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Is there a way to re-weight items in Grades for students who missed an exam? For example, a student missed a midterm, so now the final has more weight.

You have been aware of the sticky note glitches when writing online feedback for months. Specifically, the cursor skips to the start of the sentence when writing a note. When is this going to be fixed???

Dear Community, I hope you can shed some light on my understanding of the LTI Links table in the LTI Data sets. I was analyzing the usage of LTI links. I have joined the LtiLinks table with the LTILaunches on LTILinkId and LtiLinkId. After joining, I have realised that many links were missing in the LtiLinks table, which…

At present, the final grade in my course is not including the homework. I am trying to adjust the final grade calculation so that the homework category is included, but I do not see where or how to do that. I also need to take the raw homework grade (x out of 345 points) and convert it to a 100-point scale before inclusion…

Hello, I lead 10-15 sections of a first-year orientation course, and I used surveys to collect some pre/post information from students. Is there any way to collect individual student responses from each section of the course (each has its own Brightspace course shell) without downloading each individual student's response?…

Hi, I am facing difficulties with Analytics Builder Custom SQL. I am asked by my rep to access and find a place to submit a Support Ticket, but is unable to find where to do it. Can anyone assist to guide how can I submit a support ticket as I am unable to do any Data Modelling without the custom SQL feature in…

I use the discussion boards a lot. I also use the statistics from the discussion board topics to grade students' participation. Currently, the following topic statistics are available: Number of threads each student created Number of replies each student made Number of posts each student read Number of votes each student…

I need to know what scope I should use in OAuth2.0 setup to allow API access to advanced data sets. I have set up a legacy scope of core:*: datahub:*: but it allows the API user access to Brightspace Data Sets only, no reports that are labeled as Advanced Data Sets will pull through. I have read the API Authentication…

I want to find out where the quiz question converter is

To be able to have two instructors evaluate an assignment we have created seperate rubrics within the assignment. One for the first instructor, one for the second instructor and a third were the scores is combined to grade the student. We would like to know if it is possible to hide the conceptual feedback from the other…

Hello! I'd like to copy content over from one semester to another. If the shell that I'd like to copy information into already has existing content - will this create duplicate content or override the existing content?

How can I use calculated grades in other calculated grades? The new calculated grades I created do not appear as an option to include in other calculated grades. I read somewhere that I have to make the new calculated grade a "milestone grade" first, but I don't see any option to do that when setting up a calculated grade.…

I want to bulk upload questions for a final programming exam that I have written in the CSV format (referencing the information in this article). I can use the <code> tag to format the code answer choices, but they render only in monospace font, not using the Java syntax highlighting as when I manually click "Insert Code"…

Hello! We are moving to Brightspace from Blackboard. Our faculty are asking if any stock image libraries can plug into Brightspace. Faculty would like to add an image and search there for images (like on Facebook). Does that exist? Can it be built?

Lumi only seams accessible via the chat. Let's say my grades aren't summing and D2L produces an error code. Does the AI automatically anylize that and offer up a solution. This is when thing will really start getting interesting. Thanks!

Our institution has been using Competencies for 5 years, and recently, we are exploring the Learning Outcomes. But without paying for the achievement+, we want to see the functions with Learning outcomes, but still using competency because we are constantly pulling the CLOE data for several programs. My questions: is there…

Is this always going to be global or not? We would really like the ability to have select content being available to download, and other content not be able to.

Hi D2L community, Does anyone else here use the orange dot method to track quiz progress of students? & Has anyone encountered the issue where the orange dot disappears but the students quiz progress is still underway? A few lecturers I know of tend to track students' quiz progress status via the Grades page (i.e. the one…

Hello! I have created my Groups in the course and would like to add each group to a discussion. If I start a thread under my discussion for each group, is there a way to restrict each group so that they are only able to view the thread for the group they are assigned to?