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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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Can you bulk archive courses?
We have courses going back to 2015 and would like to be able to archive the majority of them. I know about the archive feature in the Courses tool, however, you are limited to 50 at a time. I've tried to archive a semester via the Org Unit Editor, but it requires that all the courses within that semester be archived first,…
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Self-Service Course Merge with Naming Restrictions?
Hi all, We're exploring ways to streamline course merges in Brightspace and are curious if anyone has successfully implemented a faculty self-service merge process that: Allows instructors to self-serve merges Enforces a controlled naming convention for merged courses Does not interfere with enrollment or grade pushback…
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Can I run a report to list all courses offered in a semester
I need to obtain a list of all courses and their Brightspace id numbers but I cannot seem to find a way to do this.
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batch visibility toggle
When I upload a bunch of documents to a unit in Brightspace, the items all default to invisible to students. After the documents have been uploaded, I have to select each document one at a time and click the visibility toggle button for each uploaded file. Is is possible to automatically make items visible when they…
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How do I make a batch of documents visible?
When I upload a batch of pdf documents, all of them are invisible to students (as can be seen in the attached screenshot). Is there a way to make them all visible at once rather than having to select each document one at a time and click the visibility button?
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Limit course creation to department
Hi All! We have a support team, and we'd like to allow them to create Sandbox courses only. Has anyone found a way to limit them to just creating courses in a specific Sandbox Department or Semester?
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Login information question
hello i am trying to log in on the app on my phone but i dont know what my username is? Thank you
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Max Score for Rubric Criteria
Hello, I am trying to isolate the max score for rubric at the rubric criteria level. I initially grabbed the max 'value' from the 'RubricCriteriaLevels' dataset (grouped by criterionID), but when I joined that to RubricAssessmentCriteria, I found that some assessed criteria did not exist in the RubricCriteriaLevels table…
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Moving Files
Is there a way to move files and/or rename folders in Manage Files without breaking links on content pages?
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Course not populating for Self Registration
I am an admin in the D2L system. We have a sandbox course configured for Discover for self-enrollments for professors and admins. It is active and marked for Discover. However, going to the Self Registration tab for the course offerings there, it isn't displayed at all. On the Discover page, it is not displayed under New…
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Upload quiz
If I have a quiz written on my office computer in msWord format, how do I upload the entire set of questions in the file into a quiz?
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How to create choose your own adventure of select x activities of a possible y with only x graded?
Background: I am assisting with creating a Brightspace for a summer research internship program. The course requirements are more of a completion mark than a grade. Students who complete the course activities receive a cocurricular record credit (extra-curricular activities that wouldn't appear on an academic transcript).…
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Quiz question
How do I "Throw out" a questions and adjust scores for all students?
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Modifying courses offline
Hello, I'm trying to find if there's a way to make changes to a course shell offline. If I export a brightspace package, is there a platform, program, or method to make changes to the course without internet access or the ability to log into D2L and making the changes directly? For example, could I manage dates or…
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Drop-down box shaking or flickering
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows what might be causing this. *I'm not able to see it myself this time* but at least a couple of instructors have said that when they open the Tools menu, the drop-down box is "shaking." I remember seeing pages shake or flicker a couple of years ago, but that went away when I reloaded them.…
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Setting up a x completed of y number of assignments grade book
Hi there, I am assisting with creating a Brigthspace page for a summer research program. Undergraduate students are required to complete 4 professional development sessions synchronously or asynchronously. It is a "choose your own adventure" pass/fail completion mark. The asynchronous sessions are hosted in VoiceThreads. I…
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Poll Everywhere
I am looking for a more efficient way to track attendance in my class with 74 students. I heard that Poll Everywhere can be integrated with Brightspace to track attendance. Does anyone have experience using Poll Everywhere for this purpose? How do I get started? Thank you, Paul Jannace Adjunct Lecturer Baruch College
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Brightspace Course Export Contents
I have a lecturer who has tried exporting a lesson in one course to then reimport as a SCORM into another course on Brightspace. We've been having challenges with ensuring the content is exported and re-imported accurately. We did notice that H5P links in the SCORM always break while exporting and don't display correctly…
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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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Is there a way to use Brightspace to take attendance?
I have a professor that is looking for a way to automate the taking of attendance data, without manually entering it for each student (class is about 50) Thanks, Len