Our intercession updates to Brightspace are complete!

To learn how to utilize OpenStax, Advanced Assessment, & Course Overview tools, visit our news article 

It’s Halloween week and we have some TRICKS to help you save time while evaluating your students in Brightspace!

Join us for an upcoming session on “Bulk Editing in Brightspace” this Wednesday, October 30th 12:00 – 12:45 PM!

In this session, you will

1. Learn how to use the Set Grades feature in the gradebook
2. Learn how to grade offline using the import/export tool

Register HERE.

In order for student to see their grades in Brightspace, you’ll need to automatically or manually release final grades. (Note, releasing final grades in Brightspace does not send grades to SOLAR; you can either import your final grades Or enter them in SOLAR)

Before releasing final grades to students, you must first check your Grades settings to determine which type of grade will be release and if final grades are set to be released automatically. Alternatively, you can choose to manually release final grades.

For more information: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/releasing-final-grades-in-brightspace

Welcome to the Spring 2024 semester! ☀️

We hope you had a relaxing break.

As we embark on a new semester, we wanted to share some useful Brightspace tips.

Have you ever wondered what your course looks like from your students’ perspectives? Wonder no more! Brightspace allows you to easily view your course in a learner view, giving you an insight to what your students see. Click here to learn more!

In addition, instructors can also use another preview option in Grades to see exactly what a specific student sees in their Grades for a course.

Check back every Wednesday this semester for updates/tips!

So, in my last post, I showed how users can opt in and out of notifications.  In this post we get around students being able to opt out of announcement notifications and also help keep your course site a little cleaner.

As opposed to sending an Announcement, you can email the whole class by going to “Course Admin” in the NavBar -> Learner Management section and click on “Classlist”.

Then select from the top “Email Classlist”

Click on “Send Email”

and compose your email to the whole class here.  Click “Send”.

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How to setup your alerts  and register your mobile device on Brightspace:

Find Notifications under the location where it says your name.

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Under Contact Methods:

Register your Mobile Device

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Set your SMS and eMail notifications:

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When you have everything setup, click Save at the bottom left corner of the page.

Remember to check your email inside of Brightspace.  You can see that by clicking on the icon that looks like an envelope.

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Brightspace has its own email and it can push notifications out to our stonybrook.edu e-mail.

It is important that students, faculty and staff understand that using the inbox inside of Brightspace is important.

It is found by clicking on the envelope icon.

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Have you been  to any of our workshops?

With subjects including:

Not only do these workshops focus on subjects that students want to learn about, but they are also offered at the times we have found to be most popular for students, including weekends and evenings!

Sign up for upcoming workshops using SBEngage today!