Austen Liaude
You can set up discussion forums or threads where a moderator must approve individual posts before they are displayed in a discussion. This feature can be used for example, in the discussion forums where students discuss their placements, and you don’t want students to reveal any personal information...
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Ammad Qureshi
The chat tool allows you to create public and private chats to interact and communicate with either your entire module classlist or specific students or staff members in real-time. The chat feature can be used to discuss topics and...
The bookmarking feature allows you to bookmark content in Brightspace. Bookmarked content is saved in Bookmarks section in contents area and is only visible to you. This short video below demonstrates how you can bookmark your content in Brightspace....
Lucy Thacker
In the module overview widget the last link is Tool Access, this will bring up a pie chart representing the interaction per tool on your Brightspace module. Below is a short video demonstration on the tool access chart. Now...
Class engagement tool in Brightspace lets you know how your students are engaging with your module including when they last visited, discussion interaction. It also gives statistics such as how many students haven’t visited the course in the past...
In Brightspace you can create groups where students can enrol themselves this a great for student project groups as students can decide which group they want to join. You can also limit the number of groups and the number...
Have you tried customising your class progress tool, to include indicators you frequently use?
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The class progress tool displays four progress indicators for all the students on your Brightspace module, however the default indicators may not present the mot useful information. If this is the case you can customise the indicators that are...
Without adding end dates to your module announcements, your module homepage can become cluttered with out of date announcements. This can be stopped if end dates meaning announcements will be removed automatically but not deleted. Below is a short...
If your students always ask the same questions based on deadlines, course practices or other important dates try adding the questions and answers to the FAQ section within your Brightspace module so you can sign post students there. Below...
The manage dates tool in Brightspace allows you to view and edit all your modules due dates as well as start and end dates. The short video below explains how you can access the tool. Now that you know...