On-Demand Resources for Instructors
On-demand resources are available for students and faculty in downloadable PDF quick reference sheets and in step-by-step videos. Is there a guide you’d like to see, but it isn’t here? Let us know! We are always looking for ways to improve our documentation.
Course Management
- How can I add TAs or other users to my course?
- How can I make my course active, so it is visible to students? – Updated!
- How do I email my entire class, or individual students? – Updated!
- How do I view my course from the student view? – Updated!
- How do I locate my courses?
- How do I build a course on Brightspace from scratch?
- How can I re-order my courses on the dashboard?
- How do I Edit the Navigation Bar (Navbar)? – Updated!
- How do I create a homepage for my course?
- How do I create an image banner for my homepage?
- How do I delete my homepage and make another tool the first page students see?
- How do I turn off course tools I do not need?
- How can I upload a profile photo to my Brightspace account?
- What is the e-Portfolio?
- Accessing Harvested Repository Material in the Learning Object Repository (LOR)
- Placing Harvested Repository Material in Content
Content
Video Introduction to “Lessons View”
- What is the table of contents?
- How do I upload my syllabus?
- How do I move files around in my course?
- How do I insert stuff into my course?
- How do I create modules and add content to them?
- How do I make content unavailable to students? – New!
- How do I import course materials from another course management system?
- How do I copy an entire Brightspace course to another?
- How to move pieces of content from one Brightspace Course to Another?
- How do I set Rules or Release Conditions to restrict content?
Assignments
Video Introduction to the Assignment Tool
- How do I create an assignment with the Assignment Tool?
- Assignment Submission Type Overview
- How can I create an assignment from the content module area?
- How do I add feedback and evaluations to assignment submissions?
- How do I grade and evaluate a student who has not submitted an assignment?
- How do I associate an assignment with a grade item?
- How do I enable TurnitIn on a new assignment?
- How do I enable TurnitIn on an existing assignment?
- An Overview of TurnitIn Feedback Studio
- How to use the similarity report tools in TurnitIn
- How to provide feedback using TurnitIn
- How to manually enter grades using TurnitIn
- How do I use a rubric in the TurnitIn Feedback Studio
- How can I download assignments?
- How can I download assignments by group?
- How can I contact students who have not submitted an assignment?
- Using the Annotation Tool
Tests/Quizzes
Video Introduction for Quizzes
- 9 Step Quiz Overview – Updated!
- How to Quickly Create a Quiz Placeholder? – Updated!
- How do I associate my quiz to a Grade Item in my Gradebook? – Updated!
- How do I Establish Restrictions Such As: Dates, Time limits, Password, and Respondus Lockdown Browser – Updated!
- How do I Provide Special Access for Select Students? – Updated!
- How do I Determine What the Student Sees Upon Completion of the Quiz? – Updated!
- How do I Implement a Lock Down Browser (Respondus) During a Quiz? – Updated!
- How do I create and deploy a test / quiz? – Updated!
- How do I export test / quiz grades to the grade book? – Updated!
- How do I view specific quiz questions after the quiz is submitted? – Updated!
- How do I use the question library? – Updated!
Grades / Rubrics
- Getting Started: How do I set up my gradebook? – Updated!
- How do I create grade categories and items? – Updated!
- Example of a Weighted Grade Book – Updated!
- Where do my students see their grades, and how can I change settings? – New!
- How do I grade work using Brightspace?
- How do I release final grades to students?
- How do I associate an assignment with a grade item?
- How do I exclude a grade category or item from the final grade calculation?
- How do I create a rubric?
- How do I enter all grades for a specific Grade Item?
- How do I import a custom grade scheme that I’ve created? – New!
- How do I Export my Gradebook into Excel?
Groups& Discussions
Video Introduction to Discussions – coming soon!
- Understanding the Discussion tool – Updated!
- How do I create groups in Brightspace? – Updated!
- How do I let students self-enroll into groups?
- How do I create group discussion topics? – Updated!
Media on Brightspace
- How do I Upload Videos to Brightspace? (How to use Kaltura)
- How do I Restrict Access to Videos I’ve Uploaded?– New!
- How do I Put a YouTube Video in a Content Module? – Updated!
- Kaltura User Guide – Instructor
- How do I make edits to my Kaltura video?
- How do I use Capturespace Lite in Kaltura?
- How do I use Kaltura Capture in Kaltura?
- How do I add captions to my Kaltura video?
- How do I edit captions in my Kaltura video?
- Brightspace Video Workshops
- Brightspace Instructor Tutorial Videos
- Virtual Classroom Basics
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