This is a series of short tutorials Dr. Ella Howard, Associate Professor in the College of Sciences and Humanites, put together covering the basics of building a course in Brightspace. For assistance in setting up your gradebook, please consult an LIT team member (lit@wit.edu). Getting Started with Brightspace: How to set up your course, customize […]
Continue reading →Wentworth’s pilot of D2L Brightspace is in full swing and we’ve been learning a lot as we go. One question we’ve been asked is can I just import my Blackboard course into Brightspace? The easy answer is yes, exporting a course from Blackboard is easy. Importing that package into Brightspace is easy. However, depending on […]
Continue reading →Earlier in the year, the Institute Curriculum Committee (ICC) approved changes to the grading scale used for graduate courses. This unfortunately means that any courses created for Fall 2020 created before the announcement, have an out-dated schema. We explored the possibility of having Blackboard run a backend database query to correct the schema but the […]
Continue reading →Meet the Brightspace Faculty Champions! Brightspace is generating a lot of interest with almost 60 faculty volunteering to pilot courses in Brightspace this fall. Due to the nature of our phased implementation, LIT could support approximately 20 (we wish everyone could support everyone!). Pilot faculty were selected from volunteers with input from the Senate Academic […]
Continue reading →We are excited to share an organizational realignment to unify the WIT Online and Learning Innovation &Technology Teams within Technology Services. Please continue using the current communications channels this fall to contact LIT lit@wit.edu for full-time and WIT Online online@wit.edu for part-time course support. The realignment supports the strategic focus areas of High-Value Learning and […]
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