Digital Learning Environment

All types of assessments (assignments, discussions, quizzes) need to be added to a Content module. Having the student access assessments from a Content module provides you with additional statistics concerning your students activity within your course.

You can easily copy an existing announcement to other courses using the Copy Announcement option. Note, that announcement restrictions will not be copied.

Announcements are a good way to provide learners with course updates.

This document is to demonstrate how to delete Announcements in Brightspace.

The purpose of this document is to demonstrate how to edit existing Announcements in Brightspace.

The purpose of this document is to demonstrate how to reorder announcements.

Brightspace allows announcements to be visible to a specific group of students. This ability may be useful in merged or cross-listed courses.

You can quickly create new assignments from existing assignments using the Copy Assignment option. This feature copies all settings of an existing assignment except the associated grade item and Turnitin settings.

This document provides the steps to create an assignment in Brightspace. The steps will include how to add the assignment to the grade book along with how to add the assignment to the Content section of the course.

Assignments can be easily edited. This allows you to initially create an assignment then update any missing/incorrect information. Note, certain settings cannot be changed after student submissions are received.

Turnitin is a tool to aid with plagiarism detection. Work submitted to Turnitin.com is reviewed compared against both institutional and global databases and flags work that may not be original. The tool also has its own inline grading function.

In this article, we will review the steps necessary to create a video in Panopto and submit it to an assignment in a Brightspace course.

Starfish only setup in Brightspace for ease of access. The Advisement Center is responsible for resolving Starfish issues.

Qwickly Attendance allows instructors and students to easily track course attendance. The tool allows for student self check-in through the use of a PIN. Emails can be automatically sent to absent students. Grades can be given for class attendance and linked to the grade book.

This document shows how to change the Course Banner image.

This document shows how to customize the Course Banner text.

This document shows how to remove the Course Banner image.

Course materials created in one course can easily be copied to another course. Using this method will copy select course components to a different course.

Course materials created in one course can easily be copied to another course. Using this method will copy all date and grade book settings.

Emails sent from Brightspace to your campus email address can be viewed inside Brightspace using the Message Alert icon.

The majority of SUNY campuses share one Brightspace instance. This provides students taking courses at more than one campus easy access to all of their courses. The email address in Brightspace is associated with the campus that created your account. However, this email address may no reflect the campus where you are taking your courses. This means that all of your email notifications sent from Brightspace courses will go to your prior email address. You have the ability to update your email.

Communicating with your class using the Brightspace email function allows you to provide your students with important information.

Certificates are also awarded based on criteria determined by the instructor. Certificates include a PDF that users can print.

A zero grade can be automatically entered in the gradebook for students who fail to submit an assignment or quiz by its due date. This feature requires a future due date. It is not retroactive. At the time of the due date, any missing submissions will receive a grade of zero. You still have the ability to manually override the zero should the work be submitted later. 

Best practice is to turn the setting on at the start of the semester. Doing so will prevent students with missing work having

This document walks you through the process of logging into SUNY Oswego’s Brightspace environment using a Brightspace guest account.

This article outlines instructions regarding some common issues related to Inclusive Access FAQ and troubleshooting.

This article explains how to access Brightspace on mobile devices through the Pulse app. The app can be found in the Google Play Store and the App Store.

On Campus Home page, click on Qwickly Course Tools > Course Availability > update course On/Off toggle

Modules and sub-modules are used to organize content within Brightspace. This document will walk through creating such Modules.

This article details the instructions for faculty on how to add a Panopto video to their course in Brightspace.

The Quiz Printer is a widget that you can utilize on Course Offering homepages to assist instructors in creating printer-friendly versions of your existing quizzes in Brightspace. This widget works with the Quiz tool in Brightspace and is not intended to be a replacement for it.

The purpose of this document is to provide brief guidance as to where to go to grade a quiz.

Brightspace supports global student accommodations. The accommodation is then applied to all course quizzes/tests.

The purpose of this document is to explain how to submit a student’s in progress quiz attempt.  A quiz can get stuck “In Progress” if a student closes their browser without submitting.  If the quiz access closes or the quiz timer runs out, a student may not be able to get back in to submit their work.  In such cases, it is usually easiest for the instructor to ‘force submit’ the quiz for the student.

This article will show instructors how to put a link to their digital learning materials for Inclusive Access through RedShelf in their Brightspace course.

The Discover tool is located on the Oswego’s Brightspace landing page. This tool allows students to find courses that allow self-enrollment.

This guide walks you through the steps needed to successfully move student final grades from Brightspace to myOswego. Note: this guide assumes that you are utilizing a Grade Scheme. If you have not done so already, either go back and set up the Grade Scheme. Otherwise, you will need to convert the grades downloaded into their respective letter grade.