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I am in the process of trying to migrate in-person labs from a college classroom into D2L. Unfortunately, D2L's lack of the abilities listed above makes it almost unusable for this purpose. This is a shame, because it is so close to being able to do what it needs to do. I would suggest that the best way to accomplish this is to define variables at the start of a quiz and use them across all questions in the quiz. D2L's variable creation functions are entirely adequate for my needs. I just need to be able to ask multiple questions about the same variables in order to drive deeper learning. This is necessary for D2L quizzes to have real math/physics functionality. This might force me to define large numbers of variables - but I can work with that. For example, I might ask 4 series of questions, and define x1, y1, z,1, x2, y2, z2, x3 ... and z4. I could then create series of questions using my predefined variables.

From a computer programmer's vocabulary, D2L defines variables that are local to the question only. It needs to define global variables for an entire quiz.

Like the original poster, I would love to see the ability to use functions to define variables - but this is not as important to me as the need for global variables within a quiz. I would also like the ability to use a student's previous answer to calculate follow-up answers to other questions, as this would allow me to adjust follow-up answers for incorrect previous answers. This would probably involve a check box that if checked, stored the value the student gave into a variable which would otherwise be defined by the answer that D2L calculated.

Finally, I have noticed that when I allow students to retake quizzes with arithmetic questions and I have selected "re-answer only the incorrect questions," D2L is not re-assigning new random values to the variables. This behavior should be documented. Ideally, I should have the choice of reassigning new values for each retake attempt or asking D2L to keep the old values as it currently does.

I know this is probably silly for me to bother asking. I have yet to see D2L actually respond to genuine feature requests - but who knows. Maybe I'll get lucky!

Hi! There is a delay in typing when using the sticky note feature when annotating assessments in Dropbox. In particular, once the sticky note is opened and I start typing, the cursor moves back to the beginning of the word or sentence a second later. It is a slight delay but frustrating as it often requires retyping each sticky note for each student (and there may be multiple sticky notes for each!). I have resorted to using more text comments; however, this is not always possible when annotating between lines, etc. Please advise any solution you might have. Thanks!

Hi @Judit.T.2921 - thanks for reaching out to Brightspace Community!

Since there is another thread on the Developers Group with a similar question, we will close this thread to avoid duplication. Please refer below for your latest response :)

Thank you!