The continuing rise in the cost of a college degree isn’t new news. Open Educational Resources are one of the tools that can be used to help students and their families. “Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature […]
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In this second post of the series, I discuss how you can clean up your Brightspace course.
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Here we are again – a new semester! As you begin to prepare for your next semester, you should consider taking a good look at your courses and brushing them up with a little redesign. Why look at courses for redesign? First, a course redesign can help mitigate problems from a course copy, saving time
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One of the best parts of an online course is that once you build it, you can use the same course year after year without starting from scratch. But to do this, you need to move your materials from the old semester course to your new one. Here’s the steps of importing your materials into
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You might have a goal of what you want to do for students but how do you choose which tool to use? We’ve broken our supported tools up into groups by usage goal. In the chart below, you can see which tools will help in each of these areas. Scroll through the chart for each
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Updated 2/2/21 With so many classes moving online, there are a lot of Zoom meetings to handle! There is not one “right” way to handle an online meeting schedule but we’ll give you some of our suggestions for setting up your Zoom semester meetings. Zoom scheduling from Brightspace We’ve been working with Zoom + Brightspace
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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
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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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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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