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The Brightspace Quiz tool is built with really granular controls for test times, student accommodation, and special access. But that means for a student with a standing accommodation, you have to add that information to every quiz you make. Luckily the February 2021 Brightspace update has made accommodations easier for us! Now from the Classlist, […]
Set Up Brightspace Accommodations by Student for All Quizzes Read More »
Chegg and services like it continue to cause concern for higher education instructors. While these sites and other tools to help students cheat probably aren’t ever going away, there are several tools and strategies that faculty can use to protect the integrity of their courses. Obviously you can’t use all of these all the time.
Are You Having Problems with Chegg? – Strategies to Deter Cheating Read More »
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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With the Assignment tool, it is easy to create and manage assignments in Brightspace. No more assignments lost in email and you can annotate right on the assignment. Click a link below to jump to a specific section or browse through all the assignment changes. Below you’ll find a walkthrough video and screenshots of what
Using the Assignment Tool in Brightspace Read More »
It’s the beginning of the semester and course prep is in full swing. But to prep your course you have to find it first! Current Brightspace courses can be a little hard to find since past courses are all included in the course list. To quickly find your course, we suggest using the search feature
I Can’t Find My Brightspace Course! + My Courses Widget Read More »
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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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
Using Brightspace Calendar & Dates Read More »
As a result of the 2020 global pandemic, more classes have moved into the online teaching space, and instructors are having to rethink the way they can engage with their students. One simple way to do this is by adding a Meet Your Instructor widget to your Brightspace course homepage(s). The Meet Your Instructor widget
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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.
Easy Tool to Convert Test Questions to Brightspace Read More »
