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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.

I am a member of the Brightspace Community and therefore tend to look for events, webinars, and other learning resources on the community site. Why aren't the D2L.com/events not linked somewhere within the Brightspace Community? Or are they there and I just can't find them? Searching for an event title brings no results.

We have several courses from 2019 - onwards that are still available for faculty and administrators. The goal is to archive the courses after each graduating class leaves. I saw that Data Purge may be the way to accomplish this - how can I use this tool? Ideally, the steps would look like this: Designate obsolete courses…

Where can I find a list of all permissions in Brightspace?

How do you import questions from a survey into a question library and then export them into a quiz?

Hello, When I create an arithmetic question I could only ask one unknown in a given question. 1-Is it possible to ask several unknowns in one question? 2-Is it possible to ask some unknowns in a table like the image attached below? As an example given A=10 and B=5, I would like to ask the followings in one question. For…

Hi D2L - in the Arithmetic question creation is there a way to generate a variable based on an existing random generated variable? for example to maintain proportions for a rectangular building I would like to random generate the length {x} then generate the width based on the length, {y} = {x}*0.6?

How do I Enter my reply in the Brightspace Editor? I'm told I need to include the original post's text in your reply, by clicking the Add original post text link. How do I do this?

Hello I've set up a Professional Standards audit using the survey tool but unfortunately our members can't see their responses after submission. As a result, I believe I need to set it up now as a quiz so that our members can have multiple attempts and see their previous responses. Can you advise . . . Is there a quick way…

My account automatically signs me into my first school's profile.

My institution is currently setting up SIS integration between our ERP system, Colleague, and Brightspace. Any feedback feedback you can provide about your experiences would be helpful, particularly around issues like how to associate courses with programs. That doesn't seem possible (or at least easy).

Hello. I would like to know how to show my manually typed feedback for students, under each question in quizzes. Students reported they can see my feedback for some weeks, but cannot see my feedback for other weeks. I don't know much about the setting, but from my end, they all look same. What can i do to fix this issue ?

User has been getting this error message when trying to view an assignment submissions with the document viewer. Any idea what could be happening?

An uploaded PDF that has links to websites, do not show as linkable. Other than entering same info in a file, are there alternatives. Thank you

Hello, Many faculty on campus are switching over to New Content Experience to improve navigation, but are facing roadblocks such as embedding websites. As shown in the attached images, it is recommended to have the link open in a new tab, but the embed option is still there. However, when embed is selected, faculty get an…

I have been hearing a few reports from students who say that they have been able to enter a Brightspace quiz, take the quiz, but cannot submit the quiz. I have now had two different students who have had this problem, and one of the students has had the issue happen a couple of times throughout the semester. Presuming I’m…

Hi, Is there anyone who has received the Grades published email but is not able to see the results/grade? I am so worried about this not knowing if this is a technical glitch or should I be concerned about academic misconduct or something else (Which is not possible, as the work I did was solely mine. I did not use any…

I would like an introductory faculty course in pdf. Do you have something like that?

Hi, I cannot sign in to the U of W nexus through Brightspace. Can you help? I use a MacBook Air.

Is it possible to create a FIB type of questions with Rows and Columns (i.e. 5 rows and 3 columns). For instance ??? = boxes to Fill In the Blank Age Subject Group Name 1 ???? ??? ??? Name 2 ???? ??? ??? Name 3 ???? ??? ??? Name 4 ???? ??? ??? Name 5 ???? ??? ???