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How do I control notifications?

Sometimes you may feel as though you are getting spammed by Brightspace notifications (cell/email and Alerts through bell icon under Minibar) and missing the important alerts. You may wish to control (e.g. stop) the notification coming to your email/Cell.

Go to Your Name (top right) > Notifications 

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Once in notifications, select what notifications you want to receive and the method you would like to receive them

Scroll down to “Exclude some courses” and click on “Manage my course exclusions“

A window will pop up with a list of your courses, you can exclude all the courses you do not want to get notifications from by clicking on the x next to the course.  

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How do I create a checklist?

Checklist

where to find the New Checklist option

Use Checklists to help keep learners on track.

Create a checklist

  1. Go to a Module in Content, Upload/Create->New Checklist
  2. Name your checklist
  3. Categorize or divide into Lists
  4. Add Tasks

Tips

Use Quicklinks to link to activities that are due.

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How do I increase student engagement?-Engagement tools

Engagement

Keep students informed

Gamify learning

Guide learning

Personalize learning

Enhance with apps, web content, and External Tools

    1. Secure Open Educational Resources(OER)

      • Contact your campus librarian.

    2. Publisher tools

    3. TurnItIn

    4. Zoom

    5. VoiceThread

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How do I edit and share my Zoom recordings?

Table of Contents

Editing

Local Recordings

You might use Youtube as or a video editing tool. 

You  have different options for depending on where your recording was saved. 

Cloud Recordings

Go to cccedu.zoom.us

In Zoom, go to My Recordings. Select the desired recording and edit the recording.

Share

Local Recordings

Save or upload your recordings to a cloud file sharing service, like OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, or Google Drive and share the link.

Cloud Recordings

In Zoom, go to My Recordings.  Under the desired recording, click Share.  The pop up will have the recording link to share.

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How do I control my Zoom meeting?

Mitigating my Zoom meeting disruptions

Managing Zoom Meetings  

Classroom management in this unfamiliar virtual world may seem unattainable, but with some Zoom settings and meeting features, you may gain some control. When your setting up your meeting, you may want to use a waiting room or lock meeting after five minutes. During the meeting, you or your co-host might disable everyone’s audio, limit the chat, limit screen sharing,  ask students to use their full names, or remove a user.

 

Rules for Hosting Virtual Meetings

  1. Practice, practice, practice.
  2. Invite participants, but Do Not Share your meeting link on Social Media.
  3. Have a co-host.
  4. Be kind to yourself.
  5. Have fun!

Setting up your meeting 

When setting up your meeting, consider these options: 

Turning off audio for participants on entry 

Meeting options:  Mute participants upon entry: enabling this will keep participants on mute when they enter until they un-mute themselves. Disabling this will un-mute all participants upon entry until they mute themselves. 

Waiting Room authentication –Better solution! 

 

Meeting options: Enable waiting room: enabling the waiting room will put all students into a waiting room until you as the host invite them in one at a time or all at once.  This is a useful setting when scheduling virtual office hours. 

Requiring meeting password -Another hurdle? 

Meeting options:  Require a meeting password: enabling this would require users to enter a password that you will need to share with attendees. 

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As a Host in a Meeting 

menu

How do I use the Security Icon in the meeting?

In your Zoom main navbar, there is a shield.  That is the Security Icon. 

You can:

  • Lock meeting after it has started.

  • Control who can Chat. 

  • Allow/Disable Screen Share.

  • Rename Themselves.

Zoom Security Icon
menu

How do I remove someone from a meeting?

On the Participant screen next the name, click MORE select REMOVE 

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How do I turn off participant audio in the meeting? 

On the Participant screen next the name, click on microphone 

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How do I halt a participant screen share?  

On the bottom NavBar, click on carat(^) next to the Green SHARE-> STOP PARTICPANT’S SCREEN SHARE 

or  

On the top menu. Click on VIEW OPTIONS -> STOP SHARING  

How do I control Annotations?

You and your attendees may mark up content during screen share. You can disable the annotation feature in your Zoom settings to prevent people from writing all over the screens.

Use the Annotations NavBar to control the screen annotations.  It is in a disappearing menu(mouse over to find it) at the top in the main window of Zoom.

  • Clear Annotations

Clear Annotations

  • Stop Annotations

Stop Annotations

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How do students view TurnItIn’s Grademark feedback?

Students will go to the assignment tool (Assessments–>Assignments) 

Assessments link in Nav Bar

Locate the assignment.

Follow feedback links.

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How do I create journals for each student?

Create a space where students can write privately over time by using Discussions and Groups.

1. Create a single-user group that uses a Discussion.

Go to CourseAdmin->Groups->New Category-> fill out form:  Name the category, select  enrollment type as ‘Single-user, member specific groups’, and check ‘Set up discussion area’->Submit

 in Create Restricted Topics, select

->Create and Submit->Done->Save

2. Set up how the the Journal will be assessed

In the Discussions tool, edit the new Journal Topic ->Assessment tab to setup how you want to evaluate the journal or entries.

3. Make it easier for students to find their journal. Place link in Content

In Content, select the module and add Existing Activities->Discussions->Select the journal Forum

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What is the Brightspace ePortfolio?

Brightspace ePortfolio is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organizing, reflecting on, and sharing items that represent your learning. You may include items such as documents, graphics, audio files, videos, presentations, and course work to demonstrate your improvement or mastery in certain areas.

You choose what items you want to include in your portfolio, how they are organized, and who you want to share them with. When you share items with your peers, mentors, or potential employers, you choose the permission to view items, edit items, see or add comments, and see or add assessments to receive feedback.

Key Terms

Artifacts are items: such as Word documents, PDFs or pictures.

Collections are Folders. You can group individual Artifacts or Items into Collections.

Presentations are web projects showcasing your items and collections.

  1. To access your e-portofolio go to the BrightSpace homepage and click on the drop down arrow next to “My BrightSpace”
  2. Select ePortofolio

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The Dashboard is the landing page for ePortofolio

  • On the Dashboard page, you can add new content to your Brightspace ePortfolio, review recent activity on your items and items shared with you, and check invites from your peers.

  • Newsfeed

    • The newsfeed consolidates recent activities and those shared with you

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How do I create an announcement?

    1. Go to Course Home on the Navbar (or go to Course Admin > Announcements)
    2. From Course Home, scroll down to the Announcements widget, click on the dropdown menu, and select New Announcement.
    3. On the Announcement page, add a Heading (your subject) and Message (the body) of your Announcement.
    4. Set a Start Date (when you want the announcement to be visible to students) and an End Date if you want (when you want the announcement to disappear, if at all)
    5. Click Publish                                       

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How I do notify/email select students automatically for Not Doing/Viewing Something?

Let’s pretend finals are creeping up on you and your students. You have provided a study guide to assist in preparing for the final. Half the students have looked at it, but half haven’t.  You would like to send an announcement, but only want the announcement to appear for those students who have not looked at the study guide.

Send an announcement with a release condition and {FirstName} replace string for personalization.

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