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How do I produce a file that lists all grades for Brightspace?

Hi everyone, Background: We are working on automating the transfer of Brightspace gradebooks to our Student Management System. To do this we have values in both the Final Calculated Grade (the majority of students) and the Final Adjusted Grade columns (those students needing adjustments after Faculty review). A two-part…

Could you please clarify how sessions are tracked and whether there could be any system errors affecting data accuracy? We observed that a student downloaded a document from Brightspace, yet the system recorded it as 1 visit | 0d 0h 0m 0s | Downloaded. How can a download be registered without any time allocation?…

When our faculty users attempt to look up a student's auditor (coach), they receive a Not Authorized error. This error also occurs when an Admin user impersonates a faculty member. However, when an Admin uses Role Switch to faculty, the error doesn't occur. What's going on, and how do we let faculty view auditors? The…

When viewing the attempt logs for one of my quizzes, I noticed that all the columns—Quiz Entry, Quiz Completion, Quiz Attempt Deleted, and Quiz Attempt Restored—display the same date and time for 25 students. However, when I review each individual attempt, I see varying times that align better with expected activity.…

Hi, I was wondering if the system would crash if 1000+ students all tried recording a video note in their assignment submission at the same time? Thank you

Hello everyone! I know it is possible to get students to record a video to submit as an assignment, but is it possible to disable the ability to re-record? Essentially we want students to record and submit their first attempt. They only get one chance at recording. Is this possible? Alternatively, is it possible to be able…

Hi, I want to mark a student's original thread plus their reply to another student in the discussion topic. Will both of these posts show up in the evaluation screen when assessing the topic? Thanks! :D

We are working on automating the transfer of Brightspace grade book to our Student Management System (Banner/Ellucian). Would anyone be willing to share their workflow or policies and procedures? We are a Health Related Institute with many schools and various programs. Thank you!

I've looked at the Quiz Attempt Log but there is no option for IP Log. How do I get this?

How do you change the following text for quizzes in Brightspace? Instructions Before you submit the quiz, you will have the opportunity to return to questions that you may have missed or have not yet answered. You can submit your quiz responses at any time. I have my quizzes set to only allow 1 attempt, but the last…

When reading posts, I might want to refer a student back to someone else's post, but I don't remember the content of everyone's post. Is there a search function for a discussion forum, where I can search for words or terms and see which posts contain them? That would also be useful for detecting inauthentic/copied work.

We have faculty members who are grading assignments. If they enter a numeric grade, and then click the "Save as Draft" button, the grade and feedback are saved. However, the numeric grade does not appear in the gradebook, to the instructor, before it is published. Sometimes instructors want to go back and see the list of…

I have had several students question why it showed 8.95/10 in the area with the final grade. The students actually had grades of A with percentages of 94% for example.

If I download a zip file of a unit content in 'view as student' mode, it also contains the hidden and deferred publication documents. This causes unrest among teachers who test this, while in reality the student does not receive those files in the zip file. Why is it possible to download those files in student view mode?

Hi there, I want students to see their mark now but not see their assignment feedback. So I want to manually enter their marks in the grade book while keeping the assignment in draft mode, unpublished. Once I'm ready to publish the assignments, will this be a problem or will the marks just override what is already entered…

Will I be able to edit the criteria of a rubric that I import to another course for a future semester? The current version of the rubric has been published, but I'd like to use the same rubric in the future. I'd like to know if I would be able to edit the imported/copy components rubric for future semesters or if I would…

Hi, We are looking to implement the New Content Experience as the default for new course offerings, but there are two elements that we currently use in the "Old" Content Experience which seem to disappear when toggling on the NCE. The "Overview" at the top of the Content menu we use to introduce each course with key…

I have grades that have disappeared in the brightspace gradebook, and when I tried to investigate, there are no 'event' logged. The submitted files for the assignment in question have all been 'read', supporting the TAs assertion that they graded the assignment, but the grades are all gone. I am concerned that someone has…

Hi there, I recently dicovered that you can add various type of code to code blocks using the Brightspace Editor. However, there does not seem to be a copy button with which you can also copy the code within the code blocks to the clipboard. Is this by design? I my humble opinion it would be worthwhile to have a (optional)…