All posts by Kristy Bunton

NotebookLM Now Available to Stony Brook Students, Faculty and Staff!

Academic Technologies

NotebookLM is a cutting-edge, cloud-based AI service designed to revolutionize personal research and knowledge management. It offers a secure, personalized space where users can upload diverse sources – PDFs, web links, videos, audio files, Google Workspace documents, and more – to create a customized AI model.

For more information, visit: https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/notebooklm

Known Issue: Small number of quiz attempts do not auto-grade

Brightspace

Some users have reported the following issue in Brightspace:

Issue:

In Brightspace, using Quizzes, some Instructors may encounter a very small number of quiz attempts where the quiz did not auto-grade.

This issue applies to (but may not be limited to) Brightspace 20.24.10.

Work Around:
As a workaround to this issue:

On the grade page for the attempt that did not auto-grade, please select the “Reset Evaluation” option and this will trigger the attempt to be auto-graded.

Winter & Spring ’25 Instructors – Brightspace course shells are now available!

Brightspace
Course sites have been created for all Winter & Spring ’25 (West Campus, HSC & Southampton) courses. To access your course site, go to brightspace.stonybrook.edu and click the Login button. Login with your NetID username and password. 

If you do not see a course you are teaching, check SOLAR to be sure you are the instructor on record before submitting a service ticket at service.stonybrook.edu

Students DO NOT have access! All courses are set to inactive. Your students will NOT be able to access the course until you make your class active.

Once your course is active, all students who are registered will have access & you can add TA’s and other instructors to your course if you wish.

Students assume a class is using Brightspace and think something is wrong when they do not see their courses at the beginning of the semester. If you are not using Brightspace, please let your students know

Review our Start of the Semester: Top Brightspace Tips! which our team has compiled based on questions received over the past 2 years, visit our Brightspace Checklist

Many students proactively check Brightspace just before the semester begins and contact us (& the Registrar’s office) when they do not see their classes.

Winter session begins on Tuesday 1/7 & Spring session begins on Monday 1/27

If you are using Brightspace, please make your class active & create an announcement for your students on or before the first day of classes.

Tuesday’s Helpful Trick: Bulk Editing in Brightspace

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It’s Halloween week and we have some TRICKS to help you save time while evaluating your students in Brightspace!

 

 

 

 

Join us for an upcoming session on “Bulk Editing in Brightspace” this Wednesday, October 30th 12:00 – 12:45 PM!

In this session, you will

  1. Learn how to use the Set Grades feature in the gradebook
  2. Learn how to grade offline using the import/export tool

Register HERE.

Wednesday Wisdom: Customizing Each Module

Brightspace, Wednesday Wisdom

You can change what images appears for a module in the visual TOC on the Brightspace Course Home by adding/changing the image in each Module’s description.

 

 

When choosing images, here are some things to look for:

  • Images that match your course/module content
  • Images with uncomplicated visuals; avoid images with text
  • Images with content in the top left corner because the Visual TOC will only show the top left portion of larger images (The recommended size for module images is 768 pixels x 400 pixels. If your image has different dimensions it will display fully in the module, but be cropped in the visual table of contents)

For more information: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/customizing-each-modules-picture-in-the-visual-toc-in-brightspace

Wednesday Wisdom: Question Pools

Brightspace, Wednesday Wisdom

Wednesday Wisdom: Question Pools

It is best practice to add questions to the Question Library. If you need help creating a section of questions in the Question Library, please see The Brightspace Question Library.

You can use a section the Question Library to have a specified number of questions randomly selected for each student’s quiz. For instance, if the folder contains 100 questions, we can set it so that 20 questions will be randomly chosen for each student’s quiz.

For more information: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/creating-a-quiz-question-pool

Question Library: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwM7pVB77bw

Brightspace Rubrics

Brightspace, Wednesday Wisdom

A rubric is a tool used to evaluate and assess student work. It is a scoring guide that lists the criteria for evaluating a particular assignment or task and provides a range of possible scores for each criterion. Rubrics can be used for a wide range of assignments, including essays, presentations, research papers, and projects. They can be designed to evaluate various aspects of student work, such as content, organization, grammar and mechanics, creativity, and critical thinking.

For more information: https://www.stonybrook.edu/celt/academic-assessment/assessment_tools_methods/rubrics

Upcoming CELT workshop:

The Power of Rubrics: A Comprehensive Workshop on Creation & Usage:
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (ET) on Zoom
This training will cover types of rubrics, the benefits of using rubrics, the steps to creating and using a rubric, as well as an overview of the rubric norming process. Participants completing this training will be able to: Distinguish between a holistic and analytical rubric to determine which is most appropriate for their assessment(s), create and use a rubric for one of their course assignments, and articulate the steps to a rubric norming session.REGISTER HERE: https://stonybrook.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpf-2vrjIjE9dzfuiE8MJcheGXfNZ_awXV