part of the Homepage Widget Expansion Pack. If clients have already purchased these system…
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Introducing New Display Pages for Assessable Activities in New Content Experience
By: Ed Vannatter, Senior Product Manager; Stefano Nicoli, Senior Product Manager; Susan Kleisath, Product Manager Introduction Brightspace assessable activities inside the New Content Experience (NCE) are getting an exciting makeover! These new pages will be available for Assignments, Quizzes, Discussion Topics, and…
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Insights Report Builder – Visualization Infrastructure Upgrade
Written by: Sagar Warghade, Senior Product Manager In the contemporary landscape of data-driven practices, educational institutions and organizational Learning and Development (L&D) teams heavily depend on learning analytics to extract essential insights to help facilitate well-informed decision-making. At D2L, we…
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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…
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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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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 4 different controls and 4 different workflows to switch visibility. There are now numerous changes…
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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 supports user registration, SSO through to Brightspace, custom catalogs, multiple…