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Can BrightSpace confirm that the "Short Description" field for Quiz questions is NEVER accessible b
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 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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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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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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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. Ex
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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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 viewing
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…
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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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I am trying to attach a rubric to an assignment and the Add Rubric button is missing. I was able to
I have read through other forums and there was mention of the Competencies Tool being turned on/off. We recently acquired Brightspace as our new LMS and are still organizing our instance, and I was just informed that it has been turned off. Would this be the reason? If so, the Competencies check box in rubrics is still…
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Hello, everyone! I was wondering if someone knows about a tool for Brightspace that can verify an i
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 a lot more easy to identify a student art work legimity's due to the watch them work in the moment factor. Some of our…
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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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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 set up (lab) groups for a course with 3 sections (~20 students per section)?
Each sectio
I have 3 different sections with ~20 students per section.Each section has their lab report due on a different day of the week.The primarily group size = 2 but some groups of 1 and 3 (Student choice to triple up or individual for unpaired students). Most student groups are already known (chosen on paper via jamboard).…
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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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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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What exactly is the relationship between the Date and Limit Duration fields on the Quiz Submission
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 Restrictions Date and Limited Duration are mutually exclusive or conflictual, it would be clearer to put them under a radio button grouping.
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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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When enrolling people on courses using user collections, and selecting the role to enroll them in.
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 would give people access to view personal data for people who are not in their section We would then enrol people into the sections…
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Does anyone know if the "Enable HTML Editor for learner responses" feature for questions can be ena
This is particularly important if you are importing questions from a test bank, and not developing them in D2L Brightspace.
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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…
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Is there a way to turn off all email/SMS notifications, except for award achievements?
We do not want learners to be overloaded with email notifications, especially from Announcements, however, we do not want to lose the ability to alert them of an award achievement. We want them to be able to see Announcements while in the learning environment, but not be emailed every time a new announcement is added to…
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Can Turnitin be enabled on Assignments by default?
I'm referring to at least the first highlighted checkbox in this screenshot, and ideally, the second as well.
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Anyone familiar with the Assessment options in Content for Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes?
A faculty member asked one of our campus admins about the Assessment options in Content, and I never noticed this option before. From my testing, I was able to change points, choose an existing Grade Item, or create a new Grade Item. Upon selecting an existing Grade Item, that selection still showed when editing my test…
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D2L Export -> Import Causing Calendar to Break?
We have a course that was exported from one instance of D2L, then imported in ours. The Calendar has completely broken as a result. Due dates on quizzes, assignments, and discussions no longer match up. I've tried removing the due dates and adding them back, but that did not work. https://i.imgur.com/1I4oIwW.png Any ideas?…