Paul Fulton
Making digital content accessible for everyone is very important. It allows all users equal access to information, regardless of any specific needs they may have. The text used for hyperlinks should also be created in a way that makes...
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Mohamad Miari
Creator+ is an add on package for Brightspace which provides additional features to help assist you in your teaching. Creator + contains many features like layouts, elements, practices, and web capture. Creator+ practices have two types of fill in...
Live captions are a feature that allows you to read the words that are spoken during calls and meetings in Microsoft Teams. Here are some steps on how to use Live Captions in a Teams Meeting: By following these...
Talhah Diwan
Do you use the Manage Special Access feature in Brightspace when creating quizzes to provide extra time to certain students in order to facilitate barriers that students may have?This can become a quite a tedious task to do for...
Launching polls is an easy process. Once set-up, it’s as simple as pressing the Launch button. Polls usually only launch one at a time but if set-up in a specific way can also launch multiple questions at a time. This...
The Creator+ practice elements are the question-type element that can be put directly within content to support the learning process. However, results for practice elements are not recorded and therefore can’t be viewed by tutors making it purely a...
Did you know limiting quiz attempts could prove to be more beneficial than unlimited attempts?
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Quizzes are very commonly used throughout various modules as a form of testing students’ learning. You may already know that you can set the quiz to have a specific number of or unlimited attempts. However, limiting the number of...
Javeria Imran
You can 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 or...
The Fill in the Blank practice is a question element that can be put directly within content to present a paragraph of text with missing sections that students fill in. There are two types of Fill in the Blanks...
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...