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Setting up an "open" or self-paced course in Brightspace
Hi We have a program that wants to have course that is open for 1 year and have different students start in it at different times to complete the course over a 4-6 week recommended schedule. Any suggestions on how to set this course up in Brightspace (also we do not currently have Discover)? The students would complete on…
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Adding a result from a final external exam
Hello I've set up a grade book which has a final grade element that makes up 100% of the final grade, following earlier advice from you about the best way to add a result from a final external exam (see earlier discussion). How am I best now to add manually grades for individual candidates, bearing in mind that I have…
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Checking when student was admitted to Brightspace?
Dear community, I am trying to figure out how to confirm the date a student was added to my course Brightspace. I do not admit students manually, when someone is on the waiting list and there is a free spot, students get automatically added. The question here is how to check when they first got added, and not when their…
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Brightspace username cannot have a ' in - has anyone got around this when creating accounts via API?
Hello, We create all our birghtspace users using via API the "Create User" endpoint. Our rule for setting the username is to use the individuals email address as their username However we have a number of users that have email adresses such s.o'neill@school,com ho'leary@school.com So these always get rejected via the…
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How do I activate student access to course?
Question as above.
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student access to course
activate student access to course
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enroll students in multiple sections at once
We have 6 sections of the same course merged into 1 Brightspace course. When I enroll our UGTAs (they have to go in as Learners; the Course Builder role is not appropriate for them, see below) I have to enroll them in the 6 sections separately. There needs to be a way in which I can enroll them in all sections with one…
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Is there a way to set prerequisites for a course in Brightspace?
We let students self-enroll in courses via the Discover tool. In Brightspace, is there a way to set up Course B so that users can't enroll in it unless they have already completed Course A? In the Discover settings, I see we can set up enrollment rules based on user attributes, and we can set approvers. But there doesn't…
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How to enroll administrators into Brightspace course?
I'd like to enroll some people with administrator access into a Brightspace course. Does anyone know how to do this? Add participants and Manage User Enrollment don't seem to work.
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How to GET instructors for a course offering
Hello, We are building an integration between Workday Student and Brightspace. We plan on using the D2L Standard CSV method in IPSIS, but are running into a problem. We can build a delta report that will tell us which course offerings have changes, and will return all of the current instructors. But so far, it seems like…
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How do I resend an enrollment email to a learner?
I enrolled a group of learners and did not click the "send enrollment email" button because we are waiting to notify learners until after the facilitators have been trained. However, the "send enrollment email" button seems to now have disappeared now that learners have been enrolled. How do I now send them their…
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Report for inactive vs. active users
What is the best report to use run to look for active vs. inactive users in a particular org unit? This is not based off a particular activity or assignment in the course. We are looking for active vs. inactive users - I don't see that option other than going to the Classlist and looking at each individual enrollee.
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Self enrolment key?
Does BrightSpace have a self enrolment key option? I have a course called Language Placement Tests. Inside it, I have groups called Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. I want to give students a link and a code that will allow them to self-enrol in a course and be placed directly into one of the existing groups. I know I can do…
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What are the best practices for administration of course that are 'open'?
I'm looking for information about how to best administer courses that are not restricted to a term, but that have continual enrolment. How can they be best created and archived so that the class lists do not become unwieldy? Apologies if this question has already been asked; I appreciate any information about this that is…
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get data from API
I am trying to pull data like given in the Datahub → Data Sets → 1. Organisational Units, 2. User Enrolments, 3. Course Access
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Allow users' to view an expired/closed course
Please share your organization's best practice on how we can allow users to view an expired/closed course—but NOT earn a certificate. Is this handled through an intelligent agent role change with different roles and permissions assigned to that specific role? Such as a 'Read Only' role?
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How to export a list of all users ?
When I try to export a list of users I receive a error message. Attached. Thanks, Andrew
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Course access: user's role or user collection's course enrollment role?
Here is an example: When creating a user account for a particular individual, they are assigned the Administrator role and enrolled in Course A using the bulk user management template. The Administrator role is not cascading. That user is then added to a user collection, and, later on, that collection is also enrolled in…
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Temporary student deactivations in a course
Is there a way for instructors to temporarily suspend a student inside of their course instead of unenrolling?