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Improving search results under DISCOVER
Greetings, The Discover tool is in need of some tweaking. My academic section is called AWO. Typing those 3 letters into Discover yields results including *every instance* of AWO, AW, or WO appearing anywhere in a course title or description at our university. Worse, it doesn't sort by accuracy. This means students typing…
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Assigning learning in Learning Groups
I have a learning group that has started going through 4 courses assigned to that group. I have now been asked to add a learning path of 24 courses to that Learning Group. The learning path includes the 4 courses that were originally assigned. If I assign the learning path to that learning group, will the progress of those…
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Safelisting / Whitelisting
Hello, I am wondering if there is a way of tightening the safe listing / whitelisting so that our clients can only login to our subdomain while accessing whatever other subdomains the components and apis need to reach out to function. My employer does not our clients having access to logon to other organization's…
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Registering account and OAuth 2.0
Hello, I am a new developer currently studying Computer Science at Michigan State University. I would like to register my test developer application and gain admindtrstaive privleges to access the Estensilbity tool. My goal is to make API calls to D2L from my web application project.
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Can you share rubrics between departments in Brightspace?
What is the easiest way to share department rubrics within Brightspace? Since rubrics are easily edited, I do have a concern about keeping them in tact when sharing. Thanks!
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Can I associate a selectbox grade item to a discussion topic?
When attempting to do so the grade item does not appear in the list of selectable existing grade items. When creating new from the topic it defaults to a numeric grade item.
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Test Users and Roles
Good evening, I have 2 questions: The API Test Tool site () states that you can use the DevCoPStudent account to test API calls to the test D2L site (devcop.brightspace.com). I am doing this successfully. Are there any other test accounts I can use to call the API, particularly a user that is a lecturer, not a student; and…
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Controlling access throughout course page
Is there a way to control access to certain areas of a course page? Am I able to control which students can see a module area under content. We have courses where two sections require different information but fall within the same course page. I can control access through Special Access to assignments; but I'm wondering if…
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Embedding/uploading a SCORM or Web file as a section on a HTML content page using Creator+
I have developed an interactive diagram in Storyline 360 and wish to use in the course that developed by Creator+, how can I embed this in? shall I export it as a SCORM file? But I can't see the option for me to add a SCORM file as a section in a module. or shall I export it as Web item? and how can I add it as a section…
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Is there a feature to create a chat/discussion based on a specific text source?
Hey Is there a feature to create a chat/discussion based on a specific text source? For example: I am studying a certain book and I want to hold discussions about the book with friends. I would like the chat to appear alongside certain highlighted text in the book (Like the chat/review feature in a Google Docs document,…
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Finding course package
In this tutorial, https://docs.valence.desire2learn.com/samples/contentPkg.html, two items are needed for accessing the course data. 1. course-package: Absolute path location of the course package to import 2. course-offering-id: D2L system identifier for the course offering to receive the import I found out how to get the…
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Approved Contact Support
Hi, I am trying to log into the Approved Contact Support page. However, I keep getting a Single Sign On error. Image attached (Error.jpg). Any suggestions on how I can successfully log in? Thanks.
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Access my upcoming assignments due dates.
Hey, I am looking to use the API to access my assignment, quizzes, etc due dates. I have tried the following endpoint but it is returning 404 error. /d2l/api/le/1.9/content/myItems&orgUnitIdsCSV=1234 Also, just to make sure I am passing the correct parameters, the orgUnitIds is the organization identifier that can be…
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Is there a role permission that allows a learner role to ignore start & end date?
Hi all! We are trying to set up a test learner account to test submissions and data integrations. However, most of our assignments and quizzes have start and end dates. It is cumbersome to add special access for the test accounts for each course and activity. I'm looking in the roles and permissions and see that there is a…
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Brightspace instance for developers to test
Is there an instance where developers can create accounts with various roles, when they are developing their application and testing LTI?
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Unable to send section creation request via API
I am trying to create a section via the API but I'm running into issues. I think the server is interpreting my POST request as a GET request and failing to perform the operation I am requesting. Would somebody please provide a full example of a successful section creation request that I can reference? API route in…
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D2L API - OAuth2.0 isn't working as expected.
Hey there, I am trying to use D2L API for fetching courses and assignment details in our application. I did registered the application and got my client_id and client_secret. This is good. But when I follow the document of D2L Oauth2.0 testing using postman it doesn't quiet allow me to authenticate the application . Here…
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API add topic
This is driving me mad I can add a URL topic, no problem. However, adding a FILE topic is proving to be impossible, I always get a 400 error. I tried postman, python, and curl. Trying to stay as close to example in the documentation as possible. I know the URL is not correct for my instance. curl --http1.1 --request POST \…
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APIs for Student responses/answers
Are there any APIs where we can fetch the student's responses/answers for assignments in D2L?
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custom hosted widgets
Just saw this message "You are using custom hosted widgets that need to be replaced. Hosted widgets will be removed soon. Contact your site admin. " Why is this change happening? What will replace it? Custom widgets are pretty important to me and my staff.