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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.

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.

Announcements Overview | Instructor - Video

Help boost engagement by scheduling announcements for frequent and regular communication to all learners enrolled in a course. Learners can set notification preferences to be made aware of important updates.

Brightspace Faculty Training Presentation Fall 2025

Posting Assignments, linking assignments, setting due dates, grading submissions, quick eval.

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 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.

Creating an Assignment with Turnitin Enabled - Video

Watch how to create an assignment and enable Turnitin Similarity Report and Online Grading. Use Similarity Report to check learners’ work for plagiarism. You can also use Online Grading to use Turnitin’s assessment tools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New User Interface for Media Library | Instructor - Video

This video describes the new user interface for the Media Library in Brightspace, highlighting its streamlined design and improved functionality.

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.

Setting up Brightspace Notifications

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

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.

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.