Learning a new system takes some time and Brightspace is like learning any other new system. We’re getting lots of questions (keep them coming!) about how to “best” set up various tools. Best here is always subjective, so I’ll point out some decision points and let you decide what’s the “best” option. Automatically Grade Automatically […]
Continue reading →The Problem When we added Brightspace to our digital learning environment this fall, we added an integration to Panopto. One of the complexities of getting systems to work well together is that sometimes they don’t play well together due to unique system requirements. We found one of these requirements in setting up Brightspace. When selecting […]
Continue reading →If you are a regular user of Qwickly Course Tools to quickly add content, make announcements, or send email to multiple classes, you may have noticed that the large Qwickly module has disappeared from the My Wentworth tab in Blackboard. During our migration to the SaaS environment, we shifted from the building block implementation to […]
Continue reading →Standardize Automatic Opening of Courses With a new LMS comes change. Not just a new system to learn but some new standards as well. With all the changes involved in the university’s move from colleges to schools, we need to standardize ways of doing things across all academic programs. One of these changes is to […]
Continue reading →In an earlier post, I discussed how Blackboard calculates averages – something that can lead to confusion and suspicion that the system is not calculating grades correctly. Because we are changing Learning Management Systems (LMS), I’m revisiting this topic this time using Brightspace as the reference system. Common problems and questions crop up every term […]
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