Covers the basic steps for creating modules, categories, assignments, quizzes, and surveys in Brightspace. Also walks through uploading documents, deleting, moving, hiding, reordering, bookmarking and renaming modules and grade items.
Design Help is offering D2L’s Guided Training Series, including Webinars, Workshops, Feature 360 Webinars, and Advanced Instructor Tool Workshops.
Upon successfully completing trainings, Instructors will earn a certificate of completion for professional development hours for every three 60 minute session you complete, earning up to three Professional Development hours per certificate. *Session completion is tracked for certificate status. **Sign up for each session individually.
Time: 60 minutes to 120 minuets
Descriptions:
10/14/224 10 am - 11 am Classroom Support Training Webinar
Classroom Faculty Support Learn about a variety of course activities and assessments. We will also explore scenarios from support questions frequently asked by instructors. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/14/24 1 pm - 3 pm Communicating and Engaging Webinar
Communicating & Engaging Learn how to leverage some of the most frequently-used communication tools in Brightspace to keep your learners engaged and informed. 120 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/16/24 9 am - 10 am Collaboration Among Students Webinar
Collaboration Among Students Discover how to use Brightspace to facilitate collaboration among learners by exploring group tools and their functionality through group discussions, lockers, assignments, and the activity feed. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/16/24 11 am - 12 pm Feature 360: Assignment Webinar
Feature 360: Assignments Need a place for learners to submit papers and projects? In this session, we will share effective practices for creating and evaluating assignments. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/18/24 9 am - 10 am Feature 360 Content Webinar
Feature 360: Content (Lessons) Wondering how to add content to your course? Join us as we explore how to copy existing content into courses and learn to create new materials within your course using the HTML Editor. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/18/24 11 am - 12 pm Feature 360 Rubrics Webinar
Feature 360: Rubrics Learn how to create and use rubrics in Brightspace. Create a new rubric using our analytic or holistic template, whether points, percentages, or text response. Use the rubric to grade users’ submissions. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/21/21 10 am - 12 pm Evaluating and Giving Feedback Webinar
Evaluating and Giving Feedback Stay on top of assessment by learning the tools and tricks that allow you evaluate and provide feedback for Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes from several places both in your course and out. In addition, see how to release final grades to Learners. 120 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/22/24 9 am -10 am Feature 360 Quizzes Webinar
Feature 360: Quizzes See what it's like to take a quiz from the learner's perspective, then how to manually grade it as an instructor. Practice building a quiz and explore how different configurations impact how the quiz behaves with learners. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/22/24 11 am - 12 pm Feature 360: Grades Webinar
Feature 360: Grades Curious how to set up a new gradebook in Brightspace? In this session, we will explore setting up your gradebook with creating an item and category to support evaluation. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/23/24 10 am - 11 am Feature 360: Discussions Webinar
Feature 360: Discussions Whether peer-to-peer or learner-to-instructor, discussions are a great way for learners to share what they are discovering. In this session, we will create discussion forums and topics and explore how to evaluate discussions. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
10/24/24 1 pm - 3 pm Introduction to Grades Workshop
Introduction to Grades This training is designed for individuals who will be developing courses, teaching using Brightspace, or supporting those who are using the learning platform. In this session, we will explore the grades tool and learn how to start building out this area in a course. Prerequisite: Instructor Essentials. 120 mins. Limited to first 10 Participants.
10/23/24 2 pm - 4 pm Advanced Discussions for Assessments Workshop
Advanced: Discussions for Assessment Purposes Explore how to use discussions for assessing learner engagement and comprehension. Learn how to set up discussions, leverage existing groups and rubrics in your course, and view statistics. 120 mins. Limited to first 10 Participants.
10/24/24 10 am - 12 pm Creating Learning Activities Workshop
Creating Learning Activities Take a longer look at the workflows for building learning activities in your course. This includes reviewing the major options associated with Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes. Suggested prerequisite: Instructor Essentials. 120 mins. Limited to first 10 Participants.
10/30/24 10 am - 12 pm Advanced Standards/Outcomes Workshop
Advanced: Standards/Learning Outcomes Discover how to use Program level outcomes and copy outcomes in your course, how to leverage achievement scales, how to associate outcomes with Rubrics and Quizzes, and how to view the Learner results for your course outcomes, with a focus on the Mastery View of grades. 120 mins. Limited to first 10 Participants.
10/30/24 1 pm - 2pm Feature 360 Grades
Feature 360: Grades Curious how to set up a new gradebook in Brightspace? In this session, we will explore setting up your gradebook with creating an item and category to support evaluation. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
11/1/24 10 am 12 pm Introduction to Grades Workshop
Introduction to Grades This training is designed for individuals who will be developing courses, teaching using Brightspace, or supporting those who are using the learning platform. In this session, we will explore the grades tool and learn how to start building out this area in a course. Prerequisite: Instructor Essentials. 120 mins. Limited to first 10 Participants.
11/1/24 2 pm - 3 pm Feature 360 Quizzes Webinar
Feature 360: Quizzes See what it's like to take a quiz from the learner's perspective, then how to manually grade it as an instructor. Practice building a quiz and explore how different configurations impact how the quiz behaves with learners. 60 mins. Unlimited Participants.
Walk-in hours with an instructional designer.
11:00 am to 1:00 pm every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
No appointment necessary!
You can "drop-in" anytime during the scheduled Open Lab times.
If these times do not match your schedule please contact your instructional designer:
School of Professional Studies: Design Help
School of Education: Kristina Maricle
School of Arts & Sciences: Jill Nobles
Or email Design Help
Review tools in the Brightspace Grade Book, starting with the Grades Setup Wizard. A grade book is as individual as a course so this will be a basic overview of the grade book. One on one meetings will be encouraged to fully set-up a grade book.
This workshop will provide a basic overview of:
- Choose a Grading System
- Establish Final Grade Type and Release
- Grade Calculations
- Choose Default Grade Scheme
- Managing View Display Options
- Student View Display Options
- Grades Setup Summary
Register for Gradebook in Brightspace
In this workshop, you learn to facilitate collaboration among students by setting up groups. We will identify the components and walk through the steps needed to create groups in Brightspace. Group members can exchange documents, submit group assignments, send email to other group members, and distribute tasks to keep the group on track.