Lucy Thacker
Over the course of my placement working with learning technologies, specifically Brightspace, I have discovered some underused features that I think would be useful in your Brightspace modules. I have three of these features below… Activity Feed You can...
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Have you ever been in a Teams meeting and you can’t quite read the information being shared? Now you can zoom into that screen with interrupting the person sharing or anyone else in the meeting! Watch the video below...
Manage files in Brightspace allows you to create folders for your documents including html files created in Brightspace. You can also delete older and duplicated files quickly as well as create new content area. Overall it helps keeps your...
You can now set a timer for your breakout rooms so participants return to the main room after a set period of time automatically, meaning you don’t have to time activities your self. The timer can be in minutes...
Swapping participants Breakout Rooms while they are open. This now means that while your Breakout Rooms are open in Microsoft Teams you will be able to move them around instead of closing the rooms and starting again. Ensure you...
Within a Microsoft Teams session, as an organiser you can disable the use of microphones and cameras to ensure your presentation goes uninterrupted. In order to do this the participants of the session must have attendee status. For a...
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...
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...