Our product team regularly makes decisions about Brightspace configuration, features, and rollouts—but we've realized we're often doing this without systematic input from the people who use the platform every day: our faculty and students.

We're planning to establish user panels or feedback groups to get ongoing, structured insight into how Brightspace is actually being used. We're in the early stages and would love to learn from others who have implemented something similar at their institutions? We are curious about:

• How to structure panels (frequency, size, participant selection)
• Which methods work best for gathering meaningful feedback
• Any challenges you encountered and how you addressed them
• Whether this actually influenced your decision-making (and how)

If your institution has established user panels, advisory groups, or any structured feedback mechanism, I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience—what worked, what didn't, and any advice you'd offer.

Thanks in advance for any insights you can share!

Mads Holst
Product Manager, AU, Denmark

Quisiera hacer una consulta sobre la lista de correos que aparece en la sección enviados; actualmente salen todos los correos enviados, pero quiero saber si es posible que salgan los correos que un profesor ha mandado por programa o por edición y no todos los que ha mandado en el historial. ¿Esto se puede lograr con alguna configuración?

Quedo atenta a sus comentarios. Gracias.

Caro

Thank you.

As an example, one of our instructors currently has 10 active course shells and would like to add items such as:

• stat holidays/college closures
• conference absences
• class cancellations
• instructor away notices

Currently, they appear to need to manually create the same calendar event separately within each course shell, which can become quite time-consuming.

I'd appreciate any suggestions or ideas on what would be possible to help support this workflow.

I'm wanting to know if it is possible for an email to be generated and sent to learners upon quiz submission?

I was hoping to achieve this through intelligent agents, whereby the agent was enabled (with no frequency) and the criteria was completion of said quiz. The idea of having no frequency set was in the hopes this would result in an immediate email being sent as the IA criteria is met, however, it does not behave this way suggesting the best option through IA's is using a 1-hour frequency option. While this can work, there could be a 59-minute "delay" in learners receiving their confirmation email if their submission is made at 1 minute past the hour.

Does anyone have a way of initiating immediate email confirmation of quiz completion?

Thanks to all in advance.

I am trying to set up an intelligent agent to email students with a reminder by a certain date if they have not earned a specific award. Release conditions offer no option for this, only an Award Earned option. Is there any plan to make Award Not Earned available as a release condition in upcoming releases? Or is there a work around for this scenario that I might be missing? Currently I'm having to manually select the negative of all criteria used to grant the award which is quite tedious. Having Award Not Earned would massively reduce the manual work to be done here in setting something like this up.

Thanks for your help!

We're setting up a template course that we can easily use to base other lessons on. We have cleaned this template of all assignments, quizes etc, but for some reason the Calendar widget still displays quizzes as upcoming events:

When you go into the Calendar tool, it does not show any upcoming Events or Tasks:

Is there a setting or something we may have missed somewhere? I have tried deleting and re-inserting the calendar, but it does not change anything.

Any tips or help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Rhian