LMS Weekly Update: A few reminders…

Posted on Friday, May 1st, 2020

Changing a Course Start Date in Brightspace

This is a reminder that all instructors can edit the default start date for their courses. While in your course, go to Tools/Course Admin/Course Offering Information and edit the date and time when your course starts.

  • If the start date is in the future, then your course will look greyed out. Students will see the course listed on their My Courses widget, but they won’t have access to course content. You can still send emails to your students from within the course, but, if you post a new announcement, it will NOT be sent as an email to your students.
  • If the course end date is in the past, then your course will be displayed to you and your students as Closed. Students can still access a Closed course, you can still send emails to your students from within a closed course, but, if you post a new announcement, it will NOT be sent as an email to your students.

When you need to make sure that your students don’t have access to your course for a limited amount of time, while you are loading the content for instance, you may choose to make it Inactive from Tools/Course Admin/Course Offering Information. Just uncheck the Course is active box. Note that your students will not view an inactive course at all in their My Courses widget.

Email Address for Brightspace Faculty Support

Please note that brightspace@algonquincollege.com is the main email address for Faculty Brightspace support. When you email us, a work order will automatically be open for you and you will be emailed a case number.

Course Copier Role in Brightspace

Whenever you ask us to give another instructor access to a previous version of a course, with the goal of copying the course content into their own shell, we would like to remind you that we will be using the course copier role. Users with this course role can not alter course content by mistake and also they don’t have access to student information (grades, assignment submissions, discussion boards, etc).

Assignment Grader Mobile App – End of Life Notice

The Assignment Grader app, which is a mobile app built for instructors to evaluate and give feedback to students using tablet devices, will be removed by D2L from the app stores on September 30, 2020. After this date the app is no longer going to be supported by D2L and by the Algonquin College LMS Support Team, although, if you already have it on your device and you find it useful, you can still use it for a while, but NO SUPPORT will be offered. Click here for details about this.

Brightspace and Zoom PD Sessions

Learning and Teaching Services will be offering Brightspace and Zoom PD sessions ahead of the Spring semester, starting on May 4th, and their website has an updated list of PD sessions. Note that registration is required, so please visit the site ahead of time to make sure you have the Zoom access details.

 


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