Workshop Description:
This workshop is designed for instructors new to Brightspace. Brightspace offers a number of effective and easy-to-use communication tools for creating opportunities for interaction between instructors and students, and between students and other students. This workshop is suitable for instructors teaching in any modality: face-to-face, hybrid, or online.
This is the second workshop in the fundamental series: Navigation & Interface; Authoring/Publishing Content; Gradable Activities: Quizzes, Assignments and Discussions; and Gradebook
Prerequisite: Brightspace Navigation & Interface, equivalent training from SUNY or experience using the Brightspace LMS.
Please be sure you are able to login to your Brightspace account before attending this workshop. You can login using the Network Login option with your Buffalo State username and password. If you are experiencing login issues, please submit a ticket via the IT Portal.
Learning Objectives:
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Identify how to create a course announcement and how date restrictions can be used to control availability
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Identify how to create and use the Calendar and Events
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Identify how to create Video Notes and where to use them
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Identify how the email tool can be used to communicate privately with students
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Find resources on the Brightspace Community and within the SUNY DLE Brightspace Fundamentals Asynchronous Modules
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Earning SUNY DLE Brightspace Fundamentals Certificate
Workshop Resources:
If you would like to request a Development Shell – please complete this form.
If you would like to request SUNY ITEC migration your course from Blackboard to Brightspace – please complete this form.
If you would like to migrate your course, you can follow the directions on how to export your Blackboard course and import into a Brightspace course or development shell.
If you need to make an appointment with our team, please use this bookings site.
If you have further questions about the Brightspace project, please submit a ticket to the Buffalo State IT Portal and if you have questions about the functionality of Brightspace, please contact SUNY Online.