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Keep Teaching with Brightspace! (introductory)

Overview: 60 minutes virtual training on the most commonly used tools in Brightspace to get started fast.

Audience: Beginner to Intermediate Brightspace Users

Length: 50 minutes with 10 minutes for questions

Topics:

Part 1: Review (16 minutes)

• How to log in (from CCC webpage or direct URL) and access classes (2 minutes)
• What are the Minibar & Navbars—what is there in each? (3 minutes)
• What does Course Home vs. Content do? How do they differ? (1 minute)
• How to check Course Dates/Set Course End Date through Course Offering (2 minutes)
• How to send email to students through Classlist (4 minutes)
• How to post an announcement and copy/paste to a Classlist e-mail (4 minutes)

Part 2: Quick Design 101 (how to create simple modules based on your syllabus’s needs) (31 minutes)

• Create a module titled Assignments and create one new assignment (with grade item). Call it Assignment 1. (7 minutes)
• Create a module titled Discussions and create one new discussion (with grade item). Call it Discussion 1. (6 minutes)
• Create a module titled Quizzes and create quizzes there (with grade item first, then Quiz set-up). (6 minutes)
• Create a Topic module titled Week 10: Concepts of Identity (or another week with topic) and show examples of creating topics, assignments, quizzes, discussions, etc. in it. Show one example, but talk about how one might do the others. (3 minutes)
• Create a module titled Zoom and use Existing ActivitiesExternal Learning Tools to set up a link. (2 minutes)
• Show the Gradebook and give links to D2L Playlists or Knowledge Base articles in the Chat. Don’t get bogged down by the gradebook. Demonstrate how to create a grade item, so they know how to do this if necessary. (4 minutes)
• Create a Group and show how one chooses different enrollments. (3 minutes)