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Monitoring Admin and Instructor Activity in Brightspace
Does Brightspace offer a feature that allows a super administrator to track the actions and changes made by other admins or instructors—such as an activity log or audit trail? I frequently receive this type of question from users who want to ensure accountability and better oversight within their learning environment.
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How do I answer discussion questions?
Hello, I’m new to bright space I was wondering how do I submit and answer other students discussion questions for a grade?
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Very basic course offering/section question
Hi all, We've been on Brightspace since Summer 24 so still fairly new. I'm troubleshooting an issue we're having with Crosslisted courses and it's making me question how we have courses coming over via Ellucian ILP in the first place. So my very basic question is: Does a Course Offering have to have a Section associated…
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New to Brightspace and reporting...
I need to develop reporting from the D2L data on at-risk students. This should include last date of submission, last date of login, and current grades. Is this possible?
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Survey Tool
Hello - I have been asked to create a survey for all the students in all my courses across the institution. I know I could create a survey in each class manually, but is there an easier way to do it? It is for every course running in this "semester" so there is a way to get a list of the courses.
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embed Discussion in Content - view as Learner
After I embed a Discussion into Content and view as la earner, this is what I see. Previously, there was no "Go To Discussion' button. The discussion was embedded in the Content main window. What happened? I contacted our helpdesk to check it for us. They said they can impersonate a learner/student, and it works correctly.…
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How do you create a quiz where students only answer 5 out of 8 questions?
I have an academic's exam paper where students answer 5 out of 8 questions. I can see two options, and neither are optimal if the academic wants to grade one question at a time. Just have exam as an assignment and upload paper to be available at a specified time and then students upload their exam paper as a document - not…
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Possible to set asynchronous quiz with synchronous end date?
Let's say I have a need to setup a Quiz that should be available from 1 May 2025 0001 hrs til 5 May 2025 2359 hrs. All submissions should be in by 5 May 2359 hrs. The quiz itself should have a time limit of 10 min. Is there any way to setup the quiz settings in Brightspace such that the End Date can still be set at 2359hrs…
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Bulk Course Creation
Hello - I am trying to figure out the format and process for creating blank shells into my D2L instance. We have been creating courses manually and I know there has to be an easier way. I got a little turned around reading through the documentation. Does anyone have any experience doing this? Could I create a new…
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What is the best way to put dates on Cengage Mindtap assignments?
The assignments seem to come over as topic rather than actual assignments but the dates do not come over. I do not know how to add dates so students and reporting will see them.
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Unsubscribe option for Intelligent Agent emails
Hi there, I’m wondering if there’s a way to include an unsubscribe option in Intelligent Agent emails that are sent to users who haven’t checked their courses in the past 10 days. We’re using Brightspace for a self-paced course without strict deadlines, so the Intelligent Agent messages are meant to be friendly nudges.…
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Grade Export to SIS Section Locked
We have recently implemented the Export to SIS feature in our LMS and are coming up with an error that we have not seen before. When some faculty are following the procedure and exporting their grades, some users have their grade not send over as it states that the section is locked and then gives the section number (see…
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Rubrics
HELP. I'm trying to delete a rubric in D2L and there is no box before the rubric on the page. How do I get that box back so I can click and delete:
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Widget and Banner Image
Hello! How do I change the image to the widgets? A faculty member would like to have a different picture on the widgets that what's shown on the banner. We know how to change the banner image, but I am not sure how to change the widget images. Thank you!
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Does the Detailed Quiz attempt log track image uploads?
Currently, when module leader checks the detailed Quiz attempt logs, the logs only indicate if characters were typed and responses to the question was saved. If a user uploaded a picture, the action is not indicated in the quiz attempt log - Is this correct? Is there a way to find out in detail if a user has uploaded an…
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🏆 Community Spotlight: Mike Chung
Meet Mike, Manager of Learning Technology, working in the field of Educational Technology Administration. Mike’s go-to Brightspace Community resource is the Product Idea Exchange (PIE), which he regularly recommends to colleagues! As a community advocate, he supports innovation and encourages others to share their feedback…
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Quizzes - broken image while editing
In the Quizzes tool, if you add an inline image to a question with the editor, the image will appear as a broken image with only the alt text displayed if you preview the quiz, the image is displayed.
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Where is Integrity Advocate text coming from? Our institution no longer uses that service.
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Exporting Student Contact Info
Hi, For report purposes I need to be able to export user information including their parent contact information. But when I look at the information that gets export through users (Datahub) it does n't have this info. Is there any way to export this? Thanks,
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Checklists and Completion Summary
Has anyone else had an issue with the completion summary for checklists displaying incorrect information. For instance as an instructor in the course I see in the completion summary that all of my students have 9 of 9 items checked off in their checklist, however I know that at least one of the students hasn't even logged…