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Turnitin is a plagiarism detection tool that is integrated into our Brightspace system. Turnitin checks student work for potential plagiarism and allows instructors to provide electronic feedback to students through markup, proofing, and rubrics tools. Instructors typically create an Assignment submission folder with Turnitin enabled. When students submit their assignments they are checked for potential ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #277: Turnitin – Quick Submit"

Turnitin Feedback Studio is a program that checks student work for potential plagiarism and allows instructors to provide electronic feedback to students through markup, proofing, and rubrics tools. Watch this short Turnitin Feedback Studio Walkthrough video from Turnitin on Vimeo. Did you know that Turnitin is integrated into Brightspace? Instructors can choose to enable Turnitin ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #276: Turnitin Feedback Studio"

D2L (the company that owns Brightspace) uses Continuous Delivery to update our Brightspace system. The Continuous Delivery model gives us regular monthly updates allowing for incremental and easily integrated changes with no downtime required for our Brightspace system. Our Continuous Delivery update occurs on the 4th Thursday of each month. D2L provides release notes to ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #275: October Continuous Delivery Updates"

The 'Observed in Person' assignment submission type is for situations where a learner needs to present something or demonstrate something and an instructor needs to confirm that it was completed. This submission type allows instructors to create assignments for a wide variety of activities and provide evaluation and feedback for these assignments in Brightspace. The ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #274: ‘Observed in Person’ Assignments"

Video Notes is a built-in media recording tool in Brightspace that allows instructors and learners to record short videos (up to 30-minute video recording) with a webcam or up to 1GB file upload. This makes it easy to personalize the learning experience with short, video-based feedback, comments, or instructions. Video Notes can be added where ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #273: Video Notes"

Customize Your Course Homepage in Brightspace [44:56] Thanks to those of you who attended this week's Customize Your Course Homepage workshop. The workshop, the eighth in our #LEX Advanced series, helps you to build on the skills you learned in the #LearnEverywhereXULA course. The focus of this workshop was to provide training on how to ...continue reading "ICYMI: Customize Your Course Homepage in Brightspace"

I am writing this blog post as a follow up to Brightspace Tip #267: Use Submission Views to Show Quiz Results. As you may know, Submission Views are created to allow students to go back and review a submitted quiz. The Limited Duration option allows the instructor to choose what information the student sees immediately ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #272: Quizzes – Using a Shutdown View"

The instructor’s view of grades is not the same as the learner's view of grades. Did you know you can get a preview of what a learner sees when they view their grades in your course? To verify what a learner sees when they view their grades, an instructor can Preview the learner's grades. Follow ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #271: Grade Book – Preview Learner Grades"

Wednesday, October 20th, is International Pronouns Day. International Pronouns Day is celebrated on the third Wednesday of October and seeks to make respecting, sharing, and educating about personal pronouns commonplace. Referring to people by the pronouns they determine for themselves is basic to human dignity. Being referred to by the wrong pronouns particularly affects transgender ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #270: Pronouns"

Would you like to congratulate your students for a job well done or give them a nudge when they might need to work harder -- without having to do a lot of extra work to make it happen? The Brightspace Intelligent Agents tool can help automate this process for you. Intelligent Agents allow instructors to ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #269: Intelligent Agents"