{"id":12099,"date":"2018-05-14T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=12099"},"modified":"2019-12-26T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T21:02:20","slug":"what-i-wish-i-had-known-as-a-brightspace-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/what-i-wish-i-had-known-as-a-brightspace-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Wish I Had Known as a Brightspace Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/thought-idea-innovation-imagination-2123970\/\" title=\"idea\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thought-2123970_640.jpg?resize=480%2C333\" alt=\"whiteboard with light bulb inside a thought bubble\" height=\"333\" width=\"480\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now that you have one semester of using our Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS) behind you, you may be thinking it would have been helpful if I had known <em>this<\/em> about Brightspace beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>An article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/\">Brightspace Community<\/a> provided insights on what professor Lori McIntosh-Belanger wishes she had known about Brightspace when she got started. In the article she provides insights on using Quizzes and Question Libraries, Discussions, Widgets, Rubrics and Marking Assignments. If this has piqued your interest, you should read the article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/What-I-Wish-I-Had-Known-as-a-Brightspace-Instructor\">What I Wish I Had Known as a Brightspace Instructor<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><small>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/thought-idea-innovation-imagination-2123970\/\">Image<\/a> by TeroVesalainen from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/license\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that you have one semester of using our Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS) behind you, you may be thinking it would have been helpful if I had known this about Brightspace beforehand. An article in the Brightspace Community provided insights on what professor Lori McIntosh-Belanger wishes she had known about Brightspace when she got <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/what-i-wish-i-had-known-as-a-brightspace-instructor\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"What I Wish I Had Known as a Brightspace Instructor\"<\/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],"class_list":{"0":"post-12099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"tag-brightspace","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-399","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14874,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/what-i-wish-i-had-known-as-a-brightspace-instructor-redux\/","url_meta":{"origin":12099,"position":0},"title":"What I Wish I Had Known as a Brightspace Instructor Redux","author":"Janice Florent","date":"January 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Whether you've had one semester or a few semesters of using Brightspace behind you, you may be thinking it would have been helpful if I had known this about Brightspace beforehand. 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