Accessible Course Materials
What are Accessible Course Materials? From the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials for Learning: Accessible educational materials (AEM) are...
Brightspace
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Brightspace – Guest Access for UVM Affiliates
Guests in Brightspace can only view content. Guests cannot access any course tools like assignments, quizzes, or discussions. Brightspace refers... -
Brightspace – Accessibility Checker and Ally
Accessibility Checker The Accessibility Checker is available within the Brightspace HTML Editor when you create or edit HTML content pages.... -
Brightspace – Add TAs and Course Builders
In Brightspace, instructors can now add UVM netID users as Teaching Assistants, Course builders, CTL Support, or Read-Only roles directly... -
Brightspace – Announcements
Overview Course announcements appear on the homepage of your course. Instructors will see the small down-arrow next to “Announcements” and... -
Brightspace – Assignments
Create Assignments Assignments can be created in two ways: Click Course Tools on the green navbar, then click Assignments. This... -
Brightspace – Bulk Manage Dates
This article describes how you can edit both due dates and availability dates for all your course content at once.... -
Brightspace – Calendar
The Brightspace Course Calendar is a useful tool for students, displaying due dates for assignments, when content will become available,... -
Brightspace – Cengage Integration
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Brightspace – Cengage Integration
Instructors: Cengage (WebAssign) Integration with Brightspace Connecting Your WebAssign Course to Brightspace 1. In WebAssign, create your course the usual... -
Brightspace – Checklist
Overview Instructors can use the Checklists Tool to help students stay on track with assignments and tasks for a course.... -
Brightspace – Class Progress
The Class Progress Tool is available to both instructor and students in the Course Menu under Grades & Feedback. Features... -
Brightspace – Classlist
The Classlist is directory of names of all individuals who have access to your course, emails, and group settings which... -
Brightspace – Completion Tracking Tool
Set up the Completion Tracking tool The Completion Tracking tool in Brightspace helps students stay on track with the course... -
Brightspace – Content & Activities
Course content in Brightspace is organized by Modules that are, essentially, folders. Modules organize the units of your course, for... -
Brightspace – Copy, Import, or Export Courses or Components
Video instruction (4:32) You have two options to access the course Import/Export/Copy feature.Select the Gear Icon Go to your destination... -
Brightspace – Course Builder
Using the Brightspace Course Builder Course Builder Overview The Course Builder tool is useful for creating a draft of a new... -
Brightspace – Course Merge
Requests for merging courses are now approved and managed by the Registrar’s Office. To request merging sections in Brightspace, please... -
Brightspace – Create a Sandbox Course Space
UVM faculty and staff can create sandbox spaces in Brightspace. Sandbox spaces will never contain student enrollments. They are not... -
Brightspace – Create Wiki-like Page in Teams
Brightspace does not have a wiki tool. Instead, you can add collaborative working spaces and/or sign-up sheets in Brightspace by... -
Brightspace – Discussions
The Brightspace Discussion tool allows instructors to set up forums and topics where students, TAs, and instructors can post threads... -
Brightspace – Email, Notifications, Profile, and Account Settings
Brightspace Email Send: You can send students emails from multiple places in your course (e.g., the Classlist, the Grade Book,... -
Brightspace – End of Semester Checklist
The end of the semester is a good time to take care of any number of housekeeping tasks regarding your... -
Brightspace – Find Your Course
Pinned For convenience, you can pin a course so that it floats to the top of the page. Just click... -
Brightspace – for Students
Brightspace is UVM’s LMS (Learning Management System). Brightspace is another tool available to faculty to effectively teach a course. In... -
Brightspace – Grade Book: Set Up and Use
This article covers how to set up the Brightspace Grade Book so that it works best for your course. For... -
Brightspace – Grading
There are three different paths to entering grades in your Brightspace course: Quick Eval Individual tool areas The Grade Book... -
Brightspace – Grading with Rubrics
Click to enlarge ↑ Rubrics provide a mechanism to explain to students how their work will be evaluated according to... -
Brightspace – Grading: Granting Exemptions
Exemptions You are able to exempt a student from a particular grade or exempt a student from multiple grade items.... -
Brightspace – Group Tool
Groups in Brightspace Brightspace groups are useful for a variety of reasons, you may wish to have students submit a... -
Brightspace – Helpful Links for Instructors
General Resources UVM’s Brightspace List of Knowledge Base Articles Brightspace Community Site (Registration required) Where to Get Help UVM Tech... -
Brightspace – Intelligent Agents
What are Intelligent Agents (IAs)? Intelligent Agents automatically scan Brightspace according to the criteria you set. When you run an... -
Brightspace – Journals
Brightspace does not have a Journal tool, but there are two tool options that can be used in Brightspace to... -
Brightspace – Learner View
View as Learner The “View as Learner’ preview function is a quick way for instructors to see how course content... -
Brightspace – Make Your Course Active (Available) for Students
By default, Brightspace courses are not available to students until instructors make them available, or “active.” When a course is... -
Brightspace – Modify Home Page Banner
In Brightspace, you can modify your course banner and change its text. Change the banner image Hover over the banner... -
Brightspace – Non-Credit Course Creation/ Learner Self-Enrollment
UVM faculty and staff can create spaces in Brightspaces for educational or organizational purposes. These spaces are for UVM affiliates... -
Brightspace – Quick Start for Instructors
View upcoming CTL workshops as well as workshop recordings Find and pin your courses This short article in the UVM... -
Brightspace – Quizzes
In Brightspace, the quiz tool is used for quizzes, tests, and exams. This page for instructors explains how to set... -
Brightspace – Release Conditions
Release Conditions Release conditions allow you to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course. When you... -
Brightspace – Replace Strings
An excellent way to personalize your course and communications in Brightspace is to use Replace Strings. Replace Strings are specific... -
Brightspace – Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor for Students
If your instructor is using LockDown Browser, or LockDown Browser with Monitor, this page will help ensure you have a... -
Brightspace – Respondus LockDown Browser for Quizzes (Instructors)
What is the Respondus LockDown Browser? LockDown browser (LDB) prevents students from printing, surfing the Internet, taking a screenshot, or... -
Brightspace – Respondus Monitor for Quizzes (for Instructors)
Respondus Monitor is a video “proctoring” add-on for Respondus LockDown Browser, which is a web browser that restricts students’ access... -
Brightspace – Self Assessments
What are Self Assessments? Self Assessments is a formative assessment tool that enables instructors to provide students with a series... -
Brightspace – Student View Account for Instructors
We now have the option to create a “student view” account in Brightspace. This can be useful for checking what... -
Brightspace – Surveys
In Brightspace, surveys can be created with multiple question types, including branching, and they can be anonymous or non-anonymous.... -
Brightspace – Using the Text Editor
Using the Text (HTML) Editor The Brightspace Text Editor allows you to both add images, videos, hyperlinks, and other content,... -
Brightspace – UVM Landing Page
Brightspace Login Sign into Brightspace at https://brightspace.uvm.edu Brightspace Landing Page See All Courses or filter by type with the tabs... -
Brightspace – Video Note
As an instructor or TA, use Video Note in content, announcements, discussions, feedback, and more to personalize and engage students.... -
Brightspace Migration: Check and Clean up the Course Content
How to use the Syllabus Placeholder (located in Content & Activities) Single Syllabus File: Go to Content & Activities and... -
Brightspace Migration: Internal Course Links from Blackboard
If you created Internal Course Links in your Blackboard course to, for example, link from one page directly to another... -
Brightspace Migration: Quizzes
Step 1: Review and Clean Up Quizzes Enter your migrated course and go to Course Tools > Quizzes. The first... -
Brightspace Migration: Discussion
How does Brightspace discussion terminology and display differ compared to Blackboard? There are three levels to the discussion tool: Forum,... -
Brightspace – Course Level Accommodations
While you able to set accommodations and access through an individual quiz, you are also able to set accommodations at... -
Brightspace – Turnitin
Turnitin is a tool that can be used to assess similarities between students’ written submissions and other documents.TurnItIn generates a... -
Brightspace: Add Gradescope
What is possible with Gradescope? Gradescope is an assessment tool. Instructors can use Gradescope to deliver and grade assignments, quizzes,... -
Brightspace: Archive a Course
To archive a course in Brightspace, you can export it as a Brightspace Package. A Brightspace Package is the standard... -
Brightspace: Attendance Tool
The Attendance tool enables you to create registers that track attendance for activities within your course. You can track attendance... -
Display Cumulative Course Grades to Students
NOTE: This article contains outdated information about how to display cumulative course grades to students. For updated instructions, please visit https://www.uvm.edu/it/kb/article/brightspace-set-up-and-use-the-grade-book/#manage-grades... -
iClickers at UVM
iClicker is an electronic polling technology that allows students to give instant feedback or answers to questions during class. Students... -
Perusall
Perusall is a powerful teaching tool developed at Harvard University that is integrated with Brightspace. Perusall allows students and their... -
Yellowdig for Instructors
Yellowdig is a conversation platform that can be linked from a Brightspace course to form a private class community. Yellowdig...
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