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Notifications on Discussion for Extended Student.
We have a professor who is needing to mark a student as Incomplete for the semester. This would give this particular student access to the course outside of the normal availability dates of the course, allowing them to submit work and things like that. My question is if this student with the extension comments on another…
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Pass/Fail Threshold
Resolved-As I was reviewing the image after I submitted the question, I noticed the coloum header said %. The person who had set this up put the point value rather than percentage. Changing the Assigned Value % to 75 resolved the p/f setting error. ========================================================= I am attempting…
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Can a lecturer set up a Virtual Classroom for someone else to open as moderator?
We have a query from lecturers who would like to set up Virtual Classrooms for someone else to open and run as the moderator. Currently the lecturer has to start the VC and hand over presenter rights before signing off. Naturally this means the lecturer has to be available at the start of the session, which can complicate…
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Assessing with Rubric not saving in Gradebook
I have a professor who has developed a rubric to assess students abilities on physical skills for their nursing program. The skills are observed in person and then documented in Brightspace to assign a grade. The items in the grade book do not actually have an assignment linked to them as they are performed in person. The…
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Notification settings for faculty
It seems to me that the list of notifications that are available for users in Brightspace are all student-applicable (such as when grades are released, etc.), but not instructor-applicable (such as when a student submits an assignment, etc.) Is there a way to enable instructor-applicable notifications? Thanks!
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Brightspace D2L Internal Messaging
Could you help me with a setting to highlight unread mail within the tool? To me, there is insufficient visual distinction between read and unread messages (either color or "boldness"), so I often inadvertently miss messages. Is there a way to make unread messages red or Bold or something that stands out more? I looked in…
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Assignment tool moves page numbers in heading to left
Viewing a students submission on Brightspace shows the page number on the left and when you download the same submission and open it in MS Word the page number is on the right. APA formatting states the page numbers should be on the right, so points would be deducted if only viewing the submission on Brightspace. I would…
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Are there any plans to fix the grade distribution plots?
For weeks now, the plots of grade distributions on the "statistics" pages in Brightspace have been broken. Are there any plans to fix them? Here is an example: They look like this both for items in Grades and for Quizzes.
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horizontal scrolling in gradebook
How do I keep the email checkboxes on the extreme left side visible when scrolling to the right in the gradebook?
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Shared Kaltura library videos issue
Has anyone else experienced an issue with accessing the Kaltura (insert media) feature to embed videos within their D2L instance directly with and using the instructor role? Until recently my coworker a sys admin could impersonate an instructor and access My Media and perform tasks normally. When users try to access My…
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Student Answers in Dropbox PDF Disappear?
I am working with a math instructor who uses use Assignment Dropbox to collect PDF scans of students’ homework assignments. In one instance, a student’s answers to problems seem to disappear from the PDF file when viewed in the Dropbox grading area. When the instructor went to evaluate it in the Assignment Drop Box, the…
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Why doesn't Chrome Android display any custom styles for HTML pages?
We use the Brightspace LMS learning platform at our university. Since the last update of the Brightspace Pulse app for mobile experiences it shows web content using your default browser app (Chrome Android in my case) instead of the Pulse embedded web browser. However, the web content doesn't display any custom styles when…
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Adding accommodations to classlist
Hello. I wanted to bulk add students with accommodations to Brightspace and allow faculty to see this student has an accommodation via an icon on class list. Is this possible? K
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Data on usage of content templates from Public Files?
Is there any way to find out how many courses are using the HTML content templates that we added to Public Files? Since selecting a template just copies the code to the HTML page, I'm assuming there won't be an easy way to get this data, but just wanted to see if any other universities were trying to figure out how many…
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New submissions icon is on, but can't find the new submissions
Hello, I have a professor who has the new submissions icon popping up saying there's 2 new ones for her to check. On her dropbox page, there are no tallies in the New Submissions column and there aren't any indicators in Grades either. She has opened all her dropboxes to see if there's anything listed in there and she says…
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Login History vs. System Access History
Can somebody explain to me the difference between the history logs in Class Progress? I understand Course Access, but I don't completely understand the difference between login and system access. Thanks, Aaron
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Inserting Storyline activity with a description
I am trying to insert a Storyline activity into D2L. I am able to upload the zip file as a SCORM file, but have issues with wanting to insert a description/instructions before the activity. (See below). In the first screenshot, I have uploaded the file as SCORM but am unable to add a description above. It appears below the…
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Sharing Standards While Sharing Rubrics
I am having a problem when sharing rubrics. I have created rubrics at the program level, and I have shared these rubrics with the all of its children so that these rubrics can be used in the various course offerings in this org unit. Now we want to link several rubric items to "standards" and have those standards appear in…
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How do I extend the time limit by 50% on exams for one particular student in D2L?
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Show correct/incorrect for fill in the blank questions?
I have a fill in the blanks question with five blanks. If a student correctly fills in all five blanks they get full points. If some of their responses are incorrect, they get partial credit. When they review their submission, they can see their score on the question overall but they tell me they can't see which responses…