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Quick Eval slow to load!
Hey everyone, I'm noticing a major slowdown with the Quick Eval tool loading. It can take 30-50 seconds to refresh, or load whenever I visit. This includes when I first load it, mark an assignment, and then return to the Quick Eval screen to go to the next assignment.
Is anyone else noticing this and what might be causing it?
Re: Sorting of questions
Hi Stephen.F.5069,
You can create multiple Sections within the library to categorize questions by type and topic, making it simpler to find questions for quizzes, surveys, and self-assessments in the future. When possible, the best practice is to create the Sections first in the Question Library, such as Names or Chapters as you suggested. Once the Sections have been created, then you can import the questions into each Section.
Unfortunately, once the questions have been imported into the Question Library, sorting them manually is not ideal, especially when sorting through thousands of questions.
Hope that makes sense.
Janet
Re: Issues with Cursor within D2L
Please fix this issue. Many of us spend a lot of time and effort posting comments and feedback in our students' work. This is a TREMENDOUS frustration and waste of time to be dealing with this bug. It was reported many months ago. Shame on Brightspace for not addressing this!
Re: Known Issues List Updates
The known issues list in the old community used to also let us know when a resolution is planned- is it possible to get that information on the spreadsheet as well? I know its on each individual issues page but there's just a lot of clicks to get to everything now it seems like.
Assignment submission not showing student annotations.
I have students submitting handwritten work on a .pdf template (saved as a .pdf). The view in the marking window in BS shows the blank template but when I download annotations the full completed .pdf becomes visible in Acrobat. Why is the student markup not showing up in the BS marking window?
Certificate
Hi team
Please note that I cant get my certificate of WHMIS even after completing it twice,
What can I do?
Thank you,
Noah
Re: How do I delete an LTI Advantage tool?
@Julian.M.724, Thank you for the message on what you did to address the issue. I still think there should be a way to remove the LTI completely. D2L has not provided a very good option to eradicate an LTI. 1.3
Re: Yikes!! "Unsubscribe from notification emails" in the March 2025/20.25.03 release notes
Definitely agree with both Melanie and Steve's comments. I understand the rationale for bringing this in and that it helps to ensure legislation (?) that allows users to unsubscribe from comms without need to log into the system. But the current solution is unworkable and likely to negatively impact students to miss important announcements because they've inadvertently unsubscribed from everything. I think discussion with the user community is definitely needed before implementing something like this.
Re: Yikes!! "Unsubscribe from notification emails" in the March 2025/20.25.03 release notes
I have very similar concerns. I could accept it if it also introduced an option in the announcements tool to also send an email regardless of notification settings, but as described in the release notes there are a lot of unintended consequences to this one. Or perhaps if it only unsubscribed from a single class of notifications - I wouldn't want somebody getting overwhelmed with new/updated content notifications accidentally also blocking announcements for example.
Yikes!! "Unsubscribe from notification emails" in the March 2025/20.25.03 release notes
If the new "Unsubscribe from notification emails" function works as described, there is going to be a faculty uprising on my campus!
Currently, faculty post critical timely announcements in Brightspace with the confidence that the information is also sent out via email. From what I understand from the release notes, if a student receives even one email notification from any course, past or current, there will be an unsubscribe link, which will disable ALL notifications from ALL notification types in ALL classes… Forever! (Or until they manually log back in to re-configure their notification settings, which isn't likely). Is this how the unsubscribe link function works? I hope I'm misinterpreting the information.
I understand that this was implemented so that "users without access to Brightspace may have continued receiving notifications" from classes they're no longer taking, but this directly impacts students currently taking classes who need important communications. In addition to announcements, this also means they'll never again receive emails reminding them of assignments due in 48 hours. Does this update also disable all notifications in Pulse?
I strongly disagree with the determination that this is a "slight impact to instructors and learners." We need the ability to enable/disable this "feature" depending on how our institutions utilize Brightspace. All of our courses are generated with end dates, which automatically stop notifications, so this isn't solving a problem - it's creating one!
Please put a pause on implementing this function until D2L receives feedback from institutions!