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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.

Hello, Can someone please tell me how to pull data for new user accounts created within a Brightspace environment? Some context- I am trying to stay on top of new instructors teaching classes for the first time. Thank you very much!

Hello, Can I mark an assignment as completed without giving it a grade?

Hi there, Please would you let me know if there is any way to distinguish files that are connected with content vs files that are not in manage files? For context, the lesson has been ported over and brought a lot of files that seem to be mostly unrelated to the current subject though it is hard to know which ones are and…

Hi Folks, Question I got today - "Do you know if we can have an early release of a module for a student?" I'm thinking a group of one and set a release condition, but when I do that, it only makes that module available for that single student. Would we have to remove the release condition at some point for the student, or…

How to create branching surveys in BS

Hi, Does anyone have an Python example of how to get an access token using the oAuth2 workflow without using an refresh token? I can get an access token based on a valid refresh-token but I'm trying to build a solution which does not rely on a refesh-token to be available. I get stuck in the login step because I can't find…

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…

The Brightspace Pulse app on my android updated. I went in, and after four splash pages, I found the my institution's login and signed in through the faculty sign in. I am now stuck in a login loop. When I hit the "Return to Pulse" blue button, it loops back on itself. My institution and IT department claims that they…

Colleagues, I am creating novel questions in Brightspace. I utilized the proper CSV template file and tested a single question. It imported the question using the UTF8 format. I next tested the same file as a regular CSV file (there are no special characters) and it imported the question. I next tried to import two…

In the NCE, when I add a description for an activity that is brought in using the Add Existing Activity tool, the description shows up on the instructor side, but not on the student side. Why?

Is there a way to force a pre-designed module into Content or force a template into courses that are first created in CX and then transferred over to Brightspace? I want to create a template for courses that contains a "Start Here" module with pages that have information helpful to all students. For example, my…

Hello, Is this the official spot to make a first post as a new Community member? Thank you, Jodie

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.

I have notifications set up in the Pulse App and I see them when I open the app and tap the notifications button. However, even though I have notifications enabled for Pulse in my iPhone settings, I still do not get push notifications such as badges and sounds. How can I fix this? Notifications I can only see when I open…

How do I exempt an assignment in the grade book?

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…

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!

We have Course offerings used for resources and communications, which the learners get refreshed every year as new students join/graduate. Is there a way to remove all learners from a site, in lieu of the manual approach?

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 ?