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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.

Issue: Awards that issue PDF certificates with replace strings strip out PDF accessibility tags Related issues: 01918625 Steps: Follow instructions, steps 1 through 8: Create a Custom Certificate that uses Replace Strings I used {FullName} and {AwardDate} replace strings Only change I made was on step 6 of the linked…

I would like to find a way to set up late submission penalties on quizzes and assignments. Thank you, Lae

Hi, Whenever I insert an H5P element on a page, a "If this content appears unavailable, open [element name] in a new tab" appears at the bottom, but the spacing seems to be off, so the rows of text overlap a little. Is there a way to fix that?

There should be a way to block specific types of files like HEIC or pages.

Hello, everyone. This is for anyone using Brightspace with McGraw-Hill's SIMnet program. Previously, users were able to get into SIMnet directly from a link in Brightspace. But since SIMnet was reconfigured recently, that is no longer the case. You can still access assignments in SIMnet through a link in Brightspace, but…

Hi! I am looking to find the criteria for the different colors that appear in the gradebook when using the default "Percentage" grading scheme. Where can I find that information? Thanks!

We have been asked to audit all of our section offerings to see if an instructor has been enrolled. Is there a quick way to print or access this information

I asked one of my classes to try accessing a quiz to see how a "release condition" works. We discovered that the students couldn't see the quiz until they had completed the reading. "From the students' perspective, they can't see the posted assignment. Therefore, they don't know it's there and cannot see the instructions…

Recently an updated allowed admins to modify the filter for the My Courses widget to display by term. The sort options are either A-Z or Z-A which does not work well for the way our terms are named. Is there a way to manually select the order of how the terms appear (starting with the most recent and going back in time)?…

I have a faculty member who noticed in NCE that when they navigate away from Content (say, over to grades) and then select Content again, it no longer goes back to where they were in the Content. "In the new version of D2L, whenever I open Content, it takes me back to the beginning of the table of contents. In the old…

Is it possible to set up a separate set of metadata for each Learning Object Repository (LOR)? So for LOR A we want Metadata A to be filled in and for LOR B we want Metadata B (with different fields) to be filled in. You can select a different view and fill it in via 'Edit metadata' during publishing, but if you click…

Hello Brightspace Community, We are using Brightspace Portfolios for the first time this semester and are currently setting up our portfolio workflow. Our intended workflow is: Students submit an assignment in Brightspace. The instructor assesses the assignment. The student adds the assessed assignment to their portfolio.…

Is anyone currently using Brightspace Portfolio with the assignment settings "Add Own Assignment to Portfolio" enabled? I'm testing this option and am not seeing any difference in the student submission experience. From the student's perspective, the assignment submission process appears unchanged. If you've used either of…

I want to create a survey with dropdown boxes instead of, for example, a Likert scale. Is there any way to do that? I have been looking, but not seeing it anywhere.

Hi D2L Community, CMCC already uses Brightspace as our LMS. I recently spoke with CMCC’s Instructional Designer (Natalee S.) to inquire if there were supported ways to make Brightspace Rubrics faster to create/build for instructors and institutions. What I’m trying to do: Create new Brightspace analytic rubrics from an…

Hi everyone, Given that an automatic late penalty is not a feature in Brightspace (and not gaining much traction in PIE), I am curious how other institutions/organisations are currently applying deductions for late submission penalties, please? Mostly, our academics are calculating this manually, but this is time-consuming…

I use Discussions for students to post answers to reading questions. I moderate the posts and approve them after they're due. The goal is for students to be able to refer to their classmates answers to study for tests. But I'd like to be able to privately respond to students' answers. I can't do that on approved or…

Because of security concerns I have regarding learners' capabilities in the internal email system, we were wondering if there's a way to do the following: Restrict a role's ability to send emails to non-Brightspace users (e.g., an external email address when said email address isn't attached to a user in Brightspace).…

Is it possible to add a late enrolled student to an existing Attendance register? If yes, please advise how. If not, is there a way to upload existing attendance data from a csv file into a new Attendance register? Thanks

Is there a way to hide courses from the my home, or segmented course links? For instance, my institution has shells for our yearly trainings, but it is hard to keep track of which still need to be completed and which have been completed. I'd like to hide the ones I'm done with! Anyone have any ideas?