Manage Dates in D2L Brightspace

Overview

Navigate to Manage Dates from the Course Admin page. Learn more about manage dates after course copy in the MediaSpace video.

About Manage Dates

Use the Manage Dates tool to view, edit and offset the date availability and set the calendar status for course items from one central location.  Manage Dates display activities in the following tools:

• Announcement items
• Assignment folders
• Calendar items
• Checklist items
• Content topics and modules
• Discussion topics and forums
• Grade categories and items
• Intelligent agents
• Quizzes
• Surveys

These course items display in a grid that you can sort by any of the column headings.  You can also use the Type column to sort the Manage Dates page based on the tool-specific order and use the filter options to work with smaller sets of items.

In addition to managing dates, you can open each course item in a new browser tab by clicking on its Name, Due, Start, and End columns to launch the Edit dialog box to make any changes.

Clicking on the Name link launches the edit page where you can access additional properties for that item.

Filter by Tool

The Filter by Tool option enable you to narrow your search results by items in the tool.

1. Under the ‘Filter by Tool’ section, and select Specific Tools.
   
2. Then select the checkbox by the tool to view course items in the selected tool.
3. Click Apply Filter.

Note: To clear a search, select All for Filter by Tool, and then click Apply Filter.

Editing dates in Manage Dates

You can edit dates for individual or multiple items.

Bulk edit dates

The Manage Dates tool enables you to bulk edit due dates and availability dates of your course content.

1. Navigate to the Manage Dates tool in your course.
2. Select the checkbox of the items for which you want to bulk edit dates.
3. Click Bulk Edit Dates.
4. In the Bulk Edit Dates window, update the due dates and availability dates by doing
   • To enter new dates, select or enter different dates for any of the fields.
   • To clear dates, unselect (clear) any of the fields.
5. If provided the option, you can select the Display in Calendar checkbox to allow the course item’s date(s) to display in the Calendar tool. Note the following:
   • These items automatically display dates (start/end and due) in the Calendar: Announcements, Assignments, Content modules/topics, Checklist items, and Quiz due dates.
   • These items allow you the option to display dates in the Calendar: Discussion forums/topics, Grade categories/items, Quiz start/end dates, and Survey start/end dates.
6. When you’re ready, click Save.

Remove dates

To remove a course item’s start, due, and/or end date, click the Remove (x) icon for the corresponding item’s date.

To remove the course item’s calendar event, unselect (clear) the Calendar column checkbox for the corresponding item. Note the following:

1. These items automatically display dates (start/end and due) in the Calendar: Announcements, Assignments, Content modules/topics, Checklist items, and Quiz due dates.
2. These items allow you the option to display dates in the Calendar: Discussion forums/topics, Grade categories/items, Quiz start/end dates, and Survey start/end dates.

Other Dates

The ‘Other Dates’ column provides a way for you to manage dates for the following activities:

• Quiz submission view names and dates
• Quiz report names and dates
• Survey report names and dates

Offsetting dates for the current semester

Bulk offset dates

Manage Dates enables you to move dates forward for a new semester using the Bulk offset dates option.

1. Navigate to the Manage Dates tool in your course.
2. Select the checkbox of the items for which you want to bulk offset dates.
3. Click Bulk Offset Dates.
4. In the Bulk Offset Dates window, select the dates to offset.
5. Calculate range between two dates to quickly generate the number of dates between two relative dates.
6. Select From date as the previous semester’s start date.
7. Select a new date for the To date as the current semester’s start dates.
8. When you’re ready, click Save.

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