Brightspace Video Resources

The CTL offers a robust catalog of workshops covering various tools and features within Brightspace. On this page you can find recordings of our workshops for a self-guided experience, allowing you to view these lessons at your own pace. Use the “Chapters” feature within each video to navigate to specific tools and topics.

If you’d like to register to attend a live workshop on Teams, view the CTL Events Calendar.

This screenshot shows where to find the Chapters button.

Real Courses, Real Results: Faculty Examples in Brightspace

The Brightspace Showcase

Chapters: Orientation/AV Notes/Student View • Content Organizer/Calendar • YellowDig/Perusall/Weekly Modules • Announcements/Organization/Discussion Forums/Group Projects • Accessibility Tools

CTL’s Brightspace Showcase is a forum for several UVM faculty to share their diverse approaches for organizing their course sites.  In this recording of the first session, instructors present their courses and talk about how they achieved specific pedagogical goals using a show-and-tell format.

Brightspace in Action: Tour Ying Hu’s CHIN2100 Course

Videos: Course Design Overview • Asynchronous Practice with Audio Note and Quizzes • Visualize and Manage Weekly Learning • Learner autonomy reflectivity inclusivity

This playlist features four short videos in which Ying Hu guides you through her CHIN2100 course. She explores her Brightspace course design, explaining how its structure supports her pedagogical practices and educational strategies. Ying demonstrates how Brightspace reinforces the effective teaching practices she brings to her classroom, creating a cohesive and impactful learning experience for her students.

If you have trouble accessing the playlist, you can click on a specific video title to view each individual video.

 

Designing your Course in Brightspace

Course Design in Brightspace

Chapters: Course Design Considerations • View Examples • Add Student View • More Examples • Prioritize Active Modules • Create Modules • HTML Editor / Document Templates

Brightspace offers a flexible, intuitive interface for organizing and delivering course content. Thus, the move to Brightspace presents an opportunity to shift how we think about course design. During this workshop, we will highlight different approaches to structuring course materials in the Content area. We will cover some Content fundamentals as well as provide tips to guide you as you think about optimal ways to structure your course materials to create a cohesive experience for your students. 

Grading in Brightspace

Grades: Setting Up the Grading Center

Chapters: Viewing the Grades Area • Looking at Migrated Grades • Grades Wizard • Add Items to Grades • Associating Grade Items to Tools • Workflows • Viewing Student Grades/Evaluating from the Grades Area • Quick Eval

This recorded workshop covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We demonstrate the best ways to organize the Grade Book and the best ways to enter grades. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create their Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard, and this session will help you decide which option is best for your course.

Grading and Giving Students Feedback

Chapters: Access Feedback • Feedback Tools • Inline Annotation for Assignments • Audio Attachment or Embed Content • Rubric • Grading Workflow • Course Tools • Gradebook • Quick Eval • Intelligent Agents • Ways Students View Feedback

This recorded workshop provides an overview of strategies for grading student work and providing feedback. We demonstrate tools to provide students feedback (inline grading, audio/video, rubrics),  different grading workflows, including Quick Eval, and a snapshot of Brightspace’s automated feedback tool – Intelligent Agents. We also show how students can find their grades and feedback. Please note, if you are interested in learning how to set up your Grade Book, please watch “Brightspace Grades: Setting Up the Grading Center.”

Brightspace Tools

Content and Course Organization

Chapters: Design Consideration • Add Content • Examples • Content Settings • Adding Content from Scratch • Course Builder

This recorded session covers:

    • How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
    • Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
    • Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
    • Tips for using the HTML editor
    • Linking to course activities

Assignments

Chapters: Create Assignments/Settings/Evaluation/Feedback • Adding Assignments to Modules • Viewing Assignments in Grades/Giving Feedback

This recorded session focuses on:

    • Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
    • Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
    • Editing and reordering Assignments
    • Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
    • Using the Submission Log for tracking student work

Quizzes

Chapters: Create Quizzes • Evaluation/Feedback • Add a Quiz to a Module/Student POV • Intructor Grading • Student View of Results • Question Statistics

In Brightspace, the Quiz tool is used for both quizzes and tests.  In this recorded session we show the workflow for creating quizzes, including:

    • Creating questions and question types
    • Creating a question library
    • Building a Quiz
    • Grading a Quiz
    • Quiz statistics and logs

Customize Your Course with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents

Chapters: Release Conditions Overview • Release Conditions – Demonstration • Intelligent Agents Overview • Intelligent Agents Demo – Student Course Access • Intelligent Agents Demo – Congratulating a Student

During this recorded workshop, we’ll explore how you can use Release Conditions to create a custom learning path for your course materials in Brightspace. We’ll introduce Intelligent Agents, which can automatically send emails to students who meet course criteria you specify. Finally, we’ll share examples of how you can use Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents together to further customize learning paths and enable timely student communication.    

Improve Course Accessibility with Ally

Chapters: Alternative Formats • Accessibility Checker • Ally Course Report

Ally assists instructors in building a more inclusive learning environment and improving the overall student experience by assessing the level of accessibility of all instructor-uploaded content in Brightspace. Ally also provides guidance and tips for lasting improvements to content accessibility. In addition, Ally generates alternate formats to Brightspace course documents to meet different learner needs, abilities, and preferences.
During this recorded workshop, you will learn how to use Ally to evaluate the accessibility of your course materials. You will also learn how to use Ally’s step-by-step instructions to improve the accessibility of course documents. Finally, you will learn about the alternate formats Ally makes available to students for all your course materials.

Discussions

Chapters: Blackboard to Brightspace Translation Guide • Overview • Create a Discussion Forum • Create a Discussion Topic • Adding Discussions to Content • Evaluating Discussions • Student POV Graded Discussions • Migrated Discussions

This recorded workshop covers the details of using the Discussion tool in Brightspace. We demonstrate where to set up both whole class and group discussions, and how link them to your Table of Contents. We look at how to clean up Discussions migrated from Blackboard and cover the differences between Forums and Topics in Brightspace.

Course Analytics in Brightspace

Class Progress 

Chapters: Accessing Class Data • Interpreting Class Data • Using Class Data to Support Teaching and Learning

This video demonstrates how to access the and interpret student progress data using the Class Progress tool. You will also learn how you can use this data to support teaching and learning.

Discussions

Chapters: Accessing Discussion Statistics • Interpreting Discussion Statistics • Exporting Discussion Statistics • Using Discussion Data to Improve Teaching and Learning

This video demonstrates how to access and interpret class discussion statistics using the Discussions tool. You will learn how to export discussion statistics as well as how to use the statistics to improve teaching.

Quizzes

Chapters: Accessing Quiz Statistics • Interpreting Quiz Statistics • Exporting Quiz Statistics • Using Quiz Data to Improve Teaching and Learning

This video demonstrates how to access and interpret quiz statistics using the Quizzes tool. You will learn how to export and analyze quiz statistics and  make adjustments to improve teaching and learning.

Grades

Chapters: Accessing Grades and Statistics • Interpreting Grade Statistics • Using Grade Data to Improve Teaching and Learning

This video demonstrates how to access and interpret grades statistics using the Grades tool. You will learn how to use grades data to make adjustments to improve teaching and learning.

Brightspace Migration

 Brightspace Migration from Blackboard: First Steps

Your fall Blackboard course has been migrated (copied) to Brightspace. So now what do you do? Watch this 30 minute overview that describes what you can expect and will help you assess your course holistically, identify which of your migrated materials need attention, and what your next steps might be. Want to test it out? Book a consultation with a CTL member to assist in migrating your course to Brightspace.

More Resources

LinkedIn Learning: Learning Brightspace

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Brightspace Community

Create a community account with your UVM email address to view their guided trainings for instructors.