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Wednesday, October 19th, 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 #354: Pronouns"
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 #353: Grade Book – Preview Learner Grades"
One of the top requests from math and science faculty using Respondus LockDown Browser / Respondus Monitor is a way for students to show their work at the end of an online exam. This feature is now available! The "Show Your Work" feature allows students to upload hi-resolution images of worksheets they've prepared during their ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #352: Respondus Monitor – Show Your Work"
The Brightspace Grades Tool is useful for providing students with up-to-date information about their current standing in the course. For instructors, it’s useful for assigning and keeping track of student grades. Students can view grade entries and monitor their progress throughout the course. As an instructor, you can determine how to set up your Grade ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #351: Grade Book"
Do you want to see the coursework that needs to be graded all on one page in Brightspace? The Quick Eval tool can help. Quick Eval is a 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 one location ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #350: Quick Eval"
There were some changes with the New Assignment Creation Experience that has led to a few questions about creating assignments. I’m writing this blog post to address those questions. When you create an Assignment with the new Assignment Creation Experience, the default when you enter points in the “Grade Out Of” field is that the ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #349: Assignments"
Did you know a new quiz accommodations feature was introduced in our February 2021 Continuous Delivery Updates? This new feature enables instructors to grant quiz accommodations to learners through the Classlist tool. Instructors can assign accommodations to specific learners that apply across ALL quizzes instead of applying them on a quiz-by-quiz basis. The accommodations option ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #348: Quizzes – Set Accommodations by Learner for All Quizzes"
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 #347: September Continuous Delivery Updates"
Giving students timely, useful feedback can greatly enhance learning and improve student achievement. ICYMI, read my Give Students Feedback That Helps Them Learn blog post for information on providing better feedback. Are you looking for ways to simplify grading and for providing feedback on assignment submissions? These Brightspace tools can help: Annotations Tool The Annotations ...continue reading "Brightspace Tip #346: Simplify Grading and Giving Feedback"
Engagement Strategies for Online Discussions in Brightspace [49:09] Thanks to those of you who attended last week's Engagement Strategies for Online Discussions in Brightspace workshop. The workshop, the eleventh 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 show ...continue reading "ICYMI: Engagement Strategies for Online Discussions in Brightspace"