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Brightspace Course Quickguide for Instructors
This quick guide highlights the key steps and resources for building online components of your course in Brightspace. Whether you are teaching in person, online, or a blended format, Brightspace and UVic's other learning technologies can be used to support effective...
Course Review Learning Guide: Considerations to Guide Feedback
In preparing for course review, consider how you will choose to focus your feedback. The focus of feedback may depend on disciplinary context, the reviewer’s past experiences and expertise, and/or the design of the course under review, etc. The following section...
Creating exams using Brightspace
This guide details how to set up a final exam in Brightspace. There are several settings that can affect the testing experience, and we will go into each in detail. Basic details and questions Availability and conditions Timing and display Attempts and completion...
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Learning Guide: Applying UDL Practices
Learn practical strategies and tools to ensure your course materials and instructional methods are designed in an inclusive and accessible manner
Online collaborative exams with Dr. Mariel Miller
Dr. Mariel Miller shares her experience delivering an online collaborative exam using Brightspace and Microsoft Teams.
Using online strategies to address absences and support accessibility
Instructors are advised to incorporate blended strategies into their in-person courses to address absences and support accessibility.Online strategies can help instructors to: Increase access to course materials and assessments for students in cases where they are...
Teaching online
Learning and instruction in online courses can happen in many different formats or modes. Two major modes are synchronous (real-time, everyone together at the same time) and asynchronous (self-paced or flexible – activities do not necessarily take place at the same...
How to support students with accommodations during Brightspace exams
Where to find student accommodation information?Instructors can find a student’s letter of accommodation by logging into the Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL) Online Instructor Services. Students are responsible for making their letters available to instructors on...
Recommendations for Online Uni-Directional Exams
What are uni-directional exams?Uni-directional exams refer to online exams in which students are required to proceed in sequence from first to last question and are not able to navigate between questions. In Brightspace, this is referred to as the 'paging' restriction...
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Class Recording for In-Person Courses
Basic class recording captures instructor audio/video and digital presentation materials and can be shared through Echo360 in Brightspace. In...
Brightspace Course Quickguide for Instructors
This quick guide highlights the key steps and resources for building online components of your course in Brightspace. Whether you are teaching in...
UVic’s Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Position Statement
GenAI is a form of machine learning with the capabilities to produce text, images, video, music, code, etc. Conversations have focused on concerns...
Examples of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Browse examples by UDL principle Please note that some examples shown below showcase more than one UDL principle.The Why of Learning Allows students...
Using online strategies to address absences and support accessibility
Instructors are advised to incorporate blended strategies into their in-person courses to address absences and support accessibility.Online...
Online Exam Guide
How do I use this guide? This guide is a quick resource for designing, building, and administering online exams. Each section includes links to...
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