{"id":11056,"date":"2017-09-27T10:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=11056"},"modified":"2021-12-14T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T20:46:57","slug":"brightspace-tip-2-sandbox-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-2-sandbox-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #2: Sandbox Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experiment with Brightspace features and functions using your own Sandbox course. A sandbox course is an empty course where you can experiment with Brightspace features and functions without affecting your actual courses. The sandbox course will be your very own, and can be used as a place to experiment without affecting any real students.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/7XMpsfmQPUpKR9Mt5\" title=\"Brightspace sandbox course request\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brightspace-Sandbox-logo-640.png?resize=512%2C227\" alt=\"Brightspace sandbox course banner\" height=\"227\" width=\"512\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Fill out the <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/7XMpsfmQPUpKR9Mt5\">Brightspace sandbox course request<\/a> form to request a sandbox course.<\/p>\n<p>Sandbox courses will be used in the upcoming Brightspace training. You can find more information about the Brightspace training as well as sign-up for the training sessions on our <a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/events\">events<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h3>Want more information?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xulacat.wikispaces.com\/Brightspace+FAQs\">Brightspace Migration FAQs<\/a><br \/>\nSign-up for <a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/events\">Brightspace training sessions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Image credit: \"<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brightspace-Sandbox-logo-640.png\">Brightspace sandbox course banner<\/a>\" by jflorent is licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">CC0<\/a> and is a derivative of <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/sandbox-children-child-sand-play-1583289\/\">image<\/a> by RAMillu from <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiment with Brightspace features and functions using your own Sandbox course. A sandbox course is an empty course where you can experiment with Brightspace features and functions without affecting your actual courses. The sandbox course will be your very own, and can be used as a place to experiment without affecting any real students. Fill <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-2-sandbox-courses\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Brightspace Tip #2: Sandbox Courses\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403],"tags":[402,276],"class_list":{"0":"post-11056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"tag-brightspace","8":"tag-sandbox","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2Sk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11218,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-3-orange-is-the-new-blackboard\/","url_meta":{"origin":11056,"position":0},"title":"Brightspace Tip #3: Orange is the New Blackboard!","author":"Janice Florent","date":"October 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Brightspace (formerly called Desire2Learn or D2L) will replace Blackboard as our learning management system (LMS) starting spring 2018. 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