Brightspace Partners Integrations for Year-End Assessment
Brightspace by D2L integrates with powerful tools for all aspects of finishing off a semester or school year. With the increasingly remote learning environment, there are more tools than ever to help you ensure your students are well equipped, comfortable, and secure when writing exams, attending lectures, and submitting their finals.
Below are some tips and recommended integrations to consider when wrapping up a semester or year. Please click the name of the tool to be redirected to their IntegrationHub listing and get channels to request demos or integrations.
- Top Integrations to consider: Plagiarism Tools: Help monitor and catch plagiarism for final exams to ensure academic integrity
- Remote Proctoring Tools: Create secure and verified testing environments from a distance.
- Assessment Tools: Give your students secure options to test in any field without the bulky overhead.
- Data & Analytics Tools: Go beyond assessment outcomes with deeper data and dashboards.
Plagiarism Tools:
Urkund - The Urkund integration within Brightspace provides support for your school and institutional academic integrity initiatives. Urkund's optimized plagiarism prevention and text-similarity detection functionality encourage original written work while deterring academic and research misconduct.
Turnitin - The Turnitin integration allows the use of OriginalityCheck and Grademark within the Brightspace Dropbox. Student submissions to Dropbox can be sent to Turnitin for processing without requiring students to re-submit files outside of Dropbox or having to log in to Turnitin directly.
Unicheck - Unicheck is a professional, innovation-driven, and integrative plagiarism detection software designed for K-12, Higher Ed, and Enterprise. Inspecting the text semantically, the intelligent system analyses the frequency and consistency of recurring words, condensing irrelevant matches from the report, which helps to deliver the most objective and relevant reports as a result.
Remote Proctoring Tools:
Integrity Advocate - Integrity Advocate is a privacy company that provides identity verification, participation monitoring, and examination proctoring for online training events. Human reviewers assisted by, artificial intelligence and biometric technology, are able to monitor the learning environment and the learner while providing the highest level of privacy protection. Integrity Advocate provides both its patented technology and an on-demand service that together captures and reviews each learning event so that utilizing institutions are free from ongoing administration obligations.
Examity – Cost-Effective, customizable, and flexible, Examity offers an industry-leading approach to live, online proctoring provides everything you need for the most secure test-taking experience possible. Their product includes live authentication, live recording review, violation flagging, human auditing, and reporting and analytics views.
Honorlock - Honorlock offers academic integrity software solutions designed to promote fairness in online assessments. Honorlock integrates seamlessly into Brightspace allowing faculty to manage their assessment integrity from within their LMS and allowing students to complete their exams without any logins, downloads, or appointments. Whether it’s fully automated with browser lockdown, certified proctor session review, or our proprietary Live Pop-In service,
Proctortrack - Proctortrack is the most advanced and patented automated remote proctoring software that offers continuous identity verification of online test-takers, anytime and anywhere at scale. Proctortrack's objective is to protect the integrity of online programs and educational institutions. Through proprietary facial recognition software, behavioral detection algorithms, and additional application features, the solution automates proctoring students for test policy compliance. Proctortrack is customizable to align with an institution's testing policies. It offers powerful analytics and an administrator dashboard to seamlessly investigate any pre-flagged test breaches.
Data & Analytics Tools:
Intelliboard - IntelliBoard provides analytic and reporting services to education communities and institutions that want expanded reporting and analytics for their LMS platform. IntelliBoard is the most comprehensive reporting and analytics platform of any LMS on the market today. Feel empowered to deliver better, more effective, more engaging learning informed by what your data is telling you. Our mantra: provide the best instantly available, easy-to-use, point-and-click access to your data.
Crowdmark - Crowdmark is an online collaborative grading & analytics platform that enables educators to evaluate student's work more effectively. Reduce your grading time by half & provide more formative feedback. With an intuitive modern interface and simple workflow, the onboarding of new users is painless. It is a solution built by educators for educators. Crowdmark provides data visualizations of student performance for each question. Gaps in learning achievement can be identified through analysis of this data leading to improved student outcomes.
Assessment Tools:
Bongo Assignments - Video Assignments are video-based activities that enable skill development and personalized feedback from a distance. There are four Video Assignment workflows integrated within Brightspace: Individual Assignment, Question & Answer, Interactive Video, and Group Assignment. Instructors customize these workflows to create opportunities for practice, demonstration, analysis, and collaboration. As individuals complete these Video Assignments, they have access to multiple types of feedback before and after submission. These include self-assessment, expert coaching, peer review, and Auto Analysis, an automated reporting feature that proves data-driven insight into the delivery and content of someone’s recording.
Bongo Virtual Classroom - Virtual Classroom is Brightspace’s integrated web conferencing solution. It provides a seamless way for people to connect face-to-face for instruction, assessment, and feedback. Bongo Classroom is included with your Brightspace instance but there are pro features that can be added to extend functionality.
Chalk & Wire - Full-featured Assessment Platform. All assessment-related tools are included in one solution: ePortfolio, outcomes/competency accreditation management, advanced progress analytics. The means to add all the tools required, to support a robust culture of assessment.
Bluepulse - Bluepulse is a unique social feedback platform designed to help institutions achieve teaching and learning excellence by taking student engagement online and monitoring academic learning outcomes. Bluepulse is built on three pillars: student suggestions, ratings, and initiatives for improvement.
CourseEval - CoursEval is an industry-leading evaluation solution used by higher education institutions and preparatory schools mainly for promotion and tenure, end-of-term evaluations, and improving teaching effectiveness in the classroom.
eLumen - eLumen’s holistic approach to ensuring student success integrates curriculum & catalog management, assessment, planning, & student engagement, with Brightspace integration for a seamless experience.
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