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Our Brightspace platform has been integrated with VoiceThread but now we have a new quick link to login to the VoiceThread website that works for faculty, staff, and students. So what’s the difference and when should you use the Brightspace integration vs the website? What can I do with VoiceThread? VoiceThread integration Create a new …
VoiceThread Website vs Brightspace Integration – What to Use When Read More »
Life happens and a student suddenly needs more time on a quiz or paper. No problem! With Brightspace you can add Special Access to any Quiz or Assignment. Special Access allows you to add exceptions for specified students for Assignments and Quizzes. You can change State Date, Due Date, and End Date allow more time …
Add Extended Time and Accommodations to Brightspace Quizzes and Assignments Read More »
The Brightspace LMS by D2L uses continuous delivery – meaning they roll out small change regularly. We get great new features and get to adjust to a little at a time instead of experiencing a platform overhaul once a year. Listed below are the newest, most relevant updates. Some of these are pushed out for …
ReadSpeaker is a text-to-speech tool to help facilitate reading and comprehension. For student use, it is integrated directly into Brightspace with a tool for use outside Brightspace. Faculty and staff will all have access for use outside of Brightspace as well. Why get excited about ReadSpeaker? ReadSpeaker is a user-side tool which puts accessibility right …
In this second post of the series, I discuss how you can clean up your Brightspace course.
Here we are again – a new semester! As you begin to prepare for your next semester, you should consider taking a good look at your courses and brushing them up with a little redesign. Why look at courses for redesign? First, a course redesign can help mitigate problems from a course copy, saving time …
New Semester, New Course: A Series on Course Redesign Read More »
Brightspace gradebook is the big trouble spot for most instructors. In this video Charlie will take you through the Setup Wizard and some of the ins and outs of what to consider when setting up your gradebook. This video is viewable only for Meredith faculty, staff, and students.
One of the best parts of an online course is that once you build it, you can use the same course year after year without starting from scratch. But to do this, you need to move your materials from the old semester course to your new one. Here’s the steps of importing your materials into …
You might have a goal of what you want to do for students but how do you choose which tool to use? We’ve broken our supported tools up into groups by usage goal. In the chart below, you can see which tools will help in each of these areas. Scroll through the chart for each …
What Tool do I Use? – Match a Tech Tool with Your Teaching Goal Read More »
