Portflow Installation on Brightspace (D2L) - via Apps

Last updated: July 13, 2026

This installation guide is intended for use with the new App experience. For the manual installation guide, click here.

Currently, only EU hosting is available via this route.

For this installation, Administrator or Super Administrator permissions in Brightspace at the Organization level are required.

This manual describes the installation, the information that is required by Drieam to complete the installation, and the strongly recommended adjustments to Brightspace for an optimal experience of Portflow.

Installation

I. Install the App

  1. Go to Admin Tools → Manage extensibility → Apps

  2. Find and open Portflow

  3. Click Install

  4. Review the data access and click Allow and Install

  5. Under Make tool available to, add the Organization and All descendants 

    (even if it will be just available to 1 department)

  6. Click Continue

  7. Copy all registration details and send them over to Drieam.
    See the full list of required details at the below step III.

  8. Click Done

  9. Enable the Deployment: toggle Disabled to Enabled

II. Create an OAuth App

  1. Go to Admin Tools → Manage Extensibility → OAuth 2.0

  2. Click Register an app

  3. Fill out the fields

    1. Application name: Portflow

    2. Redirect URI:
      🇪🇺 EU Hosting 
      https://app.portflow.app/lti/oauth2/callback
      🇦🇺 AU Hosting 
      https://au.portflow.app/lti/oauth2/callback

    3. Scope: core:*:*

  4. Accept the terms 

  5. Click Register

  6. Communicate the Client ID and Client Secret with Drieam
    See the full list of required details below step III.

III. Add Portflow to the nav bar

Make Portflow available to your users. As Portflow is a course-overarching app, we encourage adding Portflow to all used nav bars, including the homepage navbar.

  1. Go to Admin Tools → Navigation & Themes → Custom Links

  2. Click Create Link

  3. Name: Portflow
    Or any other name. It is also possible to add emoji, or symbols like ⎈.

  4. URL: Insert Quicklink → External Learning Tools → Portflow Launch

  5. Copy the generated URL (e.g. /d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou={orgUnitId}&type=lti&rcode=XXXX&srcou=6606&launchFramed=1&framedName=Portflow) and communicate it with Drieam.

  6. Behaviour: Same Window

  7. Description: Access your portfolio

  8. Icon: e.g., the icon available at Drieam

  9. Availability: select Share with child org units

  10. Click Save

  11. Go to Navbars

  12. Open the desired Navbar and add the link via Add Links → select Portflow.

  13. Click Save and Close

Information to Send to Drieam

Please send the following information from the steps above to support@drieam.com. We recommend using a secure transfer service (e.g. SURF FileSender, 1Password or other secure tool).

  1. Registration details (step I)

    • Client ID

    • Deployment ID

    • Brightspace Keyset URL

    • Brightspace OAuth2 Access Token URL

    • OpenID Connect Authentication URL

    • Brightspace OAuth2 Audience

    • Issuer

    • Instance URL: the ("vanity") URL users will access Brightspace from

  2. OAuth app details (step II) 

    • Client ID

    • Client Secret

  3. Nav bar Quicklink URL (step III)
    This is the URL you see when Portflow has been opened from the navigation menu.

  4. Default language and optionally secondary language(s) — see below.

🌐 Available languages in Portflow

The default language for Portflow has to be set by Drieam. This is the language that will be shown to users who have their Brightspace account set to any language other than the supported languages. Let Drieam know what your primary (default) language and secondary language(s) should be. This cannot be changed.

Portflow currently supports the following languages:

  • English

  • Dutch (Nederlands)

  • Catalan (Català)

  • Danish (Dansk)

  • French (Français)

  • German (Deutsch)

  • Irish (Gaeilge)

  • Italian (Italianio)

  • Norwegian bokmål (Norsk bokmål)

  • Spanish (Español)

  • Swedish (Svenska)


Recommended Adjustments to Brightspace

Adust these settings in Brightspace for an optimal experience with Portflow.

A. Adjust assignment end date settings

This will make sure students can import their submissions into Portflow after the deadline has passed.

  1. Navigate to Config Variable Browser → Tools → Dropbox → EndDateDefaultType

  2. At Override values, choose visible with submission restricted for the Org unit which will use Portflow.  

    If you choose 'visible with access restricted' or 'hidden', students are not able to import their submitted assignments into Portflow once the deadline has passed.

  3. Click Save

B. Adjust email access

This will make it possible to send email notifications to users that have not yet launched Portflow, e.g. when distributing Portflow templates.

  1. Navigate to Config Variable Browser → Tools → Classlist → DisplayEmail

  2. At Override values, choose On for the Org unit (e.g. 6606) which will use Portflow.

  3. Click Save

C. OpenBadges Support

Brightspace includes support for OpenBadges compatible badges, but this is not enabled by default. For Portflow to be able to embed badges issued in Brightspace, a configuration needs to be changed in Brightspace. Follow these steps to enable this feature in Brightspace.

  1. Navigate to Config Variable Browser → Tools → Awards → DigitalCredentialSharingEnabled

  2. Set the Org Value to On

  3. Click Save