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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 to create branching surveys in BS
How to create branching surveys in BS
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In Manage Files, how to tell which ones are connected to content
Hi there, Please would you let me know if there is any way to distinguish files that are connected with content vs files that are not in manage files? For context, the lesson has been ported over and brought a lot of files that seem to be mostly unrelated to the current subject though it is hard to know which ones are and…
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Is the new PIE beta live?
Question: is the Beta live? It says June in the note but I am not able to log in: I tried resetting my password and got an error. I tried using an alternative email and a number of random (and increasingly unlikely) member names and got this error: "Email 'mail' is already enrolled with member name" Also, I'm not sure what…
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oAuth get access token using python
Hi, Does anyone have an Python example of how to get an access token using the oAuth2 workflow without using an refresh token? I can get an access token based on a valid refresh-token but I'm trying to build a solution which does not rely on a refesh-token to be available. I get stuck in the login step because I can't find…
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Accessibility report animation
I am typing a description for a module. As I type, the 'accessibility monitor' animates, like a speedometer. it is distracting. How can i turn this off? Also, a frowny face emoji consistently shows up next to a document I have scanned in as a resource for students. This is distracting (and, kind-of rude, towards me). How…
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How do we see if learners are completing lessons?
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Pulse Login Loop
The Brightspace Pulse app on my android updated. I went in, and after four splash pages, I found the my institution's login and signed in through the faculty sign in. I am now stuck in a login loop. When I hit the "Return to Pulse" blue button, it loops back on itself. My institution and IT department claims that they…
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Importing Multiple Questions as Separate Banks via CSV
Colleagues, I am creating novel questions in Brightspace. I utilized the proper CSV template file and tested a single question. It imported the question using the UTF8 format. I next tested the same file as a regular CSV file (there are no special characters) and it imported the question. I next tried to import two…
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My First Post
Hello, Is this the official spot to make a first post as a new Community member? Thank you, Jodie
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Force Module with Course Creation
Is there a way to force a pre-designed module into Content or force a template into courses that are first created in CX and then transferred over to Brightspace? I want to create a template for courses that contains a "Start Here" module with pages that have information helpful to all students. For example, my…
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Descriptions for Add Existing activity
In the NCE, when I add a description for an activity that is brought in using the Add Existing Activity tool, the description shows up on the instructor side, but not on the student side. Why?
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Content vs New Content Experience called NCE
The due dates and end dates in the NCE are not too straight forward. In the NCE, after the due date the NCE makes the content not visible. You need an end date to keep the content visible. Why is this? When will this be fixed?
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Exempting Assignments
How do I exempt an assignment in the grade book?
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Discussions API Issue: Unable to create a topic under forums ?
I'm able to create a forum successfully but unable to create a topic, could you please help me what went wrong here. POST /d2l/api/le/(version)/(orgUnitId)/discussions/forums/ Create a new forum for an org unit. - Successful Response: { "ForumId": 39, "Name": "New Post 2", "Description": { "Text": "Forum description 2",…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…