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Hi! We are new to Brightspace (coming from Blackboard). One of our faculty members would like to alter the points of a quiz AFTER it has been taken. For example, if 12 of her 15 students get a question wrong, she wants to remove it from the quiz or remove points from that question. In Bb, you can do this. Can it be done in…

Greetings, Brightspace Colleagues! NCC is new to Brightspace (moving from Blackboard). Are there options for Peer Review in assignments, assessments, or discussions? We can't find any way to utilize peer review within Brightspace. Thank for your help!

Hi there, Our ReadSpeaker app is not linking to the first slide on each course. Is this because it's html? This has been noted by our user testers and is a huge accessibility issue. Not to mention the additional money that we paid for this add-on. Can this be fixed?

Hi, Is it possible to sort the attendance export by last name? Thanks, Jim…

Is there a better way to keep up with the change history of a release note update? I keep these on a slide show so I can color code what is pertinent and useful for my organization by role to be presented. The change history vaguely alludes to a change which makes me have to compare the new to what I have and read through…

Is there a way to bulk deactivate courses by semester? I know it's possible to do this via IPSIS and the course offerings .csv file but we have courses going back to 2015 that were added manually. It was only in the last year or so we started using IPSIS. You can obviously delete courses manually in bulk but not deactivate…

Course POWT2395 is currently listed in the spring term, term 1243, has the first Brightspace offering transferred from Moodle. This is listed as POWT2395X01. The X01 designates the course section. We need there to be two sections, so we need to have an X01 and X02 to align with all their other courses. I need some help to…

I would like to limit the word count in written response questions. Is there a way to do this?

In a quiz's settings, under Timing & Display, you can disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts with Brightspace. If you're using the Respondus Lockdown Browser with the quiz, is it necessary or redundant to use the setting to disable access to email and instant messages? Is there any benefit to using the two settings…

Hello! Last fall, I was able to upload a file with the same name and could choose whether to replace the file with this new one or upload as a copy. This feature is not there anymore, and it is SUCH A HASSLE. I have to delete the old file, upload the new file, and then relink any linked documents in D2L. Has this feature…

Is Online learning better than physically learning?

I am having trouble with viewing my grades for a class in bright space. At the start of the semester, it worked fine, now 4 weeks in, I can no longer view feedback or grades for one of my classes. Anyone has any idea how to correct this?

I'm administering a quiz using Respondus, and I'd like to provide students an Excel attachment which they will then modify and upload back into their quiz. I believe I can do this by creating a Written Response question, but then (I believe) students will have a copy of the excel which they can share with other sections.…

Has anybody else noticed that Creator+ flip cards have lost the spinning animation in certain browsers? Clicking the card still goes to the other side, but instantly without the animation. I haven't been able to narrow it down to being on specific browser versions (I have a slight unconfirmed suspicion that it could be a…

May i ask how do i activate the "View as Learner" option when i click on my username. It is missing. Thank you.

I want to take a quiz I wrote that requires a lockdown browser and then be able to see which questions I got wrong. If I preview the quiz, and select the box to allow the preview attempt on the grade quiz page, nothing shows up on the grade quiz page, i.e., if I select the quiz/grade/attempts it reports "there are no…

Hello, We have a course that uses rubrics (in another system) for Peer to Peer grading. It is desired to move this exercise to Brightspace. Can we assign rubrics to users in the student role, giving them the ability to evaluate their peers?

I had to add a feedback box to WR question after the students had already submitted the quiz. Now Brightspace says that that question is not in the quiz anymore. If I update all attempts, will the submissions, feedback, scores be removed from the student's record?

I have a few classes on Brightspace, but only one is giving me an error message and asking me to contact my administrator. I emailed the professor of Math 34 (31558) College Alegbra, and Professor Mormin says it's working correctly on his end. However, I still have no access to all the class materials as I did before. This…

Hello! I am wondering if anyone has been successful in creating distinct student learning outcomes (SLO) in Brightspace by labeling them within each course. Presently, our system measures each SLO aligned to the parent code. Is there a way to write SLO 1 so it can be distinctly different in each course? New here and…