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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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Enrolling students into a group via a file import
I have a course in Brightspace that already has a fairly large number of students enrolled. Now I need to enrol them into groups inside the course since they will be submitting a group work assignment. I have the details of which students must belong to what group already in a spreadsheet. Is there any way to import that…
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Course Extensions
I have a student who is a week behind and needs an additional week beyond the end date of the course to complete their work. Will adjusting Special Access for one or more gradable entities for a single student extending the availability of entities beyond the end date of the course? Or, does the course end date supersede…
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Is there a way to freeze the column with student names in the attendance register? Similar to what
Is there a way to freeze the learner column as you would in an excel spreadsheet? The attendance register is cumbersome to use after a certain point.
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video files play sound but no visual
Hi, does anyone know why or how to fix/resolve an issue where a student using Chrome on Windows can play/see videos that were uploaded to brightspace as Webpages/embedded but not see any video/visual (just a black screen) but can hear the audio, when the video was uploaded as a Video type page instead of a webpage? we…
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Visibility settings
Is there a way to globally change the default for visibility to "Visible with Submission Restricted"? Our system defaults to "Visible with access restricted" which is painful to change on all assignments and discussions that's due dates vary from week to week. I may just be missing something simple, but would love any help…
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how to extend test time
how to extend test time
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When may I access PIE?
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Nav Bar Customization
Is it possible to hide items in the Nav Bar depending on role? I know there are some tools that do not display depending on role, such as Data Hub which is only available to Admins but not Instructor or Student roles, for example. We would like to hide the Assignments tool in the Nav Bar for students so that they rely on…
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in Quiz, Description is repeated on consecutive screens
when in Course Content, before clicking the Start Quiz button, you see a Description of the quiz (quiz1.png) - once you click Start Quiz, a second screen appears that repeats the Description (quiz2.png) - is there a way to skip over this repetition of the Description, and have the user go right into the quiz w/o clicking…
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in Quiz, is the Instructions field editable?
Quiz Details section shows how to edit the Description field, but I’m looking to edit the Instructions field that appears below the Description field when a student is on the Summary page (such as https://YOURNAME.brightspace.com/d2l/lms/quizzing/user/quiz_summary.d2l) before they click the Start Quiz button – is…
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Student Completion Checkmark in Content
Is there a way to turn on the checkmark for required material in the Contents tab? The New Content experience removed this feature, and many of our students would like that to be available.
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Which scope is required to download a feedback document from an assignment?
I am trying to download feedback documents from assignments (dropbox) using this API call: GET /d2l/api/le/(version)/(orgUnitId)/dropbox/folders/(folderId)/feedback/(entityType)/(entityId)/attachments/(fileId) It gives met a 403 (Not Authorized) error. The user running the API call is a Super Admin and in Brightspace it is…
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I'm looking for advice on plagiarism software. What is a good match with brichtspace?
We used ouriginal until now, but since they have been taken over by Turnitin we don't have a good contact anymore and the new product isn't compatible with Brightspace yet so we are hesitating to sign a new contract with them. What do you use? what is already quite good in detecting AI use?
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Revise a role so it does not have access to all courses
Currently, our Dean role has access to all courses. Despite using different templates for different departments and only having the necessary dean on those templates, all users with the role of Dean show up in all classes. I cannot figure out which permission to remove to stop this from happening.
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Students who didn't attempt a Quiz still need to be able to see solutions?
I use daily quizzes in my class as a sort of "barometer" for students to make sure they've understood the concepts for the day. I've set the quizzes to "When published, display to learners: All questions, with correct answers". As I understand it, this means once I publish the quiz, students who made attempts will see…
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Export Quiz Attempt
How do I export a specific student quiz attempt as a static file example (pdf ideally) for use in accreditation reporting? This is an essential function that seems to be absent.
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Quiz Corrections - Spelling
Hello! Is there a way of performing point adjustments to fill-in-the-blank items when adjusting misspelled words from incorrect to correct in quizzes or assignments? One of our professors would like to be able to do this in bulk as some medical terms have multiple, correct answers and students use both.
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where do i go to acess math editor in brightspace
where do i go to acess math editor in brightspace
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View assignment mark history?
I am looking for a way to see a detailed mark history log for an assignment for a specific student. I want to know when and by who an assignment was marked, with all the details of each revision (mark, feedback, rubric). And also by who and when the mark was published. So far I have found the Submission Log (very useful!)…
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Multiple rubrics print over each other
We need to export marked rubrics to PDF for external moderation purposes. We always have two different rubrics attached to our assessments. To create the PDF, we pop the rubrics out into the Assess Rubrics for <student name> window, and then using the browser function to print to PDF. When we do that, the two rubrics…