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Calling all Higher Education Instructors!
We would love to hear from Higher Education Instructors about how we have organized our Brightspace help documentation. If you're a Higher Education Instructor, and have a few minutes, please take a moment to complete this short survey: Tool-based navigation survey – Higher Education Instructors Also, if you're part of the…
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Importing Multiple Questions as Separate Banks via CSV
Colleagues, I am creating novel questions in Brightspace. I utilized the proper CSV template file and tested a single question. It imported the question using the UTF8 format. I next tested the same file as a regular CSV file (there are no special characters) and it imported the question. I next tried to import two…
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User engagement tracking
One of our Instructional Designers would really like to know more about how users are interacting with the content and materials in her courses. The current tools we have, like Insights and Content reports, are very high-level and do not get to the in-page level tracking. Has anyone tried doing much more active/granular…
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Force Module with Course Creation
Is there a way to force a pre-designed module into Content or force a template into courses that are first created in CX and then transferred over to Brightspace? I want to create a template for courses that contains a "Start Here" module with pages that have information helpful to all students. For example, my…
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My First Post
Hello, Is this the official spot to make a first post as a new Community member? Thank you, Jodie
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Receiving a 403 Forbidden API Error Message
We are running performance testing in our Brightspace test server with 7% failures related to "403 Forbidden" error messages. Perf Testing: We are automating 18 users to load the widget every second for 1 minute—equaling to about 1,080 users in a minute. Background: We have 4 back-end servers with round-robin traffic…
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How to monitor instructor usage duration in their course shell offerings in Brightspace?
Hi, I would like to know if there are data sets in LMS Brightspace that covers the time spent by an instructor in their course shell offerings.
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no sounds or badges on iPhone from Pulse App
I have notifications set up in the Pulse App and I see them when I open the app and tap the notifications button. However, even though I have notifications enabled for Pulse in my iPhone settings, I still do not get push notifications such as badges and sounds. How can I fix this? Notifications I can only see when I open…
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Exempting Assignments
How do I exempt an assignment in the grade book?
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Descriptions for Add Existing activity
In the NCE, when I add a description for an activity that is brought in using the Add Existing Activity tool, the description shows up on the instructor side, but not on the student side. Why?
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Content vs New Content Experience called NCE
The due dates and end dates in the NCE are not too straight forward. In the NCE, after the due date the NCE makes the content not visible. You need an end date to keep the content visible. Why is this? When will this be fixed?
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Discussions API Issue: Unable to create a topic under forums ?
I'm able to create a forum successfully but unable to create a topic, could you please help me what went wrong here. POST /d2l/api/le/(version)/(orgUnitId)/discussions/forums/ Create a new forum for an org unit. - Successful Response: { "ForumId": 39, "Name": "New Post 2", "Description": { "Text": "Forum description 2",…
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Reflect in ePortfolio
Hello D2L Team, I'm currently using D2L as a student at Deakin University. I'm also a learning designer, and our organisation is considering switching to D2L next year. As part of my exploration, I’ve been testing the UX/UI features of the LMS. I’ve found the ePortfolio reflections tool to be quite useful. However, I’ve…
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Assignment submission stripped out HTML file contents
Hi, One of our students created an HTML file to submit as part of an assignment submission. Included in the file were some style elements as well as some input elements. All of these elements were stripped out of the file, and only the text remained - both when viewed directly from the Brightspace marking interface and…
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Experience With Using D2L's Microsoft 365 Widget
Hello, We recently transitioned from the internal D2L email system to Microsoft Outlook 365. Based on feedback from a recent survey, our end users have expressed interest in receiving notifications for new email messages within Brightspace—similar to the functionality offered by the previous internal email system. We…
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Why can I not see this set of permissions (accommodations) in my instance of Brightspace?
I cannot see accommodations permissions under Roles and Permissions: I have been unable to locate documentation on enabling accommodations. What am I missing here? Thanks!
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Bulk unenroll learners from specific Course Offering
We have Course offerings used for resources and communications, which the learners get refreshed every year as new students join/graduate. Is there a way to remove all learners from a site, in lieu of the manual approach?
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webinar in D2L LMS
Anyone integrated Zoho meeting for live sessions / webinar sessions with D2L LMS Which works well with D2L LMS among various webinar meeting tools like Zoom, GMeet, Zoho anything else ?
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update attributes Org ID
HI, I want to update the Org ID of some of our users - when I upload the new spreadsheet with the new Org ID I get a response saying the Org ID is not found - how do I create new Org ID in a spreadsheet ?
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Is it possible to see who makes Turnitin available or unavailable in assignments?
A campus issue was recently raised where Turnitin was turned off for certain assignments. We have the system set up in such a way that instructors would have the ability to manage assignment settings. The campus wants to investigate how (by who) Turnitin could have been turned off for 2 separate courses for different…
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Assignments in categories
A couple of our test consist of student writing a report of creating a project. To grade these projects and reportm, they have to upload them in an assignment. In the assignment list we seperate each course into its own category. However, most student simply click the top category and upload, a lot of the time, the worng…