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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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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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How do I use AI in Corporate Sustainability Course
Assignments
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Assignment Due Dates Added to Calendar
Is it possible to add Assignment due dates to the Calendar? The only option I see is to add the start/end dates, but our due dates are not showing on the calendar, is that possible to do?
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First post
Hi, this is my firts post. I'm new with brightspace, but i have experience with other LMS.
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Copy to Other Courses (Announcements). What access does this give instructors?
I’m looking for some clarification on the “Copy to Other Courses” permission for the Announcements tool. Currently, this option is not enabled for our Instructor role, and before making any changes I’d like to better understand what enabling it would allow. My understanding is that it would let instructors copy…
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where is the D2L Student Help widget.
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Surveys tool no longer available in Admin Tools (org-level)?
Previously, one of our staff members was able to access the Surveys tool directly from the main homepage via Admin Tools. From there, they could search across courses (including multiple terms) and pull survey results without needing to enter each course individually. It now appears that this option is no longer available.…
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Impersonating in a Distributed Administration context
Our suborg admins would like to be able to impersonate users within their suborg. We have those permissions turned on for that role, but realized we likely need to have the permissions turned on for the learner role as well, since that is how suborg admins are enrolled at the org level. While we don't want learners to be…
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Extend the length of audio capture
Hi, we want to extend the length of the audio capture option in Brightspace: Right now it's 30 minutes but we would like it to be 60 minutes. I found some old posts mentioning config variables for this, but i can't seem to find those variables….is there any way we can extend this to 60 minutes? Thanks! Regards Roel
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Learning Outcomes and External Learning tools
Hi. Is there any way to automatically associate learning outcomes with completion of an External Learning Tools? We use FeedbackFruits and have grades associated with these activities. The grade achieved is the evidence the learning outcome has been met but I cannot find a way to associate a learning outcome with a grade…
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Wasn't there a Last Edited date on the html pages in Brightspace?
I seem to remember at one point we could scroll to the bottom of a course page and see when that page was created/last edited. This was in Classic. Can we still see this or add this in for NCE? Is there a config variable I've just missed?
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Any plans for an automatic late submission penalty?
There are some features that I would LOVE to see incorporated. Are any of these on a list of possible updates?Automatic late submission penalty Automatic late submission penalty Inserting a picture has a search box available to find files by name Default number of students is set to max (attendance, grades) Sending emails…
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Brightspace/Teams Course Connector (ShuffleExchange)
Good morning I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has successfully implemented the Brightspace/Teams Course Connector (ShuffleExchange) integration. Specifically, who in your organisation creates the teams and is this done using the widget or by a Microsoft Teams administrator. Regards, Marion
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Does the gradebook automatically change the weighting if you exempt students from assignments
Hi folks…..I have two evaluation profiles in my course outline for students. If they opt out of journals and problem sets, then the weight of their tests goes up by 20 % and is now 70% weighting and the final remains the same 30% weighting. my question is around those students who are opting out of journals and problem…
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How do I set up a rubric where different criteria have different levels?
What do I do if criterion 1 has 4 levels but criterion 4 only has 3? Example: Criterion 1 is for evidence, so the full marks are for all required sources being present, then level 3 is most are present, level 2 has less than half present, and level 1 is no sources present or properly cited. But then Criterion 4 is for MLA…
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Seeking API guidance: Submission Setting "Overwrite submissions.." via Brightspace API
I am developing a custom widget to automate the creation of Assignment (Dropbox) folders within specific course offerings for a semester. I am successfully using the POST route /d2l/api/le/(version)/(orgUnitId)/dropbox/folders/ to create the folders. However, I need to ensure the submission setting is set to: 'Overwrite…
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Applying a Grade Scheme to a Program Level
If we apply a grading scheme to a program level, does it effect open courses? We want it to only apply to future courses in the program, is that possible?
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Multi select quiz points / remove X cross from results
Good morning, I have 2 questions: I've created multiple multiselect Q quizzes, I would like a student to be able to select any correct answer and get full marks instead of 0.2/0.33 etc per answer - ie there are 4 correct answers, student selects 2 and gets the full 1 point. Is there any way I can do this? When the student…
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How to download data from dataset in new analytics builder?
Wondering if there is a way to download data from datasets? Closest thing, I have seen so far is - export to csv option in the visual dashboard - but only the data presented in the visual can be exported for that feature.. wondering if I am not looking at right place..
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Different NCE (Lessons) displays?
Hi D2L, I noticed that there seems to be visual differences even when using NCE. I noted the differences between two of my courses and I would like to find out why. Could you share please? Thank you. Most of our courses still retain the visual look and feel of the left display. But, the right display shows a sleeker…