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Hi,

The view statistics option for grade items is a useful feature. However, at our university we have a demo student account (and often other test accounts or similar) that need to be excluded from any final statistics. Is there a simple way to exclude the data from test accounts? Our demo account is automatically enrolled in groups and sections too so we cannot use those to filter.

For example, in the screenshot below, there are 46 enrolled students and 1 demo account. The demo account data is contributing to the Class Statistics data. The final calculated grade statistic remains the same when I exclude the demo student account from all assessments. If I delete any assessment grades from the demo student, the minimum changes to 0 (image 2).

Am I missing something obvious?

When students have a text submission for their assessment, they have access to the Insert Stuff tool. I'd like to know how I can restrict certain integrations/plugins available via Insert Stuff. Specifically, I'd like to ensure that they can only access Panopto Student Submission via Insert Stuff.

Hello @Andy.F.437

Yes, that’s correct. The suggested change will impact the current configuration and workflow, but only temporarily—until the section/group unenrollment's have been processed. Once the unenrollments are processed, you can revert the changes made to the form elements.

I hope it helps!

Regards,

Bharti

Hi there!

Thanks for bringing this great question to the Brightspace Community. My name is Owen and I'm happy to assist with this quotation mark issue.

This has to do with the fact that Microsoft Word uses smart quotes (those rounded ones) which indicate the quotation mark's position in a sentence, whereas .csv files automatically convert to straight and positionally-neutral quotation marks.

Here is an article on how to turn off smart quotes in Word to circumvent this issue!

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/smart-quotes-in-word-and-powerpoint-702fc92e-b723-4e3d-b2cc-71dedaf2f343

To ensure the quotes are read in correctly, they should be in the straight form, as automatically present in .csv files.

Cheers!

Owen

I'll try to answer your question in 2 parts.

First "Why are the Quotation marks in Microsoft Word different from the one in .csv?"

This has to do with the fact that standard keyboard layouts only have 1 "quotation mark" key. When you type a quotation mark, it show up as a "straight quote", however that doesn't look as nice in print as traditional "curly quotes". At some point Word starting using "SmartQuotes" where straight quotes were auto-replaced with curly quotes, based on the position when typed. Since Word is for "print", and Excel is for data that's why the quotes are different. Every variation of single/double quote as straight or right/left is technically a separate character.

Second "And is there any advice for me to ensure that the quotation marks copied into excel gets read properly in Brightspace?"

If you're running into issues with smartquotes not being set as straight quotes (this also can apply to apostrophes), I recommend that you open the .CSV file in a text editor like Notepad++ and do a find/replace. You can copy a curly quote character, paste it into the "Find" field, and simply type a straight quote in the replace field. You'll need do it once for right curly quotes, and once for left curly quote, and (possibly) once for apostrophes. It only takes a few seconds each, so much better than trying to do it one-by-one.

I'm sure there's probably a way to build an Excel macro to do this, but using a text editor is really straight-forward.

Hope that helps!

Hi @Philip.W.864,

Thanks for the follow up. The permission Competencies > "Can See Competencies" must be enabled at the course offering level for users to see rubrics in general - across all tools.

We hope this helps and please feel welcome to reach out with more questions!

Best regards

Miguel.

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