Every ending is a new beginning…

Whether you’re focused on wrapping up the current semester, or getting ready for the next, we have the tools to guide you on your way.

Highlights in this Newsletter:

• Zoom Cloud Recordings – What to do?
• Ally accessibility tool is coming – Fall rollout
• Wrapping up the summer semester
• Preparing for the fall semester
• New Brightspace features on their way
• Virtual Drop-in Help for Brightspace and Zoom

For more help, look below or visit https://brightspaceresources.ccc.edu

Zoom Cloud Recordings – What to do?

Zoom cloud recordings will be deleted 30 days after the semester ends. If you need and want to keep them, make sure you download them from Zoom Cloud. Below are resources for assistance:

• Delete recordings you no longer need
• Download recordings you want to save for posterity
• Review more options for storing and sharing recordings from Zoom’s cloud

Ally–an accessibility tool–is coming to Brightspace

Ally is an accessibility tool that seamlessly integrates with Brightspace to make digital course content more accessible for students. The tool automatically checks content for accessibility and generates alternative formats for students to consume the content, including PDF, HTML, Audio, and even electronic Braille.

• Video: Introducing Ally for Brightspace
• Video: Ally Alternative Formats (The student experience)

Ally will be turned on in all courses in the fall term. Information, training, and details will be provided.

Wrap up the semester

• Create a final exam in the Quizzes tool
• Remind students about missing assignments with intelligent agents or use quicklinks in the grade item feedback or html editor to link directly to the missing learning activity.
• Create a final grade item or a calculated grade item
• Show Final Grades: How do I show the ‘final calculated grade’ item to students?
• Export/Download Grades to email them to your department: How do I export grades to a file? ‎
• Check Course End Date: How do I change when the course becomes unavailable to my students?

Prepare for the start of next semester

• Look for your next semester’s assigned courses: How do I locate my courses?
• Copy your courses: How do I copy an entire Brightspace course to another?
• Clean up old content quickly through bulk editing content and Manage Dates

If you’ve already been assigned a course for Fall 2021 in CS9, you can access it now in Brightspace. New courses can be found in your course list, click on the tab for the term to easily sort.

Explore fun & effective ways to customize your course in Brightspace

• Change your banner or customize your homepage
• Add a welcome announcement or maybe a video note with captions
• Explore the use of ‘document templates’
• Consider using checklists to keep students on track
• Consider using different ‘completion tracking’ settings to keep students on track

For more help, visit the knowledge base.

Upcoming Drop-In Sessions and Training

Access the complete list of Drop-ins and Trainings

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

• Drop-in Help for Brightspace or Zoom
  • Mondays 2:00pm-3:00pm (Mariana) 3:00pm-4:00pm (Elissa)
  • Tuesdays 2:00pm-3:00pm (Viviana)
  • Wednesdays 10:00am-11:00am (Charles), 11:00am-12:00pm (Dale), and 2:00pm-3:00pm (Mariana)
  • Thursdays 10:00am-11:00am (Syed) and 2:00-3:00pm (Viviana)
  • Fridays 12:00pm-1:00pm (Elissa)
• Request an Individual Appointment
  • Schedule a 1 on 1 appointment for Brightspace or Zoom Help here

• Brightspace Assessment Knowledge Base Resources
  • All About Assignments
  • All about Quizzes
  • All About Grades

What’s New in Brightspace?

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

• May Release Notes
• June Release Notes
• July Release Notes
• August Release Notes

Help and Resources

• CCC Helpdesk: Submit a ticket or email cohelpdesk@ccc.edu
• Knowledge Base: https://brightspaceresources.ccc.edu
• On Campus: You can reach out to any of us, no matter your college
  • Charles McSweeney, cmcsweeney@ccc.edu
  • Mariana Saba, msaba@ccc.edu
  • Viviana Pena, vpena@ccc.edu
  • Dale Salzman, dsalzman1@ccc.edu
  • Elissa Tobin, etobin2@ccc.edu
  • Jack Waas (Adult Ed), jwaas@ccc.edu
  • Selom Assignon, sassignon@ccc.edu
  • Steven Bradford, sbradford3@ccc.edu
  • Syed Abedi, sabedi@ccc.edu
  • Adolfo Caballero, acaballero@ccc.edu

• 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/