{"id":5239,"date":"2017-05-10T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T10:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2017-05-10T14:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:52:35","slug":"brightspace-training-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/05\/10\/brightspace-training-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace training begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The staff training on Brightspace began with a full day session on Monday.\u00a0 10 staff members attended the first day and the plan is to train another 350 staff in the next 5 weeks.<\/p>\n

The training is split into two sessions.\u00a0 Session A introduces Brightspace and demonstrates the features and benefits to staff.\u00a0 Session B introduces staff to their own test unit in Brightspace, called a sandbox, where it is possible to try out Brightspace by creating unit structures, adding content, discussions, quizzes etc.\u00a0 The benefit of using a sandbox is that it is an area where staff can become familiar with Brightspace and see which features work best in their environments and the many options for configuring them.\u00a0 Another benefit is that elements from within the sandbox environment can be copied to live units when they become available around August.<\/p>\n

During the training we use the analogy of moving house.\u00a0 Moving from myBU to Brightspace is very similar because we have to decide what to take with us.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It is very tempting to take everything when we move house<\/p>\n

We can take everything but we can also use the opportunity to see what needs to go.\u00a0 Creating my units in Brightspace has allowed me to reflect on material I created some time ago and, attached to it though I am, it really is not fit for purpose and there are now many better ways to enable students to learn the concepts and ideas contained in my old material.\u00a0 Creating new materials does take time but we hope, by starting the training early, that staff can use the coming months to mould the options and features of Brightspace into units which are very engaging for students and develop, test and expand their learning.<\/p>\n

This tranche of training focuses on academic staff who are in the first phase of the Brightspace implementation (all of HSS and some from the other faculties). Once we have completed this tranche, we will then begin training for administrative and professional services staff.<\/p>\n

Over time, virtual learning environments (VLEs) become very integrated into the systems and processes of an organisation.\u00a0 We can see this with myBU which has been integrated with a number of third party application such as Turnitin, Talis Aspire etc to provide the range to functionality we require.\u00a0 This tranche of training focuses on the features and functions of the Brightspace application because they are fully working and available to us.\u00a0 Teams from IT, CEL, Library and Learning Support and faculty representatives are working to integrate Brightspace with our existing applications and, because this work is not yet complete, they have been excluded from the scope of the training.\u00a0 We will provide training and support on assessment, grading and the other application in due course.<\/p>\n

The training has been going very well so far.\u00a0 It is early days as we have completed only 2 sessions from over 50 so far.\u00a0 One attendee at the first session noted in their evaluation how “Contents and delivery were good and all instructors very nice and helpful.”\u00a0 Overall, the feedback has been positive and we are working to improve the quality and usefulness of the sessions by reviewing each one and taking on board the staff feedback.<\/p>\n

We will provide more updates on the training in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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The staff training on Brightspace began with a full day session on Monday.\u00a0 10 staff members attended the first day and the plan is to train another 350 staff in the next 5 weeks. The training is split into two sessions.\u00a0 Session A introduces Brightspace and demonstrates the features and benefits to staff.\u00a0 Session B… Read more » about Brightspace training begins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":486,"featured_media":2060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,26,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brightspace","category-tel","category-vle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239","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\/486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}