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Calling all Higher Education Instructors!
We would love to hear from Higher Education Instructors about how we have organized our Brightspace help documentation. If you're a Higher Education Instructor, and have a few minutes, please take a moment to complete this short survey: Tool-based navigation survey – Higher Education Instructors Also, if you're part of the…
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Is the AI Virtual Summit series Free?
Thanks for clarifying!
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Quizzes not showing in Content until available date even though they aren't hidden
On the Quizzes page, future quizzes are listed for the students and they can click on them and see the description. However, when adding them into Content using Add Existing, the quiz does not show for students until the 'Available on' date. How can we enable future quizzes to be shown in Content for the students?
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Copying a course with an Edpuzzle Assignment
Hi Community, When a course is copied with an EdPuzzle assignment, it seems like each assignment has to be deleted and recreated, as the old link is pointing to a different class. Besides deleting all the old asssignments and recreating everything, is there a better method that I should be using? thanks! Chris
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Importing H5P elements to a new course
I cannot find documentation or instructions on this site or H5P's site for how to import into a new course. Does this mean the item is made and has to be uploaded from the Insert Stuff>H5P>upload option? If someone could explain, I'd really appreciate it!
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Pathfinder Awards
What happened with the 2026 Brightspace Pathfinder Awards? Windows were to be announced after May 1st but I do not recall reading anything about what happened or who won.
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How do you handle Incompletes?
Hello, I was wondering if anyone in the community could provide examples of how they are handling incompletes. For example, we have a number of students (hundreds per semester) who will receive incompletes and get an extension to have extended access to a course to complete assignments etc… if they meet specific criteria.…
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Discussion Notifications
Occasionally, students will need to edit their discussion threads upon request to include resources, images, etc. However, I do not receive notifications when a post/thread has been edited. Is there a way to be notified when a post has been edited? I assume we would be notified if we subscribe to the post. Although, it…
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Archiving courses with student data
Are there other options besides K16 to archive courses with all student data that can be restored later for accreditation purposes? Tonya
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Is it possible to remove Teams links from within Brightspace?
My organisation is using the Teams connector to automatically create a team every time a section/ course is created on the system. We recently had an issue where courses and sections were duplicated resulting in the unfortunate duplications pushing to Teams. The duplicated courses have been removed both on Brightspace and…
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Automatically enable "Can Exceed" for quizzes with bonus questions (or move the setting into the qui
When I created my first Brightspace quiz with bonus questions, some students earned scores above the maximum (e.g., 16/10), but the linked grade item capped every grade at 10 because Can Exceed had not been enabled on the grade item. As a new user, it never occurred to me that marking a quiz question as Bonus was not…
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Using the data hub to determine which courses are activated in a term
Hello Community! Use the DataHub, what is the best way to determine who has activated their courses in a term, and who has yet to activate them? thanks! Chris
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Jenzabar SONIS integration - Help Needed
I am the Registrar of a college currently implementing D2LBrightspace and our SIS is Jenzabar SONIS. We are struggling to automate the file updates that should send from SONIS to D2L. If anyone currently using these two products could assist by letting us know how you've set this up, we would be appreciative.
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Discussions
Curious if there is an auto save feature for discussion board responses. We have several adult learners who will start a response while at lunch at work and will need to finish the post at home. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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Image editor changes (size/alignment) not consistently saving in Brightspace HTML Editor
Hi everyone, I'm trying to determine whether anyone else has experienced inconsistent behaviour when editing images in the Brightspace HTML Editor. One of our instructors is reporting that when they edit an image using Edit Image, changes such as resizing appear to save correctly while they are still in the HTML Editor.…
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Bulk apply a shared navbar as the active navbar for a subset of existing course offerings
Hi everyone, I've recreated our institution's standardized navbar as a shared Organization-level navbar. My question is about the final step. Is there a supported way to bulk set a shared navbar as the active navbar for a subset of existing course offerings (for example, all Fall 2026 course offerings)? At the moment, I…
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Lumi Study Support
Hi D2L community, Are there suggested best practices to get Lumi Support to provide better feedback? In my exploration with Lumi Study Support, I've gotten a lot of the following message: I've created content using Lumi Content, used Lumi Quiz to generate questions from the content created from Lumi Content and ran several…
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Best way to create a read-only instructor role that can copy course content?
I'm looking for advice on the best way to configure a custom role in Brightspace. We have a set of master course shells that serve as the source for instructors to copy content into their teaching course offerings. We'd like to have two different levels of access: Course caregivers: Full Instructor permissions so they can…
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Using a variable in HTML-Template-Library
Each term, we create a welcome announcement with dates for each term. The announcement is stored it in a folder in shared public files (html-Template-Library) and embedded as an announcement in each course. We would like to personalize the announcement for each student. So…. Added this code: Dear {FirstName}, The code…
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If I purge courses, will the content linked from the Media Library be deleted?
If I purge courses, will the content linked from the Media Library be deleted with the course or will the content stay within the Media Library?
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How do I preview Quizzes with the lockdown browser on?
I’m having problems previewing quizzes in D2L using the Respondus lockdown browser. When I select Preview for one of my quizzes, it goes into the preview and I can see the Start Quiz button at the bottom, which will take me into the quiz. But then I choose to Bypass Restrictions so I can test the quiz with the lockdown…