Category Archives: Brightspace

3rd Party Tools being added to Brightspace

Academic Technologies, Brightspace

Thank you to all who have reached out asking about 3rd party tools

The following list will be updated as more tools become available in the system.

Tools that are working:

  • Echo360
  • Lumen
  • McGraw Hill Connect
  • Respondus
  • Turn It In (this is the replacement for SafeAssign in Blackboard)
  • VoiceThread
  • Wiley
  • Zoom

Tools that are still being configured:

  • Ally
  • Cengage
  • Digital Desk
  • Jones & Bartlett Learning
  • Macmillan Learning
  • MindLinks
  • MyLab & Mastering
  • Vital Source
  • W.W. Norton & Company

KB articles for tools that are in production are available on the Brightspace service page : https://brightspace.stonybrook.edu

Brightspace has arrived!

This blog has been “quiet” for some time but now, thanks to Brightspace & the return to campus, it seems the perfect time to re-ignite it!

In case you haven’t heard .. Brightspace has arrived!

Later this week, I will post a  video highlighting some of my favorite tools that I tried this Spring, which include: Quick Eval, Course Progress, Checklists and Intelligent Agents.

Once you add the pieces (that you already have from your Blackboard course) :

pieces
Pieces needed to use Brightspace

The built in tools mentioned above will work for you with minimal effort on your part.

To see what I’m talking about, view Brightspace – Start with the _pieces   ..  Video coming soon!

Stay tuned….

Diana Voss
Director of Academic Technology Services