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Quizzes: Partial Grading Feature?
Item: A quiz with multiple-choice questions and open-ended questions Question: Is there a way to set up the multiple-choice questions to be graded automatically and the open-ended questions to be graded manually?
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Assess Anonymous Posts
How do you assess anonymous posts in discussions? It appears that the posts/replies that are posted as anonymous do not appear when assessing the topic.
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Student cannot verify themselves since phone number has changed.
Hello I am a new admin for a college and one of our students cannot verify herself to login since she has changed numbers. The only verification options she has is call or text to this old number. Is there anywhere I can update this number or change it so she can login?
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d2l.Tools.Grades.ExportHandlerPage - Does D2L provide a default page?
The d2l.Tools.Grades.ExportHandlerPage config variable enables the 'Export to SIS' button on the gradebook. Does D2L provide a default page for the export handler OR is this always a custom developed page by each client. The description of the config variable states "The value can be to an internal page such as…
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Lock the sorting feature of My Courses.
As an administrator, can I remove the sorting options from My Courses widget, so learner always see the courses in code sequence?
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SFTP file processing
Files I am sending via SFTP are not being processed. I can manually upload files to IPSIS to process. I am showing that there is no error transferring the file from my end. I need some help troubleshooting.
- How do I open a support ticket
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Brightspace wysiwyg editor strips out some CSS
I've been trying to add "style=user-select: none;" to some Brightspace test questions to avoid students copy pasting questions into ChatGPT. However, Brightspace seems to strip this CSS away every time the question is saved. I assume there is a way to get around this from an administration standpoint, but our IT department…
- Is there a way to add an Excel spreadsheet into a quiz question
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Can anyone share the .csv template for bulk enrollment?
I've used the format: Action Username Org Defined ID Role Name Org Unit Code It shows "too few field values" error but I can't seem to figure out why csv format won't work. There isn't a template that I can access within "Classlist", there is only the .txt template. When I receive rosters from HR, it would be SO MUCH…
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Can I set course access end dates for individual learners?
Hello I'm setting up supported distance learning courses for different subjects and teachers which learners join at different times and have access for just 6 months. When I register learners to a course, is there a way to control the course end dates for individual learners that I assign to a course because learners on…
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Development time with Creator+
Hello! I'm curious to know from those using Creator+ how much it has decreased your development time. Can you share your thoughts on estimated instructional design hours needed for one hour of scorm content using a previous development tool you may have used like Articulate Storyline versus one hour of Creator+ developed…
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I am getting a failed status, when I use the Data Purge tool.
I am getting a failed status, when I use the Data Purge tool. I have no problem setting up the queue. My audit trail it looks like this.. Does that mean that an archive directory path is not set up for our Org? Thanks.
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Quizzes - quiz due date or end date is 2 days away
Hi all, I've submitted a ticket with D2L Support because a student didn't receive a notification for a quiz when the open window for the quiz was less than 48 hours. According to D2L this is expected behaviour. In order for a notification to be sent for students who select 'Quizzes - quiz due date or end date is 2 days…
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how to calculate GPA in d2l
Dear all, I need to release the results in the grade book on D2L and I need D2L to calculate the results as GPA. i need to calculate the GPA and CGPA
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Is it possible to send an enrollment email automatically from Learning Groups tool?
Is it possible to send an enrollment email automatically from Learning Groups (LG) tool? When assigning learning from the LG tool, is it possbile to set things up so that learners get a message that they were assigned a course to complete (sent automatically from the system)? We are only using LG and not Manager Dashboard.…
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Student Archiving
Hi there, With the trimester closing, is there a convenient way like one-click archiving for the students to download the whole level 1 course content to keep for their reference purposes, probably they will need to refer to the level 1 course when they are taking the same course at level 2?
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Email notifications
Is there a way for students to receive an external email or text notification when they receive a new email in D2L? Something along the lines of "you have unread emails."
- d2l how to upload word "Docx file" file in course
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Competencies and Learning objectives
Can a competency or learning objective, or assignment be deleted? I need to update and cannot find a place to delete and add knew competency or learning objective. If a competency or learning objective is removed and not reassigned, does it stay in the independent LO category. I really would to delete them. Susan Osborne
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