Service Description
Buffalo State faculty and staff may request a Brightspace Community Organization for campus-related activities. Organizations are an ideal place to connect users that share common interests or extra-curricular activities. They are available upon request for campus-related purposes, such as hosting discussions or content for committees, research teams, or departmental training, to communicate with department majors, minors, and concentrations. While organizations can support instruction and academic courses, student assignments, feedback and grades should not be included in these organizations but should be retained within the official course site that correlates with the official course the student is registered for in Banner. An organization is created only once for a particular leader and purpose.
Standard Features
Standard Service Features include:
- Creation of Brightspace organization
- Collaboration with SUNY Online for Support
Optional Features
- Automatic account creation for faculty, staff and students listed in Banner and the Human Resources database.
Brightspace organizations can be used to communicate with department majors, minors, and concentrations. If you intend to use this organization for this purpose, please use the Active Major chart the Registrar - Resource website when completing the Request Service form to include the Major/Minor or Concentration Codes.
Please Note Banner cannot automatically update organization sites on Brightspace and so rosters will need to be monitored by the owner.
Roles and Responsibilities
Requester (provide the following information):
- Organization Leader (who will manage and maintain this group? Must be BSC faculty or staff)
- Organization Owner Email (must be a Buffalo State email address in the form of bscusername@buffalostate.edu)
- Organization Name
- Organization Description (briefly describe the purpose of the organization, its mission, and the membership)
- Organization Type/Category (select the one category that best describes your group)
Automatic Roster Population by Banner (Requestor is responsible for manually removing users): If you intend to use this organization to communicate with department majors, minors, and concentrations, please use the codes found on the Registrar - Resource website.
Instructional Design & Distance Learning
- Create an organization in Brightspace LMS
- Request roster population of Brightspace organizations (Enterprise Data & Analytics team), if needed
- Collaborate with SUNY Online for support and maintenance
SUNY Online/Brightspace:
- Provide Application Support & Hosting
- Notify Service Owner/Team of maintenance and feature enhancements
- Provide support for troubleshooting
Please Note Once created, the organization becomes the responsibility of the organization owner. This means that the owner will add and/or delete members to/from the organization roster.
Request Service or Support
Click the Open a Ticket button and complete the request form.
SUNY Online Support Services:
Instructional Design & Distance Learning
Service Audience
Faculty and Staff.
Service Level Agreement
Response and resolution times are based on operational hours (Monday through Friday from 8:00AM to 5:00PM).
| Service Level 2 - Normal |
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| Response Time |
1 business day |
| Resolution Time |
5-10 business days |
Please Note: Response Time is measured from ticket submission date/time until the ticket is moved to an 'In Process' status. Resolution Time is measured from ticket submission date/time until the ticket is completed/resolved.
Institutional Policies
Policy on the Use of Electronic Resources