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

• 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

Policy & Forms

• TA Role in Brightspace
• TA Confidentiality Form

Getting started!

Blackboard Courses Migration

• Migrating Your Reviewed and Exported Blackboard Course to Brightspace.pdf (taylor.edu)

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  
• Create and insert a video note in Brightspace Editor  
• Import, export, or copy course components
• Make your course available

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
• Best Practices for using TurnItIn

Create Quizzes

• Create a question library 
• Creating a quiz:  
  • Create a quiz  
  • Creating quizzes: (19) New Quiz Experience | Instructor - YouTube
• Question types  
• Evaluate Quizzes  
• Manage quizzes with learner attempts
• Adjusting quiz settings for accommodations
• 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) 
• Create a Calculated Grade Item Column for a Category Average
• Hide grade items  
• Grade Book icons and notifications  
• Enter grades in the Grades tool  
• Is your Gradebook so wide it is difficult to use?
• Having trouble releasing your midterm or final grades to Banner?
• Export your Gradebook  (for your records)
• Export Final Grades to Banner/Tower
• Import your Gradebook  
• Adjust Final Grades   
• Setting up final letter grade for submission in Banner
• Brightspace gradebook guide to translating Blackboard functions and goals
• Releasing Current Grade to Your Students
• Releasing Running Total Grades 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)
• Create checklists for a course in Brightspace

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

• Create categories and groups
• Group enrollment options

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   Homepage - Learning Center (desire2learn.com). You will be required to log into Brightspace Community if you have not already done so. Click on Accessibility Academy, in the navigation bar across the top of the page.  You will be provided with a list of several accessibility courses you can review.
• Supporting Students with Low Vision  
• Supporting Screen Reader Users  
• Online Accessibility Lab

3rd Party Tools

• Using Respondus LockDown Browser in Brightspace
• Using Edge Browser to Access Copilot
• Accessing Microsoft Teams through your Brightspace Course