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Re: This before That.
Hi Lynda,
In my personal experience with the gradebook, it depends on how you operate. Do you have all your assessable activities already laid out at the beginning of the term AND all the directions for those activities? Then, the order does not really matter too much. When you create an assignment/quiz/discussion a grade item will be created, and then you can organize them as you see fit.
But, if you ONLY have the names and values of all the gradable items right now, setting up the grade book first (with categories to make things organized if you have categories) THEN as you are building the assignments/quizzes/discussions you can link them to the grade items you already setup in advance.
If you DON'T have the names and values of all the gradable items right now, but you DO have the categories of the items, then going through the Setup Wizard is a good place to start, and then having the categories there so when you are building your activities, you will have those buckets to place the grade items in.
You did not mention rubrics, but if you do grade with rubrics (which I highly recommend, because it makes things much easier), I should build those out first before creating your assignments. That way, as you are building the assignment, you can just attach the rubric, versus building the rubric as you are building the assignment.
As far as Competencies, I would have anything that I was going to attach a competency to (quiz score/quiz questions, grade items, rubric) built out first. In fact, I would probably have this mapped out in a spreadsheet outside of Brightspace. Then, when I was ready to start attaching (which I like to set aside time to do all the attaching all at one time,) it would be much quicker to go through it all.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Andrea
Re: Checklists
@Lynda.W.602, my students love Checklists! It's one list where they know exactly what they need to do and when it's due. They can manually check it off when they've finished the item, making it a sort of individual planner.
Checklists
Fusion 2024 - Networking / Meetups - Admins / Developers RE: CSS / Visually customizing your courses
Hey there fellow 2024 Fusion attendees,
It appears that there is not a dedicated discussion forum for / on the Fusion site, so I thought I would reach out here. If you are a fellow admin or web designer / developer tasked with implementing branding / visual tweaks to your courses — utilizing custom CSS and / or the Content Styler tools, etc., I would love to connect with you at Fusion and share tips, issues, strategies and solutions.
Feel free to respond here, or message me in the Fusion app!
Jason Ogden
Multimedia Content Developer
NBCC
Re: How do you set up a weighted Rubric?
Hi Jazzmin,
The video below guides you through creating a weighted rubric.
Hope that helps!
Re: Deleting in assignments
Hi Cecilia. Brightspace doesn't allow learners to delete their submissions from the Assignments tool. Your instructor can, though, so I would recommend reaching out to them to request they delete the submission for you.
One workaround exception to this, is if the instructor configured the assignment to only keep the latest submission. In this case, submitting again (if you are permitted) would overwrite (delete) your previous submission. You'll know if your instructor configured the assignment this way by seeing the text, "You have already submitted to this folder. By submitting again, you will overwrite your previous submissions" when you return to assignment page where you submit.
Re: Release Notes Updates
July 2024/20.24.7 Release Notes are now live and ready for review in all languages! 🔍️
Re: Brightspace Sharepoint
Hi Arman,
For security reasons on the Microsoft endpoint you may not use iframe to embed SharePoint files. This is related to the same-origin policy resource sharing mechanism built into web interactions. I believe LTI, or the OneDrive LTI integration, leverages the cross-origin policy and OAuth to get around these restrictions.
At this point, and as you have highlighted, the alternatives to having the resource open in a new tab, are to use the OneDrive LTI integration; or add the files into Brightspace.
Hope this helps!