Brightspace Content is Getting Upgraded
Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, Brightspace courses will default to the New Content Experience. Additionally, Instructors now have the ability to enable or disable the New Content Experience in their own courses ahead of the change in Fall 2027. For more information about this transition, see our New Content Experience Transition page.
Instructor Guides 鈥� Complete List
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TAs must be added to your course by the Office of the University Registrar.聽Read more about this process here.
Course Management
- How can I make my course active, so it is visible to students?
- How can I save copies of important course documents and close out my Brightspace course at the end of a semester?
- How do I combine my courses or sections into one course?
- How can I add TAs or other users聽to my course?
- 聽鈥� 自慰视频 Libraries resource
- How do I email my entire class, or individual students?
- How do I create/edit a homepage for my course?
- How do I upload a custom image for my homepage banner?
- How do I change the theme colors for my course?
- 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?
- How to I Access Materials in the Learning Object Repository (LOR)?
- How do I Place LOR Material into my Course Content?
- How do I track attendance in Brightspace?
Content
Assignments
Quizzes, Surveys, and self-assessments
Lockdown Browser is a tool to facilitate online test-taking in a more secure environment. The company that provides the tool offers webinars to train faculty in using the Lockdown Browser. You can聽
Grades & Rubrics
- VIDEO GUIDE:聽
- Step 1: How do I set up my gradebook?
- Step 2: How do I create or delete grade categories and items?
- Example of a Weighted Gradebook
- Example of a Points Gradebook
- Where do my students see their grades?
- How do I release final grades in Brightspace?
- 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 and use rubrics?
- How do I enter all grades for a specific Grade Item?
- How do I import a custom grade scheme from another course?
- How do I聽Export my Gradebook into Excel?
- How do I award extra credit? Extra credit, bonus items, and exceeding 100%
- How do I drop the lowest grade from a Grade Category?
- How can I calculate a mid-semester/midterm Grade?
Groups & Discussions
Using Media in Brightspace: Kaltura and YouTube
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Video Conferencing: Zoom and Virtual Classrooms
- 聽鈥� 自慰视频 Hustler article, March 2020
- 聽鈥� VUIT resource
- Should I record my live class meeting?
- How can I record and share my class meetings with my students?
- How can I record and share my class meetings with future students or people outside of the course?
- How can I prevent students from sharing videos outside of class?
VIDEO GUIDE:聽听鈥撀�a tutorial video by Owen faculty member Jesse Blocher