Brightspace offers several options for obtaining information about interactions with users.

• Reports and analytics extract information from Brightspace’s records, then process the data in various ways before delivering the results.

• Brightspace Data Streams (BDS) provides more immediate access to “raw” data. The information is still lightly processed, but it more closely approximates a direct translation from Brightspace interactions into a standard event format. This facilitates data-mining and other efforts to use “raw” events for custom applications.

Brightspace Data Streams uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store event data. BDS customers must obtain suitable AWS storage space and configure it appropriately for BDS use. Customer code for manipulating event data must also be written using AWS facilities (lambdas).

The current implementation of BDS only supports and posts a subset of the user interactions that Brightspace records. Additional events will be supported in future phases of the project. At present, event objects are only expressed in a format compatible with xAPI.

The documentation for Brightspace Data Streams assumes familiarity with basic Brightspace concepts such as OrgUnits and Tenant IDs.

Current release changes¶

Change history for the project

Support¶

Where to get support