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 …
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We’ve had several inquiries about how to get similarity scores on student work without submitting assignments in Brightspace. Instructors can do so by accessing their account via turnitin.com. If you have used Turnitin in your Brightspace environment already All you need to do is go to turnitin.com, Click Login, Use the Meredith email you use …
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Rubrics are like a magical tool in Brightspace. If you’ve set up a rubric, with just a few clicks you can grade an assignment with consistent, clear feedback for your students. Plus you can use the same rubrics year after year, course after course. Sounds good! Why rubrics? If you’ve never used a rubric before …
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 …
In January 2021, the new assignment experience in Brightspace has been updated and rolled out for everyone. The update is supposed to make creating assignments more intuitive and easier for instructors. But anything new can be a big daunting can’t it? Click a link below to jump to a specific section or browse through all …
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VoiceThread’s updated assignment builder is now even better for tracking participation and grades for VoiceThread assignments. And it still integrates directly into Brightspace. New to VoiceThread? Check out our other VoiceThread posts -> Add a VoiceThread to your content To add a VoiceThread topic to your content area, click Existing Activities then External Learning Tools. …
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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. …
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 …
For the Fall 2018 semester, Associate Professor of English, Kelly Roberts, Ph.D, connected the summer reading book, Callings, by David Isay, with a digital storytelling project in her English 111 Principles of Writing course. Instructional Design Specialist Paul Keys, M.Ed, helped Roberts’s students use WeVideo, a cloud-based video editor, to complete their projects. We caught …
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