I was disappointed to discover a few years ago that the “Attendance” register in Brightspace does not connect to grades so I made up my own solution which works well.
If you require attendance in your class, here’s how I manage attendance in my class.
Step 1. In Grades, I create a scheme called “Weekly Attendance” that looks like this:
Step 2. Create a item for each date you want to record attendance AND apply the Weekly Attendance scheme to the item:
Step 3 : Enter grades for that item and you should have a drop down box that looks like this:
Our Fall Semester is quickly approaching and both DoIT & CELT are working together to deliver several new tools this semester.
During the semester, we will share experiences with these tools here and welcome instructors to contact us who would also like to blog about their experiences.
All new tools have corresponding service pages and self help articles. Throughout the month, we will be hosting MiniBytes as well as providing links to sessions led by Vendors.
Visit it.stonybrook.edu for details AND should you decide to use Vevox or other technology in your class, please remember to add tech statements to your course so your students know how to get help.
CELT recently organized a demo for Feedback Fruits, a Brightspace-integrated solution that provides options that faculty can use to engage their students.
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.
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:
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!
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.
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