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Adding Activity Feed permissions to new roles...
I'm trying to allow a new role to post via the Activity Feed widget in a course offering, but since this widget is not included in "Roles and Permissions," I'm unsure how to go about adding this ability to a specific role in a course offering beyond facilitator/instructor . I do not want learners to be able to post, so the…
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Token being invalidated when config TokenTimeout is -1 (no expiration)ww
Hi there, I have an API that does communicate with D2L API in the background to do some scheduled and user-requested actions. Therefore OAuth does not work for me as D2L does not support OAuth client credentials type, which would allow a nom-browser environment to request OAuth credentials.…
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Receiving an invalid token (403-Forbidden) error from POST when using Python d2lValence library. ...
Receiving an invalid token (403-Forbidden) error from POST when using Python d2lValence library. Exact call is successful (200-OK) when using .NET d2Valence library. Hello - I have been using the D2LValence .NET extension for quite some time to automate the downloading and processing of BDS reports. We have need of the…
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Hi Guys,
Need your help configuring the look of our Brightspace instance. Please see attached...
Hi Guys,Need your help configuring the look of our Brightspace instance. Please see attached. The first one is our current look for the contents of a course offering as a student. How do I change it so that it looks like the second picture? I think this is a value I need to change in the config variable section found in…
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Can a Learner have two different roles in the same course?
Hi all, I have set up a online course for a subject matter expert. They need to complete the course themselves, a ong as everyone else in the organisation; however, I also want them to take responsibility for the course long term and do any course updates and run reports so I have set them up as a Super Designer so they…
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Quiz timer - student disconnect from quiz - time lost? timer stays on? timer reset?
Student gets kicked out of quiz due to interent connection loss or computer froze - timer keeps running? timer resets when student re-enters? timer pauses and restarts once student re-enters? **re-enters: meaning re-entering the same attempt - NOT a new attempt
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Is there a D2L-created article on using the "view as" feature, particularly for instructors viewi...
Is there a D2L-created article on using the "view as" feature, particularly for instructors viewing course sites as students? I've search the community and am coming up empty. Vanderbilt has an awesome guide (https://www.vanderbilt.edu/brightspace/on-demand-resources/how-do-i-view-my-course-from-the-student-view/) and I'd…
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Correct OAuth2 scope for creating new News items
I am trying to incorporate News item creation (endpoint reference link) into my web app and am running into permissions/OAuth2 scope problems. The API reference does not mention specific scope requirements for POSTing to /news, and this knowledge base article seems to suggest any route without specific notes should be…
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Are there any guidelines to prevent slowdown in loading large Discussions?
I am asking on behalf of a faculty person who has experienced slowdown loading a discussion topic. The students were embedding a Padlet iframe which was fine, but once they started replying to each others' posts she experienced slowdown. In the topic there are about 40 original posts with about 20 replies each, for a total…
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Are there any guidelines to prevent slowdown in loading large Discussions?
I am asking on behalf of a faculty person who has experienced slowdown loading a discussion topic. The students were embedding a Padlet iframe which was fine, but once they started replying to each others' posts she experienced slowdown. In the topic there are about 40 original posts with about 20 replies each, for a total…
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D2L's instructional YouTube videos won't embed? Is this due to encryption settings?
Hi there, I am attempting to embed two of D2L's instructional YouTube videos into a content page using templates. When I've embedded other videos using these templates I haven't had any problems. However, I can't these particular ones to work. Is it possible that D2L has set the encryption on these videos to disable…
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D2L's instructional YouTube videos won't embed? Is this due to encryption settings?
Hi there, I am attempting to embed two of D2L's instructional YouTube videos into a content page using templates. When I've embedded other videos using these templates I haven't had any problems. However, I can't these particular ones to work. Is it possible that D2L has set the encryption on these videos to disable…
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I am trying to attach a rubric to an assignment and the Add Rubric button is missing. I was able ...
I am trying to attach a rubric to an assignment and the Add Rubric button is missing. I was able to attach previously rubrics in my course, but now I am unable to. What would be the cause(s) for this, and how would I correct this? Please and thank you! I have read through other forums and there was mention of the…
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Missing Mail Templates?
In Admin > Mail Template Management, a few of the templates have a Subject or Body that looks like this: {term not found: MailTemplates.Main.CustomReportingFramework.Mail.txtDHEmailMessage} * What happened? * How is it that they still work? * Does this need to be fixed? Thanks.
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Is the OrgUnitTypeId for CourseOffering is fixed for all D2l Instances??
OrgUnitType Id for Course offering is "3" for my installation. Is it fixed for all D2L installation or it depends on the D2L installation. I want to filter organization of Course Offering type since https://docs.valence.desire2learn.com/res/orgunit.html#get--d2l-api-lp-(version)-outypes- this API is not authorized for…
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Is the OrgUnitTypeId for CourseOffering is fixed for all D2l Instances??
OrgUnitType Id for Course offering is "3" for my installation. Is it fixed for all D2L installation or it depends on the D2L installation. I want to filter organization of Course Offering type since https://docs.valence.desire2learn.com/res/orgunit.html#get--d2l-api-lp-(version)-outypes- this API is not authorized for…
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Is there a way to have assignments be marked as 0s after their deadline?
Right now the only options I see are to either drop missing assignments or automatically count any posted assignment as a 0. I'm hoping there's a middle ground where an assignment logs a 0 after the due date, but not before then.
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What exactly is the relationship between the Date and Limit Duration fields on the Quiz Submissio...
What exactly is the relationship between the Date and Limit Duration fields on the Quiz Submission View, View Restrictions? Do they work together or does one cancel the other out? For instance, is it possible to open up access to an additional view 24-hours after the end date and permit access for a 10-hour period? If View…
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Hello, everyone! I was wondering if someone knows about a tool for Brightspace that can verify an...
Hello, everyone! I was wondering if someone knows about a tool for Brightspace that can verify an image's originality? This is mostly for our design teachers that are a little nervious about the legimity of their students works (Logos Designs, Anatomy drawings, planes, and etc.)when we were giving presencial classes it was…
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Missing Mail Templates?
In Admin > Mail Template Management, a few of the templates have a Subject or Body that looks like this: {term not found: MailTemplates.Main.CustomReportingFramework.Mail.txtDHEmailMessage} * What happened? * How is it that they still work? * Does this need to be fixed? Thanks.
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How do I import all of a student's data from one course offering to another
Please help. This is a case where a student who was in one course offering progressed up to Unit 2 in a course with 4 Units... the student drops out, but later wants to continue in a new course course offering from Unit 3 to Unit 4. We want to be able to have all of the student's data in the old offering (Assessments,…
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How do I set up (lab) groups for a course with 3 sections (~20 students per section)?
Each sect...
How do I set up (lab) groups for a course with 3 sections (~20 students per section)? Each section has a weekly Lab due via dropbox on a different day of the week. The students complete the labs in groups of 2/3. I have 3 different sections with ~20 students per section. Each section has their lab report due on a different…
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Suggestion for GitHub repository code update(Fusion 2020) ---for Paul's question
--Add bulk org unit upload capability -- Get users data includes deleted ones --Add announcements --Add Grades --Add LTI Data
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Is there a way to have assignments be marked as 0s after their deadline?
Right now the only options I see are to either drop missing assignments or automatically count any posted assignment as a 0. I'm hoping there's a middle ground where an assignment logs a 0 after the due date, but not before then.
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What exactly is the relationship between the Date and Limit Duration fields on the Quiz Submissio...
What exactly is the relationship between the Date and Limit Duration fields on the Quiz Submission View, View Restrictions? Do they work together or does one cancel the other out? For instance, is it possible to open up access to an additional view 24-hours after the end date and permit access for a 10-hour period? If View…
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How do I import all of a student's data from one course offering to another
Please help. This is a case where a student who was in one course offering progressed up to Unit 2 in a course with 4 Units... the student drops out, but later wants to continue in a new course course offering from Unit 3 to Unit 4. We want to be able to have all of the student's data in the old offering (Assessments,…
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How do I run an intelligent agent on one specified date in the future?
Hi, Brightspace community folks. I'm setting up an Intelligent Agent for someone. I want it to run just once, on a day next month. If I want that to be the case, should the Intelligent Agent in my picture start and end on the same day, or should the end date be one day later? (I know that I could technically choose…
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Does anyone know if the "Enable HTML Editor for learner responses" feature for questions can be e...
Does anyone know if the "Enable HTML Editor for learner responses" feature for questions can be enabled by DEFAULT, instead of having to manually turn it on for each question? This is particularly important if you are importing questions from a test bank, and not developing them in D2L Brightspace.
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When enrolling people on courses using user collections, and selecting the role to enroll them in...
When enrolling people on courses using user collections, and selecting the role to enroll them in.What happens if a course has sections? We have set up our sections as manual enrolment and therefore do not want people automatically being enrolled in a section when we enrol them on a course using user collections. As this…
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How do I enable attachments for WR questions in the CSV upload to the question library?
The new feature is described here: https://brightspacecommunity.force.com/s/article/Question-Library-Attach-files-in-written-response-questions-New-762048830?t=1599156285794 And I would like to have it enabled by default on the hundreds of questions I am automatically generating / importing. I'm just not sure of what…