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Tips and Tricks
Hi - I am looking for any tips or tricks that might help me with classroom management, announcements, etc. I recently found out that if i include {FIRSTNAME} in my announcements, the student will see themselves personally addressed in the announcement. So cool. And how do I tag the entire class vs just one student? Thanks!
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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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Valence API returns 403 when accessing user data with valid token
Hi everyone, I'm running into an issue with the Valence API when trying to fetch user data. I’ve authenticated successfully and received a valid token, but when I call the /users/ endpoint, I get a 403 Forbidden response. The app is registered, and the user account I’m testing with has the necessary permissions in…
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Linking to MacMillan achieve without adding a grade item
We are trying to add reading assignments by sections (not the entire ebook) to a course form MacMillan Achieve. It only shows in our Brightspace course if we link it to a grade item. Any suggestions? We have looked at MacMillan resources.
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Creating a quizz with Question pools issue
I am attempting to create a quizz with a pool of questions. I have followed the steps given to create the pool but am having an issue in saving the number of questions to select from the pool of questions. It keeps defaulting back to 0 after I select the SAVE button. I have attached a screenshot below. I have edited this…
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SCORM suspend_data
I have tried everything I could think of, but every time I start a SCORM package while impersonating a learner, the package`s suspend_data is reset and the learner is brought back at the beginning of the activity. I use SCORM specifically so the progress is saved and the learner cannot reset its progress. Even when I…
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How do you setup quizzes that require mathematical calculations?
Hi Brightspace community! Throwing out a thought to ask about how the community conducts quizzes that require the grading of mathematical calculations. Pen and paper submissions are the traditional way, but we are looking into digital submissions. A hybrid method we have come across is requiring students to submit the…
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Question Libraries and Learning Repositories
Hi, I have a few questions about the Question libraries and Learning Repositories within course offerings in Brightspace. Our setup is such that we have one main course offering under a Master Department (which we consider as the Master file for the course offering). We need to duplicate courses under Master Department to…
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Can assignments be marked as complete or incomplete
If I want to mark an assignment as complete or incomplete instead of giving it a grade, how do I do that?
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Creating Semester and Course Master Database
Hi, I want to create course names and then map those courses in the semester being offered. For example, a course Design Methods is offered in Fall 2025 with 6 sections while it was offered with four section in Fall 2024. Can I get a reference document helping me to navigate creation of courses, semesters, mapping courses…
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Is there a way to use the FAQ functionality that you can reuse the same FAQs across course offerings
I'm using the above feature and I want to be able to create some common FAQs that can be used across multiple courses. But I can only see how to add these to each course individually which is a lot of effort and very time consuming, I feel like surely I am missing something obvious and I should just be able to reuse…
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Conversations about BrightSpace Quizzes
Hi Folks, Apparently there are big changes afoot on the BrightSpace PIE. As a result of these changes, posts marked as "Not Planned" will not be migrated to the new platform. According to D2L, these ideas will be retained on their internal system to inform future innovation, but will no longer appear on the PIE. So, in the…
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Embedding Checklists in the courses
Hi, I am reaching out to our community experts to check if Brightspace has updated its system to enable us to embed checklists within our HTML pages so that learners can see the checklists right on the page instead of clicking links to access them. I understand this function was not available a few months ago. Please let…
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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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Upcoming events won't disappear from Calendar widget on Homepage
Kia ora, We're setting up a template course that we can easily use to base other lessons on. We have cleaned this template of all assignments, quizes etc, but for some reason the Calendar widget still displays quizzes as upcoming events: When you go into the Calendar tool, it does not show any upcoming Events or Tasks: Is…
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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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Is the new PIE beta live?
Question: is the Beta live? It says June in the note but I am not able to log in: I tried resetting my password and got an error. I tried using an alternative email and a number of random (and increasingly unlikely) member names and got this error: "Email 'mail' is already enrolled with member name" Also, I'm not sure what…
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How to Pull Data for New Users Created
Hello, Can someone please tell me how to pull data for new user accounts created within a Brightspace environment? Some context- I am trying to stay on top of new instructors teaching classes for the first time. Thank you very much!
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Completion Grading
Hello, Can I mark an assignment as completed without giving it a grade?
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PIE Link broken looking for help
The PIE link is still down. However, I was just looking for a place to make a creative suggestion that would be helpful for users. I've created two weighted graded schemes. One is for work in the "Assignments" folder, and I am able to link that to the grade book. The other scheme is for work in the "Discussions" and…