Center for Teaching & Learning

This workshop covers the details about how to check Discussions in your courses that were migrated from Blackboard. We will demonstrate where all your Discussions are found (group and whole class), how Forums function in Brightspace, and how Blackboard threads translate to Brightspace Topics. Enrollment is limited so we can better address your specific questions.
You will receive a Microsoft Teams calendar invitation the afternoon prior to your event explaining how to join and participate in the meeting. If you click “accept,” it will populate on your Teams calendar for easy access!

Brightspace doesn’t have a journal or blog tool, so if you’re used to creating Blackboard assignments in those formats you’ll need to learn alternative ways to meet your instructional goals.  This workshop focuses on alternative methods in Brightspace for students create journals or one-on-one communication, as well as having students create content that can be seen by some or all of their classmates.  Enrollment is limited so we can better your address specific questions.

Your fall Blackboard course has been migrated (copied) to Brightspace. So now what do you do? Join us for a 30 minute overview that describes what you can expect and will help you assess your course holistically, identify which of your migrated materials need attention, and what your next steps might be. Want to test it out? You are welcome to stay for an additional 30 minutes after the scheduled workshop time to explore your migrated space and ask questions.

This session introduces Brightspace and focuses on:

Finding your way in the Brightspace environment
Course settings and personal profiles
The course navigation bar, home page, and table of contents
A brief look at content and course tools e.g., Announcements, Calendar, Discussion, Assignments, and Quizzes

In this session we’ll focus on:

How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
Tips for using the HTML editor
Linking to course activities

This workshop covers the details about how to approach the Grades area in your migrated Brightspace course. We will demonstrate where to find the grade book in Brightspace and offer options for your next steps. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create your Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard. This session will help you decide what option is the best for your course. Enrollment is limited so we can better your address specific questions.

The Brightspace tool—for what in Blackboard is called Tests—is Quizzes. This workshop covers the details about how to check how your tests and quizzes migrated into your Brightspace course. We will demonstrate where and how to check your quizzes and question pools (if you used them in Blackboard) and discuss options for connecting them to Brightspace’s Grade Tool. Enrollment is limited so we can better address your specific questions.

This workshop covers the details about how to approach the Grades area in your migrated Brightspace course. We will demonstrate where to find the grade book in Brightspace and offer options for your next steps. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create your Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard. This session will help you decide what option is the best for your course. Enrollment is limited so we can better your address specific questions.

Your fall Blackboard course has been migrated (copied) to Brightspace. So now what do you do? Join us for a 30 minute overview that describes what you can expect and will help you assess your course holistically, identify which of your migrated materials need attention, and what your next steps might be. Want to test it out? You are welcome to stay for an additional 30 minutes after the scheduled workshop time to explore your migrated space and ask questions.

This roundtable will open with snapshots of presenters’ varied large-enrollment classes, and quickly open up into a discussion about strategies for encouraging and managing students’ engagement during class, the affective needs of large class instructors, and the ways that flexibility in instructional modes affects student engagement.

This session introduces Brightspace and focuses on:

Finding your way in the Brightspace environment
Course settings and personal profiles
The course navigation bar, home page, and table of contents
A brief look at content and course tools e.g., Announcements, Calendar, Discussion, Assignments, and Quizzes

In this session we’ll focus on:

Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
Editing and reordering Assignments
Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
Using the Submission Log for tracking student work

This workshop covers the details about how to check Discussions in your courses that were migrated from Blackboard. We will demonstrate where all your Discussions are found (group and whole class), how Forums function in Brightspace, and how Blackboard threads translate to Brightspace Topics. Enrollment is limited so we can better address your specific questions.

In Brightspace, the Quiz tool is used for both quizzes and tests.  In this session we’ll show the workflow for creating quizzes, including:

Creating questions and question types
Creating a question library
Building a Quiz
Grading a Quiz
Quiz statistics and logs

How your content displays in your migrated Brightspace course depends on your Blackboard organizational choices. In this lab, we’ll show you strategies for handling some of the common organizational challenges. This session will be particularly helpful if your Blackboard course contained a multi-level folder structure, multiple Blackboard “Items” in folders, and had a complex Course Menu. Enrollment is limited so we can better your address specific questions.

Your fall Blackboard course has been migrated (copied) to Brightspace. So now what do you do? Join us for a 30 minute overview that describes what you can expect and will help you assess your course holistically, identify which of your migrated materials need attention, and what your next steps might be. Want to test it out? You are welcome to stay for an additional 30 minutes after the scheduled workshop time to explore your migrated space and ask questions.