Category Archives: Technical Support

Final Grade Submission Alert! Fall 2025

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It’s the end of the semester, which means it’s time to prepare for Fall 2025 grade submission! Please note the key date and submission options.

Rosters & Deadlines

  • Grade rosters will be generated on: Monday, December 8th, at 4:00 PM.
  • Action Item: Before the 8th, check your validation report to ensure all faculty/instructors have necessary grading access.

Submission Methods (Effective 12/8 @ 4 PM)
You have three options for submitting grades:

  1. SOLAR: (Chrome recommended).
  2. Import from Brightspace (See the link below for detailed steps and eligibility).
  3. Email an Excel file to: submit_grades@stonybrook.edu.

Detailed Brightspace Import Information

For comprehensive instructions on setup, eligibility requirements, and handling grades after the import, please read our dedicated article: Importing Grades from Brightspace to SOLAR
(Remember that if you import from Brightspace, grades are initially marked “To Be Reviewed” in SOLAR. To make any changes, you must first set the Approval Status to Not Reviewed.)

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For any questions or technical assistance:

Without students, we could not DoIT!

Academic Technologies, Technical Support, Wednesday Wisdom

When I was an Undergraduate at Stony Brook, I applied for and accepted a position as a student consultant in the Library SINC Site. Back then, there were only 15 student employees. My supervisor , Nancy Duffrin and our CIO , Rich Reeder, recognized the power of empowering students. They supported growth of the program so that 30 years later, the Division now employs over 200 students a year in all forward facing support areas.

If you have reached out for assistance or attended a workshop, chances are you have spoken with one of our superstars! Please share how awesome they are by submitting a nomination today for our Star IT Program.

Our student technologist are: Aidan, Logan, Jingyu, Michelle, Rin, Aaron, ZB, Krisha, Mysha, Ava, Tom, Perry, Martin, Raymond & Christopher. I am so proud of the work that they do!

Nominate a student for STAR IT program

April Fool’s Day Challenge!

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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