Category Archives: 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

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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

 

Register for one of our upcoming Turnitin Webinars!

Brightspace, Wednesday Wisdom
Register for one of our Turnitin Workshops for Stony Brook Instructors:

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

Utilize Due Dates on Assignments

Academic Technologies, Brightspace, Wednesday Wisdom

When talking about Brightspace with students and their experiences, a frequent request is for instructors to post assignments with due dates so that they appear on the student’s Brightspace google calendar & /or on the work to do widget like this:

Images of Work to Do widget & Course calendar

If you currently do not have the Work to Do widget , you can add it to your Homepage by following these steps:

  1. Click on Course Administration
  2. Select Homepage
  3. If you have never customized your homepage, you will need to make a copy of the existing one
  4. Edit the homepage and in the widgets section, select “Add Widgets”
  5. Scroll all the way down and select “Work to do”

For additional information, visit Brightspace’s “Manage widgets on your homepage” guide

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

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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.