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Student Feedback on Instructor Suggestions/Feedback
I am looking for a way for a student to be able to respond to inline comments and suggestions on writing assignments within D2L. We do have Turnitin, and the Feedback Studio integrated for assignments, but students would like to respond inline to comments made on assignments. Any suggestions?
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How do I link to a document to make this accessible across the org/faculty?
I have a privacy policy that I want to make available across the org via a link in every module. What's the best way to do this? I've added the doc to the org level but this is not accessible from the modules. Should I link the policy via the faculty Manage Files instead?
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Is it possible for students to choose 1 written response question out of 3 choices?
I’d like to create an essay test in BrightSpace where students can pick which essay question they want to answer. How do I do that?
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Migrating from Blackboard?
Hello, This is mostly for SysAdmins - Have any of you moved from Blackboard to Brightspace? What are some things that helped you through this process? Is there anything In Blackboard you are missing in Brightspace? What things do you feel Brightspace does better than Blackboard? Thanks in advance,
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Pulse Notification for Instant Message
We are trying to really make the transition for departments to utilize Brightspace to communicate with their students. Right now, some of them are sending messages in so many different apps that it gets confusing and overwhelming for students. Is there a way for a Learner to receive a push notification on their phone,…
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Admins: Is there a course archiving standard that you follow that you are willing to share?
We've been asked to see what other instutions are doing with regard to Brightspace course archiving. We are a higher ed institution with undergrad, grad, and doctoral programs. Is there a standard you try to adhere to (number of years before archiving)? Is there a publicly available best practice that you follow? Any…
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Grading groups of students
Hi, I have a course where there are inherently 4 groups of students, each group is coming from a different program, all taking the same course. Each group has an instructor who is monitoring their group of students and grading the assignments and discussions that their group of students submit. The assignments and…
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How do I exclude the observing instructor from the list of users when adding special access?
I created a new role and named it "Observing Instructor". Now this new role, as an Observer, can access what regular teachers can access, except to delete, from the assigned course. However, on the regular instructor's view, when they manage special access on the dropbox (or assignment), especially when adding users to…
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Discussion Board and topic notifications
Good Morning Everyone, I was wondering if anyone had an idea on how to resolve this particular request I received. I have an instructor that wants the student's minibar to receive notifications whenever they make a topic in a forum. I recommended the calendar but it doesn't give mini bar notifications. Subscribing to the…
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Why doesn't Chrome Android display any custom styles for HTML pages?
We use the Brightspace LMS learning platform at our university. Since the last update of the Brightspace Pulse app for mobile experiences it shows web content using your default browser app (Chrome Android in my case) instead of the Pulse embedded web browser. However, the web content doesn't display any custom styles when…
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D2L - Grammarly (word addon) issue
Good Morning Everyone, I am having a weird interaction between D2L downloads and Grammarly (the microsoft word addon, not the floating version). Whenever I download a Docx from D2L dropboxes the grammarly addon on the top right of my word program does not load in. This is before and after enabling edit to the document. The…
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Quiz Blocking ALL Notifications
In the new quiz tool there is an option under 'Timing and Display' that allows you to block emails, instant messaging and notifications until the quiz is done. It's blocking notifications for all courses, not just the one that the quiz is in. I just received a report of a student is this os thiissue and apparently…
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Shared Kaltura library videos issue
Has anyone else experienced an issue with accessing the Kaltura (insert media) feature to embed videos within their D2L instance directly with and using the instructor role? Until recently my coworker a sys admin could impersonate an instructor and access My Media and perform tasks normally. When users try to access My…
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Calculator Widget
Hello! I am wondering if anyone created a calculator widget. I wanted to be able to add this to quizzes. Thanks! Kathleen
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How can a Prof share a Glossary apart from Nav Bar?
Our institution hasn't currently placed the Glossary on the course Navigation Bar (and hasn't enabled the ability for faculty to customize their Navigation Bars). However, faculty can still find the Glossary when they click on the Course Admin Tools, and create a Glossary from there. Is there any way for faculty to place…
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Why can I not make my course available in Discover?
I'm setting up a course and would like learners to be able to self-enroll via Discover. I know the course must be active, and that box is checked off. However, I still can't check off the box, “Make this course available in Discover so Learners can self-enroll.” What am I missing?
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How do I throw out a question in a quiz that is already graded?
If I grade and quiz, see most got a specific question wrong and want to throw out that question, how can I do that? I don't see anyway to do that other than giving everyone credit for that question, which I don't want to do.
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Course active/inactive permission
I would like to allow a role to have access to mark a course as active or inactive. What is the setting in the permissions area?
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Has anyone experienced the discussion forum shutting down unexpectedly?
A student was composing a discussion post in the forum, and the discussion page shut down unexpectedly. She was redirected to the homepage of her course, and she lost the post she had started. Has anyone experienced this and were you able to discover the cause and solution? I'm thinking it may be due to internet connection…
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Can an organization have more than one Super Administrator?
Can an organization have more than one Super Administrator?