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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.

How do I insert a link to a pdf that's in a google drive?

At our institution, our nursing department uses anonymous surveys to collect feedback on their instructors and locations. They also require students to complete the survey before the instructor will finalize their grade. Is there a way to have a survey be both anonymous and to see if a student has completed a survey?…

Is there a way an instructor can choose which courses to display in the My Courses widget. Currently it displays all courses ever taught by the instructor.

How do I assign competencies to quizzes? Do I need to include the quiz under an assignment?

Hello, Just wondering if anyone is having trouble with awards that are meant to be issued automatically (based on release conditions)… but they are not being issued even though the release conditions are met. Seems like it might have started around July 15/25. Thanks, Michelle

Hi all, We have added surveys to our courses via Postman and they are functioning as expected. Recently, we had to make an alteration (making them all anonymous) and we managed to do this via a Postman runner using the datahub file SurveyObjects as input (OrgUnitId and SurveyId). When preparing the input to perform this…

I inquired to D2L Help as to why the Chat feature was removed from D2L, and was told it was a redundant feature because the Messanager feature that is on D2L. However, the Chat feature was the only way instructors could perform office hours through the D2L system as the left pane on the Chat feature would show when a…

When reviewing the grade list you should be able to click on a graded or ungraded item and link over to the activity.

When using on a phone, such as watching videos of lectures, it is difficult to get back to the list of activities, also, should be able to continue to play the video in the background when changing apps. Also when you do go to another app or get interrupted by a phone call, when you go back to the video, it starts over…

When Navigating the content tab you should be able to see if an assignment was completed or not. This was removed with the latest update.

Apparently, D2L has switched to a new exam view. The new view includes feedback boxes for every question, which makes scrolling through cumbersome. Is there a way to remove feedback from the grading view on exams to make it easier to scroll through? I do not need to see the feedback boxes when grading. Also, when exam…

for the new course I would like to have the course title and semester information

Hello - I am a systems administrator for an online university. I have been looking for a way to allow some students to audit a course while others are taking it for a grade. In these cases, the student would enroll to access the content, but would not engage or be graded. Currently, our rubric is set up so that a student…

Anyone know the fastest/easiest way to get to the grading in your course? Right now I feel like I have to click and click and dig to get to where I can actually give feedback on a quiz or an assignment. I am new to this so I'm sure there is a better/faster way to get to the grading. Your help is appreciated.

I would like to reach out and get to know people taking the same coursework as I am.

In the July 20.25.07 CD Update, your release notes say this: Quizzes – Statistics available for rubrics on written response questions | New Instructors can now view rubric statistics for rubrics associated with written response questions across all learners’ first attempts in a quiz. Both Overall Statistics and Criteria…

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?