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Quiz Tool: Random Draw From Question Pool Categories With Quiz Section
So this is a super specific question from one of our faculty. It doesn't seem possible, but I thought I would ask. Faculty has a question pool. Questions are organized into categories. Each category has at least 20 questions. Goal: Faculty wants to build a quiz with sections. Under each section, the faculty wants the…
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Brightspace Community?
How do instructors know about Brightspace Community and its offerings, features, etc.? It's a valuable resource but I fear many/most Brightspace instructors are unaware of its presence.
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Quick Links need to be entered twice
In assignments, when I highlight a word or phrase to quick-link, it asks me to type in the word or phrase in a pop-up window. Why do I need to manually type in something I just highlighted? This word processing 101 and should be expected on any platform in the year 2025. Again — so many extra clicks for something that the…
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Outcomes not appearing in Mastery View
Can someone help clarify this article for me? In Best practices for using Grade book Mastery View - Brightspace it states, "Automatic suggestions for the outcomes that are explicitly aligned (directly aligned to the assessment activities or Brightspace Portfolio artifacts) are not currently generated and must be manually…
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How to force learners to retake a course if they fail the final assessment
We have several courses where learners are given 3 opportunities to retake a summative assessment. We'd like to make it possible for learners to retake the course if they fail the 3 assessment attempts, without having to manually reset progress. Is it possible to do this automatically?
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Quizzes in which all questions are toggled to "Bonus" do not publish any score to gradebook
We had a faculty member notice some odd behavior recently: while attempting to make an extra-credit quiz, they toggled all of the questions as bonus questions. When attempts are submitted on this quiz, no points appear in the gradebook, only showing a dash (-): Checking the student's submission shows that it did record the…
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"assignment" tool pop-up after student submission = Misleading to students
Hello! When students submit an assignment, the "assignment" tool pops up for them and provides an overview of the assignments completed and which ones are next to complete. That said, this tool is misleading because it gives the students the impression that this is the course outline. Students click and attempt the next…
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Grade colored red in gradebook
I have 1 student in Grade book who is colored red in the final calculated grades. the students grade is not the lowest in the gradebook but it is the only one colored. can you explain or help me?
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Using A.I. in online discussions
Is anyone use A.I. in their online discussions (e.g., rewriting/improving discussion prompts and replies to student posts) or in other ways in their courses?
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Issue with Printing Classlist
I was just printing my classlist. The list is sorted alphabetically but when I select all students and click on Print, the print preview pop-up shows my list in (it seems) Username order. It doesn't seems to matter whether I sort first by last name or first name, the print preview always presents the list sorted by…
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The content selection window opens as a modal?
the content selection window opens as a modal only? Can I change it configurations? can I open the content selection view in a new window?
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Which formative assessment tool do you find easiest to use and/or most user friendly?
Hello Community, I currently am building my first Brightspace course. I am striving for it to be interactive and user friendly. I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on which tools are the most user friendly among the following: surveys, polls and/or discussion boards? Our school also is looking into having Padlet as an…
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Embedding MS Stream Videos: Permission Issues
We have had several faculty members try embedding MS Stream videos into their courses and run into several issues related to permissions. Basically, even if a video is set to be available to anyone to watch, they get an error in Brightspace saying "You don't have access." Has anyone else run into similar issues and/or…
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Assign release condition to a downloadable document
I need to assign a release condition to a document that students need to download. There doesn't appear to be any direct way to do this. Assigning a release condition to a topic or an assignment etc, doesn't confirm that the download took place. Can anyone help me with a workaround?
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Yikes!! "Unsubscribe from notification emails" in the March 2025/20.25.03 release notes
If the new "Unsubscribe from notification emails" function works as described, there is going to be a faculty uprising on my campus! Currently, faculty post critical timely announcements in Brightspace with the confidence that the information is also sent out via email. From what I understand from the release notes, if a…
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Adding a Module to New Experience
Good moring, How do I add a module to the new experience? The old experience has the option to add a new module below an existing module. When I click the plus sign next to New Unit, I am given a tab that does not align with the existing modules.
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Can my progress meter on my table of contents show assignments instead of topics?
I have removed the display for now but it is confusing to show 'topics' and have students think that they have finished a topic when there are still assignments to complete. I want the progress meter to show 'assignments' in that table of contents widget instead. Is there a way to do that?
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Uploading Word Project Assignments from a Mobile Device Using Copilot 365 & OneDrive
My Question is: now that Microsoft is using Microsoft 365 and they are recommending using Copilot 365 for Mobile devices - when you create a Word document it automatically saves to the OneDrive. Is there a way to access the OneDrive from a Project assignment submission screen on a mobile device? Or does the actual file…
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Work To Do Widget Is Skipping Ahead Two Weeks When Creating The Upcoming Task List for Some Students
Why would the list of upcoming work exclude the work due over the next two weeks for some students, but not all. For more detail: Students who are mostly on track with posted due dates see all work due for the next two weeks, as well as all work due for the next few months. Students who have a long list of overdue work…
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New learner/content experience: Start w/menu in viewer window?
In new learner experience, after you click on a module to view the content, it opens in a full viewer window. Along the left upper corner, you can select the 3 lines to open a table of contents. I'm wondering if there's potentially a config variable or another way to start with the left table of contents open on the…