Workshop Description:
This workshop is designed for instructors new to Brightspace. The Brightspace environment is designed to handle a variety of instructor needs and assessment formats. Understanding the various formats and how they work will help your course run more smoothly for both yourself and your students. This workshop is suitable for instructors teaching in any modality: face-to-face, hybrid, or online.
This is the fourth workshop in the fundamental series: Navigation & Interface; Communication Tools; Authoring/Publishing Content; and Gradebook.
Prerequisite: Brightspace Navigation & Interface, equivalent training from SUNY or experience using the Brightspace LMS.
Please have some course quiz content ready for this hands-on session: directions (.doc or .pdf), questions (.doc or .pdf), or images (.png, .jpeg).
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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Recognize the importance of using the Question Library for questions that may be reused in multiple assessments/ courses
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Name methods of assessing students using the Quizzes tool in Brightspace
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Identify the options to control the display of a quiz to students including due date, number of attempts, time limits, and feedback
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List the types of assessment question types available
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Arrange the ordered steps necessary to create assessment questions
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List the steps necessary to create an assessment that pulls questions from the Question Library
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Identify the steps for how to provide accommodations to students on assessments
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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.