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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 there an easy way to bulk print assignment submissions?
Submissions for assignments can be bulk downloaded, but they default to a zip file with individual folders for each student. Each folder must be opened. I'm trying to find an efficient way to download, for printing, all submissions. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Best practices for Google Integration with Brightspace
about 30% of our faculty are using Google Classroom and enjoy the functionality of google assignments. We have integrated google workspace and assignments with Brightspace, and the process works OK, but not great, and I do understand why faculty do not want to move away from google classroom because of google assignments…
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change the default settings for whether quizzes are in the gradebook and how students view results?
For most of our faculty, quizzes will be part of the grade for the class. When setting up a quiz, the default is for it not to be in the gradebook. While it is in my opinion easy to choose to add it to the gradebook, I am wondering if there is a way for admins to change the default to gradebook, or if faculty could set all…
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Why can't I use respondus lockdown?
When I try to take the quiz it says the instructor needs to use the LockDown Browser "dashboard" to enable the settings.
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Difficulty generating questions with Lumi Quiz with a single PDF
My success in using Lumi Quiz based of a single course file (PDF) is inconsistent (mostly failed than passes unfortunately). Sometimes the generations work (when I specifically pick a Bloom's Taxonomy level instead of leaving it optional), sometimes it did not (and the error says that there is insufficient content). My PDF…
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API to download course content
I have used the BDS API to get as far as Content Object schema Plugin extracts to download a CSV file of content: ContentObjectId,OrgUnitId,Title,ContentObjectType, … 11111111,222222,File,Topic, … Is there a way to programmatically download, via an API, the ContentObjectId from the OrgUnitId?
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Email alerts
Hi there, Not sure where to post this, (Mods feel free to move if needed) but earlier today I was on a call and things like digital escape rooms, gamification, learn through story, and branching scenarios came up. I remembered there were articles about those things like that on here and shared them out. Here's one - The…
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DOMO Report Not Including Latest Semester
We have an at risk student report within DOMO analytics builder and we want to start using it to track student performance. The problem we are running into is that the report doesn't include anything from the current semester. The latest data it has is from Fall 2025. Can someone help me update the report so that it is up…
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Chat With An Agent
I would like to chat with a live agent please.
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Observed in Person Assignment - Marking it Complete
Hi, I have been trying to find the answer, but I haven't had much luck. It seems like everything I find partially answers my question or only discusses how to set up in-person/on-paper submissions. When using an observed in-person/on-paper submission, can you "override" any of the selected "Marked as Complete" options when…
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Can Brightspace be set up to deliver in-LMS alerts to students on Teams?
Our organisation has set up the Brightspace Course Connector for Microsoft Teams which has allowed classes to be set up on Teams. To expand on this integration, as a point of interest, I'd like to know if Brightspace can send LMS notifications/ alerts to students on Teams in addition to the standard notifications they…
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Trying to do user management via API
I have API access, but I'm having a very hard time figuring out how to enable and disable users via API. I am unsure of the endpoints to use and the scope needed. Anyone have any thoughts?
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Is there a way to find a word count for an entire course in Brightspace?
We're trying to find out if there's an easy way to find a course's total word count for translation services. Thank you!
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Feedback Showing on Brightspace Quizzes
I am wondering if Brightspace changed a setting recently on quizzes? I have the setting enabled for a quiz where students have 2 attempts - my goal is that they review their incorrect questions with their text/notes then retake the quiz, but it is showing them the question feedback provided for faculty grading after they…
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How to activate/use the demo student
We are brand new to D2L and are in the middle of train the trainer and my faculty would like a demo student. I found several different things. One said turn this account on, another said just add a role and a user. I found this morning where you can use and API to enroll the account automatically in courses. I found other…
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Browser Find function no longer works on Enter Grades page
With the recent update to the Enter Grades page (scroll buttons), it seems instructors can no longer use the Find function in the browser (Ctrl+F) to jump to specific columns (grade items). Wondering if anyone has a work-around for finding a grade item quickly on the Enter Grades page?
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"Hidden before start" is still visible to students
In Course Admin-Manage Dates-Bulk Edit Dates the options under Start Dates and End Dates are Visible with access restricted before start Visible with submission restricted before start Hidden before start It seems that if I select Hidden before start, then a students would not SEE the item in the content before the start…
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Attendance in Gradebooks
Is there a way to include attendance grades into a gradebook and to also be included in the final grading?
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Announcement Emails
When creating an announcement in a course, the instructor doesn't see an option to send a copy to the students' email. How do you enable this? Or is it up to the student to enable that notification?
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Competencies and Outcomes
Currently we have 91 faculty members using the legacy Competencies tools. We have others who would like to use Outcomes. I was under the impression that you could only enable one or the other at an institution. I have also read that you can only enable one per org unit and it is not possible to use Outcomes with classic…