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It's mind-boggling that in 2025 D2L doesn't do this automatically like literally every other grading platform out there. The fact that we teachers need to waste a huge amount of our time resorting to complex, labor-intensive processes just to calculate an attendance grade is inexcusable for a major educational platform.

Hi Natasja,

Thank you for reaching out to us through the community!

Currently, the assignment submission completion notification email that instructors receive only includes the submission ID, course offering details, assignment information, and user details. It does not include a direct link to the user’s submission, and the terms are currently configured in the form of Text.

We have identified this as a feature request. We kindly ask that you submit this idea through the Product Idea Exchange so it can be reviewed by the product team.

We look forward to seeing your suggestion in the Product Idea Exchange.

Thank you.

Sreelakshmi

We are K-12 and had the same question. I was directed to this discussion when I submitted a ticket. I'll share here what I responded in my ticket in hopes that D2L will reconsider this change.

None of these suggestions brings the ease of navigation up to what it was prior to last month. Using the mouse wheel is not standard behavior at our institution, and I can't even confirm that all of our mice even have a scroll wheel. Our teachers' typical workflow involves adding grades for all students to a single assignment, so reducing the number of students showing in the gradebook doesn't really address this particular pain point. Hiding/showing columns is one strategy that we've shared, but even hiding items that are not in the current unit will not reduce the list enough to make specific items easy to find. With no visual indicator of hidden columns, I can foresee that teachers will easily lose track of which items they have hidden, which will create a new source of frustration.

CTRL+F is a universal functionality in practically every browser and program that people use. Disabling/diminishing this functionality is not a positive; we would definitely like to see this functionality restored, even if it means reversing course on the February update. I don't think our teachers have found much added value even if CTRL+F wasn't an issue.

Basically, same request as this one but with a link, rather than a page- I want 1 link to manage, appearing in multiple modules.

While I'm at it, maybe should be a separate question, but what is the point of the links created in the Course Admin>Links tool discussed here in the guide? It says we can use these links in the "insert stuff" tool in the editor (guide), but that doesn't really seem to work, or at least, not well in my environment; one of the links I have is cumbersome but addable, while others are completely invisible in the "insert stuff" dialog.

I would think that creating/managing links here would (also? Instead?) allow insert in a module under "existing activities", but that's not available, either. Being able to copy/paste/duplicate an existing link to another space in course builder would be another route to accomplishing my desired outcome. I'm certain there are others…

Thank you for looking.

I appreciate any pointers.