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Quick Start Guide for Instructors
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Teachers - English
Brightspace Support 1
Getting started with Brightspace 14
- How do I add a course to my homepage?
- How do I change a course image?
- How do I change my profile picture?
- How do I navigate within Brightspace?
- How can I log in to Brightspace?
- How do I access Brightspace?
- How do I manage my notifications?
- How do I log out from Brightspace?
- Which notifications can I turn on and off and how do I link notifications to my e-mail?
- Quick Start Guide for Instructors
- Getting to know Brightspace, short video
- Checklist Brightspace for Lecturers
- What is Screensteps?
- How do I adjust personal settings in Brightspace?
Manage users in your course 14
- How do I activate/deactivate a course?
- How do I give someone access to my course?
- How do I assign roles to colleagues in my course and remove users from my course?
- How do students access my course?
- How do roles work in Brightspace?
- How do I add a student to my course?
- How do I delete a student from a course?
- How is a course created in Brightspace?
- How do I use the Classlist?
- How do I export the Classlist, including group or section enrollments?
- What personal data do students see from instructors and fellow students?
- What is Special Access and how do I use it?
- How can I view grades of students who unenrolled from a course?
- How can students sign up for a consultation hour?
Content: Setting up/designing your course 3
Content: Editor 6
Content: Publish, copy, import, restore, hide 15
- How do I create and add a Page to Content?
- How do I use HTML templates in my content?
- How do I adjust the availability of multiple content items at once?
- How do I adjust the availability of my content when I create or edit it?
- How do I add a link to an Assignment/Discussion/Quiz to my Content?
- How do I replace an existing document?
- How do I use Manage Files?
- What can students download?
- How do I add a file to Brightspace?
- How do I insert a file for one or more groups?
- Repairing broken links
- Recover accidentally deleted data
- What information is/isn't copied in a Course Copy?
- How do I hide or unhide course content from students?
- Availability Date Defaults
Anonymous Marking 2
Announcements 5
Assignments: Create & Configure 16
- Short video: How to create an assignment (English only)
- How do I use Assignments?
- How do I create an Assignment?
- How do I set conditional requirements for an Assignment?
- How do I set restrictions for an Assignment and/or set different (due) dates per group or sections of students?
- How do I add and edit categories to manage assignments?
- How do I attach a grade item to an assignment?
- How can I use Assignments for groups?
- How do I set up a Pass / Fail scheme in Assignments?
- How do I recover a deleted Assignment?
- How do I set up an Assignment with multiple assessors? (e.g. four-eyes principle)
- How do I create a resit in my course?
- Assignments: Assessment
- Advanced Assessment
- Best practice: using start dates, due dates and end dates.
- How do I set up an Assignment where a video or audio file must be submitted?
Assignments: Assessment & Grading 12
- Grading Assignments
- How do I assess an assignment using a Rubric?
- How do I assess an assignment with inline feedback?
- How do I assess a video assignment?
- How do I assess a group assignment?
- Grade an Assignment with multiple assessors
- How do I filter (non) submissions?
- How do I filter (un)graded Assignments?
- How do I assess an assignment offline?
- Delete a submission attempt of a (dummy) student
- How do I use Submission Logs with Assignments?
- Inline grading with the annotation tool
Attendance Tool 1
Awards 4
Calendar 4
Checklists 1
Copyright content 2
Discussions 8
- How do I create a Discussion Forum and Topic?
- How do I create a discussion topic per group?
- How do I use the Discussions tool?
- Short video: How to create a Discussion forum and topic (English only)
- Discussions: Settings & Restrictions
- How do I attach a grade item to a discussion topic?
- How can I control what discussion updates I receive?
- Grading Discussion Forums
Grades 17
- Grades: An overview
- Introduction to Brightspace Grades
- Setting up the Gradebook for the first time with the Grades Setup Wizard
- Create Grade Items
- Choosing a Grade Scheme
- Release grades to students
- Release grades to students
- How do I use the Formula Editor?
- Example Gradebook: Formula Grading System
- Quick Eval
- How do I create a Grade Scheme?
- Hiding grades from students
- Setting up resits in the Gradebook
- Grade Statistics & Event Logs
- How do I export Grades?
- Copy your Gradebook and Grade Settings to another course
- Create Grade Categories
Groups 9
- How do I create groups?
- What are sections and how are they different from groups?
- How do I use Lockers for Groups?
- Short video: How do I create Groups? (English only)
- How do I use groups?
- How do I remove Groups?
- What do students see in Groups and how do they use them?
- How can I see which students are in which group/section?
- How do I create groups in bulk for group assignments?
Kaltura 7
- How do I manage and customize my Kaltura videos?
- How do I upload a video to Kaltura and place it in the course content?
- What is the course Kaltura Media Gallery?
- Media Stitching
- Publish media from Kaltura's Shared Repository
- Requesting subtitles / transcription
- Copy Kaltura media to another Brightspace course
MS Teams 2
Privacy and Security 1
Quizzes 15
- How do I use quizzes?
- How do I create a new quiz?
- How do I edit a Quiz?
- What type of questions can I add to a Quiz?
- Grading Quizzes
- How do I attach a grade item to a quiz?
- How do I create a (statistical) report of a Quiz?
- How do I delete a student's quiz attempt?
- How can I preview what a student sees when handing in a quiz?
- Quizzes - Evaluation & Feedback
- How do I publish feedback for a quiz?
- Quizzes - Availability & Conditions
- Quizzes - Attempts & Completion
- Quizzes - Timing & Display
- How do I use the Question Library?
Release conditions and Manage Dates 7
- Everything about Release Conditions, Manage Dates and availability of your Content, Grades and Tools
- How do you set Release Conditions?
- Automatically Release Content for a certain time period, or after a certain date
- What are release conditions and how do I use them?
- How do I use Manage Dates?
- Use case: Release Conditions and Start-End Dates for Assignments with Grade items
- Automatically Release Content for a certain time period, or after a certain date
Rubrics 5
Surveys 5
Turnitin 7
- How do I set up plagiarism control in an Assignment?
- Restricting access to your Turnitin Assignment
- Tell me more on the More Options in Turnitin
- How do I regenerate a Similarity Report?
- Interpreting Turnitin's Similarity scores
- How can I check an assignment for plagiarism without the student handing in an assignment?
- How do I download a Similarity Report?