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Can a lecturer set up a Virtual Classroom for someone else to open as moderator?
We have a query from lecturers who would like to set up Virtual Classrooms for someone else to open and run as the moderator. Currently the lecturer has to start the VC and hand over presenter rights before signing off. Naturally this means the lecturer has to be available at the start of the session, which can complicate…
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Assessing with Rubric not saving in Gradebook
I have a professor who has developed a rubric to assess students abilities on physical skills for their nursing program. The skills are observed in person and then documented in Brightspace to assign a grade. The items in the grade book do not actually have an assignment linked to them as they are performed in person. The…
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Enrollment Verification Process
We currently use Qwickly tool that we connected to our D2L environment. We are considering alternatives and have heard mention of using an activity like a quiz. Can anyon share any experiences with using an activity towards enrollment verification. Or any other process used for that purpose
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Unexpected IPSIS Enrollment Behavior
Our institution regularly sends files to IPSIS to populate/maintain our students course offering and section enrollment in Brightspace. We have encountered an issue with course offerings containing multiple course sections (i.e. cross-listed courses). If a student changes enrollment from one of the course sections under a…
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Second Instance of Brightspace
Hi Everyone! Our Continuing Education department is configuring their own instance of Brightspace. If you are with an institution with several instances, how do you manage them? Do you have a separate admin for each instance or one admin to "rule them all"? Thanks!
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Student Answers in Dropbox PDF Disappear?
I am working with a math instructor who uses use Assignment Dropbox to collect PDF scans of students’ homework assignments. In one instance, a student’s answers to problems seem to disappear from the PDF file when viewed in the Dropbox grading area. When the instructor went to evaluate it in the Assignment Drop Box, the…
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Are there any plans to fix the grade distribution plots?
For weeks now, the plots of grade distributions on the "statistics" pages in Brightspace have been broken. Are there any plans to fix them? Here is an example: They look like this both for items in Grades and for Quizzes.
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horizontal scrolling in gradebook
How do I keep the email checkboxes on the extreme left side visible when scrolling to the right in the gradebook?
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Login History vs. System Access History
Can somebody explain to me the difference between the history logs in Class Progress? I understand Course Access, but I don't completely understand the difference between login and system access. Thanks, Aaron
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Data on usage of content templates from Public Files?
Is there any way to find out how many courses are using the HTML content templates that we added to Public Files? Since selecting a template just copies the code to the HTML page, I'm assuming there won't be an easy way to get this data, but just wanted to see if any other universities were trying to figure out how many…
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As a Super Admin, where do I go to see all SCORM content that has been uploaded into our system.
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New submissions icon is on, but can't find the new submissions
Hello, I have a professor who has the new submissions icon popping up saying there's 2 new ones for her to check. On her dropbox page, there are no tallies in the New Submissions column and there aren't any indicators in Grades either. She has opened all her dropboxes to see if there's anything listed in there and she says…
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Is there a way to upload a PDF for users (students) to annotate?
I am trying to create an assignment where students have to read a passage and then make annotations on the passage. I am trying to avoid having students download the PDF, annotate it externally, and then re-upload the PDF for review. I would like for them to be able to annotate it DIRECTLY in the platform. So far, the only…
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How do I extend the time limit by 50% on exams for one particular student in D2L?
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Sharing Standards While Sharing Rubrics
I am having a problem when sharing rubrics. I have created rubrics at the program level, and I have shared these rubrics with the all of its children so that these rubrics can be used in the various course offerings in this org unit. Now we want to link several rubric items to "standards" and have those standards appear in…
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How do you default-apply notification settings for newly created learners?
I want to send news item notifications via email to all learners. Is there a way to opt-in learners for this notification setting at the time of learner creation via a bulk upload or SIS integration?
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Quiz Tool
I have students who get logged out (so they say) or their computer dies (though I tell them to make sure their technology works ahead of time) during a time quiz in D2L and when they log back in, they cannot start the quiz back up. Is there a way I can let them start where they left off? Right now, if they have just…
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Is it possible to have a customizable pop up message at login
Recently I received a request to have a customizable pop-up message at login to help promote things like mental health resources or contacts at certain times of the semester. This is the exact request: "in working with one of our Mental Health partners Togetherall that we are working to promote, they encouraged having a…
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Prohibit repeat questions
Is there a function to prohibit quizzes from repeating a question? My quiz/exam is randomized and scenario based. It has several scenarios and question pools. The scenarios relate to more than one pool, so I want to ask it to pull from multiple pools; however, other scenarios will also pull from overlapping pools, so I…
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Can a select box grade item be included in a Calculated grade item? Will students see their average