Dr. K's Brightspace


Dr. K’s Brightspace is a set of tutorials, titled “Dealing with BS”, related to using the Brightspace Learning Management system. 

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Dealing with Brighsapce - Order of Operations

This video explains how to construct your whole course in Brightspace and the importance of creating assignments (quizzes, assignments, and discussions) FIRST, and then distributing them to Content organizing folders.

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Discussions

This tutorial reviews the creation of both graded and non-graded discussions in Brightspace.

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Assignments

This video explains the process of creating assignments, or drop boxes for the submission of assignment files, in Brightspace.

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Content Folders

This video covers how to create folders in the Content area of Brightspace to organize material into "modules" (or whatever else you want to call them)

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Quizzes

This video covers how to create quizzes in Brightspace. The quiz tool allows for students to submit answers directly to the Brightspace interface. Quizzes can be named anything such as exams, tests, reflections, etc.

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Links to YouTube Videos

This tutorial shows how to create direct links to YouTube videos and how to embed YouTube videos in your course so that they play right in Brightspace.

Dealing with Brightspace - Connecting Quizzes to the Grade Book

Sometimes we create quizzes (and discussions or assignments) and forget to connect them to the grade book. This video shows the easy fix to making the connection between your graded assessments and the grade book.

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Video Notes

This video describes the steps to create a Video Note. One of the coolest features of Brightspace is the ability to leave a video message to a student in regard to their performance or even send little tutorials, encouragements, and confrontations to individuals or the class.

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Grading Rubrics

This video reviews how to create rubrics from scratch and how to build new rubrics based upon existing ones.

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Weighted Grades

This video explores the functions within the Brightspace grade book to assign weights to categories of graded work in order to compute final grades.

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Content Pages

This video shows how to create content pages in Brightspaces. Content pages can be lecture notes, instructions, and entire lesson plans. Brightspace allows for these to be enriched with pictures, movies, and other creative elements.

Dealing with Brightspace - Creating Groups

Assigning groups of students to work together can be a vital aspect of engaged learning. Brightspace allows the creation of any number of groups. This video covers the order of operations of FIRST creating the groups and the editing Discussions, Quizzes, Assignments, and even content to be made available to these groups.

Dealing with Brightspace - Copying BS Classes

We often want to copy content from one course to another in Brightspace. Sometimes we only want to copy certain elements, such as rubrics, from one course to another. This video explores the basic copy features within Brightspace.

Dealing with Brightspace - Plagiarism Detection

Brightspace comes with its own plagiarism tools that can be applied to any assignment that you have in your course. This video explores how to manage this very useful tool.

Dealing with Brightspace - Importing Blackboard Courses

If you are transitioning from the Blackboard LMS into Brightspace, this video shows how to export your material out of Blackboard and into Brightspace. It is not always perfect but it might save you a LOT of time!

Dealing with Brightspace - Grading Discussions

This video provides instruction on how to evaluate graded discussions.

Dealing with Brightspace - Brightspace Basic Tutorial

A video giving students the general layout of the Brightspace courses in the Social Science Department at KVCC.

Dealing with Brightspace - Using ZOOM and Brightspace

This video is about the features of ZOOM and how I schedule a meeting in ZOOM and inform my students of the meeting information in the Announcements in Brightspace.

Dealing with Brightspace - Class Progess Monitoring

This video is about the features and data that are available in the Brightspace Class Progress feature. Oops, I called in Blackboard in this video!

Dealing with Brightspace - Now you see it, now you don’t

This video reviews the various ways in which you can hide and reveal items in Brightspace.

Dealing with Brightspace - Insert Stuff

This video reviews the options under the "Insert Stuff" tool found all over Brightspace.

Dealing with Brightspace - Locking Discussions

This video explores the option of "locking" down discussions so that students can still see the discussion but can no longer post new material.

Dealing with Brightspace - Performance Attendance - Method 1

This video explores the use of the export grades function to document participation in graded activities for the purpose of attendance.

Dealing with Brightspace - Bulk Edit those Pesky Fs Away

This video solves a problem where the default grading scheme for the course has been applied to all assignments. This results in a lot of F letter grades when students have not yet completed the assignments.

Dealing with Brightspace - Jennifer Rines and EdPuzzle

Jennifer Rines introduces us to a great tool for creating interactive presentations.

Dealing with Brightspace - Setting up and Viewing Feedback

This video reviews the process for Faculty to set up their quizzes to provide written feedback to students and provides students with the instructions on how to access them.

Dealing with Brightspace - Setting up Mid-Term and Final Grades

This video reviews the settings and configuration of the BS grade book to provide a continual update to the final grade calculation for use in both Mid Term and Final grade reporting.

Dealing with Brightspace - Department of Social Science - Brightspace Tutorial

A tutorial for students regarding navigation of the Social Science Brightspace structure for the Department of Social Sciences and Psychology at KVCC.

Dealing with Brightspace - Learning Outcomes Alignment

This video explores how to create learning outcomes in a class, how to import learning outcomes from one class (master) to another, and how to attach learning outcomes (align) to assignments, discussions, and quiz questions for assessment purposes.

Dealing with Brightspace - Evaluating Learning Outcomes

Once you have aligned Learning outcomes with the various assessments in your course, this video explores how you evaluate student performance on the learning outcomes in the process of grading.

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