LMS Weekly Update: Brightspace Bites Registration Now Open
Posted on Thursday, May 16th, 2019
Brightspace Pro Tips Week isn’t only about teaching. It’s about community involvement. Here is a reminder about the fun ways you can participate.
Brightspace Bites Workshops (May 27 – 31)
Learn the latest tips and tricks from our LMS experts at our ‘digestible’ Brightspace workshops – only 30 minutes each! Each session features refreshments and cheesy door prizes: wireless mice. We know Brightspace requires heavy clicking. Register here.
Best Practice Potluck (May 29th)
Submit your best Brightspace course by May 21 for a chance to win $50 on your employee card. Select professors will be invited to present their best practices at a special workshop. Submit your course here.
PIE Drive and Toss @ Boss (May 30th)
Donations urgently needed. Not money, not clothes – pies! These pies will be raffled away on May 30 and the proceeds will be donated to the Algonquin Food Cupboard. Sign up to donate a pie here.
Faculty who have submitted or submit an idea to the Product Idea Exchange could be chosen to throw a pie in the face of Farbod Karimi, Chair of Learning and Teaching Services! To find out how to use the PIE, start here. Enter the contest here.
View Content as Learner
This week, your LMS team would like to share more about all the ways you can preview your course content, grades and quizzes as a learner. Check out the module in the Brightspace Essentials course for Faculty: https://brightspace.algonquincollege.com/d2l/le/content/6832/Home?itemIdentifier=D2L.LE.Content.ContentObject.ModuleCO-2540712
Updates to Assignment Annotation Tool
This months release of Brightspace includes two small additions to improve user experience when annotating assignments; Instructors can now annotate in full screen and rotate assignments. In order to use the Annotation Tool, users need to check the “Make annotation tools available for assessment” box in the Properties tab from the Edit Assignment section.
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