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Releasing Final Grades

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In order for student to see their grades in Brightspace, you’ll need to automatically or manually release final grades. (Note, releasing final grades in Brightspace does not send grades to SOLAR; you can either import your final grades Or enter them in SOLAR)

Before releasing final grades to students, you must first check your Grades settings to determine which type of grade will be release and if final grades are set to be released automatically. Alternatively, you can choose to manually release final grades.

For more information: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/releasing-final-grades-in-brightspace

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Are you currently using the built-in Brightspace Calendar tool?

If not, you should start today!

Display all upcoming events to learners in one spot. 

Add items such as:

  • Assignments
  • Quizzes/Exams
  • Project due dates
  • Office Hours
  • In-class Events
Students have told us that they are more on track with their assignments and exams/quizzes when their Instructor uses the built-in course calendar!

For more information: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/18115-calendar

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Thinking of what you could do this spring break?

How about previewing your grades in Brightspace!

Make sure grades are accurate for your students before they return from break! 

 

 

Use the Preview option to see exactly how a student sees his/her grades. 

  1. In Brightspace,click the course selector near the top center and select the course
  2. Once in the course, in the Navbar select Grades
  3. Near the top left, select Enter Grades

Scroll down (or use the View By or search tools) to find the student whose grades you want to preview grades for and select the dropdown next to the student’s name and select Preview

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The Question Library is a central repository that stores and archives questions which you can reuse within a course. You can create multiple collections within the Question Library to organize your questions by type and topic, making it easier for you to find questions for your quizzes, surveys, and self assessments.

As a best practice for storage, organization, and easy access, we recommend that you create all your questions using the Question Library. You can also consolidate questions created within the Quizzes, Surveys, and Self Assessments tools by importing them back into the Question Library.

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Want to check in on how students are progressing in your Brightspace course?

The Class Progress Tool in Brightspace | Division of Information Technology

Instructors can access Class Progress and see overall how all students are doing!

 

You may want to use the Class Progress tool to do any of the following:

  • Monitor progress for any or all users in your course
  • Prepare progress reports
  • View user profiles, email users, or instant message users
  • Track when a user accesses the course and downloads course content
  • Track a user’s grades, completion of learning objectives, access of content topics, participation in discussions, assignment submissions, quiz submissions, checklist completion, survey responses, login history, and system access.
  • Set up intelligent Agents for learners who are falling behind in a course
  • View feedback and submissions for assignments, discussion topics, and other assessments for individual learners

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Intelligent Agents

The Intelligent Agent tool allows instructors to set up criteria to create a report of students who completed or did not complete an action within the course.

Once the instructor sets up the criteria, s/he can enable automatic emails (which are customizable) to students who met the criteria or just use  of the report.

Try it out today!

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We hope the semester has kicked off to an amazing start! 

Have you been looking to add users to your course? Maybe you have a teaching assistant that you would like to put into Brightspace? Or maybe you’re not sure what type of access to give someone you want to add (IE: TA, Grader, Course Builder)? 

Well you have come to the right place! It is simple to add a user to your course, click here to find out how.