Articles related to the digital learning environment including Brightspace, Starfish, and Redshelf for e-textbooks.

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Adding Assignment, Discussion, Quiz links to Content Modules

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.

Announcements - Copy an Announcement to Another 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 - Create an Announcement

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

Announcements - Deleting Announcements

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

Announcements - Edit an Announcement

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

Announcements - Reordering Announcements

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

Announcements - Restricted to subset of students

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

Assignments - Copy an Assignment to Another Course

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.

Assignments - Creating an Assignment

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 - Editing an assignment

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.

Assignments - Enabling Turnitin

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.

Assignments - Submitting a Panopto Video 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.

Assistant with Starfish

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

Attendance: setting up Qwickly Attendance

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.

Course Banner - Changing the Image

This document shows how to change the Course Banner image.

Course Banner - Changing the Text

This document shows how to customize the Course Banner text.

Course Banner - Removing the Image

This document shows how to remove the Course Banner image.

Course Copy - copy select content to another course

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 Copy - Full Copy 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.

Email - Viewing messages in Brightspace

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

Email: Changing your email address in Brightspace

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.

Email: sending a class email

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

Generating a Certificate of Completion

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

Grades: Automatic Zero for Missing Submissions

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

Guest Account Login

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

Inclusive Access FAQ and Troubleshooting

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

Is there a mobile app for Brightspace?

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.

Making your Brightspace Course Available

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

Modules - How to Use Modules

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

Panopto - Setting up Panopto in Brightspace

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

Quiz Printer widget

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.

Quizzes - Grading Quizzes

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

Quizzes: Setting up time accommodations

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

Quizzes: Submit an 'In Progress' quiz attempt

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.

Setting up RedShelf Digital Learning Materials in Brightspace

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

Student Self-enrollment: using the Discover tool

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

Transferring Final Grades to myOswego

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.