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Export the Syllabus created using the Brightspace HTML tools
In either classic or new content experience, if we create our syllabi using the Brightspace HTML tools - can we then export the syllabi in a format that could be uploaded to a database?
Special Access for Discussion Forums
My college has made the decision to lock down discussion forums with an end date. We are leaving visibility, but withholding the opportunity to post once the deadline passes. This solves a few problems for us. However, sometimes we have students with disability accommodations who are allowed extra days on their discussion…
Highlight Text option when assessing Discussions
I would like to have the ability to highlight text in students' discussions when I am assessing them, so they know, readily, what was useful about their discussion post. Is there presently a way to do this? If not, it would be great to add this (it would make my grading process much easier for online courses).
LTI for Salesforce.
We need to integrate Brightspace with Salesforce using an LTI tool to display a Salesforce page within Brightspace. We have configured LTI in Brightspace for integration with Salesforce.However, we don’t see a connector available to establish the LTI connection with Salesforce. Any guidance on this would be helpful.
Deactivate & request a new site for a course
Hi everyone, While copying content from a previous semester, our gradebook links did not transfer correctly, causing hundreds of grade items to get mixed up. We now have a newly designed course structure that we’d like to copy over. Our plan is to deactivate the current course (so we can still reference previous students'…
Discussion Uploads
Hello! What is the maximum space allowed for discussions? Some of our discussions require students to attach videos and powerpoint presentations. Thank you!
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?
Is there a way to verify that students have read instructor feedback on Discussion Boards?
Possibility of wordcount menu in Discussion Post Page
I am using D2L bright space at Conestoga college for my courses. One of my courses has many discussion posts and part of the grading metrics is checking minimum number of words. I am wondering if there can be word count provision on the grading page instead of copying to MS word all the time to check number of words. This…
Forum Start-End Dates don't appear in Work-to-Do or Pulse
I don't know if this is a bug or a design decision… When adding Start and End dates to a Forum and putting those dates on the calendar, nothing appears on either the Work-to-Do widget or the Pulse app. They do appear on the course calendar. Adding start-end dates to the Topic, those dates do correctly appear on the…
Learners Cannot See Rubrics
We discovered today that students cannot see rubrics attached to discussions or assignments (dropbox). The rubrics are published and marked as visible to students, but they can't see them in the instructions as expected. We've been troubleshooting it for the past 1.5 hours and nothing makes sense or changes this results.…
New Experience - SCORM Object Displaying Layout
Hello D2L community, I would like to ask if there is a workaround of the issue with the displaying of a SCORM (2004, 2nd ed) Object in a new experience configuration. The main point for us to use the new experience for learners was to make videos in a full-screen mode available. However, placing the SCORM object as an…
Insert LaTeX Equation; Discussion post
Hi, I am a student, I wish to insert LaTeX formatted Equations in my discussion posts. Some of these commands do not work, even though it is included in the popup at: https://mylearning.suny.edu/d2l/lp/math/latex I'm looking to insert 2 equations, on separate lines. Desired Output Example: y = mx+b a^2 + b^2 = c^2 I've…
Discussions - Error Message
Good morning, I have students who have shared they are not able to reply to discussions and receive an “Internal Error” message. I viewed the discussion as a leaner, and I am able to start a new thread under the discussion. All students are assigned to a group. Are there any other possible barriers to the students replying…
TurnItIn Enabled on Discussion Boards?
Hello community I wonder if TurnItIn can be enabled on the discussion boards? We have started using an outside tool for discussions because of AI use in our online courses, but we are missing the accessibility and some additional features (groups and rubrics) of the discussions in D2L. Would love to get rid of this other…
How to Assign Due Dates for Discussion Boards in My Course?
Is there a way to assign a due date for discussion boards? Dicussion boards are integral parts of my instruction. I need to be able to assign due dates.
New Here
I am new here and I just wanted to say thank you for making this available to me. My question - "Why was I not aware of this during my last semester?" I think I would have greatly benefited from this resource.
Do everyone has same toolId for internal tools like (assignment, quiz, topic etc).
I was using the grades API to pull grades :- in the response of that API we got a nested object in grades object "AssociatedTool": {"ToolId": 3000,"ToolItemId": ###} Just curious to know , lets assume if this ToolId is for discussion topic tool. Will it be same for everyone, those are using D2l. Or if this can be the case…
Discussion topic statistics
I use the discussion boards a lot. I also use the statistics from the discussion board topics to grade students' participation. Currently, the following topic statistics are available: Number of threads each student created Number of replies each student made Number of posts each student read Number of votes each student…

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