Hi - I am looking for any tips or tricks that might help me with classroom management, announcements, etc. I recently found out that if i include {FIRSTNAME} in my announcements, the student will see themselves personally addressed in the announcement. So cool. And how do I tag the entire class vs just one student? Thanks!
Hi Everyone, I have a list of announcements that Iʻm using in a course. I had sorted them in an order that makes it easy for me to find and use and then accidentally hit the sort by title field at the top of the list of announcements. This seems to have resorted all my announcements for all my courses by title. I have used…
Has anyone found a good strategy for releasing microlearning modules? I'm planning internal learning on Zoom and MS Office. There will be an initial set of modules on set up, configuration, and security I'd like to develop and release new modules once a month that focuses on a new tool or feature. This way we are not…
Hello! I've been teaching in Brightspace for a year now, and I would love to know how to view analytics on my Announcements. I've searched the discussions and the D2L documentation, but I have not found an answer. Thank you!
Ive read the page on the slim announcements widget, but it is not available in my org. Using the Slim Announcements Widget - Brightspace Please help?
Are there plans to add a field to the Announcements Brightspace Data Set to indicate if it is a pinned announcement or not?
How do I delete 'copies' of announcements?
When a new News Item is posted in a course, it is not sorted in correct chronological order on the News page. This causes an issue because when scheduled News Items post on a later date, they will not post above the manually created News Item on the course home page. There used to be a workaround where if all of the News…
Will Brightspace automatically send all students registered for my class the welcome announcement? Do I need to recreate it for multiple notifications? And will Brightspace populate the class address book automatically with registered students' email addresses?
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