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Seeking Advice on User Panels & Feedback Groups
Hi everyone, 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…
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Checking when student was admitted to Brightspace?
Dear community, I am trying to figure out how to confirm the date a student was added to my course Brightspace. I do not admit students manually, when someone is on the waiting list and there is a free spot, students get automatically added. The question here is how to check when they first got added, and not when their…
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How do I place a Discussion Thread in my D2L content?
How do I place a Discussion Thread and Assignment in my course content?
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Can you create custom institutional calendars for different groups?
We would like to use the institutional calendar to highlight different events for specific groups, such as showing student events only to students, or workshop opportunities to faculty. It doesn't look like there's a way to restrict individual events in the main institution calendar. Is there any other way that we might be…
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Elementary question...
Firstly, I am excited that such a community exists. D2L has made my journey as a developing, passionate educator so much easier! Today my question is not even worthy of this community, not to mention that the answer is probably available in a document somewhere. I apologize. Today, I simply want to use the power of being…
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Downloading Discussion Threads?
Hi there, I am interested in downloading an entire discussion thread from D2L, including names, who said what, and when. I need this in a single file, either in a doc or pdf format. My goal is to analyze the patterns using content analysis techniques. However, I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this on D2L. Could…
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I am trying to figure out how to post a thread on the discussion board?
Health informatics requires us to post an introduction this week. I cannot figure out how to post on the discussion board.
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Blog tool
Are there better instructions someplace for the blog tool? It was just added to my course in the new template, and I can't find any instructions to help students create blogs. Can blogs be graded? Can a link to blogs be added to the Content Menu? Or to the ribbon at the top of the page? I can't even find a way to add a…
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New Quiz to Question Library?
If you make a quick quiz by Create New and manually type in 5 questions. Can you then Import that into the Question Library for self assessment for final exam studying?
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Can survey feedback be restricted to only those who participate?
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.
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Schedule a Zoom
I am here to schedule a Zoom meeting with a student for an online class. As a first-time user, I am required to post a question. Thank you.
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Announcement email subject line format
When an email is sent from an Announcement, is it possible to have only the subject topic listed, and not the course name?
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Do we meet with the peers today
Good afternoon I am trying to catch up with the school. I need to know if we are meeting with the peers and the structure.
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Add calendar events across multiple course shells at once?
I’m wondering if there is currently any way in Brightspace for an instructor to create a calendar event once and apply it across multiple active course offerings simultaneously. 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…
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Is it possible to have rotating announcements?
There are a few things that we would like to constantly remind students of, without having to repeatedly send out blast emails. Is it possible to create a set of announcements and somehow have Brightspace rotate through them automaticaly? Or is there some kind of banner space like a billboard?
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Email confirmation upon quiz completion
Hi all! 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…
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How can I track views / logs of announcements
I can see how to run an intelligent agent to determine activity in various parts of Brightspace but cannot see how to view how many students have read an announcement?
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Is there a way to get D2L email notifications sent to Outlook?
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How to "unpublish" an announcement
How do you turn a published announcement back to draft, so students cannot see it? I don't want to delete the announcement, but am unsure on what day I want to publish it, so I just want to keep it as a draft. Is this possible?
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students want to email their teacher but we don't show the classlist for students
Is it possible for students to easily email their teacher from Brightspace, but we don't want to show the Classlist to students? How can we achieve this? Thanks for your answer. Regards, Heleen