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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 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 ???? ??? ???

Hi, I am looking to use the ip restriction and wanted to know if once the quiz takers start the exam if they are allowed to switch networks or does d2l detect that they do and as such kick the quiz taker out? Or something simmilar?

As a Brightspace Admin, you can create new roles which have custom permissions. We are discussing adding a new role, and would like to check with the community if they have had any concerns or can raise considerations for adding new roles, and having too many roles on the system?

Does anyone know where to find the Quiz ID number?

When we have an "open date" and a "due date" set in Assignments, Grades is displaying a "days late" message for learners who have not submitted the assignment. This appears to be new this semester. When I contacted support I was told the only way to remove it was to turn off the due date, which we don't want to do. Has…

I've tried everything available in Brightspace to "unexempt" grade items but it is not saving the changes even after hitting "Save and Close". Any ideas?

I need to establish course objectives and learning objectives aligned with each other or show relationships.

I've tried everything available in Brightspace to "unexempt" grade items but it is not saving the changes even after hitting "Save and Close". Any ideas?

We have several of our Discussion Forums set so that “Users must start a thread before they can read and reply to other threads.” However, we also ask instructors to write a “First Post” in the Discussion Forum that opens the door to the topic and shares tips for students. We would like students to be able to see only…

I basically have a former class that was fully developed including assignments and rubrics. Now I am teaching a similar class, but without the fully developed D2L. So simply put, I want to upload writing assignments to the former class and evaluate them according to the former rubric (and Turnitin).

My university has migrated to Brightspace. I was previously using moodle. I teach statistics. I have hundreds of "calculated" type questions in my moodle question library. Some seem similar to "Arithmetic" questions in Brightspace. Others seem more like "Significant Digits" questions. So far, after importing the moodle…

Please share your organization's best practice on how we can allow users to view an expired/closed course—but NOT earn a certificate. Is this handled through an intelligent agent role change with different roles and permissions assigned to that specific role? Such as a 'Read Only' role?

How do I UNDO the change in the point value of a quiz in the Brightspace gradebook The grades were from 50. I changed the max point to 25….all grades changed to 25. Can I undo this? and have all grades back again from 50?

I have a course with multiple instructors at my university. One instructor has been leaving feedback to students, but they are seeing the feedback coming from a different instructor's name. Therefore, it looks like the first instructor hasn't given any feedback. When this instructor tries to click on the feedback they've…

Hi there, I'm working on a team preparing tutorials for Creator+ tools as we roll them out to faculty next month. We're very excited about the tools and their potential for enhancing content and easy-to-create interactive experiences! That said . . . When going back to edit a previously-created sequencing practice, when…