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The Accessibility category serves as a single point of access to three avenues in Brightspace Community leading to the Accessibility Academy, Accessibility Library and Accessibility Discussions. These avenues offer courses and articles about accessibility to enhance accessibility knowledge and a group of accessibility enthusiasts to stay connected with.

Does anyone know what the character limit is for the Criteria and Description fields when creating a new award? We are trying to set up micro-credentials using the awards system in D2L, but I am having trouble finding what the character limit is for those important fields in the set-up of that award system. Thanks in…

Why don't you allow the "special access" option for discussion boards as you do for assessments such as quizzes and drop box items. This is a major failing of your system. There are times often enough, where students have a legitimate reason to request and receive additional time to post on a discussion board.

When using the Brightspace SCORM website, most of the page is fine, but then certain areas trail off the page and are unreadable. I am doing a maths course and it affects being able to read long equations. Is this a problem with the design of the website or is there something I can do to make it display properly?

I have a quiz that originally has 1 attempt, and I see that students are not doing well and I'd like to add an attempt. If I go to edit the quiz and simply add an attempt, will that work for all students, even those who have already taken the quiz once? Thanks!

Is it possible to change a Username on Brightspace without any disruption? Meaning can this be done without creating issues or any complications for the user and their course enrollments, etc.? Reasoning behind this, is that we have some username accounts that are not part of SSO O365 credentialing. Their accounts were…

Is there a way to trace who locked, disabled, or enabled an account? How can I find out who made these changes? Also, are there situations where the system might automatically lock, disable, or enable an account? If so, under what circumstances does that happen?

Does Brightspace have a feature of flagging questions on assessments so that students can identify a troubling question and can make sure to return to that question before they submit an attempt?

Hi all, Some of our faculty continue to use Classic Content while others have switched to NCE, and we're finding that end dates function differently in each one. In Classic Content, a Unit with an end date appears after the end date and the content still shows up, whereas in NCE the Unit is gone after the end date. Can…

Many students do not go by their given first names, and in some cases really don't like being called by their first names. Can a replacement string be used to pick up the nickname field in the profile?

One of our Instructors noticed that their students grades are showing different weighted totals. Is this an issue we should be worried about and look into more? How could we make sure all students are graded equally? (NOTE: Two different assignments with different scores between students)

I can't seem to set up my grade book properly. I don't know how to change percentages in some categories as they are grayed out. Is there a basic video about the grade book? Something other than the setup wizard. Thanks

I added my TA as instructor because I could not find a role like "teaching assistant" , however, my TA still could not see the Grades from their end.

Hello, I have a professor who is having an issue in which a specific course's homepage somehow became his default homepage whenever he logs into Brightspace or clicks the My Home icon. Our administrator checked and ensured that the University course homepage is set as default. Can anyone tell me how to address this issue?…

Hello, I have some questions regarding the instructor experience in NCE. Is there a way to place created content within a unit directly at the top of the list of items? After an item is created in a unit containing multiple items, it appears at the bottom of that unit and needs to be dragged and dropped. Classic Content…

I am using SCORM questions embedded in my lectures for the first time. Grades are being recorded inconsistently - some students have no problems with any of the lectures, whereas others are receiving grades for some but not all lectures. I imagine this has to mean that students are doing/not doing something that is causing…

Has anyone implemented the Parent and Guardian app in Brightspace? We are looking into it for student services staff to observe student athletes. Best, Amanda

Hi! does visiting the Content Settings cog and setting a font and size under Default Font Settings mean that that will apply to content pages imported from a zip file please? does enable html templates need to be ticked too please? thanks!

My classlist is in alpha order in Brigthspace, but when I print, it puts my name (as the instructor) at the top and lists students in order of being added to the course. How can I change this? Thanks, Mike

I'm aware the data such as assignment submissions already submitted in a course does not reflect in the new merged course (once this happens). Is there any way for administrators or instructors to access this student data? Is it stored somewhere accessible? A use case for this would be papertrail or a backup of student…

Our classes run for 15 weeks and I don't see how I could cram 15 weeks into register. Is there a calendar version. Helpful to link students to missed lectures, handouts, assignments.