Academic Integrity

The Academic Integrity Advisory Committee have put together a number of resources on fostering academic integrity in courses.

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Recording and Playing Back Audio in Quizzes and Assignments

The experience of recording audio feedback in Assignments, and your students’ experience of recording audio in response to Quiz questions, has changed. This is due to the old Flash versions of those features being switched off as Flash reaches its End-of-Life at the end of December. See below for a walkthrough of how the new recorder works.  […]

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Recording and Playing Back Audio in Quizzes and Assignments

The experience of recording audio feedback in Assignments, and your students’ experience of recording audio in response to Quiz questions, has changed. This is due to the old Flash versions of those features being switched off as Flash reaches its End-of-Life at the end of December. See below for a walkthrough of how the new recorder works.  […]

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Recording Kaltura Video Feedback in Brightspace Assignments

You can use Kaltura to record video (or audio) feedback when evaluating Assignment folder submissions. There are two methods for recording video feedback using Kaltura. Record your webcam only, using Web Recorder (can also be used to record audio only) Step by Step Video Demos How to Record Video Feedback in Brightspace Assignments (Web Recorder) […]

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Recording and Playing Back Audio in Quizzes and Assignments

The experience of recording audio feedback in Assignments, and your students’ experience of recording audio in response to Quiz questions, has changed. This is due to the old Flash versions of those features being switched off as Flash reaches its End-of-Life at the end of December. See below for a walkthrough of how the new recorder works.  […]

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Restricted File Extensions in Assignments

The Allowable Filetypes field provides options for the types of files that learners can submit for the assignment. Options in the drop down menu include: Annotatable files, which include all file types that are supported by the Annotation tool in Assignments. For the complete list of file types, see File types supported by Annotations. .PDF only Files that […]

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Add special access to an Assignment folder

Special access permissions allow you to set different availability dates and times for specific students. For example, you could extend the deadline for users who require remedial help or who are submitting work beyond the original scope of the assignment. You can also add special access after an assignment’s end date has passed for users who have a legitimate excuse […]

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Turnitin

Turnitin is a cloud-based solution with capabilities in originality checking and online grading using their OriginalityCheck and GradeMark tools. Turnitin saves instructors time and facilitates personalized feedback for learners. Overview OriginalityCheck lets you monitor Assignment submissions and identify potential cases of plagiarism by automatically comparing submissions to an online database of original content. You can […]

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Assignments

In Brightspace, you can create Assignment Folders using the Assignments Folders tool.  The Assignments folders allow you to see users’ submission times, download assignments to your computer, view submissions with the document viewer and annotate on the submitted file, associate Assignment folders to rubrics, and return submissions with grades and feedback. You can set up a separate Assignments […]

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