Browse our current listing of Brightspace Learning Center Inspiration and Teaching Tools. Get the full story on each offering by selecting any of the following Resource Links.
Description: Build beautiful, visually consistent content with the course templates. The download file is included in the linked article, and you can see what they really look like, and how they interact in the Learning Center.
- You'll Love: Creating beautiful, consistent learning material without having to learn all kinds of code
- Downloading the resource for free and using it in your own Brightspace (Select the Resource Link to access)
Description: Brightspace offers a New Content Experience, sometimes referred to as Lessons. Learn more about what this Content experience looks like in this short offering in the Brightspace Learning Center.
- You'll Love: Seeing a familiar resource (HTML Template v3) demonstrated in the New Content Experience
- Handy linked resources about enabling this experience
Description: This short inspiration course demonstrates a resource many Brightspace Educators are familiar with, our HTML Templates Version 3 but shown with the New Learner Experience turned on inside of the New Content Experience (Lessons).
- You'll Love: Seeing a familiar resource (HTML Template v3) demonstrated in the New Learner Experience
- Handy linked resources about enabling this experience
Description: Customized by Minnesota State College Southeast, these templates offer a great example of how you can create your own layouts with HTML Templates. Access the free download from the article page, and see each page layout in the Learning Center.
- You'll Love: Downloading the Templates and using them in your own Brightspace (Select the Resource Link to access)
- Seeing how other places of Learning are using Templates, and getting to try them out too!
Description: This resource is part inspiration, part free download resource! HTML Templates V2 are designed and grouped under course types that you may teach. The content pages provide helpful guidance on how you might structure your online learning, as well as which tools you may incorporate in your course design
- You'll Love: Download the entire resource and add it to your Brightspace (Instructions and Download available in Course Welcome Message)
- The directions for how to create courses that focus on different skill sets
- Incorporating more Brightspace Tools, and
- More Instructional Design Best Practices built right into these "HTML Templates+"
Description: This tool can be downloaded from the linked article or used from inside of the Learning Center. The Quiz Question Converter Tool helps you to import lots of questions into your Quiz Question Library in Brightspace, so that your can use a full bank of questions in the Quiz Tool, Survey Tool, and Self-Assessment Tool.
- You'll Love: Saving time by building a bank of questions that can be reused in multiple quizzes, self-assessments, and surveys
- Using the tool directly from the Learning Center, or importing it into your own Brightspace!
Product Idea Exchange Overview
Description: Do you have ideas for the future of Brightspace? Contribute ideas for new products or features, and vote for ideas others have submitted. Every month, ideas from the Product Idea Exchange (PIE) are released into our product and announced in our Release Notes.
- You'll Love: Shaping the future of education through your product suggestions and watching as they improve Brightspace
- Voting on existing ideas and adding your own use cases
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