As we prepare for the start of the spring term, we want to share what you can do to help “weather-proof” your courses – in the event of a major snowfall or other extreme weather event.
Familiar teaching strategies might look a bit different in a multi-access classroom, but they have the same underpinning.In a multi-access classroom, you can deliver a lecture to both in-room and remote students, synchronously. You can also engage students through...
After recent integration efforts, final course grades can now be imported into FAST Student directly from Brightspace. This page contains instructions on how to prepare your grades in Brightspace, steps on how to access FAST, and details on how to run the import...
Every month, UVic's learning technologies release new features and updates.This post will give you a quick overview of what's new and exciting.Brightspace The December update to Brightspace includes changed to the way dates are handled by the discussion module,...
This month's news includes saying goodbye to CourseSpaces, easy export of Brightspace grades to FAST, an important Zoom update, updates to Echo360 group functionality, a Crowdmark demo and more!CourseSpaces CourseSpaces de-commissioning is continuing, with access...
Instructors have have many options for controlling access to course features, including whether students can download course media. These options are course-wide and cannot be modified for individual media. By default, students cannot download course media. To...
Activity Feeds and Alignment Standards are two pieces of advanced course content which can be used for communicating with your students in a centralized manner. Activity Feeds can be used to post messages and content on your course's front page, allowing students to...
Checklists are made up of items that refer to important or required assignments, readings, or other activities learners are expected to complete. Checklists may contain multiple categories to help keep the items within organized.Why use a Checklist?The Checklist...
Lessons are an effective method of organizing your course content. You can use them to simplify your topic structure and to apply conditional releases to entire sections. The New Content Experience allows you to put multiple folders into a lesson, and multiple lessons...
Course Builder is a user-friendly tool that allows you to create, modify, and review course content in one place.Why use Course Builder? Create and Manage Content and Activities in One Place Access all of the Brightspace tools you need to set up your course content...
As an instructor for a course, you have the ability to guide students in a specific pathway with the function of Release Conditions. Certain course content will not become available or seen with these Release Conditions unless specific pre-conditions are met.Why...
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