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Accessing Microsoft Teams through your Brightspace Course.

This guide explains how to access Microsoft Teams through your Brightspace Course. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to navigate to the Teams platform and create a course team with additional channels. By following these steps, you can easily integrate Teams into your Brightspace Course for enhanced collaboration and communication.

Accessing Outcomes Management in Brightspace

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for accessing and managing outcomes in Brightspace, a crucial tool for educators and students alike. By following these steps, users can efficiently navigate the platform to align learning outcomes with course content, enhancing the educational experience. It is particularly useful for those looking to improve their understanding of outcome management in an academic setting.

Accessing Respondus Monitor information in Brightspace

This guide provides a step-by-step process for accessing Respondus Monitor training information within the Brightspace platform, making it essential for instructors and students seeking to enhance their understanding of online assessments. By following the outlined steps, users can easily navigate to valuable video tutorials and support resources that will help them effectively utilize the Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor.

Adjusting Quiz Settings for Accommodations

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to adjust quiz settings for accommodations. It includes information on modifying time limits, providing extra time, and overriding time limits and attempts allowed for specific users. By following this guide, users can ensure that students with different needs are accommodated during quizzes.

Brightspace Insights Portal

This guide provides instructions for accessing the different Dashboards in the Insights Portal, with specific information on the Adoption Dashboard, a valuable resource for monitoring and enhancing the use of educational tools. By following the steps, instructors can gain insights into platform adoption metrics, enabling them to make informed decisions about resource allocation and engagement strategies.

Copying specific content from one course into another

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to copy specific content from one course into another. It is useful for anyone who needs to transfer content between courses, saving time and effort.

Copying the content of one Brightspace course into another course.

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to copy the content of one Brightspace course into another course. It is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to easily transfer course materials and resources between courses, saving time and effort.

Create a Calculated Grade Item Column for a Category Average

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a calculated grade item column for a category average in a course. The guide offers insights into accessing statistical data related to these calculations, allowing for a deeper understanding of student performance.

Create Checklists for a course in Brightspace

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to create checklists for a course in Brightspace. By following these instructions, users will be able to easily navigate to the necessary settings, create new checklists, add items and categories, and save their progress. This guide is essential for instructors or administrators who want to effectively organize and track course content and activities in Brightspace.

Create Grade Exemptions - Video

This video demonstrates how to set grade exemptions for learners.
Use grade exemptions to prevent a grade item from being included in the calculation of a learner’s final grade.

Creating weighted grades in Brightspace

This guide is essential for educators looking to implement a weighted grading system in Brightspace, ensuring that different assignment types contribute appropriately to overall student grades.

Deleting a submitted assignment

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to delete a submitted assignment. If a student has accidentally submitted the wrong file or needs to make changes, this guide will help you navigate the necessary steps to delete their submission and allow them to resubmit the correct version.

Edit a Quiz Question during its availability - Video

Brightspace provides this video to explain how to edit a quiz question when the quiz is currently available to students.

Export End of Semester Grades From Brightspace to Excel

This guide provides a straightforward process for exporting end-of-semester assignment grades from Brightspace to Excel, ensuring that educators can easily manage and analyze student performance data. By following these simple steps, users can efficiently generate a clean and organized spreadsheet for archiving purposes.

Grade and Provide Feedback in Discussions - video

This video demonstrates how to evaluate learners on their discussion participation by grading and providing them with feedback using the Discussions tool.
Use the discussion tool to add and provide bulk feedback to learners.
Note: Our tools within the system may appear is different places than shown in the video.

Grading submissions and adding feedback in Assignments - video

This video demonstrates how to grade submissions and add feedback in the Assignments tool. Use the assignment evaluation experience to provide feedback, annotate submissions, and assign grades.

Grant Special Access to Users for a Quiz - Video

This video explains how to give a learner special access to a quiz in Brightspace.

How To Access Your Learners' Progress in Brightspace

This guide provides a step-by-step approach to efficiently access and monitor your learners' progress in Brightspace, ensuring you stay informed about their academic performance.

How to Add or Remove LockDown Browser from a Brightspace Quiz

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to add or remove LockDown Browser from a Brightspace Quiz. By following these instructions, users can ensure the integrity of online quizzes and exams, preventing cheating and maintaining a secure testing environment.

How To Create Grade Categories for Weighted Totals in Brightspace

This guide provides a step-by-step process for creating grade categories in Brightspace, allowing educators to effectively manage and calculate weighted totals for student assessments. By following these instructions, users can customize grading structures to better reflect the importance of various assignments, enhancing clarity and organization for both instructors and students. Utilizing this guide can streamline the grading process, ensuring that evaluations are fair and accurately represent

How to export final grades from Brightspace to Banner (Tower)

This guide provides a step-by-step process on how to export final grades from Brightspace to Banner (Tower). By following these steps, users can easily transfer grades between these platforms, saving time and ensuring accuracy in the grading process.

Instructors can interact with assessable activities directly in the Course Content area.

This guide introduces a new content experience that allows users to interact with assignments, quizzes, and discussions within the content area. By following the steps provided, users can learn how to navigate and engage with various activities, enhancing their learning experience.

Is your Grade Book so wide it is difficult to view?

This guide provides a step-by-step solution for individuals who are struggling to view their Grade Book due to its width. By following the provided instructions, users will be able to easily navigate and close/open categories within the Grade Book, allowing for a more organized and manageable viewing experience.

Learners - Accessing and Editing Portfolio on the Brightspace Platform

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how learners can access and edit their portfolios on the Brightspace platform. It includes clear navigation instructions and specific actions, such as adding comments and captions to portfolio items.

Make the running total grades available to your students

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to make the running total grades visible to students, allowing them to easily track their progress in the course. By following these simple steps, instructors can ensure that students have access to this important information, enhancing their engagement and understanding of their overall performance.

Printing a Quiz in Brightspace

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to print a quiz in Brightspace, making it easy for users to follow along and successfully print quizzes for offline use or study purposes.

Recording and Saving Lectures in Brightspace

This guide provides essential instructions for effectively recording lectures and saving them in Brightspace, ensuring a seamless experience for educators and students alike. Viewing this guide will empower users to maximize their use of Brightspace for academic purposes.

Release Final Grades to Students - video

This video demonstrates how to release final grades to learners from your grade book. Use the Grades tool to share final grades with learners, showing them how they did in your course.
This tool can also be used to provide your students with a running total of their grades.

Releasing the current course grade to your students

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to release the current course grade to students. By following these steps, instructors can easily navigate through the platform, enter grades, and save and distribute them to students. This guide is essential for instructors who want to efficiently communicate course progress to their students.

Releasing your midterm or final grades to Banner?

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to release midterm or final grades to Banner. It offers a comprehensive solution for those who are receiving error messages or seeing no grades to release.

Reordering Grades in Brightspace

This guide provides a straightforward process for reordering grades in Brightspace, making it easier for educators to organize and manage their grading systems effectively. Users can enhance their grading experience and streamline their workflow by following the simple steps outlined.

Setting up Brightspace Notifications

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up Brightspace notifications.

Setting up the final letter grade for submission in Banner.

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up letter grades in Brightspace. By following these instructions, you will be able to efficiently manage and input grades into the system.

Students can interact with assessable activities directly in the Course Content area.

This guide introduces a new content experience that allows users to interact with assignments, quizzes, and discussions within the content area. By following the steps provided, users can learn how to navigate and engage with various activities, enhancing their learning experience.

Students can view their assignment grade, overall feedback, inline feedback, and graded rubric from within grades in Brightspace.

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for students on how they can access information about their assignments, including grades, feedback, and rubrics. By following the provided links, students can easily navigate the system and view all the necessary information in one place.

Teams & Brightspace

This guide explains how to access Microsoft Teams through your Brightspace Course. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to navigate to the Teams platform and create a course team with additional channels. By following these steps, you can easily integrate Teams into your Brightspace Course for enhanced collaboration and communication.

Using Turnitin for a Brightspace Assignment

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to use Turnitin for a Brightspace assignment. It is a valuable resource for anyone looking to understand and navigate the Turnitin feature within the Brightspace platform.