Accessible Course Materials What are Accessible Course Materials? From the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials for Learning: Accessible educational materials (AEM) are...
Brightspace – Grading: Publishing Options If you want to grade student work over a period of time, we recommend that you save individual student grades...
Brightspace – Guest Access for UVM Affiliates Guests in Brightspace can only view content. Guests cannot access any course tools like assignments, quizzes, or discussions. Brightspace refers...
Brightspace – Accessibility Checker and Ally Brightspace Accessibility Checker The Accessibility Checker is available within the HTML Editor when you create or edit HTML content pages....
Brightspace – Add TAs and Course Builders In Brightspace, instructors can now add Teaching Assistants (or course builders) directly into their courses, with no wait time. Step...
Brightspace – Announcements Overview Course announcements appear on the homepage of your course. Instructors will see the small down-arrow next to “Announcements” and...
Brightspace – Assignments Assignments can be created in two ways: Go to Course Tools on the green course nav bar, then click Assignments....
Brightspace – Banner on Home Page (Modify) In Brightspace, you can modify your course banner and change its text. Change the banner image Hover over the banner...
Brightspace – Bulk Manage Dates Bulk Manage Dates in Course Content Area Manage due dates and availability for all your course content in one place,...
Brightspace – Calendar Overview The Brightspace Course Calendar is a useful tool for students, displaying due dates for assignments, when content will become...
Brightspace – Cengage Integration Instructors: Cengage (WebAssign) Integration with Brightspace Connecting Your WebAssign Course to Brightspace 1. In WebAssign, create your course the usual...
Brightspace – Checklist Overview Instructors can use the Checklists Tool to help students stay on track with assignments and tasks for a course....
Brightspace – Class Progress The Class Progress Tool is available to both instructor and students in the Course Menu under Grades & Feedback. Features...
Brightspace – Classlist (View Roster & Email Students) Accessing Classlist Classlist is directory of names, emails, and group settings which provides you with quick access to your students....
Brightspace – Completion Tracking Tool Set up the Completion Tracking tool The Completion Tracking tool in Brightspace helps students stay on track with the course...
Brightspace – Content & Activities Overview Course content is organized through Modules and Topics. Modules organize the units of your course (for example, Week 1,...
Brightspace – Content: Create a File (Text Editor) Create File In the navbar, click on Content & Activities. Click on an entry in the Table of Contents area,...
Brightspace – Copy One Course to Another Video instruction (4:32) You have two options to access the course Import/Export/Copy feature.Select the Gear Icon Go to your destination...
Brightspace – Course Builder Using the Brightspace Course Builder Course Builder Overview The Course Builder tool is useful for creating a draft of a new...
Brightspace – Create a Sandbox Course Space UVM faculty and staff can create sandbox spaces in Brightspace. Sandbox spaces will never contain student enrollments. They are not...
Brightspace – Discussions How to use Discussions A discussion is a place where students can come together online and therefore a good place...
Brightspace – Find Your Course Pinned For convenience, you can pin a course so that it floats to the top of the page. Just click...
Brightspace – for Students Brightspace is UVM’s new LMS (Learning Management System), replacing Blackboard in Fall 2023. Brightspace is another tool available to faculty...
Brightspace – Grades: Display Cumulative Course Grades to Students To let students track their course grades throughout the semester, a few things must be set in place. Before anything...
Brightspace – Grades: Export the Gradebook It is recommended to back up your gradebook before making any major grading changes or editing gradebook settings. This is...
Brightspace – Grades: Set Up Your Grade Book Set up your Grade Book Accessing Grades Center On the Navigation bar menu click on Grades & Feedback and Select...
Brightspace – Grading Work Grading in Brightspace Grading in Brightspace is different from what we were accustomed to in Blackboard. There are 3 ways...
Brightspace – Grading: Granting Exemptions Exemptions You are able to exempt a student from a particular grade or exempt a student from multiple grade items....
Brightspace – Grading: Manually Enter into the Gradebook To manually enter grades for students all at once: Go to Grades & Feedback > Grades: Enter Grades > Switch...
Brightspace – Group Tool Groups in Brightspace Brightspace groups are useful for a variety of reasons, you may wish to have students submit a...
Brightspace – Helpful Links for Instructors General Resources Brightspace Implementation web site Brightspace Community Site (Registration required) Where to Get Help UVM Tech Team For basic...
Brightspace – Intelligent Agents What are Intelligent Agents (IAs)? Intelligent Agents automatically scan Brightspace according to the criteria you set. When you run an...
Brightspace – Learner View View as Learner The “View as Learner’ preview function is a quick way for instructors to see how course content...
Brightspace – Make Your Course Active (Available) for Students By default, Brightspace courses are not available to students until instructors make them available, or “active.” When a course is...
Brightspace – Non-Credit Course Creation/ Learner Self-Enrollment UVM faculty and staff can create spaces in Brightspaces for educational or organizational purposes. These spaces are for UVM affiliates...
Brightspace – Organizing Course Content The three general methods for organizing content described on this page each have benefits and limitations. The goal is find...
Brightspace – Profile, Notifications and Account Settings Profile To personalize your Brightspace course, click on your name in the upper right corner of any Brightspace window. Choose...
Brightspace – Quick Start for Instructors View upcoming CTL workshops as well as workshop recordings Find and pin your courses This short article in the UVM...
Brightspace – Quiz Settings: What Students See Brightspace offers instructors a number of options under Evaluation & Feedback to control what students see after they submit a...
Brightspace – Quizzes In Brightspace, the quiz tool is used for quizzes, tests, and exams. This page for instructors explains how to set...
Brightspace – Release Conditions Release Conditions Release conditions allow you to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course. When you...
Brightspace – Replace Strings An excellent way to personalize your course and communications in Brightspace is to use Replace Strings. Replace Strings are specific...
Brightspace – Respondus LockDown Browser (Instructors) What is the Respondus LockDown Browser? LockDown browser (LDB) prevents students from printing, surfing the Internet, taking a screenshot, or...
Brightspace – Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor for Students If your instructor is using LockDown Browser, or LockDown Browser with Monitor, this page will help ensure you have a...
Brightspace – Respondus Monitor (for Instructors) Respondus Monitor is a video “proctoring” add-on for Respondus LockDown Browser, which is a web browser that restricts students’ access...
Brightspace – Rubrics What are Rubrics? Rubrics are used to grade student work according to defined criteria. These criteria serve to make the...
Brightspace – Self Assessments What are Self Assessments? Self Assessments is a formative assessment tool that enables instructors to provide students with a series...
Brightspace – Solutions to Blackboard Tools: Journals, Blogs, and Wikis 1. Journals Brightspace does not have a Journal tool, so Journals in Blackboard do not migrate to Brightspace. It may appear that...
Brightspace – Student View Account for Instructors We now have the option to create a “student view” account in Brightspace. This can be useful for checking what...
Brightspace – Surveys In Brightspace, surveys can be created with multiple question types, including branching, and they can be anonymous or non-anonymous....
Brightspace – Using the HTML Editor Using the HTML Editor The Brightspace Text Editor allows you to add images, videos, hyperlinks, and other content, and checks...
Brightspace – UVM Landing Page Brightspace Login Sign into Brightspace at https://brightspace.uvm.edu Brightspace Landing Page See All Courses or filter by type with the tabs...
Brightspace Migration: Assignments Check to see if Blackboard assignments made with the Assignment Tool moved over to Brightspace On the top navigation bar,...
Brightspace Migration: Check and Clean up the Course Content How to use the Syllabus Link (Above the Table of Contents) Single Syllabus File: Go to “Content & Activities” and...
Brightspace Migration: General Tips for Checking Courses The tips described here can help you in your work flow of reviewing and revising your Brightspace course (migrated from...
Brightspace Migration: Internal Course Links from Blackboard If you created Internal Course links in your Blackboard course to, for example, link from one page directly to another...
Brightspace Migration: Quizzes Step 1: Review and Clean Up Quizzes Enter your migrated course and go to Course Tools > Quizzes. The first...
Brightspace Migration: Rubrics Generally, rubrics (created by the Blackboard tool of the same name) have migrated well to Brightspace. Some column labels may...
Brightspace Migration: Discussion How does Brightspace discussion terminology and display differ compared to Blackboard? There are three levels to the discussion tool: Forum,...
Brightspace – Course Level Accommodations While you able to set accommodations and access through an individual quiz, you are also able to set accommodations at...
Brightspace – TurnItIn Turnitin is a tool that can be used to assess similarities between students’ written submissions and other documents.TurnItIn generates a...
Brightspace: Add Gradescope What is possible with Gradescope? Gradescope is an assessment tool. Instructors can use Gradescope to deliver and grade assignments, quizzes,...
Brightspace: Attendance Tool The Attendance tool enables you to create registers that track attendance for activities within your course. You can track attendance...
iClickers at UVM iClicker is an electronic polling technology that allows students to give instant feedback or answers to questions during class. Students...
Perusall Perusall is a powerful teaching tool developed at Harvard University that is integrated with Brightspace. Perusall allows students and their...
Yellowdig for Instructors Yellowdig is a conversation platform that can be linked from a Brightspace course to form a private class community. Yellowdig...