Brightspace Preview Tools

Want to see what your Brightspace course looks like from the students’ point of view? Different areas of Brightspace have their own preview tools. “Student Role” View “Student Role” View, or “view as student,” lets you view specific, limited content as a student would see it (does not bypass group restrictions or release conditions). Learn […]

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Student Video/Audio Submissions in Brightspace

Wondering about the best way to solicit student video or audio submissions in Brightspace? It depends on your preference and the requirements of the assignment. Students have mostly same access to Brightspace as instructors, with just a few exceptions, so media file submissions can be submitted anywhere in Brightspace that students can see the Brightspace […]

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How to Restore a Deleted Quiz Attempt

To restore a deleted quiz attempt: Note: Attempts may be restored in the Unpublished/Draft status, so you may need to republish them for students to be able to view attempts or for any unpublished grades to appear in connected Grades items.

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Academic Integrity

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

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How to Preview a Quiz

The Quiz Preview feature allows you to see a quiz as students would see it, giving you a full picture of whether your formatting and settings are correct. Video Demo See the full Brightspace Preview Tools series of videos. Take a Quiz in Preview Grade or Review the Quiz Preview If you checked “Allow this […]

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Regular Expressions

Regular expressions (Regex) give users grading certain question types the ability to evaluate responses against a set of acceptable values. A regular expression uses alpha-numeric and meta-characters to create a pattern that describes one or more strings that must be identically matched within a body of text. You can use regular expressions in short answers, […]

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Quiz statistics and Attempt logs

Quiz statistics You can view and export quiz statistics and reports to a CSV file and/or an Excel file for data analysis. The files contain all pertinent information on the quiz so that you can query, sort, and evaluate the data without being connected to Brightspace. In this view, you can see a list of […]

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Editing Quizzes with Student Attempts

Before editing quizzes with student attempts We recommend careful consideration before editing quiz questions or quizzes that have been released to students and have student attempts completed or in-progress. Changes you make to due date and time limit setting do not impact past attempts or in-progress attempts by students. Changes that alter the score or […]

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Adding time to a Quiz in progress

Note: This method only works if the quiz has not already been submitted. If you need to add time to a quiz in progress, you must use Special Access and tell the students to refresh their browsers for the new time settings to take effect. You cannot use the main Start/End settings to edit a […]

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