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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.

Does anyone know where the UI is located for the Advance Course Search? What I'm looking to do if it's possible, is to eliminate or hide the Department column from view. I've looked around in the Admin Tools > Config Variable Browser tool with no luck. Any ideas where I can find this webpage and can I modify it? Here is an…

We have been using release conditions, but we still want the learners to see the other modules without being able to click on them. So is there a way to lock modules or grey out the modules?

Are there any features not available in the New Content Experience that exists in the Classic Experience

Hi! My university, USC, is transitioning to Brightspace and I am a pilot tester this upcoming spring semester. I am looking for additional resources, such as Higher Education Sample Module Outlines and Learning Center Resources (e.g., Free Courses and Tools). When I try to Access the Course under Higher Education Sample…

We have supplemental exams for those learners who do not pass original exam. Looking for a way to automate this into Grades more easily. Current workflow: Original Exam Grade is associated with Quiz as grade item. The Supplemental Exam has a grade item but it is not associated with any Quiz not is it given any Weight in…

How are people using Brightspace for a large 100+ person course in Introduction or Review of Films? I currently, have a faculty who normally would allows students to watch Films of the same category and write an assessment based on the film, if they couldn't attend class to review the film as a whole class. Since this will…

Is there a way of making units in a course or quizzes within a unit optional so that it doesn't stop a learner earning an award where the requirements are set as 'Visit all content modules'. I can't see the option.

Two things... Is it possible to create a moderated discussion/survey that does not carry a point value? Also, when creating a survey, that was made available, however, students are still unable to see it?

After entering attendance for a class and selecting save, an error message comes up - see attached screen snip. When this error message comes up, the attendance data just entered isn't saved, so why does this happen? Thank you, Katherine @ Suncrest College

How do I import a course used in Spring of 2023 from Georgia View?

Hello I've set up a course with 3 surveys in (ILP, mid and end of course evaluation) - they are all visible in the course (and survey admin area). However I can't find 2 of them when I go to the award section to set up the requirement that all three are attempted before the award of a course completion certificate. Can…

What does "Dropped!" (in red) mean? How to remove it or fix it? What does it mean when you click on the little grey circle exclamation point and it says: Information: This grade has been dropped from "Assignments"?

When using IPSIS to create new Users on Brightspace, are they notified via email that their user account has been created when the IPSIS batch runs? When you create a new user on Brightspace manually, it will Send a Creation Email. Just wanted to know what happens before we run the IPSIS. Thank you!

Can I use Turnitin in a discussion activity?

I want to switch the entire quiz (which is divide into 3-4 sections and different question pools) with the another set of quiz (in an Asynchronous module) from the question library without disturbing the current settings of quiz such as question pool, conditions set up for quiz or any special access.

Good day, I am wondering how administrators manage students that change their legal name, e.g. in the case of marriage. Is there an option for a Maiden name field or Former legal name for accounts? Often when students get married, they inform the administration of a legal change but then say they don't mind keeping their…

How do I hide grades for an assignment on Brightspace?

Hi everyone, I would like to create two folders in Public Files - one to hold faculty resources and one to hold Getting Started info for students. Then I would like to create a template that can be used to create our courses that includes links to those two folders so that the information populates all the courses. I have…

I get a 403 status "No permission to Access the Brightspace Data Sets" when I make a request for /d2l/api/lp/1.35/dataExport/bds/list I have included the scope datahub:dataexports:read in the authorization. I am able to get other data successfully, like organization info and users data, for example. Please let me know if I…

I'm wondering if you can adjust the 'font size' of equations or do they present as one size. I am finding it is displaying quite large compared to the text.