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New Config Variable for Advanced Assessment

Hey Brightspace Clients, dive into our newly released pre-recorded webinar where we explore:

What are Advanced Assessment features and who is it for?
How do you create Advanced Assessment Features
What is the new config variable and how does it work with Advanced Assessment

To learn more about this exciting release, check out our blog post for Advanced Assessment for all environments of Brightspace.

Julie.L.787

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Re: Grade item different points value to MCQ

@Dererca.N.877 Yes, only the percentage is sent from the quiz to the grade book so the grade item for that student will be 4.5/5

Jennifer.W.973

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Excel Quiz Question

Is there any discussion about creating a quiz question that could have excel/spreadsheet capability. We used to in our old LMS be able to link to onedrive restricting the student by username to individual excel files but we’ve lost this in brightspace.

Sarah.M.7412

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Re: Download/export list of students with special access

@Sue.S.4 I don't think there is a way to export that list from within D2L, but if your institution has access to the Brightspace data sets (you will have to ask your IT dept/D2L admin), there is an Assignment Special Access data set.

Jennifer.W.973

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Re: Evaluating an assignment (6 points) - asked for 'overall grade' (4% weighting)

@Bart.O.6611 It's a little confusing because if you change the max points in the assignment, it will automatically update the max points in the grade item. However, if you change max points on the grade item, it will not update the max points in the assignment and they will be worth different values (which isn't too much of a problem since just the percentage gets sent from the assignment to the grade item anyway).

If you haven't graded any assignments yet, you can just change the max points in the assignment to 6 and it should be fine.

Jennifer.W.973

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Assignment Annotation Tool Issues on iPad

I use the annotation tool in Brightspace on an iPad to grade assignments. The pen tool works fine but I can no longer add typed notes. When I select the notes tool and click on the document where I'd like to insert the note, nothing happens. The text tool also isn't working in the same fashion. I have an iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 6th generation) with the most updated iPadOS version 17.6.1. I have tested this on both Chrome and Safari and have the same issue on both. And, for what it's worth, the notes tool works on a MacBook Pro, so it seems the issue may be specific to iPads.

I see that this was a known issue that was supposedly resolved (https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/26290-assignment-annotations-not-working-on-ipad), but I am still having this problem. Any help would be appreciated.

Clara.C.9438

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Re: Character Limits for "Criteria" and "Description" when creating a new award?

Hello @Kira.H.305

Thank you for reaching out to the Brightspace Community. The maximum number of characters allowed for both fields is 512.

Thank you,

Camila

Camila.A.688

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Re: Does anybody on here have first hand knowledge of importing a gradebook file into our grade book?

Oh my goodness. I want to cry. That video was amazing! Thank you for sharing it. I am in a hs though and I don't we had to do the 4.0 thing I think the scale is already built in. Will that be an issue? I have 179 students I would like to do this for. I can do many students at once right? AGAIN THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Angela.A.3462

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Re: adjusting the # of attempts for a Quiz

Hello Caroline,

If you update a quiz to add an additional attempt, it will apply to all students, including those who have already taken the quiz. Here’s how it works:

Adding Attempts:
- When you go to edit the quiz and increase the number of attempts, this change will be applied to all students. Those who have already taken the quiz will be able to access the new attempt based on the updated settings.
Existing Attempts:
- Students who have already completed the quiz will see the new attempt option as long as the quiz settings permit additional attempts. If the new configuration allows it, they will be able to start a new attempt.
Considerations:
- Make sure to communicate with your students about the update to avoid confusion.
- Check if any other settings need to be adjusted, such as attempt restrictions or availability dates, to align with your new quiz policy.

If you need any more help or have further questions, just let me know!

Best regards,

Miguel

Miguel.S.245

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Re: "You must complete the following quizzes for alerts to be enabled: Quiz Name"

Hello @Ryan.K.322 ,

Thank you for reaching out to the Brightspace Community.

If the student sees the message: You must complete the following quizzes for alerts to be enabled: {Quiz Name}, the student will be able to access the email after the quiz noted in the message has ended. While the quiz is in progress, the student's email access is disabled by the student instructor.

In the following article, you can see the information about this message in the topic "I get a "Not Authorized" error when trying to access my Email. What do I do?": https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/1755-email-others-using-the-email-tool

Please keep us posted if this information is helpful.

Kind regards,

Tauany

Tauany.S.7826

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