Rubrics are like a magical tool in Brightspace. If you’ve set up a rubric, with just a few clicks you can grade an assignment with consistent, clear feedback for your students. Plus you can use the same rubrics year after year, course after course. Sounds good! Why rubrics? If you’ve never used a rubric before […]
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You’ve successfully set up and administered a quiz through Brightspace. But now what kind of information can you see about student quizzes? I’ll walk you through the steps of viewing student quiz submissions. This is especially helpful if you have allowed multiple quiz attempt or are using the new feature that allows students to retake
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A problem we hear over and over is that instructors take the time to give individualized feedback and then the students can’t even find it! We’ll give you an overview about where students can view feedback for you to use a reference in guide your students. How students can view assignment feedback From assignments page
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A course shell is a starter structure for your course. This shell is based on a set of online course design guidelines from The OSCQR SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric and Processes that addresses the instructional design and accessibility of an online course. The rubric is openly licensed for anyone to use and adapt. Using a course shell
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While faculty continue to maneuver through the pandemic to ensure that students are retaining the content being taught, alternative assessment has become a staple in conversations as being a category of consideration for the classroom. Student learning can be demonstrated through many different but equitable assessment methods. In considering an alternative to an existing assessment,
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When wanting to know the importance of Instructional Design, the first step is to define this ever-evolving realm of learning processes. Instructional Design is defined as the systematic development of instructional specifications using learning and instructional theory to ensure the quality of instruction. Now knowing the definition of Instructional Design, how does this apply to higher
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Student learning can be demonstrated through many different but equitable assessment methods. In considering an alternative to an existing assessment, faculty may need to consider alternative assessment strategies with respect to end-of-semester formal exams and/or continuous assessments. These strategies could be considered as an online alternative to assessments that would generally be carried out in
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