LMS Weekly Update: Common Questions, April Release and Upcoming Brightspace and Zoom PD Sessions

Posted on Friday, April 24th, 2020


Common Questions this Week:

  • How do I use the Grade Entry in ACSIS ? Click here to learn how to download the final grades from Brightspace and upload them into ACSIS.
  • My Spring course starts later than the default start date of the course. Can I change it? YES! While in your course, go to Tools/Course Admin /Course Offering Information and select the date when your course starts. The course will display as Closed in your My Courses widget.

Important! 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.

  • How do I schedule an appointment and get help with my Brightspace courses? You can schedule an appointment by clicking here. Note that you need to be using your Algonquin credentials in order to access our booking form.

You can still get help by emailing brightspace@algonquincollege.com. When you email us, make sure to use descriptive subjects (avoid generic titles like “Help!”, “Problem” or “Brightspace”).

April System Update

This month’s update brings only a few minor changes to the system. First one is on the Assignments Tool page, where the New column name was changed to New Submissions. The second one is about the Pagination defaults for the Classlist and Grades tools – Now you have the option to display 25, 50, 75, 100 or 200 users per page.

Brightspace and Zoom PD Sessions

Learning and Teaching Services department will be offering Brightspace and Zoom PD sessions ahead of the Spring semester, starting on May 4th. The LTS website will be updated over the next week with session details, as well as additional resources, tips and guides relating to remote teaching.

 


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