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Learner password management
How do I adjust settings to allow learners to update their own password through their 'account settings' rather than doing a forgot password reset?
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Intelligent Agent and Final Calculated Grade
Has anyone figured out how to create an Intelligent Agent with Release Conditions to alert the instructor (or student) or someone else, when a student's final calculated grade has fallen below a certain level? This seems like a no-brainer request but it is not one of the items listed under the Grades Release Conditions.…
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Can you find all references to a specific URL across an entire institution's instance?
Hello and thanks in advance for your help! We have an issue because there is a resource (a library guide) linked in many of our courses at the institution. The URL will be changing soon so all places where it's linked will of course be soon broken. Is there a way to track all the places this website is linked in…
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What's the ONE thing/tip I need to know to set up a course if I'm new to Brightspace?
There's a lot of administration to do to set up a course...let alone facilitate it. Assume it's a faculty/instructor who needs to do this (there's no assistant), they're new to the LMS and they can't waste any time. How can we help them get their course set up with the essentials...
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How to follow documentation kb article pages on new communuty site?
For example, how do I follow this page or get alerts that it has been updated? Thanks, Charles
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Merged Courses and Using Student View to See What Students Can See
When I go to "Student View" for my merged courses, it doesn't show anything that is in the "parent" course. Why is that?
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Does D2L have an OER-type hub or open LOR that I either retrieve or upload files?
Does D2L have an OER-type hub or open LOR that I either retrieve or upload files that could benefit other instructors, IDs, or admins? For example, we've created a regular and substantive interaction (RSI) log within the HTML editor, and it could benefit other faculty, institutions, and programs that track RSI for…
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Issue with Adding questions from the Question Library.
When trying to add questions to a quiz from the Question Library, certain questions have a message in green that says “Already imported” and these questions cannot be added to the quiz: Can you please explain? If you need an example, you can go to Winter 2013 - PSYC-215-001<https://mycourses2.mcgill.ca/d2l/home/58406> >…
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Quizzes not showing in content
After importing quizzes from one course to another, the quizzes appear under the submissions button, but I cannot find where to ensure they appear in "content." Thank you
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What function do "Enrollment Options" play on the "Add Existing Users" screen?
When I choose "Classlist"/Add Participants/Add Existing Users" (and I find "existing users" misleading because these are users registered in Brightspace, but not yet registered in my class... why not say "Add Brightspace Users"), I get the following screen: My question is, what do the Enrollment Options fields do? I…
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How many schools/R1 schools allow athletic advisors/advisors to have access to their student's grade
How many schools/R1 schools allow athletic advisors/advisors to have access to their student's grade centers/gradebooks?
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Is there a format other than XML that I can export questions from the library?
I need to create a hard copy of an online exam, and I need to export the questions, but it does not appear I can export them as a .docx, .xlsx. or CSV file. Is there a way to convert an online exam into a Word file without using copy and paste?
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What does this do? - "Final Grade Calculation - Display how final grade was calculated to users"
Hello- Under Grades => Settings => Org Unit Display Options - OR - on Step 6 of the grades Setup Wizard, - There is an option to select: "Final Grade Calculation - Display how final grade was calculated to users" - I'm hoping to learn more about what this does specifically, maybe with an example of what data would…
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Are all recordings made with the Media Library limited to 30 minutes?
Are all videos and audio recordings that are made using the Media Library limited to 30 minutes? I noticed that there is a 30 minute timer when I go into the Media Library to create audio/video content with the new capabilities from the November update. If the limit is 30 minutes, I want to be able to inform my faculty of…
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Is there a way for admin to enable email notifications for all students
The pulse app has announcement notifications turned on by default, but the students' email notifications for the same are not turned on by default. Is there a way for an admin to turn these on for all students? Thank you, Amy
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Adding points to an attempt
I have an online quiz that’s worth 72 points and the students have already completed it. There is a written portion worth 10 points to add to the 72 thus making total exam worth 82. I know how to update the scores if you edit an Existing question that’s on the attempt but, how do you add the 10 points for the written part…
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Need to revise scoring on "Matching" questions after the quiz was taken
When my quiz was migrated from Blackboard, I didn't realize that the "matching" style questions were assigned "all or nothing" grading until after my students had taken it. When I go to "update all attempts" for those questions I don't have the option to change the grading from "all or nothing" to "equally weighted" Is…