Brightspace

Bright­space is NIC’s learn­ing man­age­ment sys­tem (LMS), a cen­tral­ized plat­form where instruc­tors post course mate­ri­als, cre­ate assess­ments, and track class progress, and stu­dents access con­tent, grades, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tools. Use the tabs below to find Instruc­tor sup­port resources.

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Nav­i­ga­tion (Add link to Term Start Check­list once cre­at­ed)

Access Your Cours­es (Add link to Term Start Check­list once cre­at­ed)

Classlist and Accom­mo­da­tions (Add link to Term Start Check­list once cre­at­ed)

Course Design (Cre­ate new video)

Term Start Check­list (Link to new resource once devel­oped — need web­pages fin­ished to link in PDF)

Make Course Active (Make new video show­ing how to cre­ate a Wel­come Video)

Acti­vate Wel­come Wid­get (Cre­ate new video)

Data Reten­tion Pol­i­cy

Text­book (or Tech­nol­o­gy) Inte­gra­tions

Bright­space Basics Course

Stu­dent Bright­space Sup­port

Content

Con­tent Tool Overview

Upload Files (Make new video for overview of Man­age Files tool)

Import or Copy Course Mate­ri­als (Cre­ate new Overview video)

Course Builder and HTML Tem­plates (Cre­ate new video for Course Builder Overview and for Using HTML tem­plates)

Adding Doc­u­ments (PDFs, Word Docs, Pow­er­Points, Google Docs) (Cre­ate a new video com­bin­ing every­thing)

Adding Media and Links (Make a new video for Embed­ding Kaltura Images)

Adding Dates and Release Con­di­tions

Back­up Your Course (Cre­ate new video for entire course export and add images to 2nd accor­dion)

Communication

Announce­ments and Activ­i­ty Feed (Add images to accor­dion, make new video for Activ­i­ty Feed?)

Email and Instant Mes­sages

Wel­come Win­dow

Assignments

Cre­ate an Assign­ment (Cre­ate a new video Overview Assign­ment Tool)

Cre­ate and Attach a Rubric (Cre­ate a new video on rubrics)

Grade an Assign­ment

Stu­dent Sub­mis­sion View (Cre­ate new video)

Discussions

Cre­ate a Dis­cus­sion (Update PDF & Cre­ate new Overview video on group dis­cus­sions, cre­ate 1:1 dis­cus­sion video?, cre­ate overview video)

Mod­er­ate or Man­age Vis­i­bil­i­ty Restric­tions for Dis­cus­sions

Cre­ate and Attach a Rubric

Grade a Dis­cus­sion

Quizzes

Cre­ate and Edit a Quiz (Cre­ate 8 new quiz videos — see where embeds are, fix blur­ry video embeds, add to edit attempt)

Grade a Quiz (Cre­ate 1 new quiz video show­ing how to man­u­al­ly grade quizzes)

Print a Quiz

Grades

Grades Tool Overview (Cre­ate 2 new NIC videos to replace D2L videos?, fix blur­ry video in accor­dion)

Grade­book Set­up (Cre­ate 4 new videos and fix blur­ry video embed)

Pass/Fail Grade Items (Cre­ate new video and PDF)

Add a Rubric to a Grade Item

Enter­ing Grades

Release Final Grades (Cre­ate new video and PDF)

Sub­mit­ting Final Grades (Update 3 PDFs)

Other Tools

Groups (Cre­ate new video)

Sur­veys (Cre­ate new video)

Quick Eval (Cre­ate new video)

Man­age Dates (Cre­ate new screen­shots to match arrows, cre­ate new video for Overview)

Class Progress (Cre­ate new video)

Logs (Track­ing Activ­i­ty His­to­ry) (Cre­ate new video)

Check­lists (Cre­ate new video)

Bulk Edit (Cre­ate new video)