-: Welcome to the Brightspace Assignment Session.
This session is facilitated
by Desire to Learn Brightspace Parent Company.
My name is Wendy Verrei-Berenback
and I'm with the Center for Teaching and Learning
and we're hosting this session today
with our Desire to Learn Partners.
This session will be recorded
and published to the Brightspace Implementation website
so that you can review at any time.
This session is an overview of how
to create assignments in Brightspace.
We'll have a follow up session that will go deeper
on assignments, and rubrics, and connecting them
to the grade center in the beginning
of the first week of October, and so we'll let you know
when those sessions are available for registration.
Today we're gonna use the the chat for question and answer,
so please enter your questions there.
If for some reason we can't figure out the answer today,
we will certainly get back to you.
So far so good though, I think we've been able
to address most of the questions during the session.
Our session this afternoon will be facilitated
by Desire to Learn's trainer Jackie Nehls.
Jackie has worked in education
and corporate training for 15 years.
She's a certified adult educator
with a degree in higher ed management
and she's currently studying at McMaster University.
And with that I'm gonna hand things over to Jackie
and we'll get started.
-: Well, thank you, Wendy, and hi everyone.
I'm really glad to be here
and I'm glad to expand on some of the skill sets
with the assignment tool.
Some of the things that we'll share
with you today you may have seen a sort of introduction to
in our Instructor Essentials,
but if this is your first session with us,
we hope to engage you in the assignment tool.
Now I'll start within the PowerPoint presentation
as I like to do, and then we're gonna go
into the environment and start to work inside
of your environment area.
We do encourage you to log into your sandbox area
and build with us so that you can get some practice
before the end of our session.
As Wendy mentioned, we're going to give you an insight
into how assignments are built
and some of the basic tools with this assignment feature.
And as we progress through more training sessions
we'll take deeper dives into more of the features,
but we do hope to acclimate you to this tool.
It's very fun and useful.
Now with that being said,
just to reiterate what Wendy was talking about,
we're gonna look at building assignments
within the Brightspace environment.
There are specific settings that you can set
to make each assignment individualized
or different types of assignments that you can build.
You can connect assignments directly to the grade book
and then from there you can grade it
within the assignments tool
or go to the grade book and grade it there.
We won't get into the grade book today
because this is a topic that takes a little bit more time,
but we will further connect the assignments to grades
at a later session.
Now with the assignments,
you have a dashboard that you can work within
and within that dashboard it is seen
by you, the faculty member.
Students will have their own version
of this assignments dashboard,
but we can also connect assignments directly to content,
which means you can have the assignment built
into the content unit that you want the students
to practice within.
You can preview the assignments within your dashboard.
You can also look to see who has submitted the assignment,
who has started the assignment,
and you can preview and edit.
We also have a way in which to evaluate student submissions
and with feedback features we can add a rubric,
you can provide feedback in a video note,
which means you would record up
to a 30 minute video note in feedback,
and we can use something we call an annotation tool.
So hopefully we'll have time
to share all of that with you today
but we do wanna introduce you to the concepts.
So that's what we're gonna talk about.
Now, again, I'll just show you a couple
of screenshots first in a PowerPoint
and then we're gonna go out to the live environment
and start to build together
With assignments, this is the dashboard on the top,
left-hand side of my screen, that you will see
once you start to build your assignments.
Now assignments can be built from scratch
or you can start to build in Brightspace
and then you can copy and paste components
from outside of Brightspace directly into an assignment.
There are many types of assignments that you can build.
They can range from just a text response
that you will receive from your learner
where they just give you a comment or evidence of learning,
or you can have assignments that are file uploads.
So you are requesting from the student
that they upload a file in terms of what they've learned
or what you're asking them to submit.
With a file upload, it can be a file such as a pdf,
a PowerPoint, a Word document.
It could be a media file that they upload.
It could even be a recorded video that you're asking them
to upload as evidence of learning.
Assignments can also be observed in person.
So something that you see a student doing in class
or in a clinical setting.
And it can also be something that the student submits to you
and you can grade it in the assignments tool.
Now when it comes to setting up the assignments,
it's very simple to do.
There are a few steps involved,
just like if you saw our quizzes,
there are four basic steps.
This is very similar to that.
You'll see a lot of the same type of features,
but again, we're working
with assignments instead of quizzes today.
Now we do have the option
and availability to add a rubric to the assignment.
Rubrics are built inside of Brightspace,
so if you have a brilliant rubric
that you've used in another system, we can use some of that,
but we do start to build rubrics inside
of Brightspace using something else or from scratch.
The reason we build the rubric in Brightspace
is because once we build it and connect it to an assignment,
it will automatically connect, as we grade it and assess,
to the grade book.
We can add feedback, we can build rubrics,
again, using components from other rubrics,
and we can share the rubric, or hide the rubric,
from the student.
We can also share the points or the grade,
and we can hide the feedback
that are presented to the student.
So there's many different options when it comes to rubrics,
but they can be attached directly to an assignment.
Above and beyond that, whether you use a rubric or not,
we still have many other ways to provide feedback
for our students in the system.
Whether it's a text submission,
a file submission, observed in person, or otherwise,
we have the opportunity to provide a lot
of different types of feedback.
We mentioned the rubric,
but you can also use what we call the scoring feature.
So if you'll notice on my screen,
the second box here on the right hand side is the score.
This will allow you to just put
in a basic point value score,
and then on top of which you can add your own feedback,
which is a written response, but you can add multimedia,
record a video, in your feedback features.
We can publish the grade directly to the student
with an automatic publish button,
or you can save the grade and feedback as a draft.
In that manner in saving it as a draft,
this will allow you to be able
to publish the entire class assignment grade all at once,
or you can have a meeting with the student
and share with them the feedback
and then publish at a later time.
So there is a bit of flexibility.
Now in the center of my PowerPoint,
you will notice there is a document
with something we call the annotation tool.
If a student is submitting a file document,
whether it's a pdf, word doc, PowerPoint or what have you,
we have the availability to annotate
on that file submission.
This allows us to give even more ways
to give feedback to the students.
So we will share this with you today
and share with you how the annotation works
alongside of the rubric, the score, or the feedback.
You can use only one of these or all in combination.
It's really up to you and your workflow.
So with that being said, again,
I'm gonna jump into my environment.
So if someone could confirm, you see the main landing page
or institutional homepage on the screen?
Student: Yes, we see it.
-: Perfect.
Now, if you've been with us before,
I've been using the JN Train sandbox space
to build our components, and you're welcome to jump
into your own sandbox space if you have one.
I do encourage you to build along with me
so that if you do have questions once you're clicking about,
you can certainly ask them, but again,
you're welcome to follow along with my screen.
Now, with the assignments tool,
you'll find them in the dropdown under activities.
If you cannot find it here or you prefer,
you can also go to the course admin tool tab
and this takes you to the behind the scenes of the course.
Now, when we go to assignments,
here is that dashboard I talked about.
This dashboard just allows you to see
which assignments are in your course,
what has been created, have you graded them,
and things like that.
In the dashboard, we see three buttons.
To create a new assignment,
we would simply click new assignment.
But before we get there today, I just wanna share with you,
that just like the quiz tool,
you can create categories for your assignments.
Now categories, very easy to create, are just folders,
so you can place specific assignments in each category.
It is not a required thing,
but it is something to help you organize.
You can click add category,
and you may say unit one,
or by topic matter, whatever you so choose
for your categories.
Create another category, maybe this is unit two,
whatever you see fit,
and then close.
Now I'll show you how we can associate the category
to the assignments in a moment.
This more actions tab allows you
to do a number of different things.
You can preview what you've created
in your assignments tool.
You can also reorder.
Now in your dashboard you see on my dashboard
it says "Assignment 1, Assignment 2,"
which is in order of how I'm presenting them
to my students in the class.
If you're building assignments
and you want to reorder how they appear to the students,
you can select reorder.
In this manner, you can reorder, again,
how the assignments appear to the students
within the assignments dashboard.
Now, an event log.
An event log is meant for you, the instructor,
to be able to see who's created the assignment,
who made changes to the assignment,
and what's happening with the assignments
within your course.
This is more of an audit feature,
but it's also a great feature if you accidentally,
or on purpose, deleted an assignment and need to restore it.
So when you select that more dropdown
and click event log, it'll share with you
what assignments have been created,
what have been deleted, and what might have been restored.
So on purpose, I deleted assignment three.
I may click into the event log and click restored.
Again, it's just a feature so that if I accidentally,
or on purpose, delete something, I can always bring it back.
It will give me the action that was taken,
who made that change, who may have deleted it
or restored it, and the date that that action happened.
Another great use case for the event log
is if you have multiple teachers working within a course,
you can always keep track of what's happening
with those assignments.
Now, just as we've seen with other tools in Brightspace,
you can make any assignment visible or hidden.
Again, visible means that students have access to it,
hidden means that they cannot see it.
And again, if required, you could delete any
of the assignments.
Now, another feature you have is bulk edit,
and bulk edit you'll find throughout Brightspace
with various tools, but for the assignment tool,
if I select this box at the top left
of my table here in my dashboard and then click bulk edit,
it will allow me to edit the assignments
as they are within my course.
Now, in editing them, I could create a number
of placeholders or assignments
and then come back and edit their start dates,
end dates, and due dates.
And here we come back to our category.
So just a few moments ago, I created two categories,
unit one and two, and now in the bulk edit feature,
I can now assign a category to an assignment,
and it's a simple click or a dropdown,
and choose which assignment is going into which category.
Again, categories at this level are not required.
They are something that you can use to organize.
Now when we build our assignments, we can add start dates,
due dates, and end dates.
But again, if you're building a placeholder assignment,
you can always come back to bulk edit
and select specific dates that are required
for specific assignments.
When you're ready, you can save and close,
and now you'll notice I have unit one
with assignment one and two
and unit two with assignment three.
Now, beside each assignment,
you can also click the dropdown,
and this is individual to the assignment one.
From here I can do something called view submissions,
edit the assignment, hide from users.
I can delete or copy
and I can look at what we call a submission log.
So here in the more actions drop down, we have an event log,
and this is limited to what instructors have done
within your assignments feature.
Here, submission log looks at which students have submitted
or started this particular assignment,
and view submissions allows me
to view the submissions I've received
and begin to provide feedback.
Now in my table I have new submissions completed,
evaluated, and feedback published.
I also have a due date available,
so if I've assigned a due date to any particular assignment,
it will show that due date for me.
Under these completed, evaluated,
and feedback published rows or columns, I see numbers.
So under assignment one completed, I see one out of one.
What that indicates is I have one student assigned
in my Brightspace sandbox space
and I have completed grading of that one,
or sorry, the student has completed it.
I have not evaluated it yet, so I see zero out of one,
and I have not published any feedback.
Now I see this number one in blue,
that means if I were to click on this,
I could then go and grade it.
So that's the high level tour of the dashboard
in the assignments tool.
From here, we're actually gonna start
and build a new assignment.
So I'm gonna click new assignment
and it opens up into my new assignment space.
This may look familiar,
or you may have been in another training,
but we can give this assignment a name.
I can name this anything that I need for my curriculum,
or syllabi, or how it's going to be displayed,
or what topic matter it may be.
So I could call this assignment four.
If I could spell it.
Now, when we build assignments, we can consider
do we want this assignment to be a gradable activity?
We don't have to make the final decision now,
but when we build this assignment, we can decide, yes,
assignment four will be graded.
If that's the case, I can come to this area here
called grade out of, and click directly into that box.
I could assign what we call a point value to this assignment
and just give it a point value
that it would be graded against.
Now when we're building an assignment
and we're looking at a point value,
although I'm giving this a point value per se,
I can have a different grade scheme in my grade book.
And again, we'll go through that
a little bit more indepthly soon.
For the moment, assignment four,
I'm going to allot this assignment worth 25 points.
Once I add something in this grayed out of area,
it will automatically connect to the grade book.
Now, if I choose to make a change, I could then say,
and select once I click this dropdown, not in grade book.
So now the connection is not in the grade book,
although I still have an allotted 25 points,
or I could suggest not in grade book
and remove the point value.
We have this other tab here, edit or link to existing,
which means I can add it to the grade book,
and link it to something else.
When I click into edit or link to existing,
I can change the grade type and scheme,
or I can link to something
that's already inside of my grades.
Right now we haven't built our grade book,
so there's no link available.
For now, we're just gonna leave it at 25 points,
and right now it's going to go to the grade book.
The next selection we have is due date.
Due date is what we call a soft date in Brightspace.
So when is this due by?
I might suggest that this is due by August,
or sorry, September 30th.
I'm still living in the summer.
I can even suggest a due date by timeframe,
so 11:59 PM, and I can change or adjust that as needed.
Now because a due date is a soft date,
it means that beyond this date,
the students will still be able to access
and submit to this assignment,
but the due date, if they have yet to submit,
will turn red, and it will show as red in their calendar
or in their course schedule,
indicating that it's overdue,
but they can still access and submit.
Now for our assignment,
we could give some instructions here.
I'm just gonna type instructions here.
And you'll notice, if you've been with us before,
we have access to what we call the Brightspace HTML editor.
This editor will allow me to add different components.
I can use my three power buttons here.
So insert stuff will allow me to bring in something
from my computer in my HTML editor text box,
bring something from the behind the scenes of my course,
or a public file that's shared across your organization.
I could record a video
or add a video I've already recorded in Brightspace.
Go to our media library, add a YouTube,
insert a link, or an embed code.
So the instructions can be very in depth
and I can add extra components to it.
I can add an image by selecting the image box
and it will allow me to drag
and drop an image from my computer,
copy an image from a URL link,
course files, or public files.
I can also link this assignment
to something that's already inside of my course.
So what this allows me to do is
if I were linking this assignment four
to some content that I've already built in my course,
I could link that content here in the instructions area.
So when I click quick link,
I can go directly to some content in my course,
and I can suggest that this pertains
to a specific component that is in the content.
When the student opens up assignment four,
they'll read the instructions,
and they'll be able to click into this link,
and open this document to refer
to what this assignment pertains to.
You'll also note just below this Brightspace editor,
I can add a file.
So if I click this tab, it allows me,
again, to do a file upload,
but in this manner it would be an attachment,
so it'll show outside of the Brightspace area box.
I can link to an existing activity, again,
just as we saw a moment ago,
and I can add a web link if I so choose.
I could also record up to a 30 minute audio message
giving instructions to my students,
or upload an MP3 or MP4 video that I've already created.
Again, because it's outside of the Brightspace editor,
it will show to the students as an attachment.
I can also record a video, not only from insert stuff,
but as an attachment here,
where you could record a video from your webcam
on your computer or your phone,
wherever you have a computer device attached,
and it'll allow me to give those video instructions.
Now at the top of the screen on the right hand side,
I can click in and select availability dates and conditions.
This is where I can be more specific
with my dates within my assignment.
So we've added a due date, which is that soft date.
They have to complete it by this date,
but they can still access it after that date.
Now we can get to the specifics.
So I can add a start date.
A start date is the very first day
that the students will see
and have access to this assignment.
So perhaps today is the start date at 12:01 AM.
An end date means it's the very last day
and time that a student has access and can submit.
After the end date, this assignment will no longer
be available to submit to.
So I can extend this one day
beyond my due date if I so choose
or it can match your due date.
It's really up to you.
But again, the feature and functionality
of the due date is to show the student that it is overdue,
but they can still submit.
There are many scenarios to use around due date,
start date, and end date.
Sorry, go ahead.
Wendy: Sorry, Jackie, this is Wendy,
but there's a relevant question in the chat
about start dates and end dates.
The question is, is there a way
to keep the the assignment visible to students,
but prevent submissions?
-: Oh I don't know.
I was gonna suggest release conditions,
but release conditions are even more sticky
than the due dates and end dates.
In our discussion tool, you can restrict access
so it's visible, but they can't actually click into it.
But in our assignments,
we don't have that feature quite yet.
Wendy: Okay, thank you.
And then there's some other questions about rubrics,
but I don't wanna interrupt your flow.
Maybe why don't you just continue here?
We'll circle back to the rubric questions.
-: All right, well, I'm good with an interruption of flow,
but we can get there, I promise.
So we have our due dates, start dates, and end dates.
Again, you could have an end date
where it completely disappears.
They will still be able to see it in the course content,
but they will not be able to submit beyond this end date,
so I don't know if that's what you're referring to?
So if I put assignment four in a module,
it'll still be there, but they can no longer submit.
So let me know if that's what you mean.
Yeah, release conditions.
Now you'll note we have release conditions attached
to several different activities in Brightspace.
We also have it connected to assignments.
A release condition, if this is new,
it is a criteria that you would set
on this assignment that a student must complete
a specific criteria that you've selected
before they can actually see the assignment.
Now with a release condition, you can suggest,
okay, well, I would like them
to visit a specific content topic,
or achieve a grade on a specific item within their course,
or achieve a specific score on a quiz.
So for example, I could choose a score on a quiz,
choose the quiz that the student
must meet that criteria for, choose a parameter,
so greater than or equal to, less than or equal to,
whatever I decide.
In between a 55 and a 65.
Whatever that condition or criteria is,
a student must meet this
before they'll see the assignment four.
Now just to remind you, with a release condition,
this outweighs the dates,
and I say that because, with the release condition,
if a student never actually receives a 55
to 65 percentage on module one quiz,
assignment four will not be released to them.
If you're setting date parameters
and the student does not see this quiz
or get that result from the criteria you've set,
if it goes beyond the end date,
they will never be able to submit to it.
So be very thoughtful when creating release conditions
and dates and just understand whether
or not you believe the student will be able
to achieve this condition before the date.
You can add multiple release conditions to an assignment.
You can decide on due dates, or just a start date,
or just an end date, or a combination of all,
but there's lots of different components
that you can set towards an assignment.
Now, above and beyond that,
we have something called manage special access.
This tool can be used for a variety of purposes.
So manage special access allows you
to choose a specific student,
or a couple of students, who may have extra time,
or different timeframes, with assignment four.
So I can choose, allow users with special access
to submit outside of what I've said for the class,
and I can click add users to special access,
and choose different due dates, end dates, or start dates.
So it just gives me flexibility
for students who may require a little bit more time
or are starting the assignment a little bit
beyond the rest of the class.
Now we also have allow only the users
with special access to see this folder.
So in this capacity, maybe assignment four is bonus,
and I just want a specific group
to be able to have access to assignment four.
So I could choose the users with that special access.
I could choose a different date parameter if I want to,
but only that group that I've added will have access
to that particular assignment.
Now, anytime you provide special access,
you will see this symbol,
as well as in your assignment dashboard,
just to let you know you do have users with special access.
If you need to adjust, you can always click back
into manage special access and edit this particular student
or add more special access.
Another way you could use special access
is if a student comes to you and says,
I've missed the deadline of October 1st,
can you please extend the deadline just for me
to October 3rd?
You could go into your special access
and you could adjust the date
for that one user to extend the timeframe
after the assignment has been submitted.
This just prevents you from having
to change the overall end date for all students.
You could do it for one or two using special access.
Submission and completion.
Wendy: Jackie, I'm sorry, this is Wendy again.
I think before we go to submission and completion,
we still need to clear up about availability.
And Laura, please feel free to chime in too,
but her question in the chat says,
"Does the assignment disappear to students
after the end date or can they still see it?
Or is it that they can see the title
but not the content of the assignment?"
Jackie: No, I don't want to discard.
Save and close.
I'm just gonna go back to an assignment.
I'm gonna edit this assignment.
I'm just going to take this assignment
and I'm gonna adjust the date so I can share this with you.
So for assignment one, I've placed the end date
of yesterday at 11:59 PM.
I'm gonna save and close.
Now I'm going to jump into a student view.
So now you can see I'm Jackie Lerner.
Jackie Lerner can jump into the assignment, oh.
That shouldn't have happened.
I apologize, I may have timed myself out.
Now, assignment one I have added to,
I think it was module one, wasn't it?
Bear with me, trying to get to the best view.
(laughs) Apologize.
We'll go to assignments.
So here you'll notice I adjusted the date
for this assignment to be closed
by September 21st at 11:59 PM.
The student can still see the assignment here,
and they would still be able to see the assignment
if I attached it to the content, but they cannot access it.
They can go into their submission.
So you'll notice here, for the student view,
it's one submission.
So I can click into that
and it will show me my submission,
what my response was, but I cannot adjust.
So beyond the end date,
students will still see it in their course
and in their dashboard,
but they cannot do anything beyond that.
So I don't know if that clarifies it for you or helps?
Laura: Yeah, I just wanted to make sure
that students who had submitted something
would still be able to see what they submitted
even if you ended the assignment.
Jackie: So yes, they can click into their dashboard,
like we can as a faculty, and they should be able
to see that this student has submitted a submission.
When they click into it, they can see the timestamp,
they can see what their response was,
but they cannot make an adjustment.
So you'll notice in their dashboard,
they can't click into assignment one,
and it was closed on September 21st.
Now, if I go into assignment two as the learner
and I submit a file document, until the end date,
I can still come in and check on that document.
I can add more documents.
I can add comments if I need to.
But before that end date, I would still have access
to edit or adjust.
Now, the instructor will be able
to see that in the event log,
that Jackie Lerner continually went back
to assignment two and added or adjusted.
But if there's no end date, they have until the end
of the course to be able to continue to edit.
So hopefully that provided some information.
Wendy: And Jackie, there's one outstanding question
about rubrics, would you like to address that now?
Jackie: Sure.
Wendy: The question is, "If you assign a point value
and then associate a rubric
with a different point value, what happens?"
And then there's some follow up questions as well.
Yeah, why don't we just take it one at a time?
Jackie: Okay, so if I assign a rubric,
underneath evaluation and feedback,
I can click on add rubric.
Now the rubric allows me to create something from scratch
or to add something that I've already built to my course.
Now, administrators can build rubrics
and share them to courses
or instructors can build from scratch.
For the moment, I'm just gonna click add existing,
and I might just choose a rubric that I already have built.
It's now here, depending on the parameters
I've placed on the rubric,
it depends what the student will see.
So when I go to grade this, just make this visible.
Is that the question?
When you grade it, can you adjust it?
Laura: No, my question is now
that you have a rubric attached,
if that point value was 10
and you set this one to be 25
in the grade out of section, what happens?
Jackie: Great point.
So I'm gonna save and close.
I'm actually going to, because I have an example of this,
so bear with me.
When a student comes in to submit their assignment,
they will see the instructions.
This is a file submission.
So they will be able to click into add file,
and then I can go and add a file
to this particular submission.
Now, there is a purpose for me to do this
because I'm gonna share with you how we can grade this
and use that rubric and adjust the rubric score
against the grade point score.
So bear with me.
A student would simply drag
and drop their assignment submission
into the box from their computer, and then click add.
They would then add comments if necessary and submit.
The student has the availability to add a video
or audio as well.
But here you can see that they can view history
of all the docs or submissions
and upload more files if they're allowed.
So I'm gonna click done
and now you can see that assignment two,
I've submitted a file.
Because I don't have an end date that has closed,
I can still log in and click into this file
to see what is still here,
what I've submitted, when I submitted it.
Just to further go back to the previous question.
Now when I go back to my instructor view,
I can see, or in a moment if I refresh,
I should be able to see
that assignment two has a new submission.
So I'm just gonna refresh my screen
and go back to my assignments.
And here I can see there's a new submission.
I could click on this number one,
and as the instructor, here is the document
the student has submitted.
Bear with me.
I didn't notice there wasn't a rubric,
so I'm gonna edit and add a rubric to show you.
Now, for this assignment two, I've allotted 20 points.
I'm gonna add a rubric that is not 20 points.
So I'm just gonna add existing, add this rubric,
save and close.
So now when I click into the submissions,
we now see the rubric is attached,
and we see that I can open this document,
I can add an overall score.
Now we see it's out of 20.
The rubric may be of a different value,
which it is, it's 12.
So if that's the case, I can go back
and I can actually adjust the rubric,
or go back and adjust the scoring in the assignment.
I can also make this point value different
in the grade book.
So I can manually adjust the point value in the grade book.
So does that start to answer your question?
Laura: So basically, none of these things talk
to each other, so if you make a change,
you have to change it everywhere,
or students will see different point values
in different places?
Jackie: So unless you publish it,
they will not see different point values.
So what you could do, is you could go to assignment,
where was that?
Assignment two, edit the assignment.
You could change this to 12 points before you grade.
Once I change that to 12 points, if I go to my grade book,
it should have reflected in that change.
So assignment one, did we connect it?
It should say 12.
So when you adjust an assignment in the assignment tool
and change the grade point value,
it will talk to the grade book.
With the rubric, when I go to grade the rubric,
so if I click number one,
I click into the rubric,
I have the availability to grade the rubric
because I built it inside of Brightspace.
When I select onto the criteria level,
here's we have meet expectations, meets most,
as I hover over, it dynamically adds the criteria level
and what is expected for this particular criteria.
When I select into that area,
it automatically updates the grade
for this criteria that I've built.
If I change my mind and I say, okay,
they didn't really meet a three out of four
for criteria two,
I can click into that out of four,
and I can actually adjust the grade value
to go below or above the level.
So if I originally said this has a point value of 20 points
and my rubric does not match the point value,
in the rubric, I can override the points to match the grade,
or as I adjusted, I could adjust the point value
in the assignment to match the rubric.
So it does speak to the rubric
and it does speak to the grades.
So that's another way where you could
override the point value of the rubric.
Doing that however, confuses the student,
or not, or you could just express
that although the rubric states 12 points,
you could achieve bonus points up to 20 points.
I think it's all in the messaging.
Now, as you override the individual criteria levels
or change as you go, you'll also note that it does change
in the total score.
You could adjust the total score and override that,
and then it will speak to the overall score
here in your overall grade.
We adjusted the overall point value from 20 to 12.
So now the overall grade, as I'm overriding
or grading my score value, matches and speaks to
my overall grade here in my feedback form.
So it's important to make sure
that the rubric does match the point value,
but it's not absolutely necessary.
You could go and adjust the rubric in the rubric tool,
or you could go to the grade book itself
and adjust the point value manually in the grade book.
But if you change or edit the assignment point value,
it should upload to the grade book almost immediately.
Does that help or further confuse?
Laura: Yes, that helps.
It just means if you make a mistake
and put a point value in and an associated rubric
with a different point value,
and that's the point value you want,
you have to make sure you change the assignment one,
or students will see something weird.
I was more asking for the I did it by accident,
not that it was an intentional thing.
Jackie: Right, yes.
Now, with the grade book, if I go to my grades,
there's the assignment two.
I could go into assignment two
and I could click into the document.
You'll notice there is a little document
with a sort of a a bin, if you will.
That means that it is a file submission.
So I could click in here
and it automatically brings me to the feedback grading area.
You'll notice it's at 12 as we updated it in assignment two,
and I could go back and adjust or override.
Now with the rubric, you can make rubrics visible or hidden.
You can also hide the point value
or hide the feedback, or not show either.
So if they don't see the point value,
they're only going to see the grade
that we've allotted to them in the assignment or grade book,
not the point value in the rubric.
So it can be very specific, but to your point, yeah,
if we accidentally made an error,
we could always go back and adjust it.
So hopefully that does help.
Let me know.
Now, we did start to create a couple
of components for our assignments.
So I'm gonna go back to my assignments dashboard here.
And when we were building assignment four,
we have submission and completion.
Now, submission and completion
is where you determine is this attached to a category?
And remember, we created categories at the beginning,
so I could attach it to my unit two category,
and I also get to decide what type
of submission I wanna receive.
Is it file, text, on paper, or observed in person?
Each one has specific parameters that you can select.
For a file submission, you can choose how many files
do you want to receive, excuse me.
So for assignment four,
you may have this assignment designed,
where students can submit a draft,
and then we give them feedback on that draft,
and then they can submit a file
that is a final draft or what have you.
So you could leave it as an unlimited submission,
or you could say, you know what?
You get one shot at this, that's it.
One file, that's all you're allowed to submit.
Now, personally from a student's point of view,
that one file is very scary
because I can't adjust it once I submit.
Now, you can also choose for file submission,
which type of you are restricting your students to submit.
So no restrictions means PDF, Word docs, PowerPoint,
Google Doc, whatever it is, there's no restrictions.
You could suggest that the students are only going
to submit a PDF file.
We typically see this in group work
so that others cannot adjust that document.
Annotatable files that can be pureviewed
without converting them in Brightspace.
Images or videos only, or custom file types only.
So you do have some options as to which type
of file you're going to accept.
And then if you have unlimited file exception,
you can choose how many of those submissions are you keeping
inside of the course.
Evaluation and feedback.
As you noted, we can add a rubric or create from scratch.
Now, add existing, I already had one built
or you can create.
Now, as Wendy pointed out, we will be going
into rubric building later on,
but once you click create new,
it's a fairly easy system to navigate through.
You would give your rubric a name,
choose the type of levels you want to set.
It is extremely adjustable,
so if you only need two levels or you need 10,
you can add them or delete them
by using the trash can or the plus sign.
Now, the levels are customizable,
so level four may not work for you.
You may say exceeds expectations.
Level three might be exceeds most expectations,
and you get that idea.
In the criterion, you could add your criterion
such as clarity of ideas or what have you.
It's all customizable.
Another thing you could consider is
if you already have a rubric on your desktop
that you've been using, you could copy
and paste it directly into these areas,
and you have full flexibility of your editor.
With the rubric themselves, you can have as many criterion
or little criterion as you need.
And you'll notice we have our point values.
With the point values, we call this analytic rubric,
but you can create other types of rubrics such as holistic,
and holistic is valued by percentage
or by just a text response.
So there's a ton of flexibility in building the rubric.
Once you build one, you can copy it from course to course,
and in your options tab, which we'll explore later,
is where you can determine are the rubrics visible?
Are they hidden?
If they're hidden, what parts are you hiding?
Scores, results, feedback, and the like.
You can also choose whether or not this is going
to be annotate or anonymous marking.
Anonymous marking means that the instructor
does not see who submitted this assignment.
They will grade it, send the grade,
or publish the grade without knowing who did it.
Now again, just to return back to the feedback
and assessment site, again, once you go into your dashboard
and click that number one,
you can open up your assessment area.
This can be gone to or assessed
from different areas such as our quick eval tool,
even our grade book, but it brings you to this screen.
As I mentioned, you will be able
to open up any file submission document.
If this is a text submission
or if there is an audio presentation from the student,
it'll all be displayed in this center area of the screen.
You can download the files to your computer if you want to,
or just click the document to open it up on your screen.
You'll see the learner.
You'll see the documents listed here,
and the submission, the assignment name,
and you'll see your feedback area over here.
Now, because this is file submission,
we can annotate directly on the PDF document
or the document submitted.
As we mentioned, you can click into the rubric
if you have attached one and start to mark.
I'm gonna collapse that.
You can add the overall grade here.
So if there's no rubric
or if you just know this student is fabulous,
I wanna give them 12 marks, you can do that,
and you can add overall feedback.
So comments, record your video, or anything like that.
In terms of annotation,
so this is just a document the student has submitted,
I've opened it up on my page,
but I can add comments and annotate directly on the pdf.
So for example, here I have this glossary of terms.
I can come to this symbol here
and this is a highlighter or pencil,
and it has a little chevron or dropdown.
Now, from this little table or tab,
I can select, do I wanna draw?
Do I wanna highlight something?
Or do I wanna text highlight?
So when I click drawing, it'll allow me to choose a color
that I'm gonna draw on the paper for.
When I come down to the document,
I can scroll through the number of pages,
and I can actually draw or write a comment.
Here's a check mark.
Now I'm not so great at drawing, and I often make errors,
so I can also go back and click erase in that dropdown
and I can erase my check mark.
If you're really good at writing with a a mouse, amazing.
But you'll have to teach me some things.
Now in the annotation, we can also freeform highlight
or text highlight.
Again, once you choose one, you can choose a color,
and then come to your document
and actually highlight what you wanna highlight
on the screen.
Once you click off of that space,
you can see that it is highlighted.
Another tool you can use is,
let's say I've highlighted this,
but I didn't leave any comments.
So I could come to this area here, which is this little,
it looks like a sticky note, and when I select onto that,
I can choose a symbol,
any one of these symbols here at the top.
I'm gonna stick to the sticky note
and I'm gonna choose this color.
I'm gonna come to my highlighted area
and select and click on my mouse,
and when I do that, a little sticky note appears
with a big note box.
In this note box, I can add my comments
and just type my comments here in this little sticky note,
and then click the X.
When a student opens this up,
they'll be able to download the document
with the annotations or view it on the Brightspace screen.
They can see I've highlighted calendar
and I've matched a sticky note.
And when I hover over this sticky note,
the student will see the notes that I've typed in.
When I hover over away, it'll collapse that box.
So you can annotate, you can draw,
I might wanna do another component in a different color,
and then I could come to my sticky note
and choose a different symbol,
and when I click onto this screen, again,
I'm gonna choose blue.
I can match my colors with my sticky notes.
Say "This is fabulous," whatever text you need to type.
And again, when the student sees this,
they'll be able to see sticky notes and hover over,
highlights or any drawing that you've built.
You can also get creative and build text boxes
or connect components to components within a document.
And you have the full availability to thumbnail,
which is over here on the top left of my screen.
Flip through your pages, search, make it larger or smaller.
But as noted, a student could download the original document
or download with annotations.
You can annotate, you can provide a grade value,
and you can provide written or text feedback.
As well, as we noted, you can record a video or audio,
upload a file, link this to something under quick link,
insert something if you'd like.
Now, as we mentioned, you can publish.
Once I click publish, this will automatically go
to the grade book where the student could see their grade.
They'll also receive a notification in their nav bar
with an orange dot to say something has been graded.
Otherwise, I could save as draft,
and if I save as draft, the student will not see the mark.
However, I could return to my assignments dashboard
and you'll see that I have evaluated one,
but I have yet to publish that feedback.
So I could click the dropdown
and I could go to, now, this view submissions tab.
From here, I could view the submission,
I could email students who have yet to submit,
I can publish the feedback,
so if I've graded a number of students,
I could click publish all
and send the grade to the grade book for everyone,
add feedback, view submissions log.
So submissions log lets me see who has submitted
and when they started their assignment.
So that is a very high level overview of the assignments.
I did wanna leave a few minutes
for any outstanding questions or confusion
that I might have provided,
but please let me know if you do have any questions.
Laura, I see you have a question here.
"Is it possible to download everyone's assignment at once?"
Yes, I will actually,
add this to your, or send it to Wendy,
but I do have a step by step guide
on how to do multiple downloads of assignments
into a zip file.
Wendy: Jackie, this is Wendy.
When you were adding notes, annotation and notes,
to a submitted assignment,
is there a way to edit your comments
before you publish them?
Like edit the notes, edit the annotations?
Jackie: Once we publish, no.
I think while you're still in the annotation site, you can.
Wendy: Just by clicking on it?
Jackie: Mm-hm.
Wendy: Okay.
Jackie: Yeah.
Wendy: And then I'm assuming there's a way
to delete it as well, if you change your mind
and you don't wanna?
Jackie: Yes, there's an undo tab
that is seen on that black dashboard
with the annotations.
And you can undo, you know how you do in an email,
and then you can place it back.
I apologize, I don't have that.
Similar to the symbol.
Instead of refresh, it's undo or redo.
But yes, once we publish it, as you can see on my example,
it's no longer there.
I cannot edit it anymore.
I can go to the submissions log or send a student a note,
and it's saved, so I don't think I published it yet,
so it's not published. I should be able to still go back in
and make any adjustments.
Right, any other thoughts or comments?
Wendy, any closing?
Wendy: I am not seeing anything else in the chat,
so I think that we might be able to end a minute early
unless someone else would like to pose their question.
Well, thank you all for attending.
We will be sending out additional announcements
of more in-depth training that we're gonna be offering
throughout the fall semester.
So thanks again for being an early adopter.
We really appreciate your giving Brightspace
some attention at this time.