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Discover Tool - What do you call it?
Hello, Out of curiosity what do other organisations call the "discover" tool on the nav bars. We are using this for optional modules that our users can self enroll onto, any mandatory courses we enroll them. Calling it "Discover" seems misleading and to me sounds like a search to find either all your courses you have, or…
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Best Practices for SCORM File Management During Course Copying?
Hi D2L Community, We're troubleshooting SCORM file management & data reporting in Brightspace and are looking for some insights into your practices. Currently, we copy entire course sites, including SCORM files, each semester. We've recently learned that this process causes SCORM data records to accumulate within the same…
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View assignment mark history?
I am looking for a way to see a detailed mark history log for an assignment for a specific student. I want to know when and by who an assignment was marked, with all the details of each revision (mark, feedback, rubric). And also by who and when the mark was published. So far I have found the Submission Log (very useful!)…
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How to understand the setting up in a matching question
I am attempting to create a matching question in a test. I do not understand all of the windows for the setup. Do you have a thorough discussion of how to set up a matching question with eight components? Or do I need to create matching questions with just one image?
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Who is starting their Masters in instruction at AU this August?
I would like to reach out and get to know people taking the same coursework as I am.
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Start dates and calendar events
We have an educator who is setting start dates for making lecture content available to cut down on manual work (making things visible later on). However, this is now creating calendar events that are likely to confuse students. They may think the lecture is on that date, when it is just content being released. We would…
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Accessibility report animation
I am typing a description for a module. As I type, the 'accessibility monitor' animates, like a speedometer. it is distracting. How can i turn this off? Also, a frowny face emoji consistently shows up next to a document I have scanned in as a resource for students. This is distracting (and, kind-of rude, towards me). How…
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Intelligent Agents Frequency for 'not completed an attempt'
Do I need to set a Frequency for an Intelligent Agent to run when the criteria is 'Has not completed an attempt on the quiz', or will it run automatically when the quiz end date is reached?
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Progress tracker
Hi everyone, We’re using the Creator+ package, and we’ve built our content using HTML and Brightspace — not SCORM. I was wondering if there’s a way for learners to automatically start from the exact page they left off when they click on a module. Right now, they can see the progress bar and track their progress in more…
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I dont see an option to send an email
Hello, i want to email my professor ,but when I click on the icon, i don't see an option "email" could you please help?
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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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Tips and Tricks
Hi - I am looking for any tips or tricks that might help me with classroom management, announcements, etc. I recently found out that if i include {FIRSTNAME} in my announcements, the student will see themselves personally addressed in the announcement. So cool. And how do I tag the entire class vs just one student? Thanks!
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Discussions API Issue: Unable to create a topic under forums ?
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",…
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Linking to MacMillan achieve without adding a grade item
We are trying to add reading assignments by sections (not the entire ebook) to a course form MacMillan Achieve. It only shows in our Brightspace course if we link it to a grade item. Any suggestions? We have looked at MacMillan resources.
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Creating a quizz with Question pools issue
I am attempting to create a quizz with a pool of questions. I have followed the steps given to create the pool but am having an issue in saving the number of questions to select from the pool of questions. It keeps defaulting back to 0 after I select the SAVE button. I have attached a screenshot below. I have edited this…
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How do you setup quizzes that require mathematical calculations?
Hi Brightspace community! Throwing out a thought to ask about how the community conducts quizzes that require the grading of mathematical calculations. Pen and paper submissions are the traditional way, but we are looking into digital submissions. A hybrid method we have come across is requiring students to submit the…
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Creating Semester and Course Master Database
Hi, I want to create course names and then map those courses in the semester being offered. For example, a course Design Methods is offered in Fall 2025 with 6 sections while it was offered with four section in Fall 2024. Can I get a reference document helping me to navigate creation of courses, semesters, mapping courses…
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User engagement tracking
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…
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Receiving a 403 Forbidden API Error Message
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…
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Is the new PIE beta live?
Question: is the Beta live? It says June in the note but I am not able to log in: I tried resetting my password and got an error. I tried using an alternative email and a number of random (and increasingly unlikely) member names and got this error: "Email 'mail' is already enrolled with member name" Also, I'm not sure what…
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