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Anonymous marking and moderation - how to do it?
Hi everyone. At my institution, we have recently implemented anonymous marking. We are now struggling with how a moderation process would work. Traditionally, the first marker would provide the feedback in the annotations tool, and in the feedback box as usual. The second marker (moderator) would then add a comment in the…
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How do I bypass/resolve this error screen when trying to access manage grades link in course shell?
A professor is having trouble accessing the manage grades screen in his course shell. He syncs his gradebook with Connect and he's the only professor with this issue.
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How can I change the visibility status of an item from 'Hidden. Conditions are inactive' to 'Visi...
It seems the only way to achieve the 'Visible if conditions met' state is to 1. Make whatever it is you want globally visible 2. Quickly add start dates in the Manage Dates screen or whatever condition it is you want. 3. Hope that no one noticed whatever it was was you were trying to hide but set a release condition for…
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Developer Instance: Manage Extensibility item missed for Data Admin and I can't add LTI 1.3 Tool ...
It seems that DevCoPDataAdmin has no permissions to do that. Maybe there is some other way how I can add my LTI 1.3 tool to the dev instance? Please, advice. Thank you!
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Impersonate user permissions.
We are trying to allow some of our roles to be able to imperson...
However we get this error: Cannot Impersonate User You do not have sufficient permission to impersonate this user; they are enrolled with a higher access level in other areas of the organisation The role that we want to be able to do the impersonate functionality is a Cascading Role, and we copied the permissions from the…
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What is the best way to manually grade quizzes comprised of written response questions?
I am looking for best process I should use to manually grade quizzes that include written response questions only. There is no set due date for these quizzes, so I grade them as they come in, usually 4 or 5 per day. Therefore, it does not make sense to grade by question. I also want the grade and feedback to be available…
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405: Method Not Allowed error when attempting to delete Discussion Posts
I'm am trying to add support for Discussions to my web application and have run into an issue with deleting discussion posts in particular (endpoint reference link). I've tested my GET, POST, and DELETE endpoint calls for Forums and Topics, and all work without issue. I am also able to GET discussion posts without a…
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How to access the API using LTI Launch data
Hi everyone! I'm wondering how to use the data provided in an LTI launch (oauth_nonce, etc...) to make API calls. We are currently using an OAuth 2.0 App to access the API but would like to not have to deal with syncing up access tokens across instances. Thank you!
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Having trouble linking my Cengage MindTap course to my Brightspace course.
After I create a module named Access to Cengage Course and Registration and drag the Cengage icon into it, I have not been able to bring up the course from the Cengage resource list. It will find the ebook, but not the course platform. What needs to be entered into the search bar to bring up a course? Please help. Margaret…
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We would like to have a short answer or written response question where regardless of what the st...
Any creative ways on how we might accomplish this?
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Having trouble linking my Cengage MindTap course to my Brightspace course.
After I create a module named Access to Cengage Course and Registration and drag the Cengage icon into it, I have not been able to bring up the course from the Cengage resource list. It will find the ebook, but not the course platform. What needs to be entered into the search bar to bring up a course? Please help. Margaret…
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Is there a way to make discussion board responses private between an instructor and learner?
I'm looking for a way to personally respond to learners in a discussion board through a private thread once their initial thread has been posted. Is there a button allowing instructors to toggle responses between responding to all learners and individual learners?
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Does feedback that has been published appear to students even if the grade item is hidden?
I am working with a faculty member where students are able to view the feedback for the Final test with grade item hidden. The instructor says feedback was added when grading through Enter Grades in the course, and students are able to view the feedback when going and viewing their attempt on the Final test. I suspect this…
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Can BrightSpace confirm that the "Short Description" field for Quiz questions is NEVER accessible...
It is tempting to name Quiz questions in a way that may give away the answer. Obviously this would be a bad idea if the "Short Description" field ever leaks through to the student. Can BrightSpace state definitively that this won't happen? I have not been able to find any documentation about this.
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Is there a way to put the same piece of content - in this case a survey - into hundreds of course...
I need to put a survey into lots of pre-existing course offerings. I know this is possible if you create a course offering from scratch by copying another, but what is the quickest way to put a survey (or other content) into lots of course offerings that already exist? Is it even possible?
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Is it possible to automatically put content, like a survey, into every course offering?
I'd really like to know what the best way of putting content in every course offering is. Is it possible to do this in a way that courses automatically contain certain content items when they are created? If not, what would be the best way to do this? Our particular use case is that we want to put the same survey into…
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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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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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What's the best way to copy/import a Rubric over from another course? (having issues...)
Trying to import/copy a Rubric from another course. I import it over. Set it to publish. But in Dropbox when I try to add Rubric, it doesn't show up in the list.
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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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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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Receiving an invalid token (403-Forbidden) error from POST when using Python d2lValence 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 Advanced Data Sets so I am developing a similar script in Python for this purpose. In the script, I can make GET calls successfully but the first POST call I make…
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Hi Guys,
Need your help configuring the look of our Brightspace instance. Please see attached...
I think this is a value I need to change in the config variable section found in the admin tools, just don't know what to change.
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Receiving an invalid token (403-Forbidden) error from POST when using Python d2lValence 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 Advanced Data Sets so I am developing a similar script in Python for this purpose. In the script, I can make GET calls successfully but the first POST call I make…
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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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Hi Guys,
Need your help configuring the look of our Brightspace instance. Please see attached...
I think this is a value I need to change in the config variable section found in the admin tools, just don't know what to change.
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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...
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 like D2L to create one so that other institutions (e.g. mine, NYU) can avoid recreating the Knowledge Base Guide wheel.
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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…