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Welcome to the K-12 Teacher Knowledge Base
Welcome to the Brightspace Help Documentation Knowledge Base for K-12 Teachers. In this Knowledge Base, you’ll find information about how to use the many tools Brightspace has to offer. If you are a new user of Brightspace, refer to the headings below to get started. Otherwise, use the navigation pane on the left of this…
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Log In to Brightspace
Your login experience depends on how your organization has set up access: * Single Sign-On (SSO): Uses your organization's SSO portal to access Brightspace and other systems. * Local Login: Uses the Brightspace login page with a username and password provided by your administrator. * Two-factor authentication: Adds an…
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About Lumi Chat
Lumi Chat is an AI-based help tool that is integrated directly into Brightspace as a pop-up window from the speech bubble button in the bottom right corner of the screen. After typing in a question, Lumi Chat uses generative AI responses to provide answers. Generated answers take the user query, identify the user's intent,…
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Reorder, edit, and delete assignments and categories
If you delete a category that contains assignments, the assignments will appear in the No Category section of the Assignment list. Reorder assignments and categories Navigate to Assignments. On the Assignments page, click More Actions > Reorder. Figure: The More Actions menu showing the Reorder option. In the Sort Order…
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Create accessible content in Brightspace
Create and insert a Video Note in Brightspace Editor You can use Video Note in a number of places throughout Brightspace, including: Content, Discussions, Activity Feed, and even when grading and providing feedback to students . Note: The ability to add video notes is controlled by a permission set by your administrator.…
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About Assignments
You can use the Assignments tool to create and edit assignments, see users’ submission times, view submissions on the Evaluate Submission page, associate assignments to rubrics and competencies, and return submissions with grades and feedback. For assignments that included file submissions, you can download the submissions…
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Hide draft assignments and content
You can set the visibility state for draft content within assignments in Content and Assignments. When content is in a draft state, it is not visible to students in Brightspace. When teachers have set the visibility to draft, the hidden icon appears in the teacher view for the content. In Content, when teachers add…
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About Announcements
Help boost engagement by scheduling announcements for frequent and regular communication to all students enrolled in a course. Students can set notification preferences to be informed of important updates. Requirements The following are required to use the Announcements tool: * To see and use the Announcements tool, you…
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Create a welcome message using the Announcements widget
The Announcements widget can help you to boost engagement by scheduling announcements for frequent and regular communication to all students enrolled in a course. Students can alsoset notification preferences to be made aware of important updates. Note: For more information about the Announcements tool refer to About…
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Create an assignment
Provide more efficient, timely, and meaningful grading and feedback. Create and edit assignments, see submission details, view submissions, associate assignments to rubrics and competencies, and return submissions with grades and feedback. On paper and observed in person assignment formats are also available. The Create…