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Is a late deduction option for quizzes or assignments being developed?
I am aware that late assignments completed after a due date but before an end date are flagged. However, will an automatic deduction function be developed in the future for late quizzes or assignments? Has this been considered? This function is available in Canvas and publisher products such as Pearson Mastering.
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Request for API Access to Start and Submit Quiz Attempts via REST API
Dear Brightspace Support Team, We are currently integrating Brightspace with our internal systems and would like to automate the quiz-taking process for users via API. Specifically, we are looking for REST API endpoints that allow us to: Start a quiz attempt for a user Submit answers to quiz questions programmatically…
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outcomes help
I have imported learning outcomes into my course(s), and I have linked certain outcomes to various quizzes/assignments in my course. But now that I have started actually teaching this course, I am not seeing the outcomes being scored as I score the quizzes. Any help would be appreciated.
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How does D2L calculate discrimination indexes?
How does D2L calculate discrimination indexes for quiz questions? I'm analyzing question responses from D2L and some recorded elsewhere for which I need to calculate discrimination indexes the same way that D2L calculates them. Thank you very much! Faye Georgia State University, borthick@gsu.edu
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Download a spreadsheet with all students and question grades
Is there a way to download a spreadsheet with all students (row by row) and then their grade for each question. Here's a specific example to show you need for report - we are trying to ascertain which students' responses may have been missed when grading. We have 1501 questions and 40 students. We are wanting a spreadsheet…
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Can assignments be marked as complete or incomplete
If I want to mark an assignment as complete or incomplete instead of giving it a grade, how do I do that?
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Certificate enabling in Brightspace
Can we send a personalised certificate in Brightspace for ‘students’ when they accomplish a specific goal?
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Previewing a student's attempt on a quiz
Perhaps it was a glitch on my end, but I used to be able to preview the quizzes as students were taking them by clicking on the ? with the red dot. This would allow me to see where a student was at if it was coming close to the end of class. It would also allow me to click on it to grade the unsubmitted attempt. Now, I…
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Short answer question with a number range that doesn't just have whole numbers
This is a similar query to one I have posted, but even with the short answer strings I copied over, answers are still being marked incorrect. So I might extend my query (and include the initial one) now I have more information: How do we input an answer in a short answer question which permits any number between a range -…
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Disabling communication when publishing
I have two questions around publishing grades for assessments and exams: Will students still be informed grades are published if manually entering grades in the gradebook? Is there a way of disabling emails when grades are published to gradebook? Many thanks, Sue
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Is it possible to create a report on which students access a particular content item?
I am wanting to run a report on which students access a particular page every week - just one particular page. THey need to access a particular page every week to achieve a SY grade for this assessment item, Is this possible and if so how? Many thanks
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New Quiz Experience
Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to set it up the new quiz experience so that teachers are able to copy and paste images into each individual question feedback, and not just the overall feedback. This is possible in the old quiz experience, but in the new version it does not allow pasting of images. Thank you!
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Short answer question with a number range
How do we input an answer in a short answer question which permits any number between a range - eg any number between 1000-1400. We have [1000-1400] and if you type say 1125, it marks it as incorrect. Thanks in advance.
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Dropping the lowest grades from an assessed discussion post
Hi there, my institution has recently switched to Brightspace, and I am helping our educators move their assessments into the new system. It's been going well but I have hit a wall with a very specific problem; In this course, students must write weekly responses to articles (the educator wants to use the discussion board…
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Auditor Tool and standards - so that our mentors can view progress of their Programme Members
We have Facilitators on our courses that track progress at section level. But each of our Programme Members also have a mentor, sometimes that mentor is a mentor to 3/4 people on the same course. We have about 30 sections on a course (so 30 faciliatators), with a total of around 5000 Learners (programme Members) and 4000…
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Creation of PDF from question library or quiz
Can you create a PDF of a quiz or question library?
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Import grade and feedbacks using Excel
Is there anyone who knows if there is a way to bulk import grade and feedback using Excel? Or may be such feature does not exist?
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Integration of Turnitin with assessable Discussion Topics
Question from academic: Is there a simple way to bulk down discussion forum posts and check in Turnitin? I can see how to download to pdf, but this was a highly engaged cohort and this will take a considerable amount of time. Looking for more efficient way if possible please? I think the answer is that currently,…
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How do you create a quiz where students only answer 5 out of 8 questions?
I have an academic's exam paper where students answer 5 out of 8 questions. I can see two options, and neither are optimal if the academic wants to grade one question at a time. Just have exam as an assignment and upload paper to be available at a specified time and then students upload their exam paper as a document - not…
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D2L erased saved grades
Hi all, I was recently one of three Teaching Assistants for a course with 160 students. Each of us, along with the main instructor, individually graded and provided feedback for the final written assignment using a Dropbox feature in D2L. While completing the assessments, we were “Saving Draft” instead of immediately…