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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 experience trying to log in to Brightspace for the first time may differ depending on how your organization has set up and is managing log in credentials. Your organization may have a Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication method implemented, where you can access all the sites in your organization using a single SSO…
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Copy an existing assignment
You can quickly create new assignments from existing assignments using the Copy Assignment option. This feature copies all settings of an existing assignment except the associated grade item and Turnitin settings. To copy an existing assignment Navigate to Assignments. Click the check box to select an assignment, and then…
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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…
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Set release conditions for an assignment
Release conditions allow you to associate an assignment with other items in Brightspace. For example, you can require that users meet some criteria, such as reading a set of lecture notes in Content, before they can submit their work to an assignment. You can also make submission to the assignment a criterion for accessing…
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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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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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Copy assignments to other courses
Instructors who teach multiple courses can now copy assignments to other courses. To copy assignments, you must be enrolled in both the source and destination course with a role having the permission Assignments > Copy to Other Courses in order to copy from source to destination. Note: The permission is turned Off for all…
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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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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 made aware of important updates. Requirements The following are required to use the Announcements tool: * To see and use the Announcements tool, you…