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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 #121: Turnitin Feedback Studio"
Do you want to see your student's coursework that needs to be graded all on one page in Brightspace? The Quick Eval tool can help. Quick Eval is a new tool that allows evaluators to see a list of unevaluated learner submissions from all their courses. Submissions from Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes are displayed in ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #120: Quick Eval"
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 #119: August Continuous Delivery Updates"
The My Courses widget (on the My Home page) uses tile-based images to make finding your courses easier. Users can choose which courses they see in their My Courses widget by pinning and unpinning courses. Pinning a course makes it appear in the My Courses widget. Unpinning a course makes it disappear from the My ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #118: Hide Inactive Courses by Unpinning Them"
Our new resource, The Orange Room, is a community where instructors can learn from each other about efficient and innovative ways to use Brightspace. The Orange Room is a place where educators can share tips, suggestions, knowledge, and expertise to help colleagues use Brightspace to improve their teaching and to inspire the next generation of ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #117: Educator Share Showcase"
Brightspace Pulse is a mobile app that can help learners stay connected and on track with their Brightspace courses. It provides one easy view of course calendars, readings, assignments, evaluations, grades, and announcement items. The app can help learners make better decisions about how to handle their workload, when to submit assignments, and when to ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #116: Make Your Course Pulse Friendly"
Course Tools are communication and collaboration tools that enhance the interaction between instructors and students in Brightspace courses. When viewing the tools available in Brightspace you see a number of tools listed there. How do you know which tool is right for the job? The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at Memorial University ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #115: Which Tool Should I Use?"
As you prepare to teach this fall, now is a good time to get started setting up your Brightspace courses. According to our Information Technology Center (ITC), the fall courses have been created in Brightspace. If you are listed as the instructor for the fall course in Banner, you should see the course in your ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #114: Setup Your Fall Courses"
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 #113: July Continuous Delivery Updates"
Use due dates in Brightspace to help students stay on track. Students will see due dates when they look at entries in the course calendar and in the Pulse App. Due dates and availability dates are generally entered when the instructor creates assignments, assessments, discussion topics and forums, etc. The dates automatically populate into the ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #112: Due Dates"