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Why grade value update API gives 400 JSON Binding Error for a null grade update?
Hi All,We are using the PUT API "/d2l/api/le/(version)/(orgUnitId)/grades/(gradeObjectId)/values/(userId)" to update an existing grade item with a null value. We are passing the following JSON object in the request body.{ "Comments": { "Content": "Comments.", "Type": "Text" }, "PrivateComments": {…
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Suggestions on how to allow users to test out of a course?
We are preparing to onboard 1000+ users into a course on how to use a tool. We have 2 main groups:Users who have never used the toolUsers who have years of experience in the toolThe final test requires manual grading of a practical exam. We don't want the graders to have to grade 1000+ exams, but we also don't want to just…
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HOw to calculate a formula grade item.
The instructor has 8 single-question quizzes and one Question Pool quiz. They would like the grade book to calculate the first 5 the student completes as part of the grade.The grade book is weighted - this will fall into a category that carries 5% of the Final grade weight. Thoughts on how to handle this? I am thinking of…
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Is there a way in Brightspace to see who graded a quiz.
We are planning to potentially have a s
Its an open Subject Knowledge Assessment (from September to June) so learners are continuously enrolled onto it throughout the year, and submissions will come in throughout the year. So we are thinking just ask them to mark the next one that gets submitted, but want to be able to ensure we can report on which instructor…
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Hi, we'd like to provide the Brightspace Guided Training for Instructors to our faculty from our ow
The URL for the training in question is https://community.desire2learn.com/d2l/home/14828
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What are best practices regarding archiving completed Brightspace courses?
Currently my institution's are made unavailable 2 weeks after the last day of the term, but instructors still have access to their courses indefinitely. Instructors have the capability to make courses available to students again at any given time, so in turn we run into issues. Does anyone have any experience or…
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Are there other ways for users to self un-enroll from Discover courses?
I am testing out Discover on our test environment. It seems I can self-enroll my user as expected. And as long as the course is a featured course, I can self un-enroll. But when I remove the course from the featured courses list, the course no longer appears in discover - presumably because I am enrolled in it already. Is…
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Diversas unidades problemas com a ampliação das imagens das homeworks que os professores recebem do
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Is it possible to add a portfolio evidence to an assignment folder?
The plan in our course design would be to do as much as possible, formative activities in the portfolio and then submit the final evidence(s) as an assignment (sommative) task in the Assignment tool .
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Given a list of Enrollment.MyOrgUnitAccessInfo objects, what is the recommended way to fetch each c
I have a list of Enrollment.MyOrgUnitAccessInfo objects, obtained from the LP enrollments/myenrollments endpoint. I would like to fetch each course's description. I see an endpoint to fetch this information for a single course, given its orgUnitId; is there any better way (i.e. less likely to hit rate limits) to do this…
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Simple path for students to access feedback on Discussions?
How can I tell if students have access
I assess Discussions via "Assess Topic," so I have a box for written feedback and a box for a score. The scores transfer correctly to the Grade Book. I have published all feedback: how do students access this discussion feedback? Also: how can I see if students have accessed feedback for Discussions and Assignments? I know…
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When I accessed the Health Checks area in Brightspace, it displayed this SMTP error, displayed bel
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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.
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 to the classlists and submit assignments. They also have the permission to be evaluated. I was wondering if a permission comes to mind…
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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, whic
https://community.brightspace.com/s/question/0D55W000000kuOuSAI/is-there-a-way-to-subtotalsummarise-each-students-score-for-each-individual-section-of-questions-within-a-quiz-that-contain-for-example-wr-and-msa-questions-when-exporting-out-ive-seen-it-for-the-mcq-style-questions I found this related question, but the…
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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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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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What are the approved file types that can be uploaded as submissions to the assignments tool? Or, c
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 annotations tools but I'm sure that there are still other file types that could be uploaded to the assignments tool.
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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…
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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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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 based…