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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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User engagement tracking
One of our Instructional Designers would really like to know more about how users are interacting with the content and materials in her courses. The current tools we have, like Insights and Content reports, are very high-level and do not get to the in-page level tracking. Has anyone tried doing much more active/granular…
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Experience With Using D2L's Microsoft 365 Widget
Hello, We recently transitioned from the internal D2L email system to Microsoft Outlook 365. Based on feedback from a recent survey, our end users have expressed interest in receiving notifications for new email messages within Brightspace—similar to the functionality offered by the previous internal email system. We…
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Why can I not see this set of permissions (accommodations) in my instance of Brightspace?
I cannot see accommodations permissions under Roles and Permissions: I have been unable to locate documentation on enabling accommodations. What am I missing here? Thanks!
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Bulk unenroll learners from specific Course Offering
We have Course offerings used for resources and communications, which the learners get refreshed every year as new students join/graduate. Is there a way to remove all learners from a site, in lieu of the manual approach?
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Receiving a 403 Forbidden API Error Message
We are running performance testing in our Brightspace test server with 7% failures related to "403 Forbidden" error messages. Perf Testing: We are automating 18 users to load the widget every second for 1 minute—equaling to about 1,080 users in a minute. Background: We have 4 back-end servers with round-robin traffic…
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webinar in D2L LMS
Anyone integrated Zoho meeting for live sessions / webinar sessions with D2L LMS Which works well with D2L LMS among various webinar meeting tools like Zoom, GMeet, Zoho anything else ?
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update attributes Org ID
HI, I want to update the Org ID of some of our users - when I upload the new spreadsheet with the new Org ID I get a response saying the Org ID is not found - how do I create new Org ID in a spreadsheet ?
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How to monitor instructor usage duration in their course shell offerings in Brightspace?
Hi, I would like to know if there are data sets in LMS Brightspace that covers the time spent by an instructor in their course shell offerings.
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Is it possible to see who makes Turnitin available or unavailable in assignments?
A campus issue was recently raised where Turnitin was turned off for certain assignments. We have the system set up in such a way that instructors would have the ability to manage assignment settings. The campus wants to investigate how (by who) Turnitin could have been turned off for 2 separate courses for different…
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Assignment submission stripped out HTML file contents
Hi, One of our students created an HTML file to submit as part of an assignment submission. Included in the file were some style elements as well as some input elements. All of these elements were stripped out of the file, and only the text remained - both when viewed directly from the Brightspace marking interface and…
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Assignments in categories
A couple of our test consist of student writing a report of creating a project. To grade these projects and reportm, they have to upload them in an assignment. In the assignment list we seperate each course into its own category. However, most student simply click the top category and upload, a lot of the time, the worng…
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Reflect in ePortfolio
Hello D2L Team, I'm currently using D2L as a student at Deakin University. I'm also a learning designer, and our organisation is considering switching to D2L next year. As part of my exploration, I’ve been testing the UX/UI features of the LMS. I’ve found the ePortfolio reflections tool to be quite useful. However, I’ve…
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Export entire learning repository
Hi folks! Is there a function that lets you export all of the content from a learning repository?
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Insert Stuff HTML code
Hi there, I am trying to find out how we could update the HTML code that is used when inserting our Panopto videos through Insert Stuff. I was wondering whether the HTML was configurable either in the Brightspace backend, on the Panopto side or whether it was set in the LTI integration? For example, at the moment, when we…
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Group Sign Up Function
I have 250 students sorted into 20 groups. I need each group to sign up for a single presentation topic and topics can only be claimed by one group. Is there a way to set up a "group" with my topic titles and allow my premade student groups to sign up for one each, or is there a different sign up feature I can use in…
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Only highest grade attempt counted in grade book.
Is it possible to set up grading to count only the highest grade of several attempts on an automatically graded quiz before students make any attempts. The instructions I've seen here show how to do it after the quiz has been attempted by the student: Is there a way to do this automatically without having to go into the…
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uploading grades to D2L
I am not able to get any grades to upload to D2L. I get an error every time, but it doesn't tell me anything about what it doesn't like. It just says it can't read the file. It is a .csv file . My input looks something like this: OrgDefinedId ec: mindset 1 Points Grade End-of-Line Indicator e0000000 3 # I have tried it…
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Bulk Deletion of Sections from Courses in Brightspace (via API or Other Method)
What is the recommended and secure way to bulk delete sections from both current and historical courses in Brightspace? Is there a supported method using the Brightspace API or another automated approach for managing this at scale? Any guidance, best practices, or documentation would be greatly appreciated.
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How to Undo Announcement Sorting by Title
Hi Everyone, I have a list of announcements that Iʻm using in a course. I had sorted them in an order that makes it easy for me to find and use and then accidentally hit the sort by title field at the top of the list of announcements. This seems to have resorted all my announcements for all my courses by title. I have used…
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D2L Grade Not Synced from Pearson MyLab Math
I have been using Pearson MyLab Math for several years now, also using the D2L Bright Space for over two years. But this summer, I have had an issue with the grade synced, it could not be synced in one of my courses. Have contacted the tech support from both D2L and Pearson for 3 days now, still not answers back and they…