Brightspace Blog
Asynchronous Teaching Tools on Brightspace
Mar. 13, 2020—by CFT assistant director, Stacey M. Johnson With both Zoom and Virtual Classroom available in Brightspace for live video conferencing, many faculty will be moving their face-to-face classes online in a very literal sense, doing similar activities as usual that happen to be conducted video conferencing. However, for some faculty, moving their courses online means...
Accessibility and Remote Teaching
Mar. 12, 2020—by CFT assistant director, Stacey M. Johnson Accessibility in an online environment is essential. All students should be included and valued as our campus transitions to remote teaching through the end of the semester. Some Brightspace tools that will help are: If you will be creating recorded lectures or other video with Kaltura Capture this...
Putting Your Course Online in a Hurry
Mar. 6, 2020—by CFT assistant director, Stacey M. Johnson Faculty, are you thinking about how to put some of your course content online in a hurry? Perhaps to deal with unexpected events? At Vanderbilt most of our courses meet face-to-face, however, if you find that you need to make adjustments in a hurry to best serve students...
Teaching with Blogs on Brightspace – Trending Topic (February 2020)
Feb. 18, 2020—The Vanderbilt Center for Teaching released a comprehensive guide to Teaching with Blogs. Brightspace users on campus will be interested to know that a blog tool is included in every Brightspace course, and can be used to support student learning inside of the secure course management environment. How can Students Blog on Brightspace? A Blog is...
What’s New on Brightspace (February 2020)
Feb. 10, 2020—Every month, Brightspace will release new features and updates. You can get a comprehensive view of the updates here, but this blog post will give you a quick overview of what’s new on Brightspace! Assignments – Streamlined access to inline feedback To streamline access to assignment feedback, learners can now immediately access inline feedback from User...
Brightspace Support for Students – Trending Topic (January 2020)
Jan. 26, 2020—Do your students need extra help with Brightspace? The CFT has resources available for students as well as instructors! New guides for students are released regularly and can be found here, including our brand new guide on submitting large video files in Brightspace. Students are also welcome to contact us at 615-322-0200 or brightspace@vanderbilt.edu,...
What’s New on Brightspace (January 2020)
Jan. 16, 2020—Every month, Brightspace will release new features and updates. You can get a comprehensive view of the updates here, but this blog post will give you a quick overview of what’s new on Brightspace! Assignments – “New” Assignment Submissions Column and Page On the Assignments page, instructors now have a “New” column to indicate newly submitted...
Is Your Gradebook Ready for the End of the Semester? – Trending Topic (December 2019)
Dec. 1, 2019—The end of the semester is coming up quickly! Is your Brightspace gradebook set up correctly? While you are certainly not required to use the Brightspace Grades tool to track your students’ grades, it can be a big help. Especially if you are using Brightspace to collect assignments or giving quizzes and exams. Tips for...
Having Trouble Uploading Files or Accessing Content on Brightspace? – Trending Topic (November 2019)
Nov. 21, 2019—There are times when Brightspace may give you an error message when attempting to upload a file or accessing content. Here are some general troubleshooting steps that have proven to correct most of these issues: 1) Use Google Chrome as your browser – it has proven to be most compatible with Brightspace. >> Download Here...
What’s New on Brightspace (November 2019)
Nov. 21, 2019—Every month, Brightspace will release new features and updates. You can get a comprehensive view of the updates here, but this blog post will give you a quick overview of what’s new on Brightspace! Assignments – Letter grading available Grade Schemes can now be used by instructors to evaluate assignments by associating Selectbox Grade Items to...
How can I make my Brightspace course more accessible?
Oct. 28, 2019—by Stacey M. Johnson, Assistant Director If you are interested in making your Brightspace course more accessible to your students with disabilities, we have a few resources that you might find useful. First, read through the CFT Teaching Guide on Creating Accessible Learning Environments. This will provide great background to the issue of accessibility and...
What’s New on Brightspace? (October 2019)
Oct. 1, 2019—Every month, Brightspace will release new features and updates. You can get a comprehensive view of the updates here, but this blog post will give you a quick overview of what’s new on Brightspace! Assignments – Grades entered in Assignments and Grade Book are synchronized When an instructor enters a grade for an assignment submission in...
Introducing the Annotation Tool
Jun. 18, 2019—Up until now, documents in Brightspace could only be annotated by utilizing the GradeMark function of the TurnItIn tool. Brightspace has now rolled out a new optional annotation tool that is built directly into the Assignment tool. For an overview of the tool and how it can be utilized, refer to our new Annotation tool...
Introducing Harvested Repositories in the Learning Object Repository (LOR)
Jun. 14, 2019—Harvested Repositories in the Learning Object Repository (LOR) are now available and a corresponding link has now been added to the Brightspace dashboard Navbar. The LOR contains a number of repositories that can access harvested data from external databases. For information on accessing, searching for, and using material from these repositories, take a look at...
June 11-14 Brightspace Support
Jun. 10, 2019—From June 11th through 14th, Brightspace Support will only be offered at the following times: 6/11 – 7 am to 3 pm 6/12 – 7 am to 3 pm 6/13 – 7 am to 4 pm 6/14 – 7 am to 2 pm If you have any questions, please contact Brightspace Support at brightspace@vanderbilt.edu.