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Learners missing the "launch unit" button?
I'm curious how everyone else teaches their users how to navigate courses.
Our courses all have a Widget based homepage with a Visual Table of Contents. Sometimes learners somehow get stuck on the Content page. I've received feedback that they don't realize that, in order to read the info in the Unit/Lesson page, they have to click the Launch Unit/Launch Lesson button.
Instead the learners click on the unit names themselves (highlighted in green). This expands the lesson, but then they have to click on the Launch Unit/Lesson button in order to open the main unit/lesson page.
- Does anyone have recommended language/lessons/teaching to guide people to click the Launch Unit/Lesson button?
- I've submitted a PIE to suggest alternative UX options that might work.
Re: edit comment on assignment submission issue?
Hi Charmaine - this doesn't sound right. I see a couple of recent issues reported with the Annotations Viewer, but not this one. Can you please contact support to open a case?
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.
How can I add a punitive column in Brightspace with no weight value?
0 absences: 3 points are added to the final grade
1 absence: 2 points are added to the final grade
2 absences: 1 point is added to the final grade
3 absences: 0 points are added to the final grade
4 absences: 5 points are deducted from the final grade
5 absences: 10 points are deducted from the final grade
etc.
In Blackboard I was able to create a new grade column that took a student's current grade and added it to another column that had a positive or negative number in it which showed a student their actual grade. I named the column FINAL GRADE and students were able to see their actual current grade which included attendance points. Quite simple, a few clicks and done.
In Brightspace I am being told I need to come up with a complex formula that I must add my grade items to along with each of their overall percentages and try to get that to combine with the negative column (which does not compute because of a 0 weight). This will not work for me as some semesters have more or fewer projects, tests, etc. (gradable items with different percentages) than others which means I would have to redo the complex formula each semester. It also does not work because it relies on all 100 points to be available to take off the proper amount - students will not see their actual grade throughout the semester . . . which is what is happening now.
Any help would be appreciated - thank you in advance!
Re: I can't access PIE
Hi Mark! Please send an email to questions@community.d2l.com and our Community team can take a closer look at what might be going on with your access. Thank you!
Opening a Powerpoint presentation without download
Is there a way to have a Powerpoint open directly in Brightspace as a Powerpoint (not PDF) without a required download? For Powerpoints with animations, a PDF doesn't work and having to download creates an extra step for students.
quizzes need to be assignable to groups
This is fundamental to group active learning. A group of students should be able to open a quiz assigned to them as a group, work on it together, submit it, and then have the grade be assigned to all members of a group. The labor involved in having to assign the quiz grade, when one group member submits it, to all the other group members is large (we have 720 students working in groups of 4).
