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Is there a way to skip courses from cascading enrollments?
When we onboard new users, they are enrolled as a learner in our onboarding course. After their first week or so, we enroll them in a cascading role, and their learner status is overridden. I'm about to release a series of microlearnings and I'd like their learner progress remain unchanged. I guess I could create a branch…
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Restrictions - Sections - Display configurations
Hello D2L community, We created a course but now we want to know how to more effectively restrict our audience to access certain content. We need to grade each user individually, but we have different modules inside the course (3) with scorm objects from which we take grades for quizzes. However, we also have a guide…
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How do I display or find "read only" users
I can't seem to search for them in a class. I have Super Admin access. I can find the users when I use the "users" option for the entire system, but not when I am in the class itself. My only choices in classlist are instructor or learner. I see how I can see an enrollment log, but no way to change the user role in a class…
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Forced pauses
Hello, I am developing a course that involves a lot of self reflection. My development team would like the learner to have forced pauses in their learning where they take time to reflect and integrate their learning into practice between key learning points in the course. For example. Between Modules 1 and 2, and again…
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Does anyone use Email Addresses as Usernames?
We currently use First.Last format usernames but struggle with folks CONSTANTLY forgetting their usernames… and without those, they cant even use the Forgot your password option. Ive been asked to explore using the learners email address as their Username (they shoudnt forget it, they would all be unique). But I want to…
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How do I add an overseer to my course?
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Is it possible to allow instructors to unenroll without giving enrol permissions?
Our students are currently rostered in courses from our SIS using CSV Standard. When instructors merge their courses, SIS course registrations are added to the new parent course which is great. The problem is that when when students are withdrawn from the course in our SIS, there is no way to trigger an automatic…
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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.