Brightspace - Faculty Training Materials
Engaging Teaching Today Conference: (02.10.2024)
- Intelligent Agents PowerPoint Session
- How to use Video Notes in Brightspace
- How do I use Replace Strings in Brightspace?
Brightspace Information
- BCTLE Training Schedule, the schedule also has link to all of the recorded training sessions
- D2L Brightspace Training Videos: Shared here! (This includes the video and the PowerPoint slides)
- D2L basic information:
- Information sheet: Navigate Brightspace and find your course - Brightspace (d2l.com)
- Brightspace navigation--video: (15) Getting Started - Navigate Brightspace Learning Environment - Instructor - YouTube
- Join the Brightspace Community: On Demand Training
Getting started!
Blackboard Courses Migration
- Preparing Your Blackboard Course for Migration to Brightspace.pdf (taylor.edu)
- Migrating Your Reviewed and Exported Blackboard Course to Brightspace.pdf (taylor.edu)
- Creating Export and Archive File Folders
Taylor Online is offering the assistance of their Jr. Course Designers for residential courses. This is entirely optional, and there's no obligation to participate. To help you decide if this service is right for you, below you will find an example of what the implemented blueprint looks like. If you're interested, please sign up by December 21st using this shared spreadsheet.
Brightspace Layout
- Brightspace Layout Guidelines.pptx
- Syllabi--welcome and invitational tone
- How do I use Replace Strings.
First steps in learning Brightspace:
- Information sheet: Navigate Brightspace and find your course - Brightspace (d2l.com)
- What Brightspace looks like: (19) New Content Experience (Lessons) Overview | Instructor - YouTube
- Brightspace navigation--video: (15) Getting Started - Navigate Brightspace Learning Environment - Instructor - YouTube
- Brightspace navigation--text: Navigate Brightspace and find your course - Brightspace (d2l.com)
Brightspace Community Support
- Registration and login: Sign up or sign in (d2l.com)
- Brightspace Guided Training: Welcome to Brightspace Guided Training - Brightspace (d2l.com)
- Brightspace Community: Higher Ed / Postsecondary — Brightspace (d2l.com)
First steps in creating courses in Brightspace
Create Content
- Add learning material to Content
- Hide newly created content so students are not notified
- Create and insert a video note in Brightspace Editor
- Exporting Videos from a Blackboard Site into YuJa, then Adding Video to Brightspace Site
- Import, export, or copy course components
- Merging Courses in Brightspace
- Making your course available in Brightspace
Create Assignments
- Create a rubric
- Create an assignment
- (19) The New Assignments Creation Experience | Instructor - YouTube
- About assessing assignment submissions
- Evaluate and add feedback to assignments
- Using Rubrics to grade
- Create a holistic rubric: (6) Rubrics - Create a Holistic Rubric - Instructor - YouTube
- (6) Rubrics - Create an Analytic Rubric - Instructor - YouTube
- (6) Teaching Tip - Create a Weighted Rubric - Instructor - YouTube
- (6) Assignments - Grade Submissions in Assignments - Instructor - YouTube
- Removing Assignments from Brightspace
Create Quizzes
- Create a question library
- Creating a quiz:
- Create a quiz
- Creating quizzes: (19) New Quiz Experience | Instructor - YouTube
- Question types
- View ungraded quiz submissions
- Changing quiz question after submissions received
- Student Accommodations in Brightspace
- Unlocking the Power of Brightspace Question Library
Grades Tool
- Intro to the Grades tool
- Set up your Grade Book
- Create Grade categories and items (these make the columns in your Grade Book)
- Hide grade items
- Grade Book icons and notifications
- Enter grades in the Grades tool
- Show running total to students
- Export your Gradebook
- Import your Gradebook
- Adjust Final Grades
- Brightspace gradebook guide to translating Blackboard functions and goals
- Releasing Current Grade to Your Students
- What is Quick Eval and How Can I Use It
Communicate and Engage with Learners
- Create an Announcement (includes short how-to video)
- View and manage announcements using the widget
- Send an email to your class through Brightspace (emails will be sent to Taylor’s Outlook inboxes)
- Getting Started - Manage Notifications - Instructor - YouTube: Learn how to set up getting notifications either by email or text when certain activity occurs in your course.
- How to set up your notifications in Brightspace (this is for both the Instructor and the Learner)
Discussions
- Creating discussions: (19) The New Discussions Creation Experience | Instructor - YouTube
- Assess users in discussion threads
- (6) Discussions - Grade a Discussion Topic - Instructor - YouTube
- (6) Use Discussions for Journaling | Instructor - YouTube
Groups
Self Assessments
- Allow learners to reflect on their learning – Self Assessments
- Best Practices for Self Assessments
- Create a Self Assessment
Accessibility in Brightspace
- Alt text for images
- Developing Accessible Content
- Accessibility Academy (Log into the Brightspace Community to learn the many ways to provide an accessible course experience, found in:)
- Supporting Students with Low Vision
- Supporting Screen Reader Users
- Online Accessibility Lab
3rd Party Tools
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