Students LOVE the Brightspace calendar! What’s not to like? Instead of going searching through content, all due dates pop up in one place. Let’s help them out. We’ll learn all about adding content dates on Brightspace so your students can be more organized and ready for your course. Brightspace date terminology First, let’s talk about […]
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You’ve always given paper hard copy tests and now your expected to put those hundreds of questions into Brightspace. Sounds daunting doesn’t it? It doesn’t help that the Brightspace CSV import file is NOT user friendly 😨 Well thanks to a handy-dandy question generator tool from Algonquin College, we can skip retyping and spreadsheet formatting.
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The Brightspace question library is your own personal question bank to easily add questions to quizzes, surveys, and self-assessments. And once it is put together, you can easily import it into your new courses year after year! So let’s get started. Where do I find the question library? Go to Activities -> Quizzes. Then the
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Google Drive can really streamline your work process and these quick tips will make it even better!
The IDAT team has noticed an increased use of Respondus Lockdown Browser with higher stakes testing. Waiting until the day of the test for students to download and try out LockDown Browser can give you these problems with limited time to solve them: The best practice in using Respondus is to schedule a no-credit quiz
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Discussion forums have become common place among online courses, as they allow instructors and students to converse about the learning material despite not being in the same place. Often, however, discussion forums are poorly moderated and do not actually promote the deep learning that is desired.
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While not perfect, there is a way to print a quiz directly from Brightspace. For example, there are cases where you might wish to provide a student a paper copy of a quiz. *Updated Aug 2024* We’ll cover two different printing views Quiz questions only Step 1: Start a new submission view Step 2: Submission
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Once your Brightspace course is ready for prime-time (allow learners to access), make your course active by going to COURSE ADMIN -> COURSE OFFERING INFORMATION and click checkbox next to “Course is Active” about half-way down the page and SAVE. EXAMPLE Only when an instructor has made the course active, will enrolled learners be able to
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Depending on how your Grade Book was set up, the final letter grade and/or score may or may not be already visible to your learners. This short video explains how to check for and release/unrelease the final grades to your learners. You must choose either Adjusted or Calculated to be the item that learners will see when released. If using the Weighted Grading System,
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