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From the instructor view, is it possible to sort group discussion board responses BY GROUP so that I can see which groups have active participation and which groups need a nudge? I can see that I can filter one group at a time but this is a massively enrolled class with a lot of groups so a sort feature would be far more…

Hi everyone, wondering if you can help... I'm setting up a course which has multiple formula grades. Is it possible to use the formula grade as a release condition? I can't seem to use the condition 'Grade Value on a Grade Item' as it doesn't show me the option of the formula grade. In the past I have used a formula in…

I have no idea what went into the reason for changing the view for students in brightspace but this new content view is clunky and awkward. It truncates the table of contents so students do not get a full picture of what they need to complete. It makes it more confusing for students. Please go back to the old view or make…

good afternoon, it seems that my multiple choice question banks that have been imported with comments are being imported through zip and the comments are being placed in each Brightspace answer thread instead of at the end of the question. Is there a way to correct this import issue? I am having to go into every question…

Apparently there used to be an article on here that perhaps contained this information. I'm interested in anyone who has information or the widget recipe for the NSSE Survey and who uses D2L. I'd like to be able to send out the surveys via D2L, but don't know to make that work and our IT team don't want to take the time to…

Hi all, We’re looking at adding Course Merchant (CM) to our Brightspace (BS) environment and I’m struggling to find detail on how learner sign-in works across the two. Our situation: We run BS without CM. Learners currently sign in through a third-party managed Azure-based login platform linked to BS, which is costly.…

Hi, As someone who grades large classes 60+ with more than one person grading it is helpful of the following grading features were available: To select more than one student ( not based on a group, or section) but based on manual selection of the student, similar to excels filter option. Ability to select one problem to…

Hi, In D2L we are given an option of setting the code to display zero grades as zeros, or as not displaying them at all. Unfortunately, this appears to be an all-or-nothing option for a class. I have a situation where I want some assignments set to a "no grade is a zero" option, but other assignments as a "do not display a…

The new table of contents is has been condensed so there is no space between units. I find this visually very unappealing and from an instructional designer's point perspective, difficult to work with. Drag and drop between units is clunky and doesn't work well. It's difficult to easy locate a give unit when there is no…

When navigating the Org Unit Editor's orgunit list, often, when opening child lists, multiple scrollbars appear when only one is required. Each org unit list level has it's own scrollbar and as a UX/UI developer, only one is needed. Multiple scrollbars causes confusion and delay access the org unit the users is searching…

@Craig.R.5597 yo! Craig do you know of any adept Analytics Builder folks that I could talk to? I'm trying to build reports using multiple datasets but the "new experience" in Analytics Builder is throwing me for a curve.

Hi. I would like to know if Brightspace has a digital whiteboard that students and professors can use in virtual sessions. If so, where can I find it? Is there a tutorial? Thank you!

I would like to know if anyone else is experiencing this issue. It's making it so that we are hesitant to utilize any submodule description areas because access to them is not intuitive for many of our students. In the NCE students are frequently missing critical instructor directions placed in the submodule description…

now we are getting only 10 records for the API OrgStructures, but could this be expanded so we can load more records in less time. As the API does not have and option to select last mutation date the load is getting bigger and bigger every day. With only batched of 10 records this already comes to 15 min load time, this…

Hi. I would like to know if Brightspace has a digital whiteboard that students and professors can use in virtual sessions. If so, where can I find it? Is there a tutorial? Thank you!

One of the most frequently criticized aspects of Brightspace is the number of clicks and keystrokes required to accomplish simple tasks. With that in mind, here are two seemingly minor interface changes that would eliminate unnecessary user actions. 1. Make “Untitled” placeholder text when creating a quiz. When creating a…

Currently, when Just In Time Provisioning is leveraged, the only data that comes through is a first name, last name, and email address. When Entra AD is leveraged it is possible to bring additional attributes from Entra (i.e. Manager, Department, etc) which could be directly mapped to fields within BrightSpace. We are…

Hello. I use weighted grading in all my courses, and I want to continue doing so, but it appears that there is no way to set a minimum threshold for an assessment category as a condition for other grade items to be counted. We would like to make a passing exam average a requirement for other items to count, but when I…

I coordinate a large university paper with 2,000 students and a team of 20 markers. Due to our rigorous moderation process, many essays are accessed up to four times, resulting in over 8,000 individual grading interactions across a 3-week window.Because our grading rubric features 15 independently assessed criteria, system…

Currently, when a user is enrolled in a course or template listed in the Discover tool, that item is hidden from search results. This omission causes user confusion: users assume the course is missing, leading to unnecessary support requests. Change proposal: a grayed-out card with the prompt "See My Courses" would cue the…