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

You can change what images appears for a module in the visual TOC on the Brightspace Course Home by adding/changing the image in each Module’s description.

When choosing images, here are some things to look for:

• Images that match your course/module content
• Images with uncomplicated visuals; avoid images with text
• Images with content in the top left corner because the Visual TOC will only show the top left portion of larger images (The recommended size for module images is 768 pixels x 400 pixels. If your image has different dimensions it will display fully in the module, but be cropped in the visual table of contents)

For more information: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/customizing-each-modules-picture-in-the-visual-toc-in-brightspace

Wednesday Wisdom: Question Pools

It is best practice to add questions to the Question Library. If you need help creating a section of questions in the Question Library, please see The Brightspace Question Library.

You can use a section the Question Library to have a specified number of questions randomly selected for each student’s quiz. For instance, if the folder contains 100 questions, we can set it so that 20 questions will be randomly chosen for each student’s quiz.

For more information: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/creating-a-quiz-question-pool

Question Library: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwM7pVB77bw

A rubric is a tool used to evaluate and assess student work. It is a scoring guide that lists the criteria for evaluating a particular assignment or task and provides a range of possible scores for each criterion. Rubrics can be used for a wide range of assignments, including essays, presentations, research papers, and projects. They can be designed to evaluate various aspects of student work, such as content, organization, grammar and mechanics, creativity, and critical thinking.

For more information: https://www.stonybrook.edu/celt/academic-assessment/assessment_tools_methods/rubrics

Upcoming CELT workshop:

The Power of Rubrics: A Comprehensive Workshop on Creation & Usage:
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (ET) on Zoom
This training will cover types of rubrics, the benefits of using rubrics, the steps to creating and using a rubric, as well as an overview of the rubric norming process. Participants completing this training will be able to: Distinguish between a holistic and analytical rubric to determine which is most appropriate for their assessment(s), create and use a rubric for one of their course assignments, and articulate the steps to a rubric norming session.REGISTER HERE: https://stonybrook.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpf-2vrjIjE9dzfuiE8MJcheGXfNZ_awXV

Do you need to set up appointments?

Create an appointment schedule!

On your computer, you can create an appointment schedule in Google Calendar.

Your appointment schedule syncs automatically with Google Calendar.

• Your appointment schedule and booked appointments automatically appear on your calendar.
• When you select “Check calendars for availability,” Google Calendar avoids schedule conflicts.

More information here.

The Announcements widget can help you to boost engagement by scheduling announcements for frequent and regular communication to all learners enrolled in a course.

Learners can set notification preferences to be made aware of important updates.

For more information: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3444-view-and-manage-announcements?Highlight=create%20announcement

Do your students know about the Brightspace Mobile App?

The app is called Pulse!

Brightspace Pulse is a mobile app that can help learners stay connected and on track with their courses in Brightspace. It provides one easy view of course calendars, readings, assignments, evaluations, grades, and announcements.

For more information: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/16502-about-brightspace-pulse