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The Accessibility category serves as a single point of access to three avenues in Brightspace Community leading to the Accessibility Academy, Accessibility Library and Accessibility Discussions. These avenues offer courses and articles about accessibility to enhance accessibility knowledge and a group of accessibility enthusiasts to stay connected with.

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…

My university recently switched to Brightspace, and one feature I really miss is being able to view all of my course grades in one place. Currently, I have to navigate into each course and open the Grades section just to see how I am doing. This becomes frustrating and time-consuming when managing multiple courses. I would…

I need to change which links/tools faculty have access to on our Course Administration page but I can't find the appreciate setting. I thought this would be under Organizational Tools but that isn't the case.

Hello there, I am trying to find a solution for one of our courses in D2L, and I want someone's advice on how to address this issue. We have a duplicated question in a quiz. Now the instructor has already conducted this quiz, and the students have finished this quiz. The instructor discovered this issue later on after the…

I had a query regarding a student getting unenrolled and then getting enrolled in another section in D2L. In essence, there a SIS transfer that enabled a student transfer in D2L from one course section/offering to another. Now the student did take some assessments and in particular one assessment is the one that needs the…

If a grade category in a points based gradebook is set up to drop the lowest score in that category, should Calculated grade items be included in the items that will be dropped? If not, is there a way to set up a category so it will automatically drop Calculated grade items?

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.…

Academic writing is an essential part of higher education, but many students struggle with research, organizing their ideas, developing arguments, and meeting assignment requirements. These challenges can become more noticeable in online learning environments, where students often need to manage their coursework…

If we need to add points to the final exam weight for students who were excused from a term test, besides manually adjusting grade for these students, is there a feature in bs to do this for us? can we request it? thanks Charmaine

I set up a calculated grade item (average of individual grade items). I see it in grades area but when I attempted to use it as criteria for an intelligence agent, it is not listed.

We are stumped about how to create an Intelligent Agent for the following use case. An instructor has set up her gradebook with a category for homework assignments, and wants to identify students who are missing a significant proportion of HW assignments (say, there are 10 HW assignments and she wants to identify people…

A faculty member wants to change the calendar popup so that the first day of the week is Monday instead of Sunday. Is this possible to change?

Hi, Part of the content of a course can be the portfolio (feedback fruits). I wonder if it is possible to switch off the functionality of the completion summary of the portfolio. At the moment it is possible to hide and unhide the completion summary, but I wonder if it's possible to remove the completion summary in total.…

Has anyone else noticed issues with the content page specifically not loading for Mac OS 27.0.1 users? For Macbook users, utilizing a non-Safari browser works. However, for iPad or iPhone users, this solution does not work (probably because regardless of the browser it is using Apple's WebKit engine). Are there any…

Hi, a question related to announcements. When a new announcement is created in our Brigthspace production environment the start date time differs from the actual time. In our test environment the start date time corresponds with the actual time. I noticed that there's a difference in the Region - ServerTimezone settings. I…

Hello, We have instructors who, even though they copy the full course, their Single Profile Widget is NOT copying. Has anyone else had this issue? If yes, how did you fix it? Please help!

We are attempting to set up two intelligent agents in the same course. Two categories have been set up - Instructor and Student. The first IA will send a msg to the instructor if they have not accessed the course for four days. The second IA will send a msg to a student who has not accessed the course for four days. We set…

All information for the South University OSHA - Hazardous Materials requirements can be found in the student’s Practicum Preparation Course through BrightSpace. There are hyperlinks for this requirement that allow students to obtain their certification, and some are free of charge.

I use specifications grading, which is always hard to express using an LMS because it operates like a checklist. There are no points or percentages. It was suggested to me that perhaps the "formula grading system" would be a good option for specs grading in Brightspace. However, I am having trouble finding any training…

Hi, everyone! I just spoke with a student who installed the new MacOS 27 Golden Gate. It included a Safari update and she could access every other tab except the CONTENT one. It was like this in 2 of her classes. Here is a picture. If this happens to anyone else, she got it working through Chrome, but has anyone else run…

Our University is transitioning to NCE in about 2 weeks. I am an instructor for a course that has a 40% of students on a mobile device. When University's switch to NCE is the NLE configuration typically "On" instead of "Off"? I ask this because if the NLE configuration is "Off" - the Surveys and Discussions open in a new…