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There are quite a few tools that make it easier to manage course announcements in Brightspace. Easier for you and more useful for your students. Let’s take a look at them. All of these options works from the Announcements tool or the Announcement list on your course homepage. Copy to a different course Now with […]
Copy, Pin, and Reorder Brightspace Announcements Read More »
Layouts Layouts make configuring content easier, and faster, then ever. With this feature, creators have the option to arrange text, media, and even Creator+ Elements into panels. This opens your content pages to a new range of design possibilities. Instead of placing content into one long vertical page, you can now organize text and media
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Continuing Brightspace’s layout changes is the New Content Experience! The new Content is now enabled as an opt-in option for your course. You may enable it any time to try it but remember that students will see the changes as well. To experiment with the new view without disrupting your students, we encourage you to
New Content Experience in Brightspace Read More »
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
Creator+ Intro Webinar Read More »
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
How to Remove “Work-to-Do” Widget From a Course Read More »
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).
Benefits of Implementing Course Templates in Your Department Read More »
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
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In the first Ally blog post, we discussed that Ally provides feedback on the accessibility of your course content and guidance on how to fix any identified accessibility issues. In addition, Ally provides instructors with a method for looking at the accessibility status of all of the items in the content areas of the course
Course Accessibility Report- ALLY Read More »
