Brightspace Faculty Help
Brightspace tutorials and documentation
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Adding Announcements in Brightspace
Announcements in Brightspace: How do I add an announcement in Brightspace? How do I delete an announcement in Brightspace? How do I restore a deleted announcement in Brightspace? How do I reorder announcements in Brightspace? For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu
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Brightspace Assignments- Creating and Editing
How do I add a Brightspace assignment? How do I create groups to build group assignments? How do I associate learning objectives to an Assignment? How do I add restrictions to an Assignment? How do I attach a rubric to an Assignment? How do I add Turnitin Simcheck to an Assignment? For further assistance please contact id@rwu.edu
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Grading Brightspace Assignments
Please click on the article below for information regarding grading assignments: About Quick Eval - Note that the Quick Eval tool is visible on the course homepage to anyone with an instructor, learning guide or teacher assistant role but is not visible to students How do I grade an assignment using Quick Eval? How do I assess Assignments with grade schemes? How do I assess an assignment using Turnitin Simcheck? How do I grade an assignment using a rubric? If you use rubrics to assess submissions, the rubric opens in a pop-up window to enable easy grading, and the score transfers automatically to the Evaluation and Feedback sidebar. The overall score of the rubric transfers automatically to the Score field and appears in Grades if the assignment is associated with a grade item. The rubric feedback appears on the Feedback page to the learner. For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu
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Creating Awards, Badges and Certificates in Brightspace
There are two types of awards in Brightspace: Badges and Certificates. Badges are awarded based on any criteria determined by the instructor. They are meant to provide digital markers that represent accomplishment throughout a course or program. How do I create a badge in Brightspace? How do I create a certificate in Brightspace? How do I create manually issue an award in Brightspace? How do I add a release condition to awards, badges or certificates in Brightspace? How do I revoke an award in Brightspace? How do I gamify my course by automatically awarding badges - part 1? How do I gamify my course by automatically awarding badges - part 2?
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Brightspace Content Tool for Instructors
How do I create content lessons/modules in the Brightspace New Content Experience? (Playlist of 14 video tutorials on creating and managing the Content/Lessons tool) Video tutorial playlist contains the tutorials on the following topics: Content Tool Overview Add a Module Upload a Topic Create a File and Insert Stuff Create a Video Topic Create an Audio Topic Add and Existing Activity Add a Brightspace Capture Presentation Add a SCORM Object Rearrange Topics, Modules, and Subtopics Attach Release Conditions Delete a Module Content Topic Completion Tracking Manage Files
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Brightspace Discussions Creation
Preview How do I create a Discussions Forum in Brightspace? How do I create a Discussions Topic in Brightspace? How do I add a rubric for grading a Discussions topic in Brightspace? How do I subscribe to a Discussions topic in Brightspace to stay current on all postings? How do I lock a Discussions topic in Brightspace to create a read-only archive in your course? Note that if you set an End Date for a Discussions topic, the entire thread will disappear from student view. How do I restrict access to a Discussions topic in Brightspace using release conditions? How do I grade a Discussions topic in Brightspace? How do I assess student postings within a Discussions topic in Brightspace without leaving the thread? How do I create private journal or group topics within Discussions in Brightspace?
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Adding Announcements
Adding Announcements to Brightspace
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Brightspace Guided Training for Instructors
View the Brightspace Learning Management System Training Guide for Instructors and/or watch the Guided Training Webinars Note: participants will have to create a free account on the Brightspace Community site in order to access the guided training series. This only needs to be done once.
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Brightspace Viewing Grades
How do view my Grades in Brightspace?
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Creating Brightspace Intelligent Agents
Intelligent Agents send an automated email when instructor-defined criteria are met. For example, instructors can email students who have not logged in recently, whose grades have fallen below a certain level, or who have viewed (or not viewed) specific topics in Content. Brightspace Video Playlist for Intelligent Agents below covers the following topics: Create an Intelligent Agent View and Edit the Schedule of an Intelligent Agent Delete and Restore Intelligent Agents Perform a Practice Run of an Intelligent Agents Manually Run an Intelligent Agent