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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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video files play sound but no visual
Hi, does anyone know why or how to fix/resolve an issue where a student using Chrome on Windows can play/see videos that were uploaded to brightspace as Webpages/embedded but not see any video/visual (just a black screen) but can hear the audio, when the video was uploaded as a Video type page instead of a webpage? we…
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We just started having a problem with accessing our URL to get to our login page for D2L
The URL is: https://mccormick.brightspace.com We have tried two different browsers and cleared history and cache, and tried using three different networks. Still have the issue. It takes a while and once in a while we get to the login screen but more than not it finally errors out. We've made no changes on our end or to…
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Visibility settings
Is there a way to globally change the default for visibility to "Visible with Submission Restricted"? Our system defaults to "Visible with access restricted" which is painful to change on all assignments and discussions that's due dates vary from week to week. I may just be missing something simple, but would love any help…
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Brightspace Catalyst Award for Student Success
Is the "Brightspace Catalyst Award for Student Success" still a thing? I cannot find any information about it. Please advise.
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Course Extensions
I have a student who is a week behind and needs an additional week beyond the end date of the course to complete their work. Will adjusting Special Access for one or more gradable entities for a single student extending the availability of entities beyond the end date of the course? Or, does the course end date supersede…
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Student Completion Checkmark in Content
Is there a way to turn on the checkmark for required material in the Contents tab? The New Content experience removed this feature, and many of our students would like that to be available.
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Enrolling students into a group via a file import
I have a course in Brightspace that already has a fairly large number of students enrolled. Now I need to enrol them into groups inside the course since they will be submitting a group work assignment. I have the details of which students must belong to what group already in a spreadsheet. Is there any way to import that…
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Is it possible for Instructors to import feedback comments to the Grades Tool
Hi There, I'm wondering if there is any way for instructors to import feedback comments via the Import function within the Grades Tool? Currently the csv file only contains columns for whatever Grade items have been selected for export. Is it possible to add a feedback column for import when populated? A similar query was…
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Is there a way to freeze the column with student names in the attendance register? Similar to what
Is there a way to freeze the learner column as you would in an excel spreadsheet? The attendance register is cumbersome to use after a certain point.
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in Quiz, Description is repeated on consecutive screens
when in Course Content, before clicking the Start Quiz button, you see a Description of the quiz (quiz1.png) - once you click Start Quiz, a second screen appears that repeats the Description (quiz2.png) - is there a way to skip over this repetition of the Description, and have the user go right into the quiz w/o clicking…
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Nav Bar Customization
Is it possible to hide items in the Nav Bar depending on role? I know there are some tools that do not display depending on role, such as Data Hub which is only available to Admins but not Instructor or Student roles, for example. We would like to hide the Assignments tool in the Nav Bar for students so that they rely on…
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When may I access PIE?
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how to extend test time
how to extend test time
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Students who didn't attempt a Quiz still need to be able to see solutions?
I use daily quizzes in my class as a sort of "barometer" for students to make sure they've understood the concepts for the day. I've set the quizzes to "When published, display to learners: All questions, with correct answers". As I understand it, this means once I publish the quiz, students who made attempts will see…
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I'm looking for advice on plagiarism software. What is a good match with brichtspace?
We used ouriginal until now, but since they have been taken over by Turnitin we don't have a good contact anymore and the new product isn't compatible with Brightspace yet so we are hesitating to sign a new contract with them. What do you use? what is already quite good in detecting AI use?
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Quiz Corrections - Spelling
Hello! Is there a way of performing point adjustments to fill-in-the-blank items when adjusting misspelled words from incorrect to correct in quizzes or assignments? One of our professors would like to be able to do this in bulk as some medical terms have multiple, correct answers and students use both.
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Export Quiz Attempt
How do I export a specific student quiz attempt as a static file example (pdf ideally) for use in accreditation reporting? This is an essential function that seems to be absent.
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in Quiz, is the Instructions field editable?
Quiz Details section shows how to edit the Description field, but I’m looking to edit the Instructions field that appears below the Description field when a student is on the Summary page (such as https://YOURNAME.brightspace.com/d2l/lms/quizzing/user/quiz_summary.d2l) before they click the Start Quiz button – is…
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Which scope is required to download a feedback document from an assignment?
I am trying to download feedback documents from assignments (dropbox) using this API call: GET /d2l/api/le/(version)/(orgUnitId)/dropbox/folders/(folderId)/feedback/(entityType)/(entityId)/attachments/(fileId) It gives met a 403 (Not Authorized) error. The user running the API call is a Super Admin and in Brightspace it is…
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Revise a role so it does not have access to all courses
Currently, our Dean role has access to all courses. Despite using different templates for different departments and only having the necessary dean on those templates, all users with the role of Dean show up in all classes. I cannot figure out which permission to remove to stop this from happening.