This month’s Brightspace release highlights include: Accommodations - Improvements in Classlist, Quizzes, User Purge, and User Progress Assignments - New Assignment Evaluation Experience Action menu for group assignments Anonymous marking Context menu on the...
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Academic Integrity
UVic has a policy on Academic Integrity, which you can find in both the undergraduate and the graduate academic calendars. The policy addresses the main types of academic integrity violations, as well as procedures for dealing with these. Please review the policy...
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...
Update on captioning and exam invigilation for faculty/instructors
Transcripts & Captioning for StudentsAutomatic transcription is turned on in Echo360. Live-captioning is now available in Zoom and Teams.1. Faculty/instructors are not required to review or edit all transcripts and captions. This includes automated live captioning...
Providing Constructive Feedback
Feedback is an essential part of the learning experience for both students and instructors. The feedback you provide to instructors is a necessary part of a course. It helps your instructor understand and meet the needs students and can inform improving and...
Brightspace Release Highlights (December 2020)
The December Brightspace release included a number of improvements, please have a look at the highlights below: Updated video and audio player in Content, Lessons, and New Learner Experience Student access to the Attendance tool Assignments - Consistent evaluation...
Booking Appointments & Office Hours
This page provides four examples of how to enable students to book appointments with you this term. In addition, UVic is targeting to adopt a central booking tool in 2021.Have students to sign up for sessions or topics right in BrightspaceUse group self-enrollment to...
What is GSuite?
G-Suite and Google Workspace are no longer supported by LTSI starting Fall 2023. LTSI will continue to offer support with the use of all of UVic's centrally supported tools such as Brightspace. If you require assistance with design guidance or setup of your...
How do I hide published grades from students?
How to hide an entire category of grades from students? 1. Navigate to Grades > Manage Grades. 2. If you would like to hide all the grades inside of a grade category, click on the arrow beside the desired category as shown in the image below. 3. Select the...
Online Learning and Teaching Student & Instructor Survey Results
A survey was conducted with UVic students and instructors to better understand their experiences of learning and teaching within a predominantly online environment. The student survey was open between November 6-19, 2020 with the instructor survey occurring between...
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