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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",…

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…

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.

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…

I cannot see accommodations permissions under Roles and Permissions: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/4771-accommodations-permissions I have been unable to locate documentation on enabling accommodations. What am I missing here? Thanks!

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…

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…

HI, I want to update the Org ID of some of our users - when I upload the new spreadsheet with the new Org ID I get a response saying the Org ID is not found - how do I create new Org ID in a spreadsheet ?

Anyone integrated Zoho meeting for live sessions / webinar sessions with D2L LMS Which works well with D2L LMS among various webinar meeting tools like Zoom, GMeet, Zoho anything else ?

A couple of our test consist of student writing a report of creating a project. To grade these projects and reportm, they have to upload them in an assignment. In the assignment list we seperate each course into its own category. However, most student simply click the top category and upload, a lot of the time, the worng…

Hello D2L Team, I'm currently using D2L as a student at Deakin University. I'm also a learning designer, and our organisation is considering switching to D2L next year. As part of my exploration, I’ve been testing the UX/UI features of the LMS. I’ve found the ePortfolio reflections tool to be quite useful. However, I’ve…

Is it possible to set up grading to count only the highest grade of several attempts on an automatically graded quiz before students make any attempts. The instructions I've seen here show how to do it after the quiz has been attempted by the student:…

Hi folks! Is there a function that lets you export all of the content from a learning repository?

I am not able to get any grades to upload to D2L. I get an error every time, but it doesn't tell me anything about what it doesn't like. It just says it can't read the file. It is a .csv file . My input looks something like this: OrgDefinedId ec: mindset 1 Points Grade End-of-Line Indicator e0000000 3 # I have tried it…

I have 250 students sorted into 20 groups. I need each group to sign up for a single presentation topic and topics can only be claimed by one group. Is there a way to set up a "group" with my topic titles and allow my premade student groups to sign up for one each, or is there a different sign up feature I can use in…

Hi, I'd like to ask if there are more resources I can refer to or support staff I can consult on known issues—limitations or behavioral quirks in specific H5P content types when used within D2L. I could find some results within this forum by searching "H5P" with the category filters "Known and Fixed Issues" and "Known…

A campus issue was recently raised where Turnitin was turned off for certain assignments. We have the system set up in such a way that instructors would have the ability to manage assignment settings. The campus wants to investigate how (by who) Turnitin could have been turned off for 2 separate courses for different…

Hi Everyone, I have a list of announcements that Iʻm using in a course. I had sorted them in an order that makes it easy for me to find and use and then accidentally hit the sort by title field at the top of the list of announcements. This seems to have resorted all my announcements for all my courses by title. I have used…

How do I upload an assignment for a student on Brightspace? For example, if the due date for submitting the assignment has passed for the student, who then emails me the assignment, how do I upload the file as the student's submission?