Category Archives: Brightspace

Countdown to Fall starts now.. .Welcome Back!

Academic Technologies, Brightspace

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.

We look forward to working with you this Fall!

End of Semester Checklist – are your grades correct?

Brightspace, Grades

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

April Fool’s Day Challenge!

Brightspace, Technical Support, ,

April Fool's day - Is this a prank or not?

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!

Displays how the Glossary tool in Brightspace looks like

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

Class Progress

Brightspace, Wednesday Wisdom

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

IF I build it, they will click, right?

Brightspace, Wednesday Wisdom

Course Overview Widget

Did you know you can view an overview of your course in Brightspace? To provide easier access to analytics about learners and courses, instructors can add the Course Overview widget to a course homepage.

 

 

 

 

 

View Class Engagement broken down by learner. How many posts did they make in the discussion board? What is the grade distribution?

Want to see the breakdown of when your course was accessed?

For more information: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3589-easily-access-analytics-about-learners-and-your-course

Accessibility with ALLY

Brightspace

ALLY for Accessibility within Brightspace

ALLY is automatically available within Brightspace and will allow students to download course materials in ePub, Electronic Braille (BRF), Audio (MP3), and BeeLine Reader.

For instructors, Ally also provides a Course Accessibility Report. Instructors can add it as a Content item.

For more information: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/ally-for-accessibility-within-brightspace