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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 currently have the widget page locked down as the course homepage and faculty are clamoring the the ability to edit/add/move widget. Is there a way to limit the system widget option they have to add? Can we turn off the ability to create custom widgets?

For one of my courses, we utilize discussion boards, and we are expected to format using APA7 guidelines. I am unable to indent, as when I press tab, it takes me to the next button instead of the usual expected indentation. I am also unable to create the hanging indent that is required in the references section. I have…

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…

I would like to have sub-modules hidden until the start date/time and automatically made visible to students at the start date/time. Currently, the module is visible to them but they cannot click the links to their homework until the start date/time. This tends to create confusion or questions, so I would like modules to…

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I spoke with an instructor last week about the fact that after the last wave update, her students could not read published feedback on the student grade screen. For example, the instructor entered feedback on this test, published it, and it's now not showing. This means individual students can't see their feedback. It…

When I signed up for BrightSpace, it welcomed me and then went immediately to an unauthorized access page. Does anyone know how to get this issue fixed? Thank you Jen

Is there a way to collapse the 'Feedback' boxes on the new exam view? There used to be an option, but that was apparently removed in the new exam view. I do not need feedback boxes for every single multiple-choice question, and having to scroll through has made the new exam view quite cumbersome. Thank you.

I am wondering if anyone knows a way to filter/view assignments by student? I am new to D2L and working on their mid term evaluation. I want to pull examples from their prior assignments to give specific feedback. I am currently opening several windows to view the other assignments and then putting feedback into their…

The guidance for release conditions at About Release Conditions - Brightspace states: Note: Once a learner meets a release condition, the condition is cleared for that learner and cannot be reset. For example, if you attach a release condition to a discussion topic requiring learners to achieve more than 60% on a quiz…

How would you answer this instructor's question: " I am wondering about how to set a point value (total) for a grade category but then allow for points past that “max” to count for bonus. For Example – the Class Participation Category has 38 in-class quizzes which are 2 points each (for a total of 76 points); however, we…

I'm using the "formula" style of gradebook template, because none of the others offer the flexibility I need. Getting Brightspace to handle blank grades reasonably with this system has not worked out so far. The "don't include blanks in averages" setting does not appear to apply to formulas, which tend to throw an error if…

Hi, At THUAS we are using surveys more and more. However, I would like to be able to display the answers the students gave but ONLY their own responses after they submitted their responses. I cannot find this option in Reports. How do I accomplish this? Kind regards, Jordi van Selm The Hague University of Applied Sciences…

For the first two discussion topics in my course students who enrolled late need special access. Are there work arounds for allowing individual students access after the end date for the rest of the class?

Has anyone had an issue with the quiz where the class is not all seeing the same questions. It seems that some of the class and I see the correct version and some are seeing questions (ghosts) an old version. I am really not sure how to sort this out as on my side everything looks correct.

Hi all, We're exploring some additional ways to connect with students. One simple way we're looking at is some modifications to how notifications of emails appear when they are sent to our College email. Currently, a notification of an email message in Brightspace by defaults sends and email to the users College email has…

Has anyone successfully integrated Padlet into a Brightspace course so that grades transfer automatically into the Brightspace gradebook?

We are exploring the reports in the Data Hub in greater detail and were wondering how far back does the data go in time? Back in our old Blackboard Original system, we could only get data as far back as 180 days from the present day so it wasn't all that helpful for assessing long-term trends. Data Hub and Analytics…