Our new Brightspace Creator+ addition provides engaging content formats and layouts to easily add to a course. These can break up text, allow students to interact with content in different ways, and provide in context learning checks. There are many great options so far with more coming in the future and we encourage you to try them out in your own course.
How to insert Elements or Practice items
All Creator+ features are accessed from the Content section of Brightspace. Currently they can only be added to Content by instructors and cannot be created by student.
- From Upload/Create menu, choose Create a File
- Open the Other Insert Options menu (+ icon)
- Choose Insert Practice or Insert Element
- Choose the Creator+ practice or element to edit
- Edit
- Click the Insert button to add it to your content
Elements
Elements highlight content or make it interactive. These are the current element options available.
Accordions
Numbered or unnumbered
Tabs
Horizontal or vertical
Click and Reveal
Question or Standard. A highlighted box with text and a button to click to learn more.
Callout
Standard, Question, Attention, or Jumbo. These are highlighted boxes of text. The different options display different icons or color fill.
Timeline
Standard or alternating layout. The example is an alternating layout.
Flip Cards
Collection of cards. Image and/or text is displayed on the front. Click to “flip” them and display additional text.
Stylized Quote
Standard or large focus. Display and highlight quotes larger than usual text.
Carousel
A mini slide show. Slides can have a title, image, and text or mix of each.
Hotspot
An image with up to 9 markers to click for more information.
Practices
Practices are interactive content options specifically to test student knowledge in a self-assessment manner. These cannot be connected to the gradebook and there is not instructor side indication of student performance. Students can see their own score and can repeat practices over and over.
Dropdown Fill in the Blanks
Use 1 or multiple blank options in a sentence or paragraph. A dropdown menu gives a selection of options to choose from for each blank.
Fill in the Blanks
Use 1 or multiple blank options in a sentence or paragraph. This is truly open ended where students write any answer as opposed to the selection of options in the Dropdown Fill in the Blanks practice.
Multi-Select
Select multiple right answers to a question.
Multiple Choice
Simple multiple choice question.
Sequencing
Drag and drop content into the correct order. These can include text and images.
Sorting
Drag and drop content into different categories. These can include text and images.
True or False
Simple true or false question.
For much more detailed information on how to use the options, use cases, limitations, etc., we encourage you to visit the Creator+ Instructional Design Best Practices course in the Brightspace community. This is the definitive source for all Creator+ options. You can also explore our resources on the Creator+ page.