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Thought Leadership
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Accessibility
Accessibility category serves as a single point of access to three avenues in Brightspace Community leading to the Accessibility Academy, Accessibility Library and Accessibility Discussions. These avenues offer courses and articles about accessibility to enhance accessibility knowledge and a group of accessibility enthusiasts to stay connected with.
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Release Notes
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Discussion List
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How to update the Fav Icon
I could not find any documentation on updating the Fav Icon, and there is not a place to upload one (that I could find). Where can this be done? We want our customers to have a consistant experience, and easily find the tab in their browswer with our content on it.
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Exclude employees from a learning group
Is there any way to include exclusions (not equal to) in a learning group membership. I am creating a learning group to auto-enroll all employees except for a few roles. to only include ALL the other roles would be cumbersome and open to missing some. But I cannot see a not equal to option.
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Cropping image function
I have an issue cropping images within Brightspace. It starts zoomed in very closely to the image, and I am unable to zoom out so I can crop the image i.e. the zoom out button doesn't work. Has anyone had this issue or can identify why this is happening to me? Thanks
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Call for more diverse quiz question types and improved workflows to create them
Hi Folks, I am hoping to encourage BrightSpace Community members to support calls for improvements to the BrightSpace quiz tool; specifically more diverse question types and more intuitive workflows to create them. Because, while the recently released D2L Road Map shows planned changes to "big picture" quiz creation (i.e.…
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Which data set shows user access by device?
I am trying to detect how many users access learning on the phone.
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Survey Results by Participant?
Hello! Is there an option to run a survey report that shows who completed a survey and who has not? We want to be able to follow up with participants who have not completed our course surveys and we are looking for a report we can eaily run to show us this information. I know we can go into Class Progress or Class List,…
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Where can we see information about "Extensibility: Corporate Systems Integrations?"
On there's a reference that they're going to add Extensibility: Corporate Systems Integrations. Is there anywhere we can see information about what this entails? (E.g. a PIE, or article.) Or do we just have to wait with giddy excitement? 😀
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How can admins earn awards?
Our Instructional Design department has an intiative to take each others' courses and get the associated certification badges. For the Instructional Designers, I've flipped them into a Participant role so they can go through the exam, pass, etc. But for those of us with admin access, is there a way to trigger the badge?…
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Can unreleased content appear in "Content Completed" under Class Progress denominator?
I have over 200 pages of content in one of my courses. I have release conditions set up so that each module (about 10 content pages) is only released depending on the learners' completion of the previous module. In Class Progress, the denominator only shows how many pages are currently available to the learner. So they may…
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Is there a way to perform a bulk update of usernames?
We are integrating Brightspace with Okta, and I need to change the user names of roughly 350 users to their email addresses in both our Production and Test environments. I tried to use the Bulk Update tool, but it doesn't appear that it will support a user name change (there's no way I could find to indicate what the new…
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How can I add voiceover to a module?
I'm not sure if there is a way to add voiceover in a course. Would I create a PowerPoint slide and add it there? And related, how do I embed a PowerPoint into a course without having to click a link to open the PowerPoint (ie the PP deck is already displayed ready to flip to each slide?)
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