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Re: Brightspace username cannot have a ' in - has anyone got around this when creating accounts via API?
@Christina.T.727 Hi Christina,
Thank you for reaching out to us on the Community site.
Currently, the Username field while creating a new user account does not support adding apostrophes.
I can see that you have already placed your comment and upvoted the below feature request,
{
Allow Special Characters in Username (Bring back the ') (D10021)
Direct link:
}
Regards,
Nik
Re: import zip file/set default Content settings font & size
Hi - This default font setting is for pages created within Brightspace. Changing it won't change any existing or imported pages.
Re: Have only 6 out of 11 grade items count towards a grade
@Dalyn.L.374, in that case, you'd want to have the Grade Category set to not drop anything initially, then later in the course when you'd reach the number of items that Learners would start having items drop, then add the dropping number in. Utilizing more complex grading formats is always going to come with some trade-offs. Either,
- you can setup the # to drop at the start of/before the course begins, which you'd have to direct Learners that some of their grades aren't counting yet because you are going to drop some. You could also just utilize the Treat Ungraded Items as 0 setting or begin the course with Learners having 0s in just those items right away, but that creates another communication challenge
OR - add the dropping setting in at a later time, but then you'll have to remember to go back in and add that (and communicate with Learners accordingly when you do).
Or some other method entirely. What can help is utilizing the Display final grade calculation to users setting, but that can be confusing to read with more complex grading schemes.
If you believe that this may confuse your learners either way, I'd suggest not releasing the Final Calculated Grade or Final Adjusted Grade until later in your course when those droppings may occur. Or utilize a Calculated of Formula grade item to manually control which grade items are counting/not for a running total.
-Johnny
D2L LAM
Re: Have only 6 out of 11 grade items count towards a grade
@Dalyn.L.374 You'd probably either have to wait until 6 items were graded before changing the category setting to drop the 5 lowest grades or you'd have to manually enter 0's for 5 of the ungraded items to ensure those are the ones that are dropped (if your grade book is set to exclude ungraded items).
Re: Where are student submissions after a course merge occurs stored?
Hello,
I am assuming by your question that the students have submitted assignments prior to the course being merged with another course. You are correct that those submissions will not follow them when the course is merged. You can still view the submissions if you have access to the course.
If you view the Classlist of the course offering the students previously existed in before they were merged into the other course offering, it should be empty. However, you can click on Enrollment Statistics.
On the bottom of that page, you should see a section called Withdrawals where all the students that existed in that offering previously will be listed. Click the chevron next to a student's name, and select View Grades.
From there, you will be able to see all the grades, assignments, quizzes, etc., along with their submission files.
Let me know if that helps!
Best,
Andrea
Re: The Scheduler tool
@Len.D.3513 You'll need to click the link to the Product Idea Exchange over in the sidebar on this site first, and let it log you in, before you click any direct links to individual PIE items.
Re: Creating a quicklink to a content module
@clara.james@minneapolis.edu Instead of clicking on the title of a content item within a module, click the little plus icon above the pencil icons. That will create a link to the module.
Re: Updates to sources
Hi @Lynda.W.602
This is a really interesting question and I think there are likely different approaches depending on your own place of teaching and learning.
In our D2L Brightspace Learning Center, we take a similar approach to annual review.
However, while most of our courses tend to reference our own documentation via links - we don't tend to keep a separate page of references per module/course that uses an MLA style of citation which might include date of publication of the resource and date of access.
For us, the rationale here tends to be that we know our documentation is updated monthly with each release cycle. So, while we'll do a deeper level review of links etc. each year to ensure folks don't see broken links, we hope the link itself helps to connect folks to the most recent version of a doc vs. something that might be hard coded and then become out of date quickly.
Re: WooCommerce to D2L
Hi Kevin,
We have APIs that support the creation of the user, enrolment of the user into a course offering, enrolment of the user into a group. As a starting point see the Developer resources available at &
If you are familiar with Postman we also have a Brightspace Postman collection available in GitHub, see Brightspace · GitHub
Other tools you may be interested in are: Bulk User Management and
Hope that helps!
