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removing multiple tests from gradebook
removing multiple tests from gradebook
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Progress bar in NCE?
Hello, While the NCE is easier to navigate and more visually appealing, some of my faculty miss the progress bar and updates that showed students how much content of each unit they completed. Are there any plans to add that functionality into NCE? Thanks, Yildiz
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IPSIS Administration
Hello, I have recently become the Admin for D2L and I am having a issue running a class migration batch. I receive these errors.
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Updates to sources
How do you deal with updates to a resource in your online content when, for example, the URL is changed or the content is updated? We're encountering this question for our online courses which are redeveloped annually but updated (to address broken links etc) continuously. Given my librarian side (MLS, and ID) it would be…
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Media Library Videos/Audios and Courses Using Them
Hello, Is there a way to locate all Courses Org Units that are using each media object in the Media Library? I looked around in Data Hub and I could only find a report called "Media Objects" which provides the media object's Content ID but not the org units that are using them. Thanks Rim
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Outcomes Evaluation
We have an issue where our outcomes data does not automatically populate based on the entered grade. In the screenshot shown, you will see the student received 100%, but the met/not met outcome criteria is not automatically marked. Instructors have to go into the assignment evaluation tool and manually mark each scale for…
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Global Announcement (Release Condition for Specific Parent Org Unir Doesnt Works)
Hi, can anyone help me, I'm using Global Announcement and using release condition, im using Org unit for department, the expectation is all under departmat get the announcement, but didnt work. pelase help
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Enabling Intelligent Agent(s) in Course Offerings
Hi Everyone, is there a way as a Sys Admin I could enable the IAs in all courses using a filter of some sort? Basically, we have IA's setup in a template that will be copied over when our courses are created using IPSIS. However, the AI's are created but not enabled in the course itself even if they are enabled in the…
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How to Backup/Export Content by Bulking
Hello i need help for export/backup content file, like award, content file or something like that, if there any posibilities to do that? Thank You
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How to reorder gradebook items
I want to change the way my gradebook is set up. Currently everything is organized by categories, like Assigned Work (which contains the majority of the items), Weekly Tests, Extra Credit. But I want the items to appear instead in the order students complete them each week, like the first assignment in Week 1, the second…
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Fetching grades for withdrawn students
We have an instructor who is auditing the grades for an exam that students take to see if the score is a predictor of persistence. He'd also like to know what (if any) grade students who have withdrawn from the course received. I know it can be done one at a time via Classlist > Enrollment statistics, but this is somewhat…
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saving/converting quiz to print as Word document
I want to save a quiz as a Word doc (for my own record purposes). I did this several years ago but cannot remember how…
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Fusion 2024 - Networking / Meetups - Admins / Developers RE: CSS / Visually customizing your courses
Hey there fellow 2024 Fusion attendees, It appears that there is not a dedicated discussion forum for / on the Fusion site, so I thought I would reach out here. If you are a fellow admin or web designer / developer tasked with implementing branding / visual tweaks to your courses — utilizing custom CSS and / or the Content…
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Submissions and Grades with SIS Course Merge
We're exploring the SIS course merge tool as a way to manage multiple cohorts. If we merge a course, how can we link the grades to the students' original course code? We will need to do that to ensure the grades are linked to specific degree programmes. Would students upload submissions to the merged module?
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Page breaks within quizzes
Good Afternoon I am producing a mock exam on BrightSpace in which I would like to have specific page breaks between certain questions, however, I cannot get the system to allow a page break between the 'advice to questions' and the 'section 1 intro' (in screen shot below) whatever I try. I would welcome your help with…
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Why are there fields (like SemesterID) in the advanced data sets but not the standard datasets?
And why aren't all the fields in the entire database available in the standard data sets? Do I have to export Advanced Data sets and the import them for analyses and vizzes? t
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Brightspace Sharepoint
We use a content repository on Sharepoint to host our files like the course syllabus, assignment descriptions and so fort. When we use the share link from these resources and use the option Create new —> Add link and then want to show the file directly (that's without opening a new window/tab) the file isn't shown.…
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Can't copy HTML elements from templates (such as accordians, tabs, jumbotron) to other pages?
Hi, I have watched several videos and cannot copy HTML elements from the templates to other pages in my course. I am in the HTML editor, I use CTRL+C on windows to copy from the start copy to end copy areas, I use CTRL + V on Windows to paste to the new page and it only pastes the text on the page. I have checked my…
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In Classic Content, to insert the SAME image in different HTML pages, what do I choose?
In Classic Content, to insert the SAME image in different HTML pages, do I choose: - Create new file or -Overwrite the existing file? When I choose create new file, it creates a second file with the number 1 after the file. Is this going to balloon my files area? What is a way around this to keep using the same image in…
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Grade Center: Combining Point-Based Grading with Category Weighting in Brightspace
I'm struggling to set up a specific grading structure in Brightspace's grade center. Here's what I'm trying to achieve: I have 4 categories (or semester units) in my course. Each category contains 4 assignments. I want to grade each assignment using points, with each category totaling 100 points. After calculating the…
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