Center for Teaching & Learning

This session introduces Brightspace and focuses on:

Finding your way in the Brightspace environment
Course settings and personal profiles
The course navigation bar, home page, and table of contents
A brief look at content and course tools e.g., Announcements, Calendar, Discussion, Assignments, and Quizzes

In this session we’ll focus 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

In Brightspace, the Quiz tool is used for both quizzes and tests.  In this session we’ll 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

This workshop covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We will 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.

How your content displays in your migrated Brightspace course depends on your Blackboard organizational choices. In this lab, we’ll show you strategies for handling some of the common organizational challenges. This session will be particularly helpful if your Blackboard course contained a multi-level folder structure, multiple Blackboard “Items” in folders, and had a complex Course Menu. Enrollment is limited so we can better your address specific questions.