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Quiz score is a whole number, student scores end up with decimal places in the grade book
An Instructor recently held a series of quizzes as part of a final exam. The quiz was imported from a Blackboard course package along with all other course content. One of the original quizzes had one extra question for zero (0) points to solicit student feedback in a short answer question at the end of the quiz for a…
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Can an admin see previous versions of an instructors feedback?
I'm trying to help the dean with a student issue, the student claims he received earlier feedback for several assignments, that he was on track and had earned full credit. Then, according to the student, the grade was changed on the morning of January 18th by the professor. Is there a way to check and see if feedback was…
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Why did you remove embedding Practice in a Layout?
Until last week (Jan 24, 2025) I was creating content and able to insert a practice element inside layout, but now it gives me an error message saying I can't do it anymore. That means it was something intentional. Why touch that? Was it a problem at all any point? What about fixing the issues instead of limiting our…
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Rosters
It would be great if you could export an Excel spreadsheet from the sections rather than just the overall roster.
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How do I receive hotfix notifications?
My boss is receiving hotfix notifications for our D2L account, and I also need to receive them.
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Groups
I want to set up groups of 2, randomized by Brightspace. I have 15 students on my class list. How do I set this up?
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Virtual Classroom
I do not see my virtual classroom meeting for today.
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Is there an API call to to find all users with email not like *@institution.edu
I would like to find all "guest" users. Is there an API call to to find all users with email not like *@institution.edu
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Reset Quiz button gone
The little garbage can icon that allows an instructor to reset a quiz attempt is suddenly missing. Has anyone else had this happen to them? We have had some bizarre thing occur since the update on Jan. 22nc.
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Can I link a submodule from one module to another module?
I have a submodule with content in a module. I want the same submodule to be accessible from multiple modules. Is there a way to either link the original submodule or copy it to more than one module?
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Quiz Printer Widget Limitations
Has anyone else installed the new Quiz Printer Widget? https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/27503-printing-assistance-for-brightspace-quizzes We recently discovered two limitations that are not listed in the known issues. First, if you have more than 20 quizzes in the course, only the first 20 will appear in…
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where is my class
I cannot find my college courses on here? I need this program for my physics course.
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Intelligent Agents (IA)
Would I be correct in saying that IA is useful within a course and not something that can be used as an outside or overall main Org Unit tool? Since we add students/instructors to our Brightspace instance via IPSIS there is no way for us to email a student or instructor that they have been added to Brightspace as a user…
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Why are all page head links broken in v5.0 course offering template html files?
I'm not sure when they were released, or whether there's a fix. Or even, if anyone has the direct urls to all the css and js files in the page heads of the templates. That would be helpful.
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Email to students who have not taken the quiz
How do I send an email only to the students who have not taken the quiz with a deadline that is soon?
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how to submit course completion
i need to submit my completion document for academic probation
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Implementing a Likert Scale Assessment
Hello, Has anyone had success implementing a Likert Scale assessment into their course? I know you can create Likert questions from within the Question Library and import them to a Survey, but are their other ways to do this within a course? Is it possible to assign point values to responses so students can get a sum total…
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Customizing Elements
Is it possible to customize the color of inserted elements? For example, in a timeline, can you change the color of the headline and border something other than the default blue to better align with school branding?
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Rubrics
Is it possible to import a rubric that i created as a Word doc or do I have to re do the whole thing?
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