Hi all. In the December notes it is mentioned in "Media Library – Share folders using role-based collaborators | New" that permission Content Service > Search for [ROLE] is required to search for users in a given role to add them as collaborators. I do not see that permission in the Permissions matrix? Is a typo? Is it…
Hi everyone, I’m wondering if there’s a way to automatically switch students into a view-only mode once a course end date passes. Our goal is to let students: Continue to view their grades and feedback after the course ends, But not submit assignments, take quizzes, or post in discussions, Ideally, this process should…
I’m wondering about the best way to restrict instructors so that they can only view students enrolled in their own sections within a multi-section course. Specifically: Which role permissions control whether instructors can view students outside of their assigned sections? Does this restriction automatically apply across…
Hi developers! I got multiple requests to create an overview for all the optional and required permissions for a role based on a list of endpoints that can be expected to be called from a user with that role. Now some endpoints like GET /d2l/api/bas/(version)/issued/users/(userId)/ do have a list of the required…
Hi, we are trying to update pronouns from our SIS into Brightspace using APIs and are currently testing. We get a permissions error when attempting to run /d2l/api/lp/1.35/users/ Can we get a list of all permissions needed to successfully make this call? Thank you, Holly
How can you change someone's Admin role to a Super Admin role?
Hi, As part of testing, we moved a user from super admin role to instructor role. But then when we wanted to change it back to super admin, unable to do so, only maximum we can make the user admin. Wanted to know any reason why this is happening?
Hello. I have followed the KB at https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/4465-class-progress-permissions and added all permissions to an Advisor role in BS. With that, we were hoping that Advisors could use the Go to This User's > User Progress in User Management for their advisees. But even with all the…
Right now all our instructors can access a URL like https://online.eiu.edu/d2l/api/lp/1.9/courses/264585 But if a student tries to access it, they get forbidden. How can we enable this for students? It looks like we need to turn this on: https://docs.valence.desire2learn.com/res/course.html ? Thanks for the help.
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