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The Discussions tool is a really useful way to direct student enquiries to one space, and to allow all the students on a unit to view responses to queries. If you’re using discussion boards in this way, you’ll need to monitor the interactions so that you can review activity and provide timely responses. Brightspace will… Read more » about Monitoring Discussion Board activity in Brightspace
Turnitin are running a series of live workshops to support users using their products and to provide insights and guidance for best practices. The sessions are run to help staff use the tools effectively and find answers to any questions. Getting the most out of Turnitin Feedback Studio Turnitin is an assignment feedback platform which… Read more » about Getting the most out of Turnitin Feedback Studio – webinar Nov 2nd 3pm
The Academic Skills Hub on BrightSpace is now live, providing a focal point for online resources, 1:1 appointments and workshops in a wide range of academic skills, including: Maths Writing Academic integrity Digital skills English language skills (for international students) Finding sources Referencing Statistical analysis and so much more! Please share this PowerPoint slide with all students…. Read more » about Academic Skills Hub is now live
Attendance capture is a key priority this academic year so we wanted to remind you of the resources available to support you if you haven’t used the Jisc Learning Analytics platform to capture attendance before, or just need a quick refresher on how to capture attendance in your teaching sessions. How does it work? Attendance… Read more » about Attendance capture support and guidance
Have you noticed the new link on the Brightspace homepage encouraging students to stay up to date with the Pulse app? Brightspace provides alerts for unit activity (such as announcements, assignment deadlines etc) via the bell icon at the top right of the screen. But if students would like to receive direct notifications of Brightspace… Read more » about Stay up to date with the Pulse app
Welcome back to a new academic year! Students will have access to units for Semester 1/2/3 one week prior to the start of Semester 1, and for the majority of programmes that will be this week (w/c 11th September). Key changes Here is a summary of some of the key changes you’ll find on Brightspace… Read more » about Brightspace changes and support for AY 23/24
Over the years this has been a popular request in the Brightspace user community and now ‘pinning announcements to the top’ is finally available on the platform. So whether it is an important message that you want to prioritise permanently, or just have a prominent welcome message for the first few weeks, you can now… Read more » about Pin announcements ‘to top’ in Brightspace
Brightspace units for 2023/24 became available to staff on 6th July. Students will have access to units for Semester 1/2/3 one week prior to the start of Semester 1, for the majority of programmes this will be 11th September. For the coming academic year we are moving to the Lessons (v1) content layout for all new units, to… Read more » about Brightspace Lessons content experience workshops
Improving student engagement and interaction on Brightspace – Meet H5P If you are looking to enhance the content of your Brightspace units, you might want to look at H5P (HTML5 Package). So, what is H5P? H5P is an open-source technology that can be embedded into Brightspace Units and is designed to work across different platforms, including… Read more » about Improving student engagement and interaction on Brightspace – Meet H5P
At the recent Fusion Learning Conference, FLIE got the chance to prototype our digital escape room. Our goal was to showcase the various tools and technologies available to staff at BU, inspiring them to create their own escape rooms or immersive learning scenarios. The aim was to demonstrate the capabilities of the tools while keeping… Read more » about Escape Room – Fusion Learning Conference
