Using Brightspace to Track Scholarship Points
I recently started building a Brightspace course for the scholarship program that I oversee, in which each of our 100-120 scholars must earn 100 points per year based on their campus involvement. For example, being a student org president earns you 15 points, attending an educational campus lecture earns 5 points each, serving on a University council earns 10 points, etc.
I'm wanting to utilize Brightspace to have our scholars submit 'Assignments' for each point opportunity they earn, that way scholars can track their own progress with our Points Model, instead of our admin team having to manually track and report out each day/week. Further, we'd also like to be able to award points to a set group of scholars when they attend events that our admin team hosts. We wouldn't have them submit their attendance, we would like to add those points manually.
Can someone help advise how I can set up my assignments in Brightspace to allow for this? Or if there is a better way to do this?
Thanks so much!
Answers
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@Briar.D.2479 I think creating Assignments would work for this. For the event attendance, you could create assignments with the submission type Observed in Person and set the completion to Automatically on evaluation. That way you can add points for the scholars who attended, but they don't need to submit anything.
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Hello @Briar.D.2479, that is such a wonderful initiative! Thank you so much too @Jennifer.W.973! And I do agree that Assignments are a way to go! You could set up individual assignments for each activity type and link them to corresponding Grade items in the Gradebook to allow scholars to track their points.
To create assignments with the submission type Observed in Person, you may take a look this documentation to get you started:
Please let me know if you need anything else :)
Krizzy
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