Talhah Diwan
Have you been in meetings where you need to take notes for everyone in the meeting?The Meeting Notes feature can make this easier. Meeting Notes allows meeting participants to access a collaborative file before, during and after a meeting....
Year: 2023
Our previous advice was to not upload videos directly to Brightspace but instead to use a streaming services such as Panopto or UniTube. This advice has now changed. The reason why this advice was given was because Brightspace didn’t...
There is a useful feature in Brightspace that allows you to see a report of engagement across the content in your module. This report can be seen per content item as well as per user.This blog post will be...
There are times in a Teams meeting with multiple people using their cameras when it becomes hard to tell when people are speaking. Sometimes, participants’ cameras will spread the view over separate pages which requires manually scrolling through or...
Private channels are areas within your module team which can only be accessed by the participants of the private channel. This allows Microsoft Teams to be used for specific group activity within the team, without having to create a...
Javeria Imran
Be cautious with your categories: Sorting can support many different categories, and the number of categories and associated items will vary for each use case. It can be used for everything from simple two-category tasks to complex activities with...
Have you tried setting end dates and dismissing announcements from the announcement widget?
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Announcements are a way of providing information which alerts students via email (provided students have not switched their email notifications off).If you use announcements frequently, you will know that announcements within the announcement widget can start taking a lot...
Announcements are a key feature of Brightspace modules. They are a way of providing information which alerts students via email (assuming students have not turned email notifications off) but is also displayed on the module homepage. The announcement widget...
The Stylized Quote element formats a plain segment of text into an elegant blockquote that is sure to catch your learner’s attention. You also have the option of including an attribution beneath the stylized quote. There are two format options...
Most of you will already know about the PowerPoint Live feature which allows meeting participants in Teams to navigate through slides, interact with links and other interactive features on slides on an individual basis. Now there is a similar...