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honestly i don't know where my student email is located can someone tell me how to access it

Hello, I'm wondering if there is a setting to allow students to enroll in multiple groups? A quick search shows me that students can only enroll in one group at a time, but is there a way to allow students to be a part of multiple groups? We're looking to use the Brightspace platform to allow students within a course to…

Can anyone share a sample payload for pushing the grades from D2L IPSIS to SIS system

I am attempting to add a learning journal to my course. I have seen descriptions of how to do this with single-user discussions, but there is also an activity called "Learning Journal" listed in the Activity Library. How can I add this to my class?

I have and have had students with class accommodations allowing for 5-10 minute breaks during exams. I teach asynchonrously online and am wondering if there is a setting to allow breaks during exams to be able to allow for this accommodation. I have not been able to locate the feature if there is one. Thank you. If there…

Can Brightspace make it possible for the attendance feature to feed directly into the gradebook as a discreet category? It would seriously streamline the process of tallying student attendance. Thank you!

I have a late policy in my syllabus that states a student will lose x% per day late. I was wondering if there was a way to automatically do this in assignments or discussion rubrics? Thanks!

Can Brightspace add a quiz question category that compares every character in two pieces of text (one question and its matched answer) and tallies differences as errors? In my writing courses, I like to provide students with sentences containing mechanical, grammatical, and typographical errors and then ask them to correct…

Hello Brightspace Community, I have a little bit confusion around the scheduling frequency with intelligent agents. We want to set it so it runs every first Friday of the months in October (3rd) and November (7th), to be exact. If I set the schedule for every four weeks, starting Oct 3, would that mean the agent will run…

Good day, Please can you assist with our special users who need to amend the Manage Special Access settings on assignments. This specific user has the same level of access on Brightspace however they cannot change any settings on the Manage Special Access feature. Is there a limited amount of users who are permitted to…

When I hover over it I don't see a more options spot to click

Hello, Where do I find the course files? Ann

Hello All, The following screenshot data started to appear on Thursday morning, July 24th when I was reviewing the daily Audit Log. Notice there are duplicates for each that I have indicated in red. However, nothing is actually being duplicated on Brightspace or in the files coming from our SIS files. The only thing that…

Right now all our instructors can access a URL like https://online.eiu.edu/d2l/api/lp/1.9/courses/264585 But if a student tries to access it, they get forbidden. How can we enable this for students? It looks like we need to turn this on: https://docs.valence.desire2learn.com/res/course.html ? Thanks for the help.

How do I show students their letter and percentage grade?

hi, I have a case where “only the most recent submission is kept” this deletes all previous uploads. When restoring the old deleted files is there a chance that it is replaced by the new version. Im trying to work out if there is potentially the case were old files completely get removed without anyway to retrieve them?…

Hi, If a submission was deleted by the administration or if the page is set to replace existing/keep only the latest file. How long is the deleted/replaced files kept on the back end? ie how long after the deletetion can I ask D2L backend to restore the file. I have seen some mention to recovery only occuring within 30…

What is the code to deep link into a course offering knowing the course offering code ? I would like to know the url to a course offering using the course offering code. I know the url if I know the ou for the course offering but what is the url using the course offering code ? Thank you for any help you can provide.

Hello, how do we make a post to the activity feed here? I believe this is the last task I need to do to complete all my D2L Academy training😀