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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.

What happened with the 2026 Brightspace Pathfinder Awards? Windows were to be announced after May 1st but I do not recall reading anything about what happened or who won.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone in the community could provide examples of how they are handling incompletes. For example, we have a number of students (hundreds per semester) who will receive incompletes and get an extension to have extended access to a course to complete assignments etc… if they meet specific criteria.…

Occasionally, students will need to edit their discussion threads upon request to include resources, images, etc. However, I do not receive notifications when a post/thread has been edited. Is there a way to be notified when a post has been edited? I assume we would be notified if we subscribe to the post. Although, it…

Are there other options besides K16 to archive courses with all student data that can be restored later for accreditation purposes? Tonya

My organisation is using the Teams connector to automatically create a team every time a section/ course is created on the system. We recently had an issue where courses and sections were duplicated resulting in the unfortunate duplications pushing to Teams. The duplicated courses have been removed both on Brightspace and…

When I created my first Brightspace quiz with bonus questions, some students earned scores above the maximum (e.g., 16/10), but the linked grade item capped every grade at 10 because Can Exceed had not been enabled on the grade item. As a new user, it never occurred to me that marking a quiz question as Bonus was not…

Hello Community! Use the DataHub, what is the best way to determine who has activated their courses in a term, and who has yet to activate them? thanks! Chris

I am the Registrar of a college currently implementing D2LBrightspace and our SIS is Jenzabar SONIS. We are struggling to automate the file updates that should send from SONIS to D2L. If anyone currently using these two products could assist by letting us know how you've set this up, we would be appreciative.

Curious if there is an auto save feature for discussion board responses. We have several adult learners who will start a response while at lunch at work and will need to finish the post at home. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to determine whether anyone else has experienced inconsistent behaviour when editing images in the Brightspace HTML Editor. One of our instructors is reporting that when they edit an image using Edit Image, changes such as resizing appear to save correctly while they are still in the HTML Editor.…

Hi everyone, I've recreated our institution's standardized navbar as a shared Organization-level navbar. My question is about the final step. Is there a supported way to bulk set a shared navbar as the active navbar for a subset of existing course offerings (for example, all Fall 2026 course offerings)? At the moment, I…

Hi D2L community, Are there suggested best practices to get Lumi Support to provide better feedback? In my exploration with Lumi Study Support, I've gotten a lot of the following message: I've created content using Lumi Content, used Lumi Quiz to generate questions from the content created from Lumi Content and ran several…

I'm looking for advice on the best way to configure a custom role in Brightspace. We have a set of master course shells that serve as the source for instructors to copy content into their teaching course offerings. We'd like to have two different levels of access: Course caregivers: Full Instructor permissions so they can…

Each term, we create a welcome announcement with dates for each term. The announcement is stored it in a folder in shared public files (html-Template-Library) and embedded as an announcement in each course. We would like to personalize the announcement for each student. So…. Added this code: Dear {FirstName}, The code…

If I purge courses, will the content linked from the Media Library be deleted with the course or will the content stay within the Media Library?

I’m having problems previewing quizzes in D2L using the Respondus lockdown browser. When I select Preview for one of my quizzes, it goes into the preview and I can see the Start Quiz button at the bottom, which will take me into the quiz. But then I choose to Bypass Restrictions so I can test the quiz with the lockdown…

Hi, I was assisting an instructor who created a Text item in her Grade Book and entered letter grades for her students. This was just a standalone column not associated with a scheme. From the students' perspective, they could see the title of the text item in their grades but they couldn't see the letter grade entered by…

We've recently had a couple of instructors ask about making assignments more prominent for students in Brightspace. Most of our instructors currently provide assignment descriptions and instructions within their course content, but some have asked whether it's possible to provide a direct "Assignments" link in the course…

I'm wondering if anyone has implemented a workflow in Brightspace where attendance in an in-person class determines access to an associated quiz. For example: • Student attends Monday's class → they can access and complete Monday's quiz later from home. • Student misses Monday's class → they cannot access Monday's quiz. If…

Our university is transitioning from Blackboard Learn 9.1 to Brightspace, an instructor asked the following question: "I have a Quiz that is made up of mostly QUESTION POOLs. I want to get the questions into the Question Library. How do I do that? I tried going into the Question Library and do an Import from the quiz but…