Austen Liaude
The flag feature allows you to flag users in the Classlist in Brightspace so you can keep track of those users. For example, of students who haven’t accessed the module for a while. You can then search for these users in...
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In Microsoft Teams you can customise your notification settings to choose which notifications you wish to receive including email notifications, notifications style and notifications activity. Below is a short video demonstrating how you can customise notification settings in Microsoft...
Ammad Qureshi
If you would like to email your entire Classlist, reminding them of an assignment or sending them a general message, you can easily do it from your Classlist area on Brightspace. The email classlist feature allows you to email every student and tutor, without having...
In Microsoft Teams you can navigate to your recently viewed tabs with one click. This tool can be useful if you work on many tabs and want to access them quickly. Below is a short video demonstrating how to...
In Brightspace’s Discussions, you can set up a forum where students can post anonymously. You may want to allow anonymous posts when talking about sensitive or non-assessed topics to allow students to interact without feeling targeted. The short video below explains...
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...
In Microsoft Teams, you can view students’ engagement via the Insights Tool. This may be useful if you use Microsoft Teams for discussions and want to see how students are engaging. Please note this feature is only available for...
You can change the permissions for a file or folder to restrict access to it in Teams. This would be useful when dealing with group tasks – where allowing a group access to only their own file or folder...
Lucy Thacker
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...