 Brightspace

Students and the official Instructor (Instructor of Record) are automatically added to academic course sites in Brightspace. Other roles, such as TA and support staff, in any Brightspace course sites, need to be added manually. Here are the steps to add someone to your course site.

In Brightspace, you can add a link directly into a module in Content or as a link in the Brightspace text editor anywhere it appears. These are the instructions to link to a file or website other than a video.

Gradebook is a powerful tool provided by Brightspace to help you calculate student grades quickly and efficiently. It is highly recommended to seek training prior to using it, so you can use Gradebook to its full extent but this article points out how to avoid the most common mistakes.

Instructors can annotate student submissions offline and upload the annotated files as feedback in Brightspace. Follow the instructions in this article to upload a batch of student feedbacks to Brightspace Assignments.

You can change your student’s grades even after they submit an assignment or a quiz. To make changes to correct for an incorrectly built question, two options are explained.

This article provides an overview of common academic accommodations, approaches for facilitating these accommodations on Brightspace, as well as general tips to make instructors’ courses more accessible to students.

Instructors can choose to copy material from a previous course to their current one. Follow the steps of this article to copy some or all of the material from one course to another.

If you are preparing your grades to one or all assessments offline and want to import your spreadsheet of grades into Brightspace, the file must be set up correctly before attempting an import.

If you need to delete a module and everything in it, follow the instructions in this article.

This article provides tips for creating and grading group assignments in general, as well as tips specific to using Brightspace to create and grade group assignments.

In the event of an emergency or University closure affecting all or parts of the campus, your ability to continue your class in your regular manner may be impacted. This article aims to help you deliver your courses online in such situations.

Communicate with your classmates through your Brightspace course site via email or instant messages.

You can share the link to your virtual office hours or virtual class time in a number of places in your Brightspace course site. One place is in your course Navbar. To add a Teams meeting link to your course Navbar in Brightspace

Turnitin is a cloud-based solution with capabilities in Similarity checking and online grading using their Similarity Report and Online Grading tools. Similarity Report lets you monitor Assignment submissions and identify potential cases of plagiarism by automatically comparing submissions to an online database of original content. This article describes the steps to enable and use Turnitin within Brightspace.

Follow these steps for grading Discussions in Brightspace.

Follow the instructions in this article to import a CSV, TXT, or TSV file into Brightspace Gradebook.

If you have a Blackboard course archive file, you can import your quiz questions into a Brightspace course site.

Grades can be visible in the assessment tool (Assignments, Quizzes, or Discussions) and/or in the Grades tool. Instructors can ensure that students can or cannot see grades in the assessment tool and/or the Grades tool. The assessment tools' visibility settings are NOT synchronized with the visibility settings in the Grades tool; instructors must check both places.

Usually, to provide another quiz attempt to a student, an instructor will use the Special Access option to provide another attempt. However, you can delete quiz attempts to permit a student to redo a quiz.

If you need to delete a student's submission(s) to an assignment to allow a student to resubmit instead of keeping all submissions, including mistakes, you can reset the assignment for the student following the steps in this article.

If you have deleted a quiz or assignment and subsequently need to restore it, follow the steps in this article to do so.

Brightspace does not have a native built-in anonymous peer review feature or group member evaluation feature. However, there is a solution that provides functions similar to an anonymous peer review tool using Brightspace's Groups and Discussions tools that allows each student the ability to anonymously review one other student’s submission.

You can share YouTube videos in your Brightspace course sites by adding the video's link or its embed code into the course site. Sometimes, you want students to watch only a portion of the video. This article will show you how to share a YouTube video so that it starts at the spot in the video where you want your students to start viewing.

If your instructor has set up the assignment drop-box as a Group Assignment, one person of the group will submit the assignment on behalf of the group. This article describes the steps and the considerations of submitting a group assignment.

Because videos should not be uploaded directly to Brightspace, YuJa Enterprise Video Platform can be used to upload videos that can be easily shared in Brightspace. Follow the steps in this article to upload a video to YuJa and place its link in your Brightspace course site.

D2L Brightspace has provided over 3,000 images that can be selected for the banner on the home page of your course. These images can also be used elsewhere in your course, such as in your Content area for your module descriptions or in an announcement or assignment.

Creating groups of one and giving each group of one its own space in the Discussions tool, effectively creates a space for student to use as a journal in which only the student and instructor(s) can view the posts. Follow these steps to set up the journals in Discussions.

Although most students have found ways to share documents among their fellow group members when working on group projects, Brightspace provides the Locker as a space within Brightspace where the students can store small files and share them with their group members.  For the locker to be available to a group, it must be enabled by the instructor during the process of creating groups. These instructions are for instructors.

In order for students to access your course site, you must make it available to your students.

Once have ensured the Adjusted Final Grades column has a grade for ALL students in the course, you have finished adjusting grades, and now are ready to release the adjusted grades to students, follow these steps to release the grades.

This article shows the available replace strings in Brightspace with a description and example of each.

This article includes instructions for configuring a Brightspace grade book to display an automatically updated (a running total) Calculated Final Grade. It is intended for instructors.

Brightspace is not meant to be a repository of videos and large files, and the University of Windsor has systems meant to store and organize larger files. This document describes how to use those options.

These Test Best Practices can help ensure you and your students are prepared for a successful online testing experience.

If you would like to know when a student entered and completed a quiz or when certain questions have been answered, view the Attempt Logs or Event Logs of the quiz.

The Multiple Evaluators feature in Assignments allows instructors to assign student assignment submissions to specific graders. This allows simple management of grading distribution to GAs/TAs for a large class, and additional settings enable the option for multiple graders to provide feedback before a final evaluation is published. Instructors can also prevent certain evaluators from being able to publish/release grades and feedback.

This article outlines the differences and similarities between the video sharing platforms YuJa, Microsoft Stream, and YouTube, with regards to features, video sharing capabilities, and support information.