LMS Weekly Update: Tools for Course Delivery

Posted on Friday, May 15th, 2020

Tools for Course Delivery

If you are looking for a centralized webpage with lots of great information on Brightspace, Zoom and other educational technologies (Honorlock, Padlet, Kahoot, Adobe Spark, Mentimeter, etc), please visit the LTS website.

Zoom Security Changes

Please be aware that, as first announced in April, password protection and waiting rooms have been turned on by default for all Zoom meetings. We encourage you to schedule whole class meetings via the Zoom Classroom in Brightspace. If you do this, you will never need to share the link or password with students, as they can access the meeting via Tools > Zoom Classroom in your course.

Remote Teaching PD

Learning and Teaching Services will continue to offer PD sessions on how to use Brightspace, the Zoom Classroom and other educational technologies throughout the semester. You can find all of the details and updates on their PD webpage.

Common Questions at the Beginning of the Semester

  • I don’t see my 2020 Spring/Summer course(s) when I login to Brightspace. First, make sure that you click on the 2020 Spring/Summer label in the My Courses widget. If no course displays there, then check ACSIS and/or with your support officer to ensure your course(s) are assigned to you. Email us at brightspace@algonquincollege.com if you still don’t see them listed after 48 hours.
  • How do I perform a Course Copy? Click here for details on how to copy the entire course content or just selected areas of the course.
  • How do I add a user to my course? Students are automatically added to your courses, but you might want to add another teacher to your course and this is how you do it.

GOOD TO KNOW! There are times when you need to add other teachers to your courses, with the intention to have them do a course copy to their courses, but you would like to make sure that your course content does not get altered by mistake. Instead of adding them with the instructor role, please use the new course copier role. Don’t forget to remove them from the course once the copy is completed.

  • I copied the wrong course! How do I delete the content and perform the course copy again? Click here for information on how to delete the course content and also the course activities and gradebook columns.
  • I have access to a course as an instructor, but I would like to have the course removed from my list of courses. What should I do?

Option 1: If you also see this course on your list of courses in ACSIS, first you need to talk to your department and make sure you have not been assigned by mistake to that course in Genesis. Then you can remove yourself from the course, using the Classlist option, from the Tools menu. Click on the checkbox beside your name and choose Unenrol.

Option 2: If you have been added by another fellow instructor, just remove yourself from that course. No need to email our LMS support.

  • I am teaching multiple sections of the same course and I would like an easy way to manage the common content. When teaching multiple sections of the same course, combining those sections into one shell might save you some time.

Send an email to brightspace@algonquincollege.com if you would like us to combine your courses and please include your preference in the request. Please make sure you give us the complete course code (include section numbers, too), the option you would like us to use when we combine them (into an existing shell or into a new one – read here details on this), and also if you would still need to keep the individual sections available to you and students.

 


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