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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Displaying a Text Grade to Students
Hi, I was assisting an instructor who created a Text item in her Grade Book and entered letter grades for her students. This was just a standalone column not associated with a scheme. From the students' perspective, they could see the title of the text item in their grades but they couldn't see the letter grade entered by…
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How are institutions highlighting assignments for students?
We've recently had a couple of instructors ask about making assignments more prominent for students in Brightspace. Most of our instructors currently provide assignment descriptions and instructions within their course content, but some have asked whether it's possible to provide a direct "Assignments" link in the course…
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Is There a Way to Tie Quiz Access to In-Person Attendance?
I'm wondering if anyone has implemented a workflow in Brightspace where attendance in an in-person class determines access to an associated quiz. For example: • Student attends Monday's class → they can access and complete Monday's quiz later from home. • Student misses Monday's class → they cannot access Monday's quiz. If…
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Issue with Imported Quizzes Question Pools from Blackboard Learn 9.1
Our university is transitioning from Blackboard Learn 9.1 to Brightspace, an instructor asked the following question: "I have a Quiz that is made up of mostly QUESTION POOLs. I want to get the questions into the Question Library. How do I do that? I tried going into the Question Library and do an Import from the quiz but…
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Turn off suggestions that I use AI
Please give me the option to turn off the relentless demand that I use AI in at least one of the digital spaces I occupy. I don't welcome any AI help inside Brightspace itself. I'm sure other people have a use for it, but I don't.
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Any ideas on how to email >3000 recipients?
Hi. We have several course offerings (and other org unit types) with more than 3.000 participants (the max. limit for the BCC email field), which means we cannot email them, which we would like to. Does anyone else have this challenge, and how are you working around it? Work arounds or ideas for work arounds will be much…
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Keep percentage grades from rounding up
We don't want to display any decimal points with our percentage grades, but if we don't set it to at least 1 percent it rounds up. Even if I set the managing view to 1 decimal and the student view to 0 decimals, it still rounds up in the students point of view. Is there a way to keep it from rounding up?