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
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
Learn how to assign evaluators to assignments.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM(ET)
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
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
Join our customer success manager, Leann from Turnitin to learn how to set up Turnitin in Brightspace, utilize feedback tools; access and understand reports.
To Register: https://web.cvent.com/event/0dcce4a0-18f0-4608-9df6-610b8f4eb711/regProcessStep1
Minibyte: Don’t Flag This! – Using Templates in Turnitin
If you want to prevent Turnitin from marking specific text as plagiarism (perhaps text that explains the assignment), use Turnitin Templates. We’ll focus on how to Enable Turnitin on a Brightspace assignment as well as how to use turnitin templates for assignments.
To Register: https://stonybrookuniversity.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dht1o3rNzlZhHka?source=ats+blog&session=0225251100turnitin