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Marist Faculty: Getting Started with Brightspace
Brightspace is Marist's new learning management system. Below are resources to help Marist Faculty become comfortable with this new digital learning environment. For an overview of navigating within the system, check out the Navigate Brightspace Environment video:
This video is part of the Brightspace Instructor Tutorial YouTube Playlist.
Tips for Success
Get Notification Nudges
Marist Brightspace allows you to customize the notifications that the system sends you related to your courses and other activities. Consider opting in to email and/or SMS (text) notifications for specific items that might slip your mind, such as responding to discussions and submitting assignments.
Download "Pulse" Mobile App
Brightspace Pulse is available for download from any global Google Play™ store or Apple App Store®. The app is generally released at the beginning of the month, and then sometimes mid-month, if issues are found. Depending on how your device is configured, the app may update automatically or you may have to manually check for new versions. More information is available here.
Brightspace Training
Digital Education offers a variety of training resources that include drop-in sessions (in-person), workshops (hybrid), one-on-one tutorials (remote or in-person) and asynchronous trainings. See the Calendars below to register for a training session. If you are interested in an evening session, a one-on-one session, or a one-on-one video conferencing session, please give Digital Education a call at (845)-575-3572 to schedule the training session.
External Tools for Brightspace
Marist offers even more tools to add to your Brightspace course offering sites:
Brightspace Resources:
The following links will help you familiarize yourself with Brightspace Guides, Community Resources, and Instructional Videos:
BRIGHTSPACE INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES
BRIGHTSPACE INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES
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| Brightspace Tool | Brightspace Course Admin Category | Definition | Help Guides | Tutorial Videos |
| Announcements | Communication | Use the Announcements tool to read instructor messages, course information, and other Announcements updates. | Video: Anouncements Overview | |
| Assignments | Assessment | The Assignments tool enables you to upload and submit assignments directly into Brightspace. Simply upload your submission to the appropriate assignment and submit. |
Add or Edit Categories to Manage Assignments Copy Assignment to Other Course Hide Draft Assignment and Content Select Release Conditions and Special Access Reorder, Edit, or Delete Assignments |
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| Attendance | Learner Management | The Attendance tool enables you to create registers that track attendance for activities within your organization or course. | Video: Attendance Overview | |
| Calendar | Site Resources | View all your upcoming events in one spot. Add events such as project due dates, office hours, in-class events, and more to your calendar. | Overview: Calendar | Video: Calendar Overview |
| Chat | Communication | The Chat tool is a real-time, text-based collaboration tool. | Overview: Chat | Video: Chat Overview |
| Checklists | Assessment | The Checklists tool allows you to separate tasks into various categories and track your progress. | Overview: Checklists | Video: Checklists Overview |
| Classlist | Learner Management | Use the Classlist tool to view who is enrolled in your course, send email messages or instant messages, view shared locker files, and read classmates' blogs if they have one. | Video: Classlist Overview | |
| Class Progress | Learner Management | The Class Progress tool tracks your learners' overall progress as a course and individually. | Overview: Class Progress | Video: Class Progress Overview |
| Competencies | Assessment | Competencies help track information about the knowledge, skills and abilities learners acquire as they participate in courses or other learning experiences. Competencies are an inventory of skills and knowledge, rather than measures of how good learners are at something. |
Parent-child Relationships Between Competency Structure Elements Setting Visibility for Competency Structures Allow Users to add Competencies to their Brightspace ePortfolio |
Video: Competencies Overview |
| Completion Tracking | Completion tracking enables instructors to set the method of completion for an activity and provides progress indicators for learners as they complete course activities. | Video: Completion Tracking Overview | ||
| Content | Site Resources | Content is a way for instructors and learners to experience the course materials in Brightspace. | Overview: Content | Video: Content Overview |
| Course Builder | Site Resources | The Course Builder user interface consists of three sections: Toolbox, Course Tree, and Selected Node Panel. The Toolbox allows you to build Outline, Add Content, and Browse Tools. The course tree is a visual representation of your course structure. It displays the hierarchy of your course content as a series of nested nodes. When you select a node in the course tree, the selected node panel displays its details and enables you to perform actions on that node. | Overview: Course Builder | Video: Set Up a Course |
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| Brightspace Tool | Brightspace Course Admin Category | Definition | Help Guides | Tutorial Videos |
| Discussions | Communication | Use the Discussions tool to view and subscribe to discussion topics, as well as start new threads. | Overview: Discussions | Video: Discussions Overview |
| ePortfolios | The ePortfolio tool is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organizing, reflecting on, and sharing items that represent your learning. | |||
| Grades | Assessment | The Grades tool provides a series of features to create and manage your gradebook. | ||
| Groups | Learner Management | Create group work areas for users with the Groups tool. You can use groups to organize users’ work on projects and assignments, or you can create special work areas for users with different learning needs. | ||
| Homepages | Site Setup | Become familiar with your course through the homepage elements that are available to you. | Customize Your Course Navbar | |
| HTML Editor | Site Resources | Use HTML templates in your course to improve the visual quality of your content and encourage engagement. |
HTML Document/ Select Template
Compliance to accessibility standards in HTML-authored content |
Video: Making Use of The HTML Editor |
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Import/Export/ Copy Components |
Site Resources | Ways to move content packages to and from a site. | Overview: Import/Export/Copy Components | |
| Insert Elements (Creator+) | Insert Element tool allows content creators to add dynamic components with a user-friendly authoring experience that does not require HTML coding knowledge or experience. Available elements to select: Accordion, Tabs, Click & Reveal, Callout, Timeline, Stylized Quote, and Flip Cards. | Overview: Insert Elements | ||
| Insert Practices (Creator+) | Insert Practices empowers you to create formative and interactive learning activities to let learners test their comprehension and get immediate feedback on their understanding of a topic outside of a formal assessment. Note: Practice scores are not saved or tracked; they are only intended to provide the learner with immediate feedback. Available practices to select: Fill in the blanks (Drop-down selections or typed response), Multi-Select, Multiple Choice, Sequencing, Sorting, and True or False. | Overview: Insert Practices | ||
| Insights Portal | Administration | Allows you to to track, measure, and monitor learner progress and help improve adoption and engagement during the learning journey. | Overview: Insights Portal | Video: Insights Portal Overview |
| Intelligent Agents | Communication | The Intelligent Agents tool monitors an org unit to find activity that matches criteria that you set. | Video: Intelligent Agents Overview |
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| Brightspace Tool | Brightspace Course Admin Category | Definition | Help Guides | Tutorial Videos |
| Learning Outcomes | Assessment | Learning outcomes are pre-defined skills or areas of knowledge that a learner should be able to demonstrate when they finish the activities associated with the outcomes. | Video: Learning Outcomes Overview | |
| Links | Site Resources | Create and manage links to share all or parts of a site. | Video: Create A Link | |
| Manage Files | Site Resources | The Manage Files tool is a file management system for your course. You can use this tool to organize and upload files associated with your course offering. | Overview: Manage Files | Overview: Manage Files |
| Navigation and Themes | Site Setup | Customize the look and feel of the navigation of your webpage. | Overview: Navigation and Themes | Video: Navigation and Themes Overview |
| Publish | Learning Repository | The Course Publisher tool enables course providers to easily distribute courses from their Brightspace instance (the host LMS) to a partner's external LMS. |
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| Brightspace Tool | Brightspace Course Admin Category | Definition | Help Guides | Tutorial Videos |
| Question Library | The Question Library is a central repository that stores and archives questions which you can reuse within a course. | Overview: Question Library | Video: Question Library Overview | |
| Quick Eval | Assessment | Quick Eval offers evaluators a single location to view all learner submissions that are awaiting evaluation. | Video: Quick Eval Overview | |
| Quizzes | Assessment | The Quiz tool allows you to build quizzes using varying question types. | Overview: Quizzes | Video: Quizzes Overview |
| Rubrics | Assessment | Use the Rubrics tool to create rubrics easily and efficiently within a course. | Overview: Rubrics | Video: Rubrics Overview |
| Self Assessments | Assessment | Self Assessments is a formative assessment tool that enables you to provide students with a series of questions and immediate feedback for responses. Question types are similar to quizzes, however, student responses are not graded and questions do not have a points value or difficulty level indication. | Overview: Self Assessment | |
| Surveys | Assessment | Use the Survey tool to gather your feedback and insights on things like your course materials or your instructor's teaching methods. | Overview: Surveys | Video: Surveys Overview |
For More Information about the LMS Transition:
Digital Education Email: digital.education@marist.edu Phone: 845-575-3572 Location: Library 305