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How can I insert a student's first name in the body of an email using a replace string?
I want to send an email to the entire classlist, but I want the body of the email to begin with "Dear Student," but with the word "Student" replaced by the first name of each student receiving the message. I tried using "Dear {FirstName}," but the email was received saying just that: Dear FirstName.
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🏆 Community Spotlight: Isadora Mok-Kulakova
Meet Izzy, the Online Learning Environment Lead at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary. She supports D2L Brightspace alongside other campus platforms like Zoom and YuJa, doing everything from troubleshooting and workshops to documentation and integrations. Izzy loves participating in…
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Quiz section grades
I have a quiz with 6 sections. Is there a way that I can have each section be graded seperatly from the whole quiz. for example the quiz has a section called Safety which has 7 questions and a section called rigging with 4 questions. I would like for the student to know what grade they achieved in each section. Thanks…
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D2L erased saved grades
Hi all, I was recently one of three Teaching Assistants for a course with 160 students. Each of us, along with the main instructor, individually graded and provided feedback for the final written assignment using a Dropbox feature in D2L. While completing the assessments, we were “Saving Draft” instead of immediately…
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I cannot upload a video in an assignment as a student
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I am having this error message "Error: An unknown error has occurred on YouTube."
I am trying to insert a YouTube video in accordion and when I hit search the result is this error "Error: An unknown error has occurred on YouTube."
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Classlist E-mail Function
My question is if there is a way to disable the "Send E-mail" function for Students in the Classlist within Brightspace, just from a few specific courses? Or is the best route to remove the Classlist tab from the Navigation Bar to not have the E-mail option available? Thanks!
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Gradebook & Groups
Hello, I have two professors co-teaching a course. They would like to be able to set the gradebook in a way that allows them to grade only the students within their assigned groups. I have created two Group Categories (one for each professor) and have added their assigned students to their groups. Is there a way to link…
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AI text to speech
Good Day, Am I able to add a AI voice reader/robot to existing text on the module I am developing?
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LMS Admin Question > Course Sections
Hi All- Currently in the middle of a SIS change over and testing the API between the SIS and Brightspace. Noticed this morning on a test push, that the course sent over only had an offering and had no section. In our current LMS setup, we sent over the template, course offering and then a course section. I was not involved…
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Give individual feedback for a group assignment
Hi, I would like to be able to give individual feedback to students even when they are doing a Group Assignment. Is this possible? I heard about the option to provide feedback to multiple students for individual assignments, but this is still a Group Assignment. Thanks, Jordi
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PowerPoints Unavailable
All of the sudden, instructors and students receive a "not authorized" message when attempting to view PowerPoint files within a course. The files are being distrubuted from the LOR, but there has never been an issue like this before. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? And how to fix this issue? Thank you in…
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Please hire neurodivergent user experience designers, D2L needs help
Currently, D2L is an accessibility quagmire and is currently so difficult to use that the process of elucidating all the things wrong with it would completely overwhelm me. If I feel like this, I'm certain other neurodivergent students are also experiencing difficulty. It is good that Brightspace is aware of web…
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Exporting class progress
Hi, I have a someone who is an admin in a specific course, as they need to be able to manage just that course, see who has enrolled and each individual's completion status. I can see the class progress page has all the information they need, however I can't seem to export it. They want to be able to run a report monthly to…
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Error 403 when creating a new user via API request
Hi, I'm trying to create a new user using a Postman request, but I'm getting error 403 (Forbidden). I already tested the whoami request and was successful (status 200); my username has all the credentials to create a user, and I'm using the scope "core:: user::" when creating the token. Is there something I am missing? I…
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Deleting Full Learning Groups
Hi Everyone, I am new to D2L learning platform as an Admin for my organization. We have several courses running via D2L and each course has multiple learning groups. A single learning group can have maximum of 200 learners. Once it's full, we need to open a new one each time. As a result, we have accumulated a lot of full…
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Activity feed disappeared
Hi, The activity feed disappeared for all roles. The activity feed widget is available, the homepage permission, and IMS configuration have not changed. Thank you,
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Text box lines not appearing when pasted into Brightspace
Hi all. I frequently use the text box feature inside Brightspace. Now, I use TextBlaze to insert a textbox with everything I need set up instead of making a new one on Brightspace each time. However, I have learned that the lines in the textbox, when shortcutted in, appear invisible to students. For example, I have a…
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Images cropping in learner view
Hi all, I'm new to brightspace, so please forgive me if I'm asking something obvious! I have these flip cards where the images look great in my view, but crop awkwardly in learner view. I tried manually resizing, resizing the source images, aligning to centre etc, all to no avail. See the comparison below:
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🏆 Community Spotlight: Terri Brown
Meet Terri, the Director of e-Learning at East Georgia State College. With experience using Brightspace as a student, faculty member, and administrator, she brings a well-rounded perspective to supporting her college community. Terri recently discovered the Quiz Printer widget through the Brightspace Community and is…