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When I accessed the Health Checks area in Brightspace, it displayed this SMTP error, displayed b...
When I accessed the Health Checks area in Brightspace, it displayed this SMTP error, displayed below. Has anyone experienced this before as well? What does it mean?
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Is there a way to have preset discussion threads in a forum? (no student created threads)
I would like to have a discussion forum with 3 preset threads that students can choose to reply to, and then there would be ongoing discussions within those three threads. The problem I have right now is that students open the forum, and then instead of replying to my preset threads, they are creating their own threads,…
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How to stop notifications showing students their grades from hidden grade items?
We're relatively new to D2L, and I've got an issue with instructors publishing grades. Basically, I've got a professor grading his final exams, and he's got all of his grade items hidden and he even removed grades from the navbar so the students can't see the gradebook currently. Then he goes into spreadsheet view and is…
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People in an custom administrative role are appearing as students when instructor uses Quick Eval...
People in an custom administrative role are appearing as students when instructor uses Quick Eval. What role properties might allow this? We have defined a customer support role. Users in this role are enrolled in courses, but not as students, and they do not appear in the course roster. They can do things like have access…
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String command for completion date posted to custom certificate
I am working in the awards tool. I have successfully set up a custom certificate, with the name of the awardee printed at the proper place. Is there a string command to get the date printed on the certificate as well?
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Can we tell how a user logged in (SSO vs noredirect)?
I'm guessing the answer is "no", because nothing in DataHub looks potentially relevant. Our users log in a few different ways, e.g. portal SSO vs native login page. Is there any record of which method is used?
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Is padding added under each uploaded image? It doesn't appear in the HTML.
I am trying to create a table with one row and two cells. The first cell will be an image, the second some text. I want them to be vertically aligned in the middle. This is what I see: So....they're almost lined up...but the inner nitpicky me wonders why they aren't perfectly aligned. The image appears a little higher than…
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New Evaluation Experience Annotations viewer download options?
With the new evaluation experience in the file submission annotations viewer. The option to download the original file (as shown in this guide at the bottom). Is only available in our testing environment, even though we have the tool turn on in our production environment. In Maysrelease notes, it says that it should be on…
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Assignment/grade linking - change of behaviour?
Has the behaviour changed when an assignment is linked to a grade item? We have observed that if the instructor manually enters a grade into the Grades tool for a student, this now updates the score on the associated assignment submission and publishes feedback for that submission. If the assignment is set for anonymous…
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I am trying to gather all of the answers from a quiz into an Excel file. One of the questions, wh...
I am trying to gather all of the answers from a quiz into an Excel file. One of the questions, which is an multi-short-answer MSA question with three boxes is not including the answers in the export. Is it possible to export those answers?…
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How to have different roles enrolled into sections?
Using a CSV file to enroll a user in a "manager" role into a section to restrict their visibility to the class progress of that section. Do not want the user to be a "manager" at the course offering level. The manager should only see data for the section they are enrolled in. Is this possible?
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Learning Repository not showing up in Publish dropdown
I've just created my first Learning Repository. I've given the staff group I belong to complete access. It's set to be private, but appear in search results (search by default: yes; public access: no). Yet, when logged in as me, and I choose to publish to a Learning Repository, my repository is not a choice. Do I need to…
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What are the approved file types that can be uploaded as submissions to the assignments tool? Or,...
What are the approved file types that can be uploaded as submissions to the assignments tool? Or, conversely, which file types cannot be uploaded as submissions? The lists provided here in the Create assignments and assess submissions only specify which file types can be viewed by the document viewer or annotated with the…
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Update LTI Quicklink via API request: JSON Binding Error
I am attempting to update an LTI 1.0 Quicklink via the API (Oauth 2.0, in Postman). The initial connection is fine and I can retrieve data via GET requests. I am using PUT to send raw JSON to: https://mysite.brightspace.com/d2l/api/le/1.52/lti/link/1234 My JSON: (as described by…
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YouTube Insert Stuff high rate of failure
We set up an API key and project last year to get the Insert Stuff > YouTube workflow to work again and it seemed to be going fairly well. However recently, we're experiencing a lot of these videos now give an error and don't load, even though the still screenshot looks fine until you click play. Looking at the YouTube…
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In the New Content Experience, can you set manual completion tracking?
I have been testing out the new content experience as we may implement it school-wide next September, however I've noticed that the ability to have students manually track their own course completion in Content does not seem to be possible any more. Does anyone know if this functionality has moved to a different spot?…
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How to make a global Widget that functions based on the current course?
The following specific issue is an example of a more general one we're facing: We have several small features (widgets, intelligent agents, possibly others) that we'd like to add to many courses all at once, and manage the feature as a single entity rather than go into each course one by one. But they need to function…
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Documentation site not displaying correctly (title corrected)
A whole lot of the pages I land on here have no useful instructions and no links. Why do these useless pages exist? For example, where do I find the Video Lecture Template? I can't use it if I can't reach it. NOTE: THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
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Can I view inline feedback for a student who has been withdrawn?
Sometimes I need to find the feedback left on an assignment for a student who has been withdrawn from a course. So what I usually do is go into Classlist --> Enrollment Statistics to find the student who was withdrawn, select the option to view their grades, then I can click on the link to their assignment folder…
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self registration for external learners
Hi all, I have 5 compliance based courses on Brightspace. Is it possible to set them up so that all I have to do is send a generic link to external individuals and they can self register onto the courses themselves? Or self register into the learning environment so that the courses are available to them? Context and…
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When copying quizzes to a new course, quizzes with images will have the images continue to be lin...
When copying quizzes to a new course, quizzes with images will have the images continue to be linked to the old course. The instructors or tech support don't notice these linked images being an issue because they are enrolled in both the old course and the current course. But students writing the quiz are not able to see…
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An assignment has been updated with a new rubric. Can I delete the old rubric without disruptions...
An assignment has been updated with a new rubric. Can I delete the old rubric without disruptions to students who had been graded using it? The old rubric is archived but still remains in the evaluator's view. The old rubric is associated with Competencies. If I remove the association and delete the archived rubric, will…
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API Question - Automatic upload of an externally created 4MB JSON File to "Org files" each night
I have an external (to Brightspace) automated overnight batch process that outputs a single JSON file (approx. 4MB). I would like the JSON file to be automatically uploaded into Brightspace (Content folder in the main Organisational Files) replacing yesterday's file. The JSON is used by a custom Widget and currently this…
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An assignment has been updated with a new rubric. Can I delete the old rubric without disruptions...
An assignment has been updated with a new rubric. Can I delete the old rubric without disruptions to students who had been graded using it? The old rubric is archived but still remains in the evaluator's view. The old rubric is associated with Competencies. If I remove the association and delete the archived rubric, will…
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In documentation.brightspace.com, it seems it is possible to restore a deleted discussion post th...
In documentation.brightspace.com, it seems it is possible to restore a deleted discussion post that has been deleted by the instructor but not by the student. Is there any way for a student or instructor to restore a student-deleted discussion post? Link to current documentation for instructors to restore deleted…
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Can't turn on Portfolio - no toggle in Org Tools?
The page "Turn On Brightspace Portfolio" says under Admin Tools > Organization Tools, Switch the Portfolio toggle to On. https://documentation.brightspace.com/EN/portfolio/administrator/turn_on_portfolio.htm Under both Availability & Org Unit Defaults, there is no Portfolio toggle. ePortfolio is on, but that's a separate…
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Activity Feed Usage Data?
Is there any way to see usage data for the activity feed widget? I'd like to see a list of courses where it is in use at the very least. I've checked the reporting tool and valence, and neither of them give any way to see any data regarding the Activity Feed at all.
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What is the best way to name sandboxes?
I was wondering if any other college/university admins can share the naming mechanisms for their sandbox including Course Offering Name and Course Offering Code. I am not sure we are naming our sandboxes right at my institution.
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Is there a way to publish test scores to the gradebook or export the grades without publishing th...
Is there a way to publish test scores to the gradebook or export the grades without publishing the test results? Teachers and I want to deliberate on student grades before showing it to them. Exporting the scores this way (please see screenshot below) does it in a format that's difficult to understand, is there a better…
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Is it possible to share a card visualization on self-serve analytics (DOMO) to non LMS admins?
I seem to get an error when I try to type in an email address and share a card. Not sure if I need to invite or add users to DOMO first? They aren't creating cards, I just want them to be able to view the visualizations.