General
Communication
Sending Emails and Instant Message from Brightspace (Doc)
This document reviews what Brightspace’s Emails and Instant Messages tools can do, where you can access them, and how to use them.
How to Change your Course Homepage and Widgets
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Do you want to add, remove, or customize the widgets on the Homepage? This document will show you how to customize your Course Homepage.
How to Add Instructor Information on the Course Homepage (Doc)
Adding instructor information to your course homepage is a great way to introduce yourself. You can also add your contact information here so it is easy for your students to reach you.
Using the Calendar to Help Your Students Stay on Track (Doc)
The Brightspace Course Calendar tells students what is due, when content is available, and other important dates you add to it (like Zoom meeting times). This document reviews what appears in the Calendar and how to add your own events.
Creating Private Journals using Discussions and Groups (Doc)
This document reviews how to create single-member groups so you can create private discussion boards with each of your students.
Intelligent Agents and Release Conditions
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Release Conditions allow you to restrict progression through your course. Intelligent Agents allow you to monitor and communicate with your students about their progress and access to your course. This tutorial will do over how to set up both.
How to use the Activity Feed (Doc)
The Activity Feed allows you to communicate information to your students and allows them to comment back. This document explains how this works.
Adjust Your Notifications (Doc)
Taking the time to adjust your notifications to your personal needs will help you stay on top of your class while keeping your email inbox manageable. Follow the steps below to adjust your Brightspace Notification settings.
Brightspace Text Editor (Doc)
The Brightspace Text Editor allows you to add images, videos, hyperlinks, and other content. Any time you are editing pages, descriptions, assignment instructions, etc, you are using the Text Editor.
Insert Links into the Brightspace Text Editor (Doc)
The Brightspace Text Editor is a powerful tool. You can use it to link to other parts of Brightspace, other websites, documents, and more. You can even insert videos and images to create a multimedia learning experience for your students.
General
How to Import and Copy Items into a Course
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Do you want to copy specific items or a whole course into another course? This document will show you how you can do that!
How to Activate a Course
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For students to be able to access your course, you must activate it. This document provides you the steps on how to make it active.
How to Add a TA to Your Course (Vid)
Do you need to add a TA to your course? This quick video will show you the steps on how to do that.
How to Login and Search for Courses (Doc)
This document shows you how you can login to Brightspace and how to search for your courses!
Intro Session Webinar (Vid)
This is a webinar of our Introduction to Brightspace Training. This video will cover all of the basics on how to navigate through Brightspace and provide brief information about some of its tools.
Faculty: Resources for Students (Doc)
Are you looking for resources to share with your students if they need help? Here is a list of helpful resources to share with students if they need support using Brightspace.
Preview Learner: Student Impersonation (Doc)
This document explains how to impersonate the Preview Learner so you can get the student experience.
Brightspace Roles and Permissions (Doc)
This document explains the different types of roles that exist in Brightspace and what abilities/restrictions they have.
Find and Review Classlist (Doc)
Your Classlist is where you can see a list of the people who are enrolled in your course. From here you can email students, see the last date of access, set accommodations, and impersonate a fake student to see your course through a student’s eyes.
Monitoring Student Progress
Use Intelligent Agents to Check if Students are Accessing Your Course
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Set up an intelligent agent to monitor whether or not students are accessing the course.
Learning Outcomes and the New Mastery Gradebook (Doc)
This document will show you how to add Learning Outcomes and review the Mastery Gradebook.
Class Progress and Learning Data Webinar (Vid)
This is a webinar of the Class Progress/Learning Data Brightspace Training. This video will show you how to use the Class Progress tool, where you can view statistics, and talk about Learning Outcomes.
Building Brightspace Rubrics (Doc)
Using Brightspace Rubrics can save you time grading, lead to more consistent grading, and increase communication with your students.
Additional Tutorials
Remodel your Migrated Course or Rebuild from Scratch? (Doc)
Are you deciding whether or not you want to use your migrated course content from previous semesters or build the course from scratch? This document can help you make that decision!
How to Delete Things in Brightspace (Doc)
Do you have extra items that you need to remove or a mistake you need to delete? This document will show you how to delete things in Brightspace!
Groups Webinar (Vid)
This is a webinar of the Groups Brightspace Training. This video will show you how to create groups, how to make group discussions/assignments, and it will review the settings for groups.
Grant Accommodations in Classlist (Doc)
This new feature allows you to set a student’s accommodation once, and then have that accommodation apply to all Quizzes that student takes in your course. This will save you time when setting accommodations.
Time Savers: Automation in Brightspace (Doc)
Implement some or all the strategies below to help save your time and energy while teaching your course.