The March update of the software on our system brought a few changes to note: Better integration of Turnitin into the New Assignment Experience Pulse App has notifications for upcoming quizzes and assignments Quiz Copy workflow has been updated to function more like the new assignment workflow Improved workflow for…
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Overview Over the fall we piloted courses in Brightspace and began learning the workings of the system. We invited faculty to teach in Brightspace this spring and provided some guidance in migrating content. We worked with independent instructional design contractors to migrate part-time courses and received some valuable feedback. As…
Leave a CommentOur vendor partners at Voice Thread have been busy enhancing the assignment experience in their multimedia discussion tool. You can turn on the new assignment workflow now on a course by course basis or wait until the summer when we will turn it on as the default for all courses.…
Leave a CommentIf you have students who require time accommodations for tests and quizzes and you use the quiz tool in Brightspace some new functionality will be welcomed. In the February update to Brightspace, you’ll be able to specify specific rules about how much time a student is allowed for all quizzes through…
Leave a CommentAs part of our contract with D2L/Brightspace, we have an option to bulk convert courses using an automated workflow. LIT will be testing this process on sample courses to fine-tune the process for our needs. Once this process is finalized, we’ll be asking faculty to identify which courses need to…
Leave a CommentLearning 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…
1 CommentThe 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…
Leave a CommentSpring 2021 Courses are open in both Blackboard and Brightspace To provide faculty with the flexibility and agency they’ve asked for, all Spring courses are now open and available in both Blackboard and Brightspace. To provide students with direction, we ask faculty to : Check the LMS Course Locations –…
Leave a CommentIf 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…
Leave a CommentStandardize 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…
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