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Still Curious About Creator +? As the semester has successfully begun, we hope that your students are finding your course content to be engaging, interactive and as impactful as you designed it to be. If you attended the Creator + Sessions during Faculty Staff Planning Week, we learned about how the Creator + creation tools …
Brightspace introduced a new “Work to Do” system widget that can be added onto Course Homepages and is on the Brightspace Main landing page. By default, this widget is viewable by Learners and pulls data from all tools within the Brightspace Learning Environment including: There has been some confusion for students with this widget so …
Brightspace has slowly been updating all the creation screens to have a unified look and layout. Next up is discussions! This is just like the changes for Assignments and Quizzes so it will look familiar. The new layout The primary panel of the layout contains the most frequently used fields. Others are in the collapsible …
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Around the world, instruction is increasingly delivered asynchronously online, with educators facing new challenges and searching for ways to maintain rigor and quality content. As online education has emerged across mainstream higher education, an increasing number of MPA programs are offering online courses, hybrid courses and entire degree programs online (Naylor and Wilson, 2009; Powell, 2007). …
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Faculty have access to thousands of educational and documentary videos from Infobase’s Films on Demand. This is a fantastic resource on campus and you can learn more about it on the Carlyle Campbell Library website. This post focuses specifically on how to easily use this resource in Brightspace. It is possible share with a link …
There now new ways for students and instructors to track work and submissions in Brightspace! We’ve added 2 new widgets to homepages Work to Do widget for students The Work to Do widget shows upcoming, due, and overdue work. Students can see the work for a course on the course homepage OR work for all …
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Brightspace is working to build a consistent creation experience throughout the platform and the newest update is with Quiz Creation. This is just like the changes to Assignments, so if you have been using the Assignment tool it will look familiar. The new Quiz Creation Experience is currently set to opt-in. That means you can …
Do you ever have trouble reading text in a document or on a website because there’s not enough contrast between the background and the color of the text? Do you find that the font style or the size is difficult to read? Does colored text or bolding help you to discern what is important in …
Effective Use of Color – Creating Accessible Content Read More »
Multiple choice questions are fantastic for the ease of autograding in Brightspace. But did you know you can create a answer set to autograde as well? It is a little more work up front but it opens up the door to more robust questions without manual grading. We can do this using regular expressions. These …
