{"id":15596,"date":"2023-07-12T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/?p=15596"},"modified":"2023-07-12T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T14:41:20","slug":"building-your-units-for-ay-23-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2023\/07\/12\/building-your-units-for-ay-23-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Building your units for AY 23\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0<strong>11th September<\/strong>.\u00a0For the coming academic year we are moving to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/content\/18315\/viewContent\/1056755\/View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lessons (v1) content layout<\/a> for all new units, to provide a consistent and improved experience for students across their units. Here are some helpful reminders of things to consider when setting up your units for the new academic year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Embedded staff guidance<\/strong> <strong>on every unit<\/strong><br \/>\nThis year staff guidance is embedded within every unit. Look at the guidance embedded under each of the 3 default modules to help you understand what information needs to sit within that module with guidance on how to achieve this. This information is hidden from student view.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Limit your Content structure to 3 levels<\/strong><br \/>\nLessons uses a clear folder structure restricted to 3 levels. At the top level are Modules, which can contain Sub-Modules, which can in turn contain Folders. Topics (content) can be added at any level below the Module. Use the Module, Sub-Module and Folder pages to describe the materials that can be found in that area. Keep the learning materials and activities within Topics so they are tracked by learning analytics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unit Leaders add staff to units<\/strong><br \/>\nUnit Leaders are automatically added to units through the integration with SITS. (If you&#8217;re a Unit Lead and cannot see units as expected, contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/itservices.bournemouth.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IT Service Desk<\/a>). Unit Leads are responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/content\/18315\/viewContent\/104248\/View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adding further members of the teaching and marking team<\/a> to units.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be selective when copying across unit content\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can <a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/common\/dialogs\/quickLink\/quickLink.d2l?ou=18315&amp;type=content&amp;rcode=bournemouth-54410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">copy content across from previous units<\/a> but be selective so that you are only copying material that is actually required. For example, don&#8217;t copy announcements, grades or anything to do with assignments, but quizzes and question libraries may be appropriate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Update Panopto recording links<\/strong><br \/>\nStudents won&#8217;t have permissions to view Panopto content hosted on a previous year&#8217;s unit, so remember to <a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/common\/dialogs\/quickLink\/quickLink.d2l?ou=18315&amp;type=content&amp;rcode=bournemouth-295246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">copy any Panopto recordings<\/a> you require into your new unit and then update any links or embedded videos.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Play in your Lessons sandbox site<\/strong><br \/>\nYour sandbox site is a unit just for you to practise with tools and try out ideas. You can create content here then copy it across into your unit. If you don&#8217;t have a sandbox site in the Lessons content experience, <a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/common\/dialogs\/quickLink\/quickLink.d2l?ou=18315&amp;type=content&amp;rcode=bournemouth-72627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact your Faculty Learning Technologist<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>View as Student<\/strong><br \/>\nClick on your name in the top right hand corner of the screen and select &#8216;View as Student&#8217; to see the student view of your unit and double check that content items are hidden\/visible as required.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rearranging your content\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nUsing the ellipsis (or 3 dots) will allow you to delete, move or reorder the content on your unit. You can also drag content around using the grab handle. The Course builder is also useful for reorganising your content to match the template unit layout; so if you already have your content organised in different modules, you can easily move these to be a sub-module in the new &#8216;Weekly topics and learning materials&#8217; modules. Simply navigate to &#8216;Unit Admin&#8217; within your unit and select &#8216;Course Builder&#8217; and drag and drop the module on top of &#8216;Weekly topics and learning materials&#8217; (it will highlight orange). Repeat this for each module you wish to move.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_15604\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2023\/07\/Changing-Modules-to-Sub-Modules.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15604\" class=\"wp-image-15604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2023\/07\/Changing-Modules-to-Sub-Modules.gif\" alt=\"Changing modules to sub modules\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using the Course Builder<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Further support and guidance for your unit preparation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/content\/18315\/viewContent\/1105755\/View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unit Preparation guidance<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 including how to add staff to units and how to copy across content<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/lessons\/294724\/lessons\/1664442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brightspace Foundations\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 video series aimed at giving you a basic understanding of navigating and using Brightspace<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/content\/18315\/viewContent\/104255\/View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Content structure and tips for adding content<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 guide to the standard content areas contained within all taught Brightspace units<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/content\/18315\/viewContent\/1839472\/View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lessons quick overview<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 8 key areas to help you get started with Lessons<\/p>\n<p>You can also find guidance on using Brightspace in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/home\/18315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brightspace Staff Resources area<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/content\/18315\/viewContent\/153692\/View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get in touch with a member of the FLIE team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a011th September.\u00a0For the coming academic year we are moving to the\u00a0Lessons (v1) content layout for all new units, to&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2023\/07\/12\/building-your-units-for-ay-23-24\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Building your units for AY 23\/24<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2810,"featured_media":14982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,163,5,704],"tags":[1205,1372],"class_list":["post-15596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brightspace","category-digital-skills","category-news","category-teaching-and-learning","tag-lessons-tool","tag-new-units"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15596"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16745,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions\/16745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}