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...
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Using Checklists for Learning Outcomes
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...
Create Lessons and Organize Course Content (New Content Experience)
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...
Using Course Builder
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...
Create a Custom Learning Path in a Course
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...
Question Library
A Question Library helps you create repositories of stored questions that can be used and re-used throughout course creation. Filling out the question library is often an excellent first step in creating course content as it offers a place to create, edit and import...
Evaluating Quizzes
The Quizzes tool in Brightspace allows instructors to create and evaluate question-based assessments. This page covers the steps for evaluating quizzes. To learn more about setting up a quiz, please visit Creating and Managing Quizzes.Why Use Quizzes for...
Creating and Managing Quizzes
The Quizzes tool in Brightspace allows instructors to create and evaluate question-based assessments in their courses. In the UVic instance of Brightspace, the Quiz Tool is nested under Course Tools on the blue NavBar. This page covers creating and managing quizzes....
Advanced Gradebook: Bonus Grade Items and Exemptions
Bonus grade items and exemptions provide additional ways for instructors to fine tune their grade book and create personalized solutions for each student. This post covers bonus grade items and exemptions. To learn more about creating a gradebook, please view Set up a...
Set Up a Gradebook
The Brightspace Grades tool allows instructors to create and manage their gradebooks, which includes grading system, grade calculations, grade scheme, grade items, and view and display options. The gradebook can be linked to assessments such as quizzes, assignments...
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