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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.

Is there a way in D2L to prevent students from downloading a document onto their computer? I have a PDF document that I want students to be able to view/read within a specific module, but it is a section of copywritten material. While I have permission from the publisher to use it in the class, students should not be…

How can an instructor move an assignment to the correct place when a student has put it into the wrong dropbox? Thanks!

Hi everyone, We are using the New Content Experience and the New Student Experience. We are noticing that when students progress through a content module, checkmarks do not appear for all the pages. We have tested this and when we log in as a student (not impersonating but actually logging in with a test account) - and…

Could someone help me? I'm worried that students can see each other's private journal entries. When I go in as a student, I am able to see other students. I checked with my Vanderbilt Brightspace team and they said there is no way to set up private journals - but I've done this for years. I'm wondering if something has…

I used to be able to have a border around the outside of the table but no borders on the cells inside the table. Now, when I choose to put a border around the table, it also puts the same border around all of the cells. I cannot remove the cell borders without removing the table border. Please help!

We have been testing the New Learner Experience (LX) for potential use in training courses in our instance. However, the color of the new view defaults to a bright blue. Is it possible to change this color?

Can you assign special access for a user across multiple assignments? Or do you have manage special access for each assignment individually? Is there a way to bulk edit special access for students who have accommodations?

If a learner is struggling to open an excel file attached to a quiz question, is a browser block on pop ups etc. the reason for it? No other student has experienced this issue.

An instructor reported the following issue. The instructor "conducted surveys and several students submitted responses but their responses never were recorded. The majority were but several were not." Thanks

Hello, I like to know if it is possible to give individual permissions for one student response and a marker in the discussion forum and hide from view of other students? Thank you. Caroline.

Hi, We want to make powerpoints available to student from a specifc date onwards. Is it enough to set the start date to a specific date, as shown in the image? In Dutch though ;) And to have the visibility toggle switched to 'visible'? Now it also shows the start date in the bottom right corner, as shown in the next image.…

If it is, does D2L provide the account for shuffle exchange to the administrators?

I put a course in the recycling bin without removing the students first. How do I get the course out? If I leave the course in the recycling bin will this cause a problem?

Hi All, I've been asked to delete a course from Brightspace but I'm not sure how to do it. Please advise. Thanks.

I am able to export the rubric into the LOR and import the rubric into course content, but it isn't functional as a rubric. Can anyone tell me how to import a rubric for using in a course to grade?

Is there a recommended time for the creation of semester courses added for faculty access? For instance, we currently allow faculty access to their courses 30 days prior to the semester start date. We did have it set at 90 days and this tended to cause major issues with course duplications and cross-listing due to constant…

I have created two categories under groups and want to copy the same group members from one category to other category in the same course. How should I do it?

Is there a way to hide courses from faculty until they are finalized and assigned to the proper faculty member?

I have been trying to get the pulse app to work. I keep getting the same notification , ive attached it. I have asked, the app help, i have asked my IT dept at school...it worked last semester, no issues. I would really appreciate any help.