Improvement of Brightspace
Good morning. I am using BS as a faculty in Higher Education for the first time. Here are my suggestions for improvement:
- Students should not be allowed to edit their posts on the discussion board. This makes grading and liability of students complicated. If they need to edit their posts, they should click on reply on their thread or create a new thread, but never be allowed to edit what they posted. That is how it was on BB.
- Unlisted YouTube videos: On BB we could add an unlisted YouTube video, but on BS we cannot. I mean, we can add the video link but not attach it and have the thumbnail and the clickable image. Basically, on BB I could simply add the unlisted link and BB search accepted it. On BS it says it did not find it as it only finds public videos. The lectures I record are unlisted and I want to keep it this way. I know we can add a video file directly to BS content or use the video note to record it. However, first, video note does not allow us to blur our background, second, I would prefer that students do not download my lectures but, instead, watch them on YouTube as I used to do on BB.
- Another improvement: Allow blurred background in video note.
- Video note option to "Automatically generate captions from audio" does not generate any captions as I've recorded many videos with this option on and had no captions generated when playing it.
- Somehow even though we click on "Subscribe to this thread" on DB, we do not get alerts when someone replies on that thread. What I mean by "we" is faculty and students in my class. Basically this options seems to not work.
Thank you!
