Brightspace

Running a successful virtual classroom

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One of Brightspace’s main tools for meeting virtually with smaller groups of students online is the Virtual Classroom. It’s quick and simple to set up in your unit and is an effective way to engage with groups of 50 or less. As you start planning your session, here are some things to consider to ensure… Read more » about Running a successful virtual classroom

Virtual Classroom and webcast guidance for students

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Thanks for your feedback, we’ve made some improvements to the student Help page in Brightspace so that it now includes guidance for joining Panopto Live Webcasts, Virtual Classroom and Discussion Boards. You can direct students to this page for guidance as follows: Help –> Brightspace Help Or, include the following link in your announcements and/or… Read more » about Virtual Classroom and webcast guidance for students

Brightspace Announcements now emailed to students by default

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Brightspace has now been updated so that student notifications for Announcements are set by default to be sent by email. This means that students no longer need to customise their own notifications to receive announcements by email, and staff can be confident that when they post announcements, students will be alerted to these via Brightspace… Read more » about Brightspace Announcements now emailed to students by default

Guidance for conducting teaching and learning remotely using Brightspace

Posted . Filed under Assessment and feedback, Blended learning, Brightspace, FLIE, News.

FLIE continues its service to enable a personalised and inclusive curriculum for students. This following guidance has been compiled to support staff in the use of Brightspace to better support their students in their learning where limitations are posed to our standard on-campus delivery. Conducting teaching and learning remotely using Brightspace Online resources Online guidance… Read more » about Guidance for conducting teaching and learning remotely using Brightspace

Brightspace tools : Intelligent Agents

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At the end of November, Sophie McGown Customer Success Manager at D2L, ran some sessions with BU staff providing a more detailed look at one of Brightspace’s most powerful tools; Intelligent Agents. Sophie shared some best practice and top tips before assisting staff in building and scheduling Intelligent Agents to run on their units. What… Read more » about Brightspace tools : Intelligent Agents

Did you know there’s an app for Brightspace?

Posted . Filed under Brightspace, Digital skills, Education, HE Students, Innovation, Mobile learning, Student, Teaching and Learning, VLE.

Called ‘Brightspace Pulse’ it was originally developed as a way for students to receive notifications, however, it has been redesigned and now offers almost full Brightspace functionality. Students can access their course material on the go and staff can manage their Units from anywhere. As an example, I was recently asked to help where a… Read more » about Did you know there’s an app for Brightspace?

Bournemouth staff attend the annual Solent Learning and Teaching Community Conference 2019

Posted . Filed under Assessment and feedback, Blended learning, Brightspace, Case Studies: In BU, CEL Staff, Co-creation, Conference Report, CPD, Creative Methods, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Drawing, Education, HE Students, Innovation, Leadership, Research, Visual learning.

Solent University run an annual Learning and Teaching Community Conference in their inspiring ‘SPARK’ building. This year, Bournemouth University staff from HSS, FMC and Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence collaborated  and presented two research papers and a workshop. , Find out more on twitter: #SLTCC2019 The full programme with speakers is available from here: https://www.solent.ac.uk/staff/learning-and-teaching/community-conferences/sltcc-programme… Read more » about Bournemouth staff attend the annual Solent Learning and Teaching Community Conference 2019

Mapping Learning Excellence with colleagues from Events and Leisure

Posted . Filed under AdvanceHE, Assessment and feedback, Blended learning, Brightspace, CEL Staff, Co-creation, Creative Methods, Creativity, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Education, Events and workshops, Flipped classroom, Gamification, LEAP, Study Skills, Summer of 6C, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning, TEL, Visual learning, Visual thinking, Widening participation.

We held a Learning Excellence (LEAP) session with twelve colleagues from the programme team in the current Department of Events and Leisure last week. The goal was to work on new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes starting in Sept 2019. Unit teaching teams worked with new Intended Learning Outcomes and their knowledge from current units to… Read more » about Mapping Learning Excellence with colleagues from Events and Leisure