There are many reasons you may want to preview the grades of a specific student, the most common being to ensure the grades are displaying correctly or as you’d like them to. Or perhaps you want to 

To Preview Grades

1. Go to Grades (Assessments > Grades)

2. On Enter Grades, click on the dropdown arrow next to the students name and select Preview.

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image of student's grade preview

If the grades aren’t displaying as you would expect, you can modify your grade settings through the Setup Wizard or through Settings.

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

ePortfolio Screen shot

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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    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                                       

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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Release conditions allow you to create custom learning paths for students by setting conditions a student has to fulfill before being allowed to access specific course material or activities. When you attach a release condition to an item, you create rules which restrict users from seeing specific items or content until they meet certain criteria.

For example:

  • –  Students can only take the quiz for week 3 if they have received a passing grade for the quiz in week 2.
  • –  Students will not be able to see the final exam until they have submitted all the previous assignments or activities
  • –  Students are required to view the week’s materials before they can post to the week’s discussion topic. 
  • –  Students who received a passing grade item on an activity will be able to submit to an extra credit assignment

Release conditions are available in nearly every tool or item type in Brightspace including Content, Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions, Announcements, Awards, Intelligent Agents and more.

To Setup Release Conditions

 
In Content, click the drop down arrow next to the topic name or the module name you wish to attach a release condition, and select Edit Properties in Place, then click into the Add Dates and Restrictions section to “create and attach” release conditions.
 
In the Assignments, Discussions or Quizzes tool, click on the drop down arrow next to the item name and select Edit, then click on the Restrictions tab to create an attach release conditions.

1.  Click Create and Attach

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2.  Select the Condition Type (for example, “Score on a Quiz”)

3.  Select the Condition Details (for example, Quiz name, criteria, and grade)

4.  Click Create

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5.  You can add additional criteria if desired. Select whether you want all conditions or any conditions to be met, and then click Update.

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image of existing release condition

For additional details and a complete list of Release Condition Types, visit the Brightspace documentation.

Create a private group discussion for each student. Put the Discussion in Content through Existing Activities

You may want to use Quicklinks in Announcements to link to the journal.

There are several ways you can give students access to view their groups:

OPTION 1:   Request from your TIS or cohelpdesk@ccc.edu to add the Groups tool link to your navbar

 

OPTION 2:   Add the link to the Groups tool to Content. 

Go to Course Admin > Groups, then copy the URL

Then go to Content and open the module where you want to post it and click Upload/Create > Create a Link and paste the URL there.

 

OPTION 3:   Students can view the groups from the Classlist.

Go to the Classlist and click on the dropdown menu next to their name.

Select “View Group Enrollments” to see the list of groups they are enrolled in. 

Classlist context menu View User Enrollment screenshot

If you created a self-enrollment group, you can create a link to the group in Content, Announcements or anywhere you have the HTML Editor to add Quick Links (see below) so students can enroll in the group of their choosing. They can also do this if you post a link to Groups using Option 2 above.

HTML Editor Quicklink

Locate the group in the course NavBar, or in Content, Announcements or anywhere you have the HTML Editor to add Quick Links.

HTML Editor Quicklink

Usually when you have to track attendance it’s for your department, follow your departmental instructions for  GradesFirst.

If you want to track attendance in Brightspace, use the Attendance tool.

Go to Course Admin -> Attendance 

Create an Attendance Register

 

If you are concerned about risk management/low activity/gauge engagement, “Automate” with intelligent agents.