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Excluding demo or test student accounts from displaying in the grade statistics
Hi, The view statistics option for grade items is a useful feature. However, at our university we have a demo student account (and often other test accounts or similar) that need to be excluded from any final statistics. Is there a simple way to exclude the data from test accounts? Our demo account is automatically…
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Is there a way to search a Brightspace course for a specific word?
We're moving to Brightspace from Blackbord. After a Blackboard course has been exported/imported into Brightspace, is there way to search the Brightspace course for a specific word (like "Blackboard") so that we can easily locate and change all references to Blackboard to Brightspace?
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What CSS style should I change so my accordion/card page is 100% width?
Hi, I am using an accordion for my Syllabus. I would like it to take up 100% of the <body>. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jim…
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Uploading Images in Content Areas
getting an error message when I try to upload an image. The image is a jpg file. I tried it in Firefox and Chrome and got the same error.
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Student access to brightspace API
Hi, I want to create a project where users can extract their registered courses, but I do not know if the API allows that access to students or if it's even feasible. Is there any resource I can refer to to find out what API calls I, as a student, can make? Thank you, Manmilan
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Forum Start-End Dates don't appear in Work-to-Do or Pulse
I don't know if this is a bug or a design decision… When adding Start and End dates to a Forum and putting those dates on the calendar, nothing appears on either the Work-to-Do widget or the Pulse app. They do appear on the course calendar. Adding start-end dates to the Topic, those dates do correctly appear on the…
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Weight for Bonus Item in Grade Category
Hi Everyone, What weight should a bonus item in a weighted category be assigned? Thanks in advance.
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How do we actually get to PIE?
The link requires login, but the credentials associated with the community account do not work. There also is no registration link anywhere.. thanks! https://desire2learn.brightidea.com/ct/ct_login.php?c=18362FFA-6F33-4621-8C32-577FFD706E99
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Date-Based Release Conditions for Certificates
Hi, I have a course where every year or so we update the details of the certificate and I don't want learners who have already received the previous certificate to receive this new version of the certificate. Currently, the release conditions for this certificate are that learners have to complete 3 modules and then visit…
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Book Saver
Where are my book links to the books they purchased for me? I have nothing I can see on here and I have nothing on my vital source.
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Bulk Unenroll from Sections/Groups
Hello, I'm trying to unenroll a user from about 400 groups/sections, but unfortunately they all have the same default name (sec1 or grp1). I created and ran a Bulk User Management file, but it only unenrolled them from a single instance of the "sec1" section and "grp1" group. Any ideas on how to get all of them? Or does it…
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Survey Questions - Mandatory vs Optional?
I've manually created a survey in D2L for my students (I am not using the question library). However, I can’t find the setting to make one of my survey questions non-mandatory (ie optional) for my students… Any ideas, folks? Thanks in advance! James
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Can grade settings be set at the individual grade item level?
Is there a way to keep the overall gradebook in D2L set to drop ungraded items but let the instructor select certain grade items to treat as 0? For example, after an assignment is past due, the instructor could set only that item to treat ungraded items as 0.
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Why are the Quotation marks in Microsoft Word different from the one in .csv?
Hi Brightspace, Here's the context: Our lecturers have a set of quiz questions that they had written out in a word document file before using the given BS Quiz Template to import the quiz questions into Brightspace. Some of these questions include quotation marks and we realised that when the quotation marks were copied…
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Arithmetic Question and Variables
I have created an arithmetic question on quizzes, created a graphical equation to solve, inputted my variables in { } and put in the details for the variables at the bottom. But when my students go to complete the test, the variables are not being replaced, they are still appearing as x, y and z. BUT! When I press "Test"…
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How can I connect grades with assignments and not get a billion rows of data?
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How to export feedback and grades
is there a way to export the gradebook to include the feedback that was given in the feedback column.
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Accommodations for One Student at the Lesson Level?
Quick question to the Community… Is it possible to allow one student to access a Lessons module say a week before it opens to the other students in a course? I know you can setup accommodations for a student in the Assignments, Quizzes but can it be done at the Lessons level? Is there a trick of the trade to allow this?…
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All of my progress deleted?
I am taking an online course, yesterday i was 18% complete this morning it says 0%. What do i do?
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JWKS url for OAuth access in Brightspace?
We are trying to verify the access token from OAuth. In order to do this, we need a "key identifier" (kid) from Brightspace, but we are not sure how to find it. There's one endpoint in our environment called: https://<instance>.brightspace.com/d2l/.well-known/jwks Here are a set of keys that can be used, but none of them…