By default, most tools do not send notifications when there are updates. Notifications are controlled on a per-user basis, in that user’s own account settings. You can choose if and how you receive notifications of discussion subscriptions, newly posted grades, Assignment feedback, Quiz marks, and more, on the Brightspace Notification Settings page, which you can […]
Tag: Course Admin & Other
Setting up Attendance Register
Create attendance registers to track attendance for your course-based activities, such as a mandatory weekly chat session or optional discussion seminar. Creating New Attendance Register Sessions are the components of an attendance register that define one or more events in your register. Your collective sessions make up your register. For example, if you want to […]
Recording and Playing Back Brightspace 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. […]
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. […]
Text to Speech
The Text to Speech tool automatically enables online text-to-speech technology for HTML content in Brightspace. Any user can hear their HTML course content spoken using only their internet browser. Users can also highlight and play back a subset of the content. As the instructor, you don’t need to activate anything. The tool is enabled by […]
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. […]
Turnitin
Turnitin is a cloud-based ‘text-matching’ software which promotes academic integrity, streamlines grading and feedback, deters plagiarism, and improves student outcomes. It is integrated in the Brightspace Assignment tool and compares students’ submissions to the Turnitin repository which, includes information from the internet, and academic, and student papers. Afterwards, it returns a similarity score in the […]
Course Banner Image
Brightspace will automatically assign a banner image based on your course title, but you can also customize the image according to your course. Changing the Course Banner Image Brightspace has a large library of images available for your use as a course banner. Removing the Course Banner Image There are multiple ways to remove the […]
Rubrics
Rubrics are an assessment tool used to evaluate an activity or item based according to a predefined set of criteria. They help ensure that activities and items are evaluated fairly and consistently. The Brightspace Rubrics tool allows you to build a grading rubric, which can be connected to, and then used to assess, Assignments, Grade […]
Setting Your Course to Active
For any course to become available to your students, two conditions need to be met: Here’s the quick and easy way to set a course offering to Active.
