You’ve successfully set up and administered a quiz through Brightspace. But now what kind of information can you see about student quizzes? I’ll walk you through the steps of viewing student quiz submissions. This is especially helpful if you have allowed multiple quiz attempt or are using the new feature that allows students to retake […]
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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,
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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.
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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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While faculty continue to maneuver through the pandemic to ensure that students are retaining the content being taught, alternative assessment has become a staple in conversations as being a category of consideration for the classroom. Student learning can be demonstrated through many different but equitable assessment methods. In considering an alternative to an existing assessment,
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Student learning can be demonstrated through many different but equitable assessment methods. In considering an alternative to an existing assessment, faculty may need to consider alternative assessment strategies with respect to end-of-semester formal exams and/or continuous assessments. These strategies could be considered as an online alternative to assessments that would generally be carried out in
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Exercise & Sports Science professor Melinda Campbell, Ph.D, recently made an infographic assignment in her ESS 300 Issues and Management class. We caught up with Dr. Campbell to see how it went. You will find some links to the assignment rubric and tutorials on how students can use Google Draw and Excel to create infographics.
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We spoke with Meredith’s Social Work Program Director Amanda Jones, MSW, LCSW, about an assignment she’s been giving her students in her SWK390 course, General Individual Practice. Can you describe the assignment? For the Experiential Interviewing Exercise (EIE) assignment, students are assigned a practice client (one of their classmates) and will work with that practice
