Communicate - Engage with Your Students

Dear community, Hi, there! I'm wondering if there is any way to include sort of a live forum or notepad of sorts where students can post and everyone can interact in real-time without having to refresh the page (as if it were a chat). I want to be able to view who posted what but I don't think the 'discussion forum' really…

Hi there a setting that will auto subscribe learners to discussion forums? Thanks, Laura.

How do I place a Discussion Thread and Assignment in my course content?

How can a student directly text/contact the lecturer within the course on the LMS?

I'm wondering whether surveys is the right tool. I have an academic who wants to give feedback to students, only if they respond to survey questions.

With SMS notification within Brigthspace going away this July, I was wondering if there is a video tutorial on Pulse. I have come across a lot of helpful text based guidance on Pulse Notifications configurations but I was hoping to find a video tutorial.…

Hi there, Is it possible to change the language settings in Brightspace site from US English to UK English?

I want to be able to communicate when learners are coming to their deadline and need a reminder to complete a course.

Hi All, Could you pls explain what is RPaaS tool ? Thanks Loshani

Hi, I am in an English 102 class for the summer semester. I would like to have my essay revised before submitting, please let me know today if this is possible.

Hello, Our organization is trying to find a way to communicate with all our users of our learning platform (Brighspace) all at once. This can be like an email sent for new announcements, a newsletter, etc. Is there a way we can mass email all users from within Brighspace? If so, how? Because so far we have not found a way…

Is it possible to make it so that Global Announcements only appear on the overall Brightspace My Home page? I see you can make it so they only appear on the Course Homepage, but it would be more useful if global announcements could be limited to the My Home page. The reason is that faculty prefer that Announcements on the…

Hi, I know students can share their badges to ePortfolio, but is there a way to automatically send the badges to their ePortfolio when they are awarded without students doing this manually? Thank you

I am not receiving the automatic email when I post an announcement to my course. I have this checked in my notifications. Not sure what is happening.

When creating or editing an online meeting schedule, there is only an option for an end date, I cannot set a commencing date. I want to create a block period limited to the middle weeks of a session and allow students to make their booking from the commencement of the session.

Hello, I am trying to determine if I can generate polls/check-in questions in Brightspace that can be embedded into my PowerPoint presentations. Can these check-in questions be graded and added to the grade book?

The email system that I'm seeing in my D2L platform doesn't allow for threading in emails back and forth to students. Is my board not using a current version of the email system? It feels very archaic in structure. I dislike using the email system since it is so hard to track conversations with students.

Hi, we want to change the settings of the update alerts. At this moment students, teachers and course owners get too many update alerts, making the alerts impracticable. This is not about notifications, but about update alerts, see screenshot. Any help regarding this would be very helpful, thanks.

Do anybody know if we are to pick a team now, and how, or what to do next?

We run courses in both English and German and have both language packs implemented. We would like to have an enrollment email for each language sending out when we enroll new students, however in the Mail Template Manager I cannot see the option to have multiple Enrollment E-Mails or options to save more than one. Is there…