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How to enroll administrators into Brightspace course?
I'd like to enroll some people with administrator access into a Brightspace course. Does anyone know how to do this? Add participants and Manage User Enrollment don't seem to work.
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Why would Creator+ Tabs not work on the Pulse App?
I am currently designing a new course & yesterday when I tested it on the Pulse App none of the Creator+ Tabs data showed? I used the Accordion and that had no issues. Is there something I am missing to ensure it works on Pulse?
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Anyone in PA/USA want to chat with a Blackboard to Brightspace transitioning school?
We are brand new! We will be spending the next year moving from Bb to Brightspace, and we'd LOVE to chat with you about your transition!
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Have you looked at adding a chatbot function to make it easy for students to ask a question
Have you looked at adding a chatbot function to make it easy for students to ask a question from the page they are on?
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VR course in Brightspace
Hi, I would like to know if Brightspace supports VR content in courses? If yes, please provide more details. Thank you.
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How to GET instructors for a course offering
Hello, We are building an integration between Workday Student and Brightspace. We plan on using the D2L Standard CSV method in IPSIS, but are running into a problem. We can build a delta report that will tell us which course offerings have changes, and will return all of the current instructors. But so far, it seems like…
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Advanced Assignment Options Documentation for Instructors & Students
Hello, We are wondering when and where training and documentation resources for instructors and students will be posted for the advanced assignment options. It is set to be released in Aug 2024 (next month). The only information we see on the community is this one, which is more informational/release rather than…
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Are there brightspace shells?
Are there shells or templates that instructors of College Composition can use? Thank you. Sincerely, Eric Englert Illinois Valley Community College
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Downloading/Exporting Rubric Data
Hello D2L Community, I'm seeking advice on behalf of our instructors who want to download/export Rubric Data. While they can view this information through the Rubric Statistics page within the LMS, it doesn't seem to be something they can directly download. As a system administrator, I have access to Data Sets and could…
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Has anyone set up a vendor (i.e., Atomic Jolt Assessments) trial in a Sandbox course?
How do you go about setting this up? Atomic Jolt team will be installing their Assessments tool into a sandbox I created. Then I will email faculty with a training date and invite them to try the tool. I will use "discover" setting for the sandbox. Anyone who has done something similar with insight to help, please do,…
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PDF loads OK via Content, but not when included in Quiz
Hi D2L community, Would like your advice… I have a 77.5mb PDF file that loads within tolerable duration when viewed in Content, but when I include the pdf file as a reference in a quiz (inserted as a quicklink under Quiz Information), it takes way longer to load, to the point where the screen freezes. Has anyone faced this…
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Rank & Window Filtering in Analytics Builder?
In Analytics Builder I am struggling to understand how I might recreate a filtering technique I've used in the past. In order to get a dataset of current credit instructors and their courses, I'd use the Rank & Window function to get a number on the most recent action found in the Enrollment Details dataset (instructors…
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Student Grading
I have a particular instance where a faculty member wants to allow one of her student workers to be able to grade a certain set of assignments. She doesn't want them to access the entire gradebook but only be able to grade these assignments. Is that possible? I understand that I may need to create a Student Grader role but…
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QUIZ - How do I allow 2 correct answers to a MC question
Students have taken the test. I realized a multiple-choice question can have 2 answers but I only marked one as correct. How can I change the answer key to include both answers?
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Camtasia Quiz - SCORM package - Short answer
I am exploring using Camtasia as a video quiz option and i am trying to determine how I would be able to grade a short answer question attached to the quiz. I have successfully been able to do a quiz with watch percentage and with multiple choice, t/f, and fill in the blank. I am not seeing how to grade a short answer…
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How do I reduce the number of tabs in the My Courses widget?
We have a huge variety of semester codes that render the My Courses widget practically unusable. We want to reduce the number of tabs in that widget by getting all modules related to one academic year into one tab. I've seen other unis doing this, but not sure how you get around the multiple semester ID issue, where the…
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Student gradebook not updating
I haven't changed any of the settings from last semester's course master. But somehow there is no updating of the student final marks after four assignments in the current semester. What do I need to change?
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SIU Email Account
ALCON, I am having issues receiving emails in my SIU email account, who would i talk to to troubleshoot this issue? please advise as soon as possible, thank you for your time and have a great day. V/R Richard Davis
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Removing Progress Alerts from Instructor Page
Is there a way to clear the progress alerts for the instructor without having to take my own quizzes and submit assignments to make the % completion for each tile GO AWAY
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How to extract learner usage for one student in one course?
How can an outside system extract learner usage for one student in one course? If it is through an API, which API
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