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Grading is very slow in Brightspace
Why is grading so cumbersome and slow in D2L? Why do I have to click on the submitted document, then wait for it to appear, provide my feedback, and then click "publish", wait for it to publish, then click the arrow button to go to the next student? That's 3 clicks and waiting 3 times that greatly slows down my ability to…
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How to fix "Internal Error"
Hi! Can you please help me fix this message? At least one student has been able to access this page, but another student cannot.
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Adding questions to the Question Library after a quiz is created?
Hello, If I create a quiz and add questions, is there a way to add those questions to the Question Library? Thank you, Yildiz
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Downloading marked rubrics and inline comments + marking PowerPoint presentations
I have a few questions with this query. I have an academic who didn't know about setting up groups for group assignments. So only one student in a group is submitting. This means the other students in the group will not see any feedback or the marked rubric. We do have a solution but to make it less cumbersome, I told her…
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Set a Course Capacity
Is there a way to set a maximum number of users in a course offering? We would like to set this student capacity to caution us at 80 users with a maximum total of users as 100. Ideally, a notification would be sent to the office staff if the course is full. This is to balance teacher workload.
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Grading Forum Discussions with Associated Rubrics via API for a POC in Brightspace
Hello Developer Community, I’m currently working on a proof of concept (POC) where I need to evaluate forum discussions using the Desire2Learn (D2L) API in Brightspace. Specifically, I want to ensure that the associated rubric criteria are applied when grading discussions. What I’ve done so far: I’m retrieving discussion…
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Typing in the 'Quick Eval' sticky notes glitching
Hello, Whenever I type in sticky notes while marking in 'Quick Eval', my keyboard goes wonky and starts adding text to the start of the sentence, like this: a sentence Monica is typing It only happens when I type in sticky notes — no other program or platform. Anyone else encounter this?
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Examples of Well Designed University Spanish Courses
Hello, I'm an instructional designer from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, USA. We are in the early stages of implementing Brightspace for our higher education university campus. We're migrating from Blackboard (Original) Learn 9.1. I'm working with an early adopter instructor who teaches in our Spanish Department.…
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Auto text on Brightspace?
Hello, I'm looking for ways in which the assessment process can be more efficient for faculty and I'm wondering if there's an auto text feature (like you find in Microsoft word) that allows you to save snippets of feedback that are commonly used and can easily be edited to personalize the feedback. Thanks, Yildiz
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Full email in Brightspace
Does anyone use full email in Brightspace? We're a charity and work with young people in schools. We'd like to use full email in Brightspace to contact them as they have access to the platform, but we would prefer that they just use their school emails rather than have a Brightspace email as well. Can we use existing…
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OK I'm clearly too old for this stuff. I can't see how to engage with any of this material.
I have lectures written - and exercises in mind....I can't see any clear A-Z guide as to how to turn my notes into Creator_+ content
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Surveys
Hello we would like to implement the surveys tools for course evaluation (feedback). I have created a survey which can be access via the icon in the navigation bar but the survey itself isn't accessible (clickable). I have made it visible to users under 'More actions' but not sure what else to do to make it visible/active?
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Transferring text into an html page in one course from another html page in another course.
Hello, Within the confines of Brightspace, how can I transfer data such as text or images from one html page in one course to other html pages in other courses? I want to create an html page in NCE containing all the necessary components that faculty need to include in their syllabi. When faculty create their syllabi in…
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Data Hub - classlist enrollment across multiple courses
Hello we're looking to generate a report through the Data Hub which provides us with the number of learners across multiple courses. ideally we need the course offering name included in this, not just the ID. Does such a report exist or do we have to run multiple reports to collate? thank you
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ActivityId is null for Discussions and Assignments, but is populated for Quizzes
What is the process or configuration that results in an ActivityId being null? I manage a tool that allows an institution to design a course and export it to D2L Brightspace. In order to do this we rely on forming urls like this one:…
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Brightspace activity evaluation pages not loading properly in new tabs
(I asked this question in a different forum/category, but wasn't able to get an answer.) For the sake of speed and efficiency while grading, I would like to be able to open multiple "Activity Evaluation" pages in separate tabs. When I try to do this, however, the pages do not load properly. Here is an example what an…
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Brightspace activity evaluation pages not loading properly in new tabs
For the sake of speed and efficiency while grading, I would like to be able to open multiple "Activity Evaluation" pages in separate tabs. When I try to do this, however, the pages do not load properly. Here is an example what an improperly loaded page looks like: The problem seems to occur only when the page is not…
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Improvement of Brightspace
Good morning. I am using BS as a faculty in Higher Education for the first time. Here are my suggestions for improvement: - Students should not be allowed to edit their posts on the discussion board. This makes grading and liability of students complicated. If they need to edit their posts, they should click on reply on…
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how to use a form template
how do i use a form template?
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Email to Instructor Widget
Hello, How do I make widget so students can directly email their Professors/instructors by clicking on it? I tried creating using the HTML but found no replacement strings for instructors' email addresses. Is there any other ways? Thank you