• The Brightspace Showcase

  View the following chapters: Orientation/AV Notes/Student View • Content Organizer/Calendar • YellowDig/Perusall/Weekly Modules • Announcements/Organization/Discussion Forums/Group Projects • Accessibility Tools

  CTL's Brightspace Showcase is a forum for several UVM faculty to share their diverse approaches for organizing their course sites. In this recording of the first session, instructors present their courses and talk about how they achieved specific pedagogical goals using a show-and-tell format.

• Course Design in Brightspace

  View the following chapters: Course Design Considerations • View Examples • Add Student View • More Examples • Prioritize Active Modules • Create Modules • HTML Editor / Document Templates

  Brightspace offers a flexible, intuitive interface for organizing and delivering course content. Thus, the move to Brightspace presents an opportunity to shift how we think about course design. During this workshop, we will highlight different approaches to structuring course materials in the Content area. We will cover some Content fundamentals as well as provide tips to guide you as you think about optimal ways to structure your course materials to create a cohesive experience for your students.

• Brightspace Essentials

  View the following chapters: Course Home Page/Calendar/Announcements • Syllabus/Table of Contents/Completion Tracking • Modules/Course Tools

  This recorded session introduces Brightspace and focuses on:

  • Finding your way in the Brightspace environment
  • Course settings and personal profiles
  • The course navigation bar, home page, and table of contents
  • A brief look at content and course tools e.g., Announcements, Calendar, Discussion, Assignments, and Quizzes

• Grades: Setting Up the Grading Center

  View the following chapters: Viewing the Grades Area • Looking at Migrated Grades • Grades Wizard • Add Items to Grades • Associating Grade Items to Tools • Workflows • Viewing Student Grades/Evaluating from the Grades Area • Quick Eval

  This recorded workshop covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We demonstrate the best ways to organize the Grade Book and the best ways to enter grades. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create their Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard, and this session will help you decide which option is best for your course.

• Grading and Giving Students Feedback

  View the following chapters: Access Feedback • Feedback Tools • Inline Annotation for Assignments • Audio Attachment or Embed Content • Rubric • Grading Workflow • Course Tools • Gradebook • Quick Eval • Intelligent Agents • Ways Students View Feedback

  This recorded workshop provides an overview of strategies for grading student work and providing feedback. We demonstrate tools to provide students feedback (inline grading, audio/video, rubrics),  different grading workflows, including Quick Eval, and a snapshot of Brightspace's automated feedback tool - Intelligent Agents. We also show how students can find their grades and feedback. Please note, if you are interested in learning how to set up your Grade Book, please watch "Brightspace Grades: Setting Up the Grading Center."

• Content and Course Organization

  View the following chapters: Design Consideration • Add Content • Examples • Content Settings • Adding Content from Scratch • Course Builder

  This recorded session covers:

  • How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
  • Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
  • Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
  • Tips for using the HTML editor
  • Linking to course activities

• Assignments

  View the following chapters: Create Assignments/Settings/Evaluation/Feedback • Adding Assignments to Modules • Viewing Assignments in Grades/Giving Feedback

  This recorded session focuses on:

  • Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
  • Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
  • Editing and reordering Assignments
  • Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
  • Using the Submission Log for tracking student work

• Quizzes

  View the following chapters: Create Quizzes • Evaluation/Feedback • Add a Quiz to a Module/Student POV • Intructor Grading • Student View of Results • Question Statistics

  In Brightspace, the Quiz tool is used for both quizzes and tests.  In this recorded session we show the workflow for creating quizzes, including:

  • Creating questions and question types
  • Creating a question library
  • Building a Quiz
  • Grading a Quiz
  • Quiz statistics and logs

• Customize Your Course with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents

  View the following chapters: Release Conditions Overview • Release Conditions - Demonstration • Intelligent Agents Overview • Intelligent Agents Demo - Student Course Access • Intelligent Agents Demo - Congratulating a Student

  During this recorded workshop, we’ll explore how you can use Release Conditions to create a custom learning path for your course materials in Brightspace. We’ll introduce Intelligent Agents, which can automatically send emails to students who meet course criteria you specify. Finally, we’ll share examples of how you can use Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents together to further customize learning paths and enable timely student communication.

• Improve Course Accessibility with Ally

  View the following chapters: Alternative Formats • Accessibility Checker • Ally Course Report

  Ally assists instructors in building a more inclusive learning environment and improving the overall student experience by assessing the level of accessibility of all instructor-uploaded content in Brightspace. Ally also provides guidance and tips for lasting improvements to content accessibility. In addition, Ally generates alternate formats to Brightspace course documents to meet different learner needs, abilities, and preferences. During this recorded workshop, you will learn how to use Ally to evaluate the accessibility of your course materials. You will also learn how to use Ally’s step-by-step instructions to improve the accessibility of course documents. Finally, you will learn about the alternate formats Ally makes available to students for all your course materials.

• Discussions

  View the following chapters: Blackboard to Brightspace Translation Guide • Overview • Create a Discussion Forum • Create a Discussion Topic • Adding Discussions to Content • Evaluating Discussions • Student POV Graded Discussions • Migrated Discussions

  This recorded workshop covers the details of using the Discussion tool in Brightspace. We demonstrate where to set up both whole class and group discussions, and how link them to your Table of Contents. We look at how to clean up Discussions migrated from Blackboard and cover the differences between Forums and Topics in Brightspace.

• Class Progress 

  View the following chapters: Accessing Class Data • Interpreting Class Data • Using Class Data to Support Teaching and Learning

  This video demonstrates how to access the and interpret student progress data using the Class Progress tool. You will also learn how you can use this data to support teaching and learning.

• Discussions

  View the following chapters: Accessing Discussion Statistics • Interpreting Discussion Statistics • Exporting Discussion Statistics • Using Discussion Data to Improve Teaching and Learning

  This video demonstrates how to access and interpret class discussion statistics using the Discussions tool. You will learn how to export discussion statistics as well as how to use the statistics to improve teaching.

• Quizzes

  View the following chapters: Accessing Quiz Statistics • Interpreting Quiz Statistics • Exporting Quiz Statistics • Using Quiz Data to Improve Teaching and Learning

  This video demonstrates how to access and interpret quiz statistics using the Quizzes tool. You will learn how to export and analyze quiz statistics and  make adjustments to improve teaching and learning.

• Grades

  View the following chapters: Accessing Grades and Statistics • Interpreting Grade Statistics • Using Grade Data to Improve Teaching and Learning

  This video demonstrates how to access and interpret grades statistics using the Grades tool. You will learn how to use grades data to make adjustments to improve teaching and learning.

• Brightspace Migration from Blackboard: First Steps

  Your fall Blackboard course has been migrated (copied) to Brightspace. So now what do you do? Watch this 30 minute overview that describes what you can expect and will help you assess your course holistically, identify which of your migrated materials need attention, and what your next steps might be. Want to test it out? Book a consultation with a CTL member to assist in migrating your course to Brightspace.

• LinkedIn Learning: Learning Brightspace

  UVM’s license to LinkedIn Learning means you can log in by entering your UVM email address.

Create a community account with your UVM email address to view their guided trainings for instructors.