Beginning of Semester FAQs for Brightspace and Zoom

• How do I use Brightspace? Watch the Brightspace Foundations Training (5 parts)
• How do I upload my syllabus?
• How do I add a Zoom link and schedule Zoom class sessions (online-live & online courses)
• How do I copy a course (or parts of a course) from last semester to this semester?
• How do I post an Announcement for students?
• How do I email my students from Brightspace?
• How do I prioritize accessibility in my course?
• How to contact my students in the unlikely event that Brightspace is down?

For more help, visit http://brightspaceresources.ccc.edu

Important Brightspace Updates

‘Updated’ Quiz Creation Experience (Available Now)

The new Quiz Creation Experience is now the only one available. Many of you have already been using the new Quiz creation experience throughout the fall and spring semester. But now, it is the only option available. The new Quiz creation experience looks and feels similar to the Assignment creation experience. All instructions, questions, properties, settings, and evaluation options are on one screen instead of buried within multiple tabs.

For more information see New Quiz Creation Experience

Watch this two-minute video from D2L

‘New’ Discussion Creation Experience (Available Now)

The new discussion creation experience brings the consistency changes from Assignments and Quizzes to Discussions, making it familiar and easy to learn. This first release is at full parity with classic discussions and brings refreshed workflows and improvements to restricting group topics and threads, associating topics to forums, and wording changes to a few settings that you may be familiar with.

For more information see New Discussion Creation Experience

Assignments – New availability dates

The Assignment date options now match the options for Discussions. When setting date restrictions, instructors can choose from the following options for Start and End dates.

• Access restricted
• Submission restricted
• Hidden

For more information see New Assignment Date Feature

Brightspace Release Notes

Every month D2L publishes notes on new features released in Brightspace. Keep informed and see below!

• ALL RELEASE NOTES
• August Release Notes
• July Release Notes
• June Release Notes

Explore fun & effective ways to customize your course in Brightspace

• Change your banner
• Add video notes with captions
• Explore the use of ‘document templates’

Zoom – Reminders

Planned Deletion of older Zoom Cloud Recordings

As a reminder, Zoom cloud recordings are deleted after each semester. This is necessary to ensure that CCC remains within its contractually agreed upon disk quota on the Zoom platform.

How to preserve your Zoom cloud recordings  

• Download your Zoom cloud meeting recordings 
• Recover deleted meeting recordings

Tips for Zoom

• Enable Live Transcription – Enable the auto-transcription option that automatically provides captions during your class in real-time.
• For the best experience with Zoom, make sure you and your students are logged into the Zoom application before launching meetings and update your zoom application regularly.
• Review the tips on “How to control my zoom meeting” and discover more resources on zoom

What Happens if Zoom is Down?

The Zoom platform is extremely reliable (with published uptime of 100% for the last year), but in the unlikely event of an outage or other issue, you do have a backup platform: Microsoft Teams.

Please take a moment to review these two articles on accessing/using Teams in advance so that you are prepared should you need an alternative.

Other Tools You Can Use

Hypothes.is (social annotation tool) Updates

Hypothesis is an easy to use pedagogical tool that enabled students and teachers to have conversations in the margins of digital texts. It can be integrated directly within Brightspace. Here is a quick start guide with helpful hints on using Hypothesis successfully!

• YouTube Video Annotations (New!): You can now annotate over YouTube videos with Hypothes.is. Learn more.
• Side by Side Mode (New!): Ensures an uninterrupted content viewing experience and seamless annotation. Learn More.
• Training and Workshops: Learn more about making reading active, visible, and social using Hypothesis, by joining an upcoming workshop. Learn more and RSVP.

Upcoming Training and Drop-In Help

Access the complete calendar list of Drop-ins* and Trainings

Zoom Link for drop-ins: https://cccedu.zoom.us/j/91263470950

• Drop-in Help for Brightspace or Zoom (starting Aug 21)

§  Mondays: 8:00-9:00am (Mariana)

§  Tuesdays: 3:00-4:00pm (Elissa)

§  Wednesdays: 10:00-11:00am (Tamara)

§  Thursdays: 11:00am-12:00pm (Syed)

• Adult Education Drop-in Help – Zoom Links and Times Vary – See calendar

*check the calendar for the most up to date information as some dates may get canceled

• Request an Individual Appointment

• • Schedule a 1 on 1 appointment for Brightspace or Zoom Help here

Help and Resources

• CCC Helpdesk: Submit a ticket or email cohelpdesk@ccc.edu
• Knowledge Base: http://brightspaceresources.ccc.edu
• Brightspace Admins: You can reach out to any of us, no matter your college
  • Elissa Tobin, etobin2@ccc.edu (OH, Technology Integration Specialist)
  • Mariana Saba, msaba@ccc.edu (WR, Technology Integration Specialist)
  • Tamara Middleton, tmiddleton5@ccc.edu (Online Learning, Tech. Integration Specialist)
  • Ayana Haaruun, ahaaruun@ccc.edu (Online Learning, Mgr. Instructional Design)
  • Stephanie Shanks, sshanks@ccc.edu (Online Learning, Mgr. Instructional Technology)
  • Steven Bradford, sbradford3@ccc.edu (Online Learning, Dir. Instructional Design)
  • Dr. Mynor Morales, mmorales422@ccc.edu (Adult Education, Mgr. Instructional Technology)
  • Dr. Syed Abedi, sabedi@ccc.edu (District, Mgr. Online Academic Technology)
  • Adolfo Caballero, acaballero@ccc.edu (District, Mgr. Instructional Technology)
    
    
• Videos: Visit http://bit.ly/ccctube  – CCC Instructional Technology YouTube site contains CCC-created videos like a Foundations review, TII, Student overview, course copy and more for you and our students
  
  
• Training Calendar: https://brightspaceresources.ccc.edu/trainingevents/