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.

The purpose of this document is to provide a brief overview of how to grade an assignment.

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.

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

You can leverage D2L Lumi to generate summaries of Content modules and activities in both the New Content Experience (Lessons) and Classic Content Experience. When you generate a summary of a selected module or unit, D2L Lumi Summary provides you with three summary types to choose from: A summary written from thelearner perspective (I will...), A summary from the instructor perspective (We will...), or A summary written about the content module or unit (The module will...).

You can use Lumi Idea for Assignments to assist in creating a new assignment or to modify and uplift an existing assignment. The generated Assignment idea needs to be review for accuracy before saving. Learners will not know the assignment was generated using AI-assistance.

You can use Lumi Idea to generate discussion ideas to assist in creating a new discussion topic or to modify and uplift an existing topic. The generated Discussion idea needs to be review for accuracy before saving. Learners will not know the discussion topic was generated using AI-assistance.

D2L Lumi Pro for Brightspace consists of Lumi Question, and Lumi Idea, which allow you to generate quiz questions, assignment ideas, discussion ideas, and module content summaries suggestions using AI technology to improve your workflow efficiency. The AI generated material must be reviewed before inserted into your Brightspace course. Lumi Pro works with the following content items - web pages, assignment topics, discussion topics, quiz topics, videos, and most files (except PDFs).

You can use Lumi Question to assist in creating a new quiz questions within your Question Library. These questions can then be added to your course's quizzes. The generated questions idea need to be review for accuracy before saving. Learners will not know the assignment was generated using AI-assistance.

Note: Quiz questions can be generated from free-text or source topics added to the Content tool.

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.

Many faculty make use of Manage Dates to review and make date changes to your course prior to semester start. The tool allows you to see all of the dates in the same location and allows you to make quick edits from one screen can be helpful when the semester schedule needs to be adjusted.

Best practice is to set previous courses to inactive prior to the start of the new semester. This is to prevent any incomplete assignments from past semesters in their “Update Alert” notifications listed under the bell icon at the top of students’ Brightspace web pages.

Discussions are a valuable tool in online learning, fostering interaction, building community, and enhancing critical thinking. They offer a space for students to engage with course content, interact with peers and instructors, and develop communication and problem-solving skills.

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.

The leader role has the ability to manage have the manage course enrollment in special courses/groups (non-banner courses).

This is an advanced use of the Grade book that allows a student to have the possibility of extra credit on a Quiz without using specifically designated extra credit questions.  In practice this is done by providing students with enough questions to potentially earn, for example, 105/100 on a Quiz.  This article presumes an already existing Quiz is being modified.  If a new Quiz is being created, some of these options may be set when the Quiz is initially linked to the Grade book.

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

The Gradebook is where you can see an overview of how every member of a class is doing, and provides the basis for how students see their grades, and how the final grades are calculated.  This document will walk you through setting up Categories for different types of learning activities.

Categories are required for Gradebooks using Weighted Grading Systems, but can also be useful in organizing Points based systems.

Gradebook columns not associated with a Brightspace assessment (assignment, discussion, quiz) can be deleted directly from Grades. Note: before deleting a column confirm that it does not contain grades. Deleting a column that contains grades will result in data loss that can not be recovered.

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.

The Grade book is where you can see an overview of how every member of a class is doing, and provides the basis for how students see their grades, and how the final grades are calculated.  This document will walk you through the initial setup of the Grade book using the Setup Wizard.

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

This document walks you through the process of logging into SUNY Oswego’s Brightspace environment using a Brightspace guest account using the Network Login button. These instructions are for users who have access to SUNY Brightspace but do not have an Oswego email address.

This article will walk through the steps necessary to opt out of course materials for a course using the Inclusive Access program with VitalSource.

Hypothesis is a tool that enables you to make notes in the margins of digital texts and videos anywhere on the web and share them with others. Using social annotation fosters collaborative discussion, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of the material.

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.

Best practice recommends placing your Panopto videos in their relevant content module. This document will go over how faculty can use the Insert Stuff Tool in Brightspace to add a Panopto video(s) to a Create a File (Web Page) item. 

Note: Best Practice for Lecture Capture videos is to continue to have students use the Panopto Video - OSW link to access class recordings.

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

The print quiz feature supports all native Brightspace quiz question types, shuffling and randomization options, question pools, multiple versions, and an Answer Key. This allows you to easily print quizzes for offline use.

The Print Quiz functionality supports a variety of quiz options.

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.

You can use the Answer Key provided for each quiz version to quickly and easily grade printed quizzes taken offline. This Answer Key includes the correct answers and, where applicable, the grading method.

In order to use the SUNY Oswego Inclusive Access program, faculty have to install a link in their course for VitalSource. Please note that in order for this to work, you need to have picked your textbook for the program prior to the deadline imposed by SUNY.

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