Lucy Thacker
When writing messages and posts in teams you can add tags, these are simply words or phrases with a # in front. By adding the tag to messages you can easily search for any message relating to that specific...
Year: 2021
Did you know you can create awards to be manually issued e.g. Student of the week / term?
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You can give your students awards manually and give them a written description as to why. This is great if creating awards like student of the week or term as it encourages students to increase their participation. The video...
Within the module overview widget there is a link to the course access data, this will give you a graphical representation of the days in which people access your Brightspace module. You can filtering the data to specific date...
Have you tried using Intelligent Agents for automated emails based on an assignment score?
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Intelligent agents can be used to send automated emails to students with general comments and additional resources based on an assignment score range, for example you could send different resources to students who got 40-49% compared to those that...
All uploaded resources in Brightspace have an ALLY score, this represents how accessible the resource is. You should always aim for green and with ALLY you can learn how to fix inaccessible resources. Below is a short video demonstration...
When sending an announcement from any channel you can also send it to any other channel in any other module team with your Teams environment. This could be great if you have to send the same announcement to all...
Once you have created groups and discussions in Brightspace, you can restrict the discussions by group using a designated tab in discussions area. Now watch the short video demo below on how to set up the restrictions. Now that...
Did you know you can see statistics for all students on how they engage with discussion boards?
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Discussion boards can be used as an assessment tool in Brightspace and being able to view student engagement with the tool is a useful resource. Discussion boards can be used as an assessment tool in Brightspace and being able...
The Microsoft whiteboard is built into all stand alone and channel meetings so can be used in all teaching sessions and well as in breakout rooms. The whiteboard lets students collaborate on a task and add ideas quickly to...
As a tutor on a Brightspace module, you can quickly change the view of your discussion forum to make it easier for you. The video below will provide a quick demo on how to change the view. Watch the...