As the end of the Spring Semester quickly approaches, remember that when grades are due, you can import from Brightspace IF your grades are setup properly & your class was not merged.
See attached checklist and, if you would like a gradebook consultation, contact information can be found at the bottom of the checklist.
https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/prepping-your-gradebook-before-importing-it-to-solar
Your Feedback is Appreciated!
During the semester, our students answer our calls & address tickets. When writing recommendation letters and/or conducting evaluations, we do use comments from surveys to help us.
In the event that one (or more students) has helped you and you would like to contribute to their employee record, please share your feedback here:
Check out our Start of Semester checklist:
https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/start-of-the-semester-top-10-brightspace-tips
Summer and Fall 2025 Brightspace course shells have been created.
These courses are unavailable to students until you make them available. Instructions on how to make courses available can be found here:
A few weeks ago, Martin & Logan (2 of our student techs) asked me if they could write an article for the DoIT website on April Fool’s. I laughed and shrugged it off. The suggestion indeed sparked some creativity in our office. Jokes were made like “we should answer “Joe’s Pizza” when the phone rings and a few other suggestions that, honestly I was concerned might stress those out who needed help so I refused to encourage the idea….UNTIL…
A KB article needed to be fixed and a lot of full time staff were out that day. I turned to one of our student techs and asked them to edit it, and they did so, perfectly. They were so pleased with, not only the work they had done but that, we (DoIT) trust our students to publish information, that I felt inspired to revisit the “april fool’s article” idea.
I challenged Martin & Login to write a KB article on how to use Brightspace Glossary and promised that if it was well written, they could create a “GenZ glossary” edition for April Fool’s and they accepted & completed the challenge!
To learn more about how to create a glossary AND to learn some “lingo” , take a moment to read our latest article: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/brightspaces-glossary-tool
If you have a suggestion for a KB article for our website, please email us at: academictechnologies@stonybrook.edu
Instructors and students can access Class Progress, where instructors can see overall how all students are doing and students can see a summary of how they are doing.
The Class Progress tool helps track your student’s progress in a course by measuring the completion of different progress indicators. To access the class progress tool, select Class Progress in the Navbar of your course.
For more information: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/the-class-progress-tool-in-brightspace
Tech Skills, Student Style: Workshops by Student Technologists!
Our Hands-on Student Led Technology Workshops are now on it.stonybrook.edu!
Unlock Your Digital Potential: Learn Canva, Figma, Python, HTML/CSS, GitHub, Adobe Express, and Video Editing from our talented Undergraduate Student Technologists! Sign up today!
Learn how to create marketing materials, social media content and other basic designs in an accessibility compliant manner.
InDesign Accessibility Robust tools for accessibility compliance (e.g., tagging for screen readers, defining reading order). Supports advanced features like accessible forms and navigation in PDFs. Can create documents that adhere to accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG, PDF/UA).
In this session, you will
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Learn how to assign evaluators to assignments.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM(ET)