Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

What is the Brightspace Starter Course? The Brightspace Starter Course is a pre-built course outline designed to give you a jump start on building your course. It contains pre-built Modules, Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes, and Gradebook. All you need to do is personalize it and add your course materials.   Get the Brightspace Starter Course Check […]

What is Changing We are transitioning the consultations to a by-request model. Instead of having a calendar with pre-set times, you now email Faculty Support at citl@maine.edu and ask for a consultation. By doing this we hope to provide more flexibility in our available consultation times and be able to support more people.    Who […]

About this New Feature Up until now, when you got an accommodation request from a student for extra time, you needed to go into each of your quizzes to grant that student extra time through “Special Access”. This new feature now lets you define an accommodation through Classlist once. Granting an accommodation through Classlist will […]

Setting up your first quiz of the semester? Finding yourself a little lost in all the settings? Check out these tutorials!   Building Question Banks In general, we recommend building your questions in the Question Library and then importing your questions into your quiz. This is because it makes using the other tools, such as […]

One of the biggest differences between Blackboard and Brightspace is that we are going to see occasional Brightspace updates. Don’t worry though! These updates are to designed to make it easier for you to use Birghtspace and are done gradually. The latest update brought us a new Assignment Experience! If you are not ready to […]

The Spring Semester is coming right up! Here are a few things you can do to make sure that your course is ready to go.  Copy Course Do you want to use materials from a previous course? You can copy items right into your Spring course! If you don’t want to copy an entire course, […]

Do you want the ability to let your students retake quizzes and only encounter the questions they had previously gotten wrong? A new feature in Quizzes will allow you to do just that! This setting makes it easy for students to focus on the just questions they got wrong. This is especially helpful if there […]

When we give a quiz or exam we usually have a few students who need accommodation. Often times that means giving a student time and a half on a timed exam. In this post, we are going to quickly walk through the steps necessary to give these students the time they deserve. If you would […]

When do you want students to start the quiz? When do you want them to finish the quiz? How long do they have to take it? These are all important questions you’re probably already asking yourself about the quiz/exam/test you’re setting up. In this post, we are going to talk about all these different settings […]

The purpose of the Content area is to guide students through the learning materials of your course. Making sure your content is organized and easy to navigate is what makes it a learning path and not just a collection of items. If you are getting emails from confused or frustrated students or just want to […]