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Welcome to the Higher Education Knowledge Base
Welcome to the Brightspace Help Documentation Knowledge Base for Higher Education Instructors. 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 New to Brightspace? Start here. Otherwise, use the navigation pane on the…
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Grade with Quick Eval
Brightspace supports grading in multiple ways, but for the most streamlined and efficient grading experience for faculty, we recommend Quick Eval. Quick Eval offers evaluators a single location to view all learner submissions, including assignments, quizzes, and discussions, and offers robust filtering and sorting…
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Access Brightspace
Find your Brightspace usernameYour organization sends you an email containing your username for accessing Brightspace. The subject line of the email varies by organization, for example, <school name>: Enrollment Confirmation. If you did not receive an email with this information, contact your organization. In addition to…
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Create a rubric using the Rubrics tool
Rubrics allow you to provide efficient, timely, and meaningful grades and feedback to students/learners. They can be tied to assignments, quizzes, and discussions, and give you the opportunity to provide a framework to students/learners on activity expectations. About Rubric status optionsDraft: The initial status of a…
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Create and configure a quiz
Build quizzes using varying question types. Create quizzes that randomly select questions from a question pool or that shuffle the order of questions. The Create a quiz page has a fully immersive page layout. This layout is consistent with other areas of Brightspace including Quizzes, Content, and Lessons, where you can…
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Set up self-enrollment in groups
To set up self-enrollment in groups Self-enrollment allows users to enroll in groups on their own. Use this option when you want users to choose their own group members or to be a part of a group on a topic that interests them. Important: Groups have a maximum enrollment of 200 users. If there are more than 200 users in a…
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Announcements overview
Help boost engagement by scheduling announcements for frequent and regular communication to all learners enrolled in a course. Learnerscan set notification preferences to be made aware of important updates. Visual tour of the Announcements tool Figure: Overview of the Announcements tool. When instructors land on the…
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Define settings in the Grades tool
Grades tool settings enable faculty to set up how Grade book appears in their instructor view (not visible to learners) and to learners when viewing the grade book. Configure Personal Display OptionsThe Personal Display Options allow faculty to set up their personal grade book view. These settings do not affect how…
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Create and manage discussions
Encourage your learners to share thoughts on course material with peers by setting up forums and topics for learners to ask questions, discuss course content and assignments, and work together in assigned groups and sections. You must create a discussion forum first, which will contain associated discussion topics.…
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Assignments overview
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…