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<v ->Welcome to the Brightspace training.</v>

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This training facilitated by D2L,

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which is the parent company to Brightspace

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the Learning Management System we'll be transitioning to,

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and this session will be recorded and published

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to our Brightspace implementation website.

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Someone will put the URL on the chat at some point,

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and you can review at any time.

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This session will be just a overview of Brightspace.

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And I'll introduce Jackie,

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who is a trainer with Brightspace,

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and she's been working with education for over 15 years

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and teaching in corporate training

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and certified adult educator

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with a degree in higher education management,

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currently studying HR Management at McMaster University.

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Welcome Jackie.

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<v ->Hello everyone, and welcome.</v>

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Some of you, I recognize your names,

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and some of you we saw in a previous session,

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but thank you for joining us today.

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For our session today, we will be recording.

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So again, I just want to display

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our legal disclaimer to you all.

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We will share the recording with you.

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We just ask that you do not share this out to the world.

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As exciting as it is,

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we will be sharing within your environment

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and that is proprietary and confidential information.

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For our session today, as Darrell mentioned,

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this is the second part of the two part sequence.

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So you may have been with this yesterday,

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if not, that's okay, we can sort of acclimate you,

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but we are going to look at some key features.

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And again, it's a high level overview, as Darrell mentioned.

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So we're gonna share with you a little bit

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about announcements, the calendar tool,

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discussions, assignments, and quizzes.

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In future sessions, we will expand on some of these topics,

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but we do want to just get you introduced

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to some of the things that are available to you

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in the environment to get you started.

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Now, just to share a few details in PowerPoint.

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We're gonna start with about two minutes in the PowerPoint,

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and then we're all gonna jump into the environment.

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So hopefully you do have access to the environment.

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If not, please just feel free

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to follow along with my screen.

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And you can jump in at a later time.

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With the Announcements tool,

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this is one of the first things that a student will see

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when they log into the main landing page

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or institutional homepage, as we introduced yesterday.

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And it will be the global announcements.

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Once they jump into their course,

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that they are the student of record for,

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then they will see announcements

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that you, the facilitators, have created.

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At the course level, those announcements

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are for course-specific information.

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Now our Announcements tool is a one-way communication

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for us to share information to the students.

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With the Announcements tool

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inside of your Brightspace course, we can add links,

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we can add images, we can even record a video

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personalizing that announcement to the students.

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To personalize them,

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we use something called replace strings,

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and we will put this link available to you on your website.

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But replace strings are unique to the Announcements tools

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to really personalize the message

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that we're sharing to the students.

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Now, we also connect with our learners on a different level,

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using something we call the Calendar tool.

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So today I'll introduce you to the Calendar tool.

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Not only can your students navigate

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through course content and things like that,

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but we can connect those materials to the calendar.

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With that being said, students can check their calendar,

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they can add their own tasks, and you too,

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the facilitator and instructor, can add your own tasks

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and utilize the calendar inside of Brightspace.

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Another tool we want to introduce you to today

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is called Discussions.

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Now again, today will just give you a high level overview,

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but Discussions is a different form of communication

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in a course.

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This will allow you, the facilitator or instructor,

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to build a discussion where students can comment back.

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Discussions can be used for several purposes,

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but it is more of a two-way communication,

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versus just that one-way communication for announcements.

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Again, we'll introduce you to how Discussions work.

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And in later sessions,

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you'll learn a little bit more about Discussions,

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but we wanted to get you started.

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Now, the next thing we want to introduce you to

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is the Assignments tool.

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In Brightspace, assignments works very similarly

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to other LMSs that we may have been exposed to,

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such as Moodle or Canvas or Blackboard.

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In Brightspace, you can create assignments

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for multiple purposes.

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Assignments can be used for just a journaling activity.

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It can be used for a general assignment

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that all students will have access to

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and be able to submit to.

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students can submit just a text response,

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a response to an instruction you've provided them.

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They can submit a file, so upload a file

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from their computer system or their laptops.

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in response to the assignment instructions,

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or they can add multimedia.

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With the Assignments tool,

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they can be graded at several different levels.

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And again, we'll introduce you

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to some of those things today.

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Regardless of the type of assignment

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that you build inside of Brightspace,

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there are several ways to provide feedback to your students.

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If the student has submitted a file,

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such as a file submission,

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they can submit different types of files,

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such as a PDF, a Microsoft Word document,

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and as we mentioned, even a video.

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If they do submit a file such as Microsoft or PDF,

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or even a PowerPoint,

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we can annotate on that file that they've submitted

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and share those annotation feedback tools with the student.

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On top of which, we can also provide a student

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with written feedback in text form.

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We can give them a score value or a point value

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towards that assignment.

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that's built inside of Brightspace.

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Now the rubric has connectivity to the Grade Book

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and to the assignment's feedback feature.

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So we can provide even more feedback

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to the student in this manner.

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With the assignments,

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we can publish the feedback immediately,

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and automatically the student would see that feedback,

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whether it's through the rubric

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or through a point system or through annotations.

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so that we can mark all of our students at the same time

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and publish all of the feedback at the same time.

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So again, today we're just going

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to introduce the tool to you, and in later sessions,

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or as you start to jump into your sandboxes and practice,

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you can practice these as well.

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The final tool we want to introduce you to is the Quiz tool.

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Now the Quiz tool, very similarly, again,

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just like the Assignments tool to other LMS systems.

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We can build quizzes for a variety of purposes.

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Quizzes can be built as pop quizzes

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We can have quizzes that are midterm exams, final exams.

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to create a survey or self-assessment

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so that we can engage the students even more

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Now I will introduce you to the Quiz tool,

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but another tool that's attached to that

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is something we call the Question Library.

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So I'll show you what that is as well.

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quizzes in Brightspace are auto-gradable,

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which means once we build it

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and tell the system what the correct answers are,

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the system can auto-grade it immediately

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once the student is complete.

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that the student achieved for a quiz to the Grade Book

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so we can give them immediate feedback, or are we not?

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We can customize our quizzes very, very specifically,

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all the way from availability, time limits,

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flexibility of how long they can take to complete a quiz,

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how many attempts they get on a quiz.

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so that they will not receive any alerts

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while they're taking their quiz itself.

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what they see, how much they see,

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are we giving them the correct answers,

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or are we just hiding that result from them?

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So lots of flexibility with our Quiz tool.

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we have something called a Question Library in Brightspace.

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you may be familiar with their question pool.

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That is our equivalent in Brightspace of a Question Library.

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we can build all of our quiz questions for the entire course

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in the Question Library, and use them over and over again.

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The Question Library will then keep track

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of the course questions that we've used

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we have individual statistics built right in.

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how are my students doing with these quiz questions?

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Is there something I need to do

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to make the quiz question a little easier

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or maybe more difficult and challenging for my students?

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you can look at the statistics and really see

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how your students are engaging with that quiz.

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So there's a lot of information

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we want to share with you today.

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What I'm gonna do is jump out into the environment,

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and we're gonna start to build and work together.

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Now, I know you're going to have a lot of questions.

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We're throwing a lot of information to you

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in a quick amount of time.

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So please feel free to put your questions in the chat

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and just let us know how it's going

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or any questions you may have.

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We will try and take some time

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to answer those questions in our session today.

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But any of those questions that we cannot answer,

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we will certainly get those answers and send them to you.

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So again, please feel free to ask questions in the chat

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and we will do our best to answer them as soon as we can.

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So with that being said, if someone could confirm

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that you see the UVM Brightspace on your screens,

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let me know.

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<v Participant>Yep.</v>

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<v ->Okay, perfect, Wendy, I see your question.</v>

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And I want to answer that right up front before I forget.

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You can import questions from another LMS into Brightspace.

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There is a way to do that.

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We may not get to answering that completely today,

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but I certainly will make mention of that.

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It's done through what we call a CSV file.

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And again, we may not be able to share

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how to do that yet with you,

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but we will share the steps after our training,

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but great question.

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That is one of the most common questions

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when we come to the Quiz tool.

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So thank you for confirming

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that you see the site on your screen.

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Again, we are in the main landing page or institutional page

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of your environment, and students will come in here.

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This is the common space.

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I did mention that we did have an announcement

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on this institutional homepage.

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This Announcements here is a global announcement.

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So that means the administration at your organization

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will create generalized announcements for all users to see.

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We are going to pay attention to the Announcements feature

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inside of a course.

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to a training sandbox that I've created

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to share with you the tools and how they work.

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Now that I'm in a sandbox, I'm at a course homepage.

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And as you can see, I have my Announcements tool right here.

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Announcements are very quick and easy to create,

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it's just a matter of how many do you want?

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How often do you want to have announcements?

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When do you want your students to see them?

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But announcements is just a one-way communication

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as we mentioned, so it's a great space for you

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to announce information to your students.

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We can set reminders, we can add videos.

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We can even record our own videos.

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Now, once you're in your course in your sandbox

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or your course level, if you will,

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the announcements tool has a little chevron

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beside the word Announcements.

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Now we call this announcements area or box a widget.

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and a calendar widget.

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Widgets are only seen on the course homepage

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or institutional homepage.

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it looks a bit different.

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For now, however, we're just gonna build an announcement.

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Now, we can build an announcement

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by clicking on that chevron, and we have a few options.

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To get us started, we're gonna go to the Announcements tool,

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which is the first option that I can select here.

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We could click New Announcement

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and start to build announcements,

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but I do want to share with you the Announcements tool area.

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So once we select Go to the Announcements Tool,

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it brings us to what we call the announcements dashboard.

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You may think I'm gonna build an announcement

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every Sunday or Monday

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so that my students are aware of what's coming up.

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Or you may build announcements for a variety of purposes.

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In this view, in the Announcements dashboard,

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this gives you all of the announcements you've created.

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or you've just taken them away from your homepage,

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you can keep them here

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and recycle or reuse them at any time.

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I'm just gonna click the shiny blue button,

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New Announcement.

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we must give it a headline or title,

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and that is to categorize them,

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but also to draw attention to the student

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to this announcement.

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So in this box area, I'm just gonna click my mouse,

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and type in, welcome to,

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and I'm gonna use what we call a replace string.

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A replace string personalizes the announcement.

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Now, again, we will provide you

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with a list of replace strings at the website, but again,

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it just personalizes what the student sees

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when they first see this announcement.

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Now I'm gonna use a replace string called OrgUnit.

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is when the student logs into their account

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and they come to this course,

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they're going to see welcome to JNTRAIN001.

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So OrgUnit replaces the name of the organizational unit,

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or course the student is in.

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I'm gonna add another replace string called FirstName.

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And this replace string will actually replace FirstName

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to the user's first name.

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So it makes it very personal for the user

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when they first see this headline.

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Now, as I scroll down, I see this HTML editor here,

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and it's got content with an asterisks.

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That means this is the content

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that I'm adding to my announcement.

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Now there's lots of tools here in the HTML editor,

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and we will explore these as we move through,

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but this is what the content of the announcement will be.

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So I may add a title or words here, so welcome to class.

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to personalize the space.

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Now you may notice I'm using a squiggly bracket or a banner,

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and that is on your keyboard beside the P key.

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Using my HTML editor,

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I can highlight the text that I've typed in

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and I can actually format it using my formatting tools here

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so I can make it a headline,

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or I can just turn it back to paragraph.

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And I can use these tools here

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at the top of my Brightspace editor to format it as well.

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Now, uniquely, I can change the text color of this.

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So if I highlight over the words, there's this tab here,

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an A with a paint brush.

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This will allow me to actually change the text color.

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Because we're creating an announcement,

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we want to make it bold and striking for our students.

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So I'm gonna select on this A with this paint brush,

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and what it'll allow me to do

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is choose a text color to draw attention.

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Now, with this Brightspace editor,

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it has accessibility technology built inside of it,

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which means as I'm building my announcement,

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the system is going to ensure that all students

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who require the use of assistive technology,

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such as screen readers or closed captioning,

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all things are already built into this announcement

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so I don't have to worry,

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all of my students will be able to see this.

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Now to that end,

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because I want to choose a different text color,

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I could just choose a color here.

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And what the popup will show me

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is that I have these two red Xs.

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In this popup, those two red Xs indicate

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if a student is using small text or large text,

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even though I've chosen the green teal color,

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the screen readers and the assistive technology

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will not be able to pick this up.

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So what I want to do is to darken the color,

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and I can do that by using this scale

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in the center of this popup

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and sort of increase the text of this color

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to a darker color.

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Now that I've done that,

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you'll notice those red Xs turned into green check marks,

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which now indicates to me that this will now be seen

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by any of my users with small text, large text,

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or assistive technology features such as a screen reader.

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So I'm gonna click Save.

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And when I click off of this area,

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you'll notice it is now a green teal shade.

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Now I can bold, italicize, underline,

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all of the same features you would find

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in an email or Microsoft Word document,

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but I can feel confident that they'll see this,

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it's personalized,

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and it has a different color to draw attention.

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Now, another feature that I can do

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inside of this announcement

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is I can go to this tab called Insert Stuff.

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Anytime you see a Brightspace editor, which you will see

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in several different places in Brightspace,

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what I'm sharing with you, you can utilize in that editor.

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So this time I'm gonna click Insert Stuff,

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and I'm gonna go to something called Add Video Note.

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This will allow me to record

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a personalized video from my webcam into this announcement

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up to 30 minutes in length.

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So when I click Add Video Note, welcome to our class,

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it will record from my webcam.

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Now I just did two seconds,

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but you could do up to 30 minutes,

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introducing yourself, introducing the topic matter,

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or whatever the announcement is pertaining to.

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When I create my announcement, I would give it a title.

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So I may say welcome message.

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Now, again, moving along with our assistive technology,

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we need to describe

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what this video is conveying to our students.

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And that is for any student who may not have the bandwidth

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to open the video,

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or may have assistive technology that they need.

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So describing this is

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describing what the video is conveying.

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So I'm just gonna type in message to new students.

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Now, whenever we record a video note,

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we will also have the option to allow closed captioning.

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Again, closed captioning is utilized

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with our assisted technology

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already built in our Brightspace editor features,

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also for students who may have a language barrier.

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When I'm building my audio note, I can choose the language

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that I want the closed captioning to be in

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and select automatically generate closed captioning.

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When the student opens up this audio message,

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they'll see the closed captioning

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across the bottom of the screen.

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But when I'm ready, I'm gonna click Next.

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Now it will take a moment to render this video,

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but that's okay.

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I can keep building my announcement and move forward.

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Now that I've built my announcement, I've added a headline,

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I've added a little bit of text, I've added a video.

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I can then come down

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and set the settings for my announcement.

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Now, in terms of settings,

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announcements can have a start date,

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and we do have the availability to show the start date.

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In showing the start date,

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it timelines this announcement for the students,

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but it's not necessary.

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You can always uncheck this

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so that it does not show when this announcement started.

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You can also schedule your announcements,

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which means you can create

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a number of announcements ahead of time

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and schedule them to be placed

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on the homepage of your course.

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Now, with that being said,

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you can also have announcements removed

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at specific timeframes.

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So if you are in fact scheduling them ahead of time,

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you can create them and schedule them

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when to start, and when to end.

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This way on a Sunday, you're not panicked thinking,

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did I create my announcement to be displayed on Monday?

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It'll do that for you.

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And again, you can remove this announcement

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from the homepage on a specific time and date.

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Now with the announcements,

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not only can you use your Brightspace editor

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to create that communication, you can also add attachments.

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Now this would appear to the student as an attachment,

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such as an attachment to an email.

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But you can also, if you don't want to record an audio,

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you can record or sorry, a video, you can record an audio.

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And again, it is something that will record from your system

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and it records up to 30 minutes.

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So you can have the choice, an audio,

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or a video, or nothing at all.

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Now, finally, with our announcements,

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we also have something called a Release Condition.

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A Release Condition is a criteria that you set

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on this particular activity in Brightspace.

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And what it requires

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is that the student must meet the criteria that you set

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before they can see this announcement.

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Now we will get into Release Conditions in later topics.

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But if you want to, you could create a Release Condition

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that students do not see this particular announcement

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unless they've completed something else in their course.

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So now that we've created an announcement,

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we can save it as draft, or we can publish right away.

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I'm gonna click Publish.

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And in my dashboard, we'll now see our announcement.

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From this area, at any time you can edit, view,

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dismiss, delete, or copy.

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We're gonna go to Home and see our announcement.

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Oh, I need to change, one moment, please.

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Here's the editing feature.

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So I'm just gonna come back to my Edit.

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It's going to bring me back here,

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and I'm just gonna adjust my replace string,

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my apologies, and click Update.

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So now when I go back to my announcement on my homepage,

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ooh, clicked the wrong thing,

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I should see that it is adjusted, there we go.

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So welcome to my sandbox, Jackie.

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Here's my video.

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That's not a good look for me, but I can play it.

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With this player I also have settings

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directly inside the video that I've created,

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where students can turn captions off,

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play back the speed, or download.

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So that's the Announcements tool.

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Another form of communication

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to get information to your students

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or to connect information to your students

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is using the Calendar tool.

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Now the calendar is another widget

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that we see on the course home page.

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The Calendar tool, again,

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if you click on the dropdown beside calendar,

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allows you to go to the calendar itself.

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00:24:12.600 --> 00:24:15.480
Now with the calendar, you can schedule events,

525
00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:17.190
but the calendar also connects

526
00:24:17.190 --> 00:24:20.403
to events that you've scheduled inside of the course.

527
00:24:21.300 --> 00:24:24.960
A good example of that is if I created an assignment

528
00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:28.740
and gave it a start date or an end date or a due date,

529
00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:31.560
once I've allotted those dates to that assignment,

530
00:24:31.560 --> 00:24:34.443
it automatically connects to the student's calendar.

531
00:24:35.730 --> 00:24:38.670
If I'm not using dates, I can create an event

532
00:24:38.670 --> 00:24:41.073
in the calendar by clicking Create Event.

533
00:24:42.030 --> 00:24:43.860
When students first come in the calendar,

534
00:24:43.860 --> 00:24:45.780
they can look at an agenda view,

535
00:24:45.780 --> 00:24:50.043
by day, by week, by month, or by list.

536
00:24:51.630 --> 00:24:53.190
Students can see calendars

537
00:24:53.190 --> 00:24:54.960
throughout their Brightspace environment.

538
00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:56.700
And as you can see my mouse is here

539
00:24:56.700 --> 00:24:59.250
at this All Calendars tab.

540
00:24:59.250 --> 00:25:01.440
This will connect to any other courses

541
00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:03.597
within their environment that they've been assigned

542
00:25:03.597 --> 00:25:05.910
the student of record for.

543
00:25:05.910 --> 00:25:08.220
So they can quickly and easily flip

544
00:25:08.220 --> 00:25:09.933
between their course calendars.

545
00:25:11.820 --> 00:25:13.620
With the calendar, students can also

546
00:25:13.620 --> 00:25:16.443
subscribe to the calendar by clicking on Subscribe,

547
00:25:17.370 --> 00:25:20.130
and they can subscribe to one or all of the calendars

548
00:25:20.130 --> 00:25:21.543
assigned to their account.

549
00:25:23.190 --> 00:25:25.080
They can also, as well as you,

550
00:25:25.080 --> 00:25:27.780
can copy and paste the URL listed here

551
00:25:27.780 --> 00:25:30.783
and add it to an external calendar application.

552
00:25:32.760 --> 00:25:34.920
When students subscribe to a calendar,

553
00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:37.500
it automatically updates in their update alert

554
00:25:37.500 --> 00:25:39.480
that we talked about yesterday.

555
00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:42.270
So if a calendar event is coming up,

556
00:25:42.270 --> 00:25:44.400
and they have subscribed to the calendar,

557
00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:47.310
they will also get an alert in their alerts update

558
00:25:47.310 --> 00:25:48.900
to let them know

559
00:25:48.900 --> 00:25:51.143
that something is happening within their course.

560
00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:53.880
Now, with the Calendar tool,

561
00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:56.700
I don't have anything scheduled yet, but when I do,

562
00:25:56.700 --> 00:25:59.600
it'll start to list, depending on the view that I look at.

563
00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:02.760
Over here on the right hand side of the screen,

564
00:26:02.760 --> 00:26:04.260
you'll see the calendar view.

565
00:26:04.260 --> 00:26:07.440
And if I have events, students will see a blue dot

566
00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:11.040
just below the date where an event is placed.

567
00:26:11.040 --> 00:26:12.150
They can click into that,

568
00:26:12.150 --> 00:26:14.730
and it'll like open up that calendar event

569
00:26:14.730 --> 00:26:17.550
and they can go to that event within their course

570
00:26:17.550 --> 00:26:18.933
and start to do their work.

571
00:26:19.890 --> 00:26:21.750
Now, again, it is interconnected.

572
00:26:21.750 --> 00:26:24.120
So as I'm creating things in Brightspace

573
00:26:24.120 --> 00:26:25.440
and assigning dates,

574
00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:27.903
it'll automatically connect to their calendar.

575
00:26:29.760 --> 00:26:31.800
Anyone who has access to their calendar

576
00:26:31.800 --> 00:26:34.770
can also add tasks for themselves.

577
00:26:34.770 --> 00:26:38.583
So if I click into this task area, I can say,

578
00:26:43.830 --> 00:26:46.293
type in something that I need to complete,

579
00:26:48.030 --> 00:26:49.173
spell it correctly.

580
00:26:51.750 --> 00:26:54.180
Once I put that task in there,

581
00:26:54.180 --> 00:26:56.670
and I click with my mouse off of that area,

582
00:26:56.670 --> 00:26:59.280
it gives me that task.

583
00:26:59.280 --> 00:27:01.500
Further to that, I can click this arrow,

584
00:27:01.500 --> 00:27:02.400
which will allow me

585
00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:05.133
to give myself a due date and add a note.

586
00:27:06.540 --> 00:27:10.710
When I've done the task, I can check it off on my task list

587
00:27:10.710 --> 00:27:13.980
and it then goes to what we call a completed task list.

588
00:27:13.980 --> 00:27:16.500
So I can go back and refer to that completion

589
00:27:16.500 --> 00:27:17.583
at a later time.

590
00:27:18.900 --> 00:27:21.450
Now the calendar event, the Calendar tools,

591
00:27:21.450 --> 00:27:23.880
to create an event, very simple to do.

592
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:27.510
You could click Create Event, and anyone within this class

593
00:27:27.510 --> 00:27:29.793
will have the availability to see this event.

594
00:27:31.080 --> 00:27:33.390
Very similar to how we built an announcement,

595
00:27:33.390 --> 00:27:34.893
we would give this a title.

596
00:27:42.180 --> 00:27:44.640
You'll notice I have a Brightspace editor here,

597
00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:46.650
so I could add a description.

598
00:27:46.650 --> 00:27:48.150
I could click this plus sign,

599
00:27:48.150 --> 00:27:51.093
and even record a video using Insert Stuff.

600
00:27:52.110 --> 00:27:54.330
If needed, I could quick link something

601
00:27:54.330 --> 00:27:55.980
to the calendar event,

602
00:27:55.980 --> 00:27:59.220
which allows for the student to click in the calendar event

603
00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:02.160
versus clicking out, going to content,

604
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:04.293
or wherever I want to insert a link.

605
00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:07.293
So I could type in some instructions,

606
00:28:13.050 --> 00:28:16.740
feel free to follow this link, click that plus sign,

607
00:28:16.740 --> 00:28:18.480
click Insert Quick Link.

608
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:20.850
And I could actually link this to a quiz

609
00:28:20.850 --> 00:28:23.340
I've already created within my course.

610
00:28:23.340 --> 00:28:26.160
Again, the student would open up their calendar event,

611
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:29.580
be able to quickly click this link,

612
00:28:29.580 --> 00:28:31.983
and it takes them directly to this quiz.

613
00:28:33.810 --> 00:28:34.950
With the calendar events,

614
00:28:34.950 --> 00:28:37.350
if you're doing a monthly or weekly meeting,

615
00:28:37.350 --> 00:28:39.090
you could have a recurrence,

616
00:28:39.090 --> 00:28:41.970
and you could add some restrictions to this.

617
00:28:41.970 --> 00:28:44.550
Restrictions are very much like the Release Conditions.

618
00:28:44.550 --> 00:28:46.440
If a student doesn't complete something,

619
00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:48.210
they won't be able to see this.

620
00:28:48.210 --> 00:28:50.103
And I could say, Create,

621
00:28:52.140 --> 00:28:54.603
and I should have my calendar event created.

622
00:28:55.560 --> 00:28:58.290
So briefly, that is the Calendar tool.

623
00:28:58.290 --> 00:29:02.343
It is a really great tool for you and your students to use.

624
00:29:05.970 --> 00:29:08.580
Now, the next form of communication,

625
00:29:08.580 --> 00:29:10.020
we've talked about our announcements,

626
00:29:10.020 --> 00:29:11.460
a one-way communication.

627
00:29:11.460 --> 00:29:14.610
We've really shared the Calendar tool quickly

628
00:29:14.610 --> 00:29:17.400
to share information that happens during your course

629
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:19.560
and throughout the course timeline.

630
00:29:19.560 --> 00:29:21.270
Another form of communication

631
00:29:21.270 --> 00:29:23.403
is what we call the Discussions tool.

632
00:29:24.330 --> 00:29:26.070
Now I can get to my discussions

633
00:29:26.070 --> 00:29:29.190
by going to this Activities dropdown from my nav bar,

634
00:29:29.190 --> 00:29:30.993
and just select Discussions.

635
00:29:32.130 --> 00:29:35.040
Discussions are a two-way communication,

636
00:29:35.040 --> 00:29:38.460
but they can be used for one-way communication.

637
00:29:38.460 --> 00:29:41.730
It is a form within Brightspace where students can comment

638
00:29:41.730 --> 00:29:44.070
or ask questions or introduce themselves,

639
00:29:44.070 --> 00:29:47.220
or even have debates within their class,

640
00:29:47.220 --> 00:29:49.620
depending on the topic that you're going to use.

641
00:29:50.460 --> 00:29:52.650
Now, Discussions is a really great tool.

642
00:29:52.650 --> 00:29:56.550
It takes a little bit of work to set it up, no lies there,

643
00:29:56.550 --> 00:29:58.320
but once you get your Discussion set up,

644
00:29:58.320 --> 00:30:00.810
your students will be able to communicate to you

645
00:30:00.810 --> 00:30:02.643
and with you within the course.

646
00:30:03.810 --> 00:30:06.390
With Discussions, they're built on what we call

647
00:30:06.390 --> 00:30:07.980
a hierarchical structure.

648
00:30:07.980 --> 00:30:10.410
And this hierarchical structure is just a way

649
00:30:10.410 --> 00:30:12.720
for our facilitators and instructors

650
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:15.000
to be able to categorize and organize

651
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:17.973
how the discussions are displayed to the student.

652
00:30:19.830 --> 00:30:21.600
When we first come into Discussions,

653
00:30:21.600 --> 00:30:23.070
again, clicking on Activities

654
00:30:23.070 --> 00:30:25.650
and going directly to the Discussion tool,

655
00:30:25.650 --> 00:30:28.083
we need to create something called a form.

656
00:30:28.980 --> 00:30:31.290
A form is not something we grade.

657
00:30:31.290 --> 00:30:32.940
It's really just a folder

658
00:30:32.940 --> 00:30:36.753
to categorize the topics within our discussions.

659
00:30:37.620 --> 00:30:42.030
So to get us started, we would create this new form.

660
00:30:42.030 --> 00:30:44.613
So I would click New, and click New Form.

661
00:30:46.170 --> 00:30:48.090
Now a form again is just a folder.

662
00:30:48.090 --> 00:30:49.620
This is where we can house

663
00:30:49.620 --> 00:30:51.330
and give instructions to our students

664
00:30:51.330 --> 00:30:53.830
about the topics that they will be working within.

665
00:30:54.840 --> 00:30:59.577
So for this form, I may just call this general questions.

666
00:31:04.080 --> 00:31:06.450
Now, again, I don't necessarily need

667
00:31:06.450 --> 00:31:08.880
to add a description here, it is a folder,

668
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:11.610
and no work will be done here by the students,

669
00:31:11.610 --> 00:31:14.370
but again, it's for me to categorize.

670
00:31:14.370 --> 00:31:16.680
So I won't add a description at this moment.

671
00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:18.513
I'm just gonna click Save and Close.

672
00:31:21.540 --> 00:31:22.740
You'll notice on my screen,

673
00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:24.900
I have this general questions form.

674
00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:28.680
So now I want to go ahead and add topic to it.

675
00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:31.650
The topic again is within that hierarchical structure

676
00:31:31.650 --> 00:31:34.740
and it allows the students to do the work.

677
00:31:34.740 --> 00:31:37.803
So I'm gonna click New again, and New Topic.

678
00:31:40.170 --> 00:31:42.540
This is now where I'm going to put in a topic

679
00:31:42.540 --> 00:31:44.313
where students can respond to.

680
00:31:45.300 --> 00:31:47.160
because I need to put this topic

681
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:50.070
and connect it to a category or form,

682
00:31:50.070 --> 00:31:53.730
It allows me to click this dropdown and put this topic

683
00:31:53.730 --> 00:31:57.093
inside of that general questions folder or form.

684
00:31:58.650 --> 00:32:00.243
Now I'm going to add a title.

685
00:32:03.510 --> 00:32:06.033
So I'm just gonna say, introduce yourselves.

686
00:32:12.030 --> 00:32:13.800
Now it's just a title.

687
00:32:13.800 --> 00:32:15.990
in this case, because it's the topic

688
00:32:15.990 --> 00:32:17.520
where the students will do the work,

689
00:32:17.520 --> 00:32:20.190
I need to provide some instructions.

690
00:32:20.190 --> 00:32:23.190
So for this example, I'm just gonna copy and paste something

691
00:32:23.190 --> 00:32:25.863
I've already created to save us some time.

692
00:32:27.540 --> 00:32:29.880
This is where you want to put those descriptions

693
00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:32.850
or instructions for the students

694
00:32:32.850 --> 00:32:35.130
to be able to respond back to you

695
00:32:35.130 --> 00:32:36.903
and to others in the class.

696
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.110
So you also will notice we have our Brightspace editor here.

697
00:32:43.110 --> 00:32:45.150
And as we mentioned, you can use

698
00:32:45.150 --> 00:32:48.210
the same Brightspace editor tools in your discussion area,

699
00:32:48.210 --> 00:32:51.003
as you did in the announcements, and the calendar tool.

700
00:32:52.170 --> 00:32:55.020
Now I've just copied and pasted some instructions here.

701
00:32:55.020 --> 00:32:57.300
And for the discussion description, I'm just saying,

702
00:32:57.300 --> 00:33:00.930
please take a moment to share a few things about yourselves.

703
00:33:00.930 --> 00:33:02.640
I've given some of the things

704
00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:04.680
I'm hoping the students will reply to,

705
00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.170
and then at the bottom here in my description,

706
00:33:07.170 --> 00:33:08.730
I've given them some instructions

707
00:33:08.730 --> 00:33:11.670
on how the Discussion tool works.

708
00:33:11.670 --> 00:33:15.060
We often recommend this at the beginning of the course,

709
00:33:15.060 --> 00:33:16.560
so that students are familiar

710
00:33:16.560 --> 00:33:19.023
with how to work within the Discussion tool.

711
00:33:20.310 --> 00:33:21.810
Now that I've given a description

712
00:33:21.810 --> 00:33:23.850
and instructions to my topic,

713
00:33:23.850 --> 00:33:26.940
I can now choose some other options.

714
00:33:26.940 --> 00:33:30.420
With these options, with the Discussion topic forms,

715
00:33:30.420 --> 00:33:33.813
you can allow students to respond anonymously.

716
00:33:34.830 --> 00:33:37.830
This is not something we would use on a regular basis,

717
00:33:37.830 --> 00:33:39.093
but it is an option.

718
00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:42.120
If you do choose to allow your students

719
00:33:42.120 --> 00:33:45.210
to have anonymous posts or responses back,

720
00:33:45.210 --> 00:33:48.330
just be very mindful that all students within the course

721
00:33:48.330 --> 00:33:52.590
can see those posts or replies to this topic.

722
00:33:52.590 --> 00:33:55.350
So you may want to consider this other option

723
00:33:55.350 --> 00:33:57.510
where you want to allow a moderator

724
00:33:57.510 --> 00:34:00.153
who monitors these anonymous posts.

725
00:34:01.219 --> 00:34:04.860
Another option you have is users must start a new thread

726
00:34:04.860 --> 00:34:07.530
before they can reply to other threads.

727
00:34:07.530 --> 00:34:10.950
What this means is students must do their own reply

728
00:34:10.950 --> 00:34:13.653
before they can reply to others in the class.

729
00:34:15.330 --> 00:34:16.650
When you choose your options,

730
00:34:16.650 --> 00:34:19.320
you would simply click Save and Close,

731
00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:21.393
and your discussion topic is ready.

732
00:34:22.650 --> 00:34:25.110
Now with this, when the student logs in

733
00:34:25.110 --> 00:34:27.390
and goes to their discussion activity,

734
00:34:27.390 --> 00:34:30.090
they would simply click on the topic here in blue,

735
00:34:30.090 --> 00:34:33.033
and they would respond to this particular topic.

736
00:34:35.010 --> 00:34:37.260
Once they do that, they'll see the instructions

737
00:34:37.260 --> 00:34:40.320
and they'll come down to click Start a New Thread,

738
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:43.020
and they have their own Brightspace editor here

739
00:34:43.020 --> 00:34:45.780
where they can add their topic line and their material

740
00:34:45.780 --> 00:34:49.413
in response to the topic we've asked them to reply to.

741
00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:53.880
They too will have the full use of the Brightspace editor.

742
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:57.480
So in this area, they could record a video in response.

743
00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:59.940
They could add a document if needed.

744
00:34:59.940 --> 00:35:03.540
They can just say, my name is, it's nice to meet you,

745
00:35:03.540 --> 00:35:05.850
or whatever the topic is.

746
00:35:05.850 --> 00:35:08.070
Now you will notice there is a word count.

747
00:35:08.070 --> 00:35:10.290
So if this is something you are monitoring

748
00:35:10.290 --> 00:35:11.910
or grading the student on,

749
00:35:11.910 --> 00:35:15.540
in terms of how many words you want them to reply to,

750
00:35:15.540 --> 00:35:16.593
this will help you.

751
00:35:19.230 --> 00:35:24.180
So as I'm typing, it does provide that word count for me,

752
00:35:24.180 --> 00:35:25.920
so I can see.

753
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:28.830
And when I'm ready, I can just come down and post,

754
00:35:28.830 --> 00:35:31.443
and I've replied, ooh, I didn't give a topic,

755
00:35:33.330 --> 00:35:34.923
replied to that discussion.

756
00:35:36.780 --> 00:35:40.920
So now I'm going to post, and it's going to post.

757
00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:45.330
Now, uniquely, you will also see of the topics,

758
00:35:45.330 --> 00:35:48.720
students can reply to the original topic,

759
00:35:48.720 --> 00:35:51.390
and then they can reply to other students

760
00:35:51.390 --> 00:35:54.120
or to other comments.

761
00:35:54.120 --> 00:35:56.220
You will also notice with the discussions,

762
00:35:56.220 --> 00:35:59.160
you will be able to monitor how many of the topics

763
00:35:59.160 --> 00:36:02.340
and replies have been read or unread,

764
00:36:02.340 --> 00:36:04.620
how many replies this particular topic

765
00:36:04.620 --> 00:36:07.893
or thread has received, and how many times it's been viewed.

766
00:36:08.790 --> 00:36:11.220
This can be very important for you to monitor

767
00:36:11.220 --> 00:36:13.620
that social interactivity or connectivity

768
00:36:13.620 --> 00:36:15.813
with your discussions in a class.

769
00:36:17.250 --> 00:36:18.750
Just like the Calendar tools,

770
00:36:18.750 --> 00:36:22.230
students can also subscribe to individual topics.

771
00:36:22.230 --> 00:36:25.020
And that way, every time someone responds

772
00:36:25.020 --> 00:36:27.930
to that topic or that thread,

773
00:36:27.930 --> 00:36:31.290
they will get an indication here in this update alert

774
00:36:31.290 --> 00:36:33.390
to let them know that someone has replied

775
00:36:33.390 --> 00:36:36.213
or there's activity happening within that discussion.

776
00:36:38.190 --> 00:36:40.710
Again, it is a two-way communication,

777
00:36:40.710 --> 00:36:44.580
and discussions can allow for group discussions,

778
00:36:44.580 --> 00:36:46.320
overall class discussions,

779
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:49.620
and even single user discussions.

780
00:36:49.620 --> 00:36:51.930
Single user discussions is very similar

781
00:36:51.930 --> 00:36:54.990
to journaling or anecdotal or peer review work,

782
00:36:54.990 --> 00:36:57.000
where only that single journal

783
00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.540
is shared with the individual student and the faculty.

784
00:37:00.540 --> 00:37:03.450
Again, you can also assign groups to discussions

785
00:37:03.450 --> 00:37:04.800
where you can have different groups

786
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:06.300
having different conversations

787
00:37:06.300 --> 00:37:09.720
or discussion topics within the group itself.

788
00:37:09.720 --> 00:37:12.510
So it is a very versatile two-way communication

789
00:37:12.510 --> 00:37:14.883
that you can utilize inside of your course.

790
00:37:18.690 --> 00:37:20.910
Again, that was just a high level overview.

791
00:37:20.910 --> 00:37:22.110
There's many other features

792
00:37:22.110 --> 00:37:24.120
that we could share with you in later sessions,

793
00:37:24.120 --> 00:37:26.793
but we did want to just introduce you to the tool.

794
00:37:30.030 --> 00:37:33.690
The next area we want to share with you is Assignments.

795
00:37:33.690 --> 00:37:36.990
Again, clicking on that dropdown in your navigation bar.

796
00:37:36.990 --> 00:37:39.483
You can go directly into the Assignments tool.

797
00:37:42.630 --> 00:37:44.310
As we saw with the announcements,

798
00:37:44.310 --> 00:37:47.640
we are in what we call the Assignments dashboard.

799
00:37:47.640 --> 00:37:49.860
Now in Assignments, you will notice

800
00:37:49.860 --> 00:37:51.930
that I have some assignments pre-created

801
00:37:51.930 --> 00:37:54.180
just to give you an idea of what it looks like

802
00:37:54.180 --> 00:37:56.703
to have some assignments already in my course.

803
00:37:58.620 --> 00:38:02.100
Now to create a new assignment, it's a very simple process.

804
00:38:02.100 --> 00:38:03.660
Just like we've seen before,

805
00:38:03.660 --> 00:38:06.453
all I need to do is click New Assignment.

806
00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:11.400
Now, Assignments as mentioned when we shared the PowerPoints

807
00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:14.040
can be a number of different kinds of assignments

808
00:38:14.040 --> 00:38:16.683
that you want to receive back from your students.

809
00:38:17.610 --> 00:38:20.310
And very similarly, almost identical

810
00:38:20.310 --> 00:38:24.180
to what we saw in Announcements, even Discussions,

811
00:38:24.180 --> 00:38:26.613
is we need to give this assignment a name.

812
00:38:27.660 --> 00:38:31.260
You will have the flexibility to give any name you so choose

813
00:38:31.260 --> 00:38:33.870
for your assignments, whether it's by topic matter,

814
00:38:33.870 --> 00:38:36.660
whether it's by week, whether it's by unit,

815
00:38:36.660 --> 00:38:39.360
whether it's by module, whatever you so choose,

816
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:41.703
or how it fits within your course material.

817
00:38:43.560 --> 00:38:47.253
Now for this, I might call this Assignment 4,

818
00:38:49.590 --> 00:38:51.090
if I could spell it correctly,

819
00:38:52.710 --> 00:38:55.170
just to follow along with what I've already created.

820
00:38:55.170 --> 00:38:57.060
But again, you do have that flexibility

821
00:38:57.060 --> 00:38:59.733
to give Assignments whatever name you see fit.

822
00:39:01.680 --> 00:39:03.990
When we're building an assignment, we would consider,

823
00:39:03.990 --> 00:39:06.690
do we want this assignment to be directly connected

824
00:39:06.690 --> 00:39:09.300
to our Grade Book within our course,

825
00:39:09.300 --> 00:39:12.000
or we can do this at a later time,

826
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:13.950
or we can just have this assignment

827
00:39:13.950 --> 00:39:15.633
that's not necessarily graded.

828
00:39:17.550 --> 00:39:20.370
Now we see this Grade Out Of area,

829
00:39:20.370 --> 00:39:22.020
and when I click into that,

830
00:39:22.020 --> 00:39:25.173
I can allot this assignment a point value.

831
00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:29.310
It could be as many points or as little points as I need to,

832
00:39:29.310 --> 00:39:31.650
or I can choose again that this assignment

833
00:39:31.650 --> 00:39:33.723
will not be connected to the Grade Book.

834
00:39:35.310 --> 00:39:36.780
Once I click into this box,

835
00:39:36.780 --> 00:39:39.960
and allot a specific point value to this assignment,

836
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:42.990
it's automatically going to go to the Grade Book.

837
00:39:42.990 --> 00:39:44.853
I can adjust it here or in the Grade Book

838
00:39:44.853 --> 00:39:46.743
at a later time if I need to,

839
00:39:47.700 --> 00:39:51.180
or I can come to this tab here that says In Grade Book,

840
00:39:51.180 --> 00:39:54.030
click the dropdown and I can decide,

841
00:39:54.030 --> 00:39:56.703
well, maybe not in the Grade Book at this time.

842
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.370
Now, because I'm adding this to the Grade Book,

843
00:40:02.370 --> 00:40:04.350
I can then further decide,

844
00:40:04.350 --> 00:40:08.550
do I want to give this particular assignment a category?

845
00:40:08.550 --> 00:40:11.040
Do I want to give it a special scheme

846
00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:13.800
that I want to grade it towards, such as,

847
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:16.230
although it's in a point value here,

848
00:40:16.230 --> 00:40:20.820
it's going to convert to a pass/fail, a complete incomplete,

849
00:40:20.820 --> 00:40:22.560
a percentage value.

850
00:40:22.560 --> 00:40:27.333
I can do that by going into edit or link to existing.

851
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:32.220
From here, I can click that little blue sign.

852
00:40:32.220 --> 00:40:33.240
I'm gonna try that again.

853
00:40:33.240 --> 00:40:35.340
So I'm gonna go Edit or Existing,

854
00:40:35.340 --> 00:40:38.340
to another assignment or Grade Book,

855
00:40:38.340 --> 00:40:40.650
and click this blue tab.

856
00:40:40.650 --> 00:40:42.510
From here, I can determine,

857
00:40:42.510 --> 00:40:46.320
although it's a point value when I'm creating it,

858
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:49.500
how do I want it to convert in my Grade Book.

859
00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:51.536
I can choose the scheme.

860
00:40:51.536 --> 00:40:53.883
And then when I'm ready, I can click, Okay.

861
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:57.870
Now we will be going in depth in the Grade Book tool

862
00:40:57.870 --> 00:41:00.150
and connecting these activities to the Grade Book

863
00:41:00.150 --> 00:41:01.620
at a later time.

864
00:41:01.620 --> 00:41:04.560
But just to share with you, you can decide at this point,

865
00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:06.090
do you want it to add to the grades

866
00:41:06.090 --> 00:41:07.593
or do that at a later time.

867
00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:13.830
Now with assignments, we have options in terms of dates.

868
00:41:13.830 --> 00:41:15.870
For Assignment 4, it may determine

869
00:41:15.870 --> 00:41:19.890
that I want to give this assignment what we call a due date.

870
00:41:19.890 --> 00:41:23.970
Now a due date in Brightspace is what we call a soft date,

871
00:41:23.970 --> 00:41:25.920
which means I can make Assignment 4

872
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:30.063
due on the 23rd of September at 11:59 am.

873
00:41:30.900 --> 00:41:32.700
Because it's a soft date,

874
00:41:32.700 --> 00:41:35.820
the students will still have access to this assignment

875
00:41:35.820 --> 00:41:38.103
after the 23rd of September.

876
00:41:39.180 --> 00:41:43.380
It will appear in their calendar as overdue,

877
00:41:43.380 --> 00:41:46.833
but they still have access and still can submit.

878
00:41:48.870 --> 00:41:51.600
Now, you'll notice I can add my instructions

879
00:41:51.600 --> 00:41:53.073
for my assignment here.

880
00:41:54.530 --> 00:41:57.513
And I do have full access to the Brightspace editor.

881
00:42:01.080 --> 00:42:03.720
So I could add a video, I could link something,

882
00:42:03.720 --> 00:42:07.350
I can add a document, whatever I so choose.

883
00:42:07.350 --> 00:42:10.200
I can also add or upload a file from here.

884
00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:12.090
So when I click that little icon,

885
00:42:12.090 --> 00:42:14.550
I can grab something from my computer.

886
00:42:14.550 --> 00:42:18.020
I can add something from a locker.

887
00:42:18.020 --> 00:42:21.480
I can quick link this to a web link, if I want to,

888
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:25.410
I can record a 30 minute audio describing my instructions,

889
00:42:25.410 --> 00:42:27.870
or a 30 minute video.

890
00:42:27.870 --> 00:42:30.393
All of which I can add to my instructions.

891
00:42:31.710 --> 00:42:34.200
So we gave our assignment a name.

892
00:42:34.200 --> 00:42:36.660
We gave it 25 points for the Grade Book.

893
00:42:36.660 --> 00:42:38.670
We gave it a soft date, or due date.

894
00:42:38.670 --> 00:42:41.010
We added our instructions.

895
00:42:41.010 --> 00:42:43.650
Over here on the right hand side, we can then determine,

896
00:42:43.650 --> 00:42:46.770
does it have a start date and an end date?

897
00:42:46.770 --> 00:42:49.170
A start date is the very first day

898
00:42:49.170 --> 00:42:52.710
that the student will have access to this assignment.

899
00:42:52.710 --> 00:42:54.780
So when I click on start date, I can say,

900
00:42:54.780 --> 00:42:56.160
today is the first day

901
00:42:56.160 --> 00:42:58.893
that the students will have access to Assignment 4.

902
00:43:00.300 --> 00:43:02.400
An end date is the very last day

903
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:05.343
that they'll be able to see and submit this assignment.

904
00:43:06.423 --> 00:43:10.920
None of these dates are required, but they are options.

905
00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:13.740
You can have a due date without a start date or end date.

906
00:43:13.740 --> 00:43:16.680
You can have an end date, you can have a start date.

907
00:43:16.680 --> 00:43:19.710
You can use these in combination or use none.

908
00:43:19.710 --> 00:43:20.973
It's really up to you.

909
00:43:22.500 --> 00:43:24.300
But please note an end date means

910
00:43:24.300 --> 00:43:27.450
this is the very last day that the student will have access

911
00:43:27.450 --> 00:43:29.943
and be able to submit to this assignment.

912
00:43:32.070 --> 00:43:33.150
Now with the assignments,

913
00:43:33.150 --> 00:43:36.060
we can also use something we call Release Conditions.

914
00:43:36.060 --> 00:43:37.440
And again, Release Conditions

915
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.203
are a specific set of criteria that you've set.

916
00:43:41.070 --> 00:43:44.640
So if I say Release Condition and Create New,

917
00:43:44.640 --> 00:43:47.790
I can choose a condition that I want my students to meet

918
00:43:47.790 --> 00:43:52.790
before they can actually complete or access Assignment 4.

919
00:43:53.220 --> 00:43:56.730
So for example, I may suggest that students must complete

920
00:43:56.730 --> 00:43:58.560
some content in their course,

921
00:43:58.560 --> 00:44:00.630
complete a discussion within their course,

922
00:44:00.630 --> 00:44:02.760
or get a score on a quiz

923
00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:05.540
before they can access and complete Assignment 4.

924
00:44:08.730 --> 00:44:11.160
Now Release Conditions are a really great tool.

925
00:44:11.160 --> 00:44:15.000
And again we will expand on these features in a later time,

926
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:16.230
but they will allow you

927
00:44:16.230 --> 00:44:18.780
to release certain things within your course,

928
00:44:18.780 --> 00:44:20.913
based on how a student is doing them.

929
00:44:23.190 --> 00:44:24.300
With the Assignment feature,

930
00:44:24.300 --> 00:44:27.390
we also have something called Manage Special Access,

931
00:44:27.390 --> 00:44:31.260
and this will allow you to choose extra time or dates

932
00:44:31.260 --> 00:44:34.023
for students who require a little bit more time.

933
00:44:36.510 --> 00:44:38.100
Now Managing Special Access,

934
00:44:38.100 --> 00:44:41.733
you can choose individual users who will have extra time,

935
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:46.590
or you can choose a group of students who require extra time

936
00:44:46.590 --> 00:44:50.100
or extra time frames for this assignment.

937
00:44:50.100 --> 00:44:52.590
So you can choose a different due date, start date,

938
00:44:52.590 --> 00:44:55.290
or end date, and then come down and choose the user

939
00:44:55.290 --> 00:44:58.503
that that particular special access will pertain to.

940
00:45:01.620 --> 00:45:03.540
Now, finally, you can determine

941
00:45:03.540 --> 00:45:06.090
what type of assignment is this?

942
00:45:06.090 --> 00:45:08.760
For this assignment, is it a file submission?

943
00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:11.130
Then that means students have to upload a file

944
00:45:11.130 --> 00:45:14.850
into this assignment to get it submitted.

945
00:45:14.850 --> 00:45:16.230
We can have a text submission

946
00:45:16.230 --> 00:45:18.270
where they just type their responses

947
00:45:18.270 --> 00:45:20.013
in their own HTML editor.

948
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:23.373
We can do an on paper or observed in person.

949
00:45:24.540 --> 00:45:26.610
With a file submission, you can choose

950
00:45:26.610 --> 00:45:31.233
the type of file you want to receive or not at all.

951
00:45:32.160 --> 00:45:36.120
And it could be an image versus a PDF

952
00:45:36.120 --> 00:45:39.780
or versus a Microsoft document or a PowerPoint.

953
00:45:39.780 --> 00:45:42.300
And you can choose custom file types.

954
00:45:42.300 --> 00:45:46.380
So several options in terms of what type of assignment it is

955
00:45:46.380 --> 00:45:48.830
and what you want to receive for that assignment.

956
00:45:50.447 --> 00:45:53.700
Now, when we're ready, you'll notice at the very bottom,

957
00:45:53.700 --> 00:45:55.470
this defaults to be hidden,

958
00:45:55.470 --> 00:45:57.570
which means students will not be able to see it

959
00:45:57.570 --> 00:46:00.120
despite all of the dates or Release Conditions,

960
00:46:00.120 --> 00:46:02.163
because we haven't published it yet.

961
00:46:03.210 --> 00:46:06.240
Once we click on that visibility toggle at the bottom,

962
00:46:06.240 --> 00:46:07.800
and I click Save and Close,

963
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:10.680
it will now be visible to the students

964
00:46:10.680 --> 00:46:13.620
based on the dates or Release Conditions.

965
00:46:13.620 --> 00:46:15.333
So I'm just gonna Save and Close.

966
00:46:17.190 --> 00:46:19.380
And now we have Assignment 4.

967
00:46:19.380 --> 00:46:22.440
At any time I can click the dropdown in this assignment

968
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:24.630
and I can actually edit it,

969
00:46:24.630 --> 00:46:26.970
view any submissions I may have received,

970
00:46:26.970 --> 00:46:28.653
delete it, or copy it.

971
00:46:30.780 --> 00:46:32.340
Now, finally, we just want to quickly

972
00:46:32.340 --> 00:46:34.710
introduce you to the Quiz tool.

973
00:46:34.710 --> 00:46:36.990
Again, coming back to the Activities area

974
00:46:36.990 --> 00:46:38.220
and clicking on Quizzes,

975
00:46:38.220 --> 00:46:43.220
it brings us to, you guessed it, the Quiz dashboard.

976
00:46:44.490 --> 00:46:46.530
Now again, I have a couple of quizzes in here

977
00:46:46.530 --> 00:46:47.970
just to display,

978
00:46:47.970 --> 00:46:51.270
but with a new quiz, it's a very simple process.

979
00:46:51.270 --> 00:46:53.940
We just need to click New Quizzes.

980
00:46:53.940 --> 00:46:56.520
Now I will say, we do recommend

981
00:46:56.520 --> 00:46:58.170
when you are building quizzes,

982
00:46:58.170 --> 00:47:00.933
to build them in what we call the Question Library.

983
00:47:02.520 --> 00:47:04.560
The Question Library is a great space

984
00:47:04.560 --> 00:47:07.230
for you to build all of your quiz questions.

985
00:47:07.230 --> 00:47:09.330
And in that form, we can import them

986
00:47:09.330 --> 00:47:12.660
into our individual quizzes for our course.

987
00:47:12.660 --> 00:47:15.150
If you are familiar with Blackboard or Moodle,

988
00:47:15.150 --> 00:47:19.050
it was referred to as a question pool in those LMSs.

989
00:47:19.050 --> 00:47:21.223
In Brightspace, it works very similar,

990
00:47:21.223 --> 00:47:23.553
but we call it the Question Library.

991
00:47:24.900 --> 00:47:26.490
Now, when you build questions,

992
00:47:26.490 --> 00:47:30.180
you can build them by section, as you can see on my screen.

993
00:47:30.180 --> 00:47:33.663
You can build them by type, and you can just start to build.

994
00:47:36.300 --> 00:47:41.270
For the Quiz tool itself, it's very simple to build a quiz.

995
00:47:41.270 --> 00:47:42.903
So you would go New Quiz.

996
00:47:44.940 --> 00:47:47.430
There are four basic steps to building a quiz,

997
00:47:47.430 --> 00:47:50.613
and just like we've seen before, we would give it a name.

998
00:47:51.990 --> 00:47:53.853
I'm just gonna call this Quiz 4.

999
00:47:55.950 --> 00:47:59.370
And from here, we can add or edit questions.

1000
00:47:59.370 --> 00:48:01.320
Now, if I click Add or Edit Questions,

1001
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:03.030
I'll just want to show you how it works

1002
00:48:03.030 --> 00:48:05.070
with the Question Library.

1003
00:48:05.070 --> 00:48:06.990
We can import.

1004
00:48:06.990 --> 00:48:09.210
So from this Import tab,

1005
00:48:09.210 --> 00:48:12.990
I can import or browse my Question Library.

1006
00:48:12.990 --> 00:48:15.870
And to the question we had earlier from Wendy,

1007
00:48:15.870 --> 00:48:20.700
we can upload a file from an existing outside source.

1008
00:48:20.700 --> 00:48:22.920
So when I click Upload File,

1009
00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:27.090
it's going to give me a template called a CSV.

1010
00:48:27.090 --> 00:48:29.760
I download this template, and I fill it out

1011
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:32.580
with the questions from an outside source.

1012
00:48:32.580 --> 00:48:37.140
I save that file, and then I can upload it into this area

1013
00:48:37.140 --> 00:48:39.990
and it will read those questions from the CSV

1014
00:48:39.990 --> 00:48:41.763
and import them into my quiz.

1015
00:48:43.380 --> 00:48:45.420
We do recommend that you do this

1016
00:48:45.420 --> 00:48:49.440
at the Question Library level versus in an individual quiz,

1017
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.890
because that way you can use the file

1018
00:48:52.890 --> 00:48:54.300
in the Question Library

1019
00:48:54.300 --> 00:48:57.513
and use those questions throughout your course material.

1020
00:48:59.479 --> 00:49:02.430
Now, in terms of the Question Library,

1021
00:49:02.430 --> 00:49:04.860
you can also browse that Question Library.

1022
00:49:04.860 --> 00:49:07.260
So if you've gone ahead and created questions

1023
00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:08.340
in your Question Library,

1024
00:49:08.340 --> 00:49:11.280
I can select on Browse Question Library,

1025
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:13.350
and go to the sections or areas

1026
00:49:13.350 --> 00:49:15.250
where I've built those quiz questions.

1027
00:49:16.140 --> 00:49:19.080
I can quickly select some questions,

1028
00:49:19.080 --> 00:49:21.660
and quickly import them into Quiz 4,

1029
00:49:21.660 --> 00:49:23.110
which is what I was building.

1030
00:49:25.020 --> 00:49:26.760
Now at any time, you can click Preview

1031
00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:28.380
at the top right of your screen,

1032
00:49:28.380 --> 00:49:30.090
and that will allow you to see

1033
00:49:30.090 --> 00:49:32.553
what the quiz looks like for the students.

1034
00:49:35.250 --> 00:49:37.260
In terms of building from scratch,

1035
00:49:37.260 --> 00:49:40.140
you would simply click this Add and Edit Questions,

1036
00:49:40.140 --> 00:49:43.173
and you could choose the type of question you wanted to add.

1037
00:49:44.580 --> 00:49:46.620
So I could choose true/false, multiple choice,

1038
00:49:46.620 --> 00:49:49.350
multiple select, and several different other ones.

1039
00:49:49.350 --> 00:49:51.513
And they are all built very similarly.

1040
00:49:52.410 --> 00:49:54.900
When I click into the question I want to add,

1041
00:49:54.900 --> 00:49:57.090
you'll notice it says true/false,

1042
00:49:57.090 --> 00:50:01.530
and I can quickly click into this question text box.

1043
00:50:01.530 --> 00:50:02.520
Now you will notice

1044
00:50:02.520 --> 00:50:05.280
the old familiar Brightspace editor is here.

1045
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:09.180
So in my question text, I could even add or record a video,

1046
00:50:09.180 --> 00:50:11.940
add a media file, add a document.

1047
00:50:11.940 --> 00:50:15.630
I could even add an equation, a table, or a quick link,

1048
00:50:15.630 --> 00:50:17.373
even an image, and an emoji.

1049
00:50:18.431 --> 00:50:21.240
If I just want to go with very simple stuff,

1050
00:50:21.240 --> 00:50:24.360
I could just type in text, the question.

1051
00:50:28.170 --> 00:50:29.670
Now, because it's auto-gradable,

1052
00:50:29.670 --> 00:50:32.610
I want to give Brightspace the correct answer.

1053
00:50:32.610 --> 00:50:34.440
I could give it a point value.

1054
00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:36.333
And when I'm ready, I can Save.

1055
00:50:39.120 --> 00:50:41.910
At any time you can click into each question,

1056
00:50:41.910 --> 00:50:44.160
and you can add things such as options.

1057
00:50:44.160 --> 00:50:46.680
Meaning I'm gonna add feedback to my quiz.

1058
00:50:46.680 --> 00:50:48.660
I may add a hint for my students,

1059
00:50:48.660 --> 00:50:51.000
a short description to my quiz question,

1060
00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:54.423
and enumeration, such as A, B, C, D,

1061
00:50:55.500 --> 00:50:57.513
Roman numeral or capital letters.

1062
00:50:58.380 --> 00:51:00.120
Over here on the right hand side,

1063
00:51:00.120 --> 00:51:01.890
as you're building that quiz question,

1064
00:51:01.890 --> 00:51:04.533
you can see how it will appear to the students.

1065
00:51:07.350 --> 00:51:09.063
So that's basically step one.

1066
00:51:12.630 --> 00:51:15.000
Step two, you can choose,

1067
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:18.120
are you adding a number of questions to each page

1068
00:51:18.120 --> 00:51:20.550
that will be presented to your student?

1069
00:51:20.550 --> 00:51:23.010
So for example, if this is a midterm exam,

1070
00:51:23.010 --> 00:51:26.340
and you have 60 questions, you want to use six pages,

1071
00:51:26.340 --> 00:51:28.080
So 10 questions per page.

1072
00:51:28.080 --> 00:51:30.873
You would simply type that here in the Apply section.

1073
00:51:32.580 --> 00:51:34.470
In step two, you can also limit

1074
00:51:34.470 --> 00:51:37.500
which students can go backwards,

1075
00:51:37.500 --> 00:51:40.740
so you can prevent them from moving to other questions

1076
00:51:40.740 --> 00:51:42.423
that they've already completed.

1077
00:51:43.500 --> 00:51:45.660
You can also shuffle questions.

1078
00:51:45.660 --> 00:51:49.110
So if you give students multiple attempts for one quiz,

1079
00:51:49.110 --> 00:51:50.670
you can shuffle.

1080
00:51:50.670 --> 00:51:54.183
So every time they start a new attempt, it has a different,

1081
00:51:57.360 --> 00:51:58.500
what am I trying to say?

1082
00:51:58.500 --> 00:52:00.750
It shows differently with each quiz question

1083
00:52:00.750 --> 00:52:02.610
every time they have a new attempt.

1084
00:52:02.610 --> 00:52:04.710
So it doesn't look like the exact same quiz,

1085
00:52:04.710 --> 00:52:06.273
the second or third time.

1086
00:52:08.544 --> 00:52:12.180
Now we can also add restrictions to our quizzes.

1087
00:52:12.180 --> 00:52:15.750
So step three is adding some restrictions.

1088
00:52:15.750 --> 00:52:19.020
Due date, start date, or end date.

1089
00:52:19.020 --> 00:52:21.300
Here, you can see that once we add our dates,

1090
00:52:21.300 --> 00:52:24.900
we can display this quiz in the Calendar tool.

1091
00:52:24.900 --> 00:52:27.570
We can also use those Release Conditions

1092
00:52:27.570 --> 00:52:29.850
or set some criteria.

1093
00:52:29.850 --> 00:52:34.500
So for example, you could say, they cannot see Quiz 4,

1094
00:52:34.500 --> 00:52:37.443
unless they get a 60% in Quiz 3.

1095
00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:41.700
So you could create a new Release Condition.

1096
00:52:41.700 --> 00:52:44.340
You can come down and say, okay,

1097
00:52:44.340 --> 00:52:48.903
I would like them to get a specific score on Quiz 1.

1098
00:52:49.950 --> 00:52:54.950
It may be less than or equal to 60%.

1099
00:52:56.700 --> 00:52:58.500
And until they achieve that amount,

1100
00:52:58.500 --> 00:53:00.603
they cannot start Quiz 4.

1101
00:53:02.610 --> 00:53:05.460
Now in step three, we can also set timing.

1102
00:53:05.460 --> 00:53:07.860
And Brightspace has a recommended time limit,

1103
00:53:07.860 --> 00:53:10.140
which just allows the students to take the quiz

1104
00:53:10.140 --> 00:53:13.353
as long as they need to, or we can enforce a time limit.

1105
00:53:14.610 --> 00:53:16.830
We can also choose special access.

1106
00:53:16.830 --> 00:53:20.010
So are there students who may need a little bit more time,

1107
00:53:20.010 --> 00:53:23.640
a little bit more due date and start date?

1108
00:53:23.640 --> 00:53:25.833
So we have some of those options.

1109
00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:32.840
As mentioned, we can also set a password to the quizzes.

1110
00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:36.540
So by monitoring the IP address,

1111
00:53:36.540 --> 00:53:38.760
the student is logging into in Brightspace,

1112
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:42.063
we can set a password specific to that IP address.

1113
00:53:45.060 --> 00:53:48.180
The final step is the Assessment and Submission step.

1114
00:53:48.180 --> 00:53:49.980
And here is where we can determine

1115
00:53:49.980 --> 00:53:53.400
how do we want the student to see their grade on this quiz

1116
00:53:53.400 --> 00:53:55.860
and what do we want them to see?

1117
00:53:55.860 --> 00:53:57.210
So as soon as they complete,

1118
00:53:57.210 --> 00:53:59.850
do we want to publish the grade to their Grade Book?

1119
00:53:59.850 --> 00:54:01.740
Do we want to keep that back a little bit,

1120
00:54:01.740 --> 00:54:03.510
and publish it at a later date

1121
00:54:03.510 --> 00:54:06.570
and synchronize it with the Grade Book itself?

1122
00:54:06.570 --> 00:54:08.730
How many attempts do we want the student to take

1123
00:54:08.730 --> 00:54:11.313
for this exam or this quiz?

1124
00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:15.930
Once we give an attempt allotment, we can then determine

1125
00:54:15.930 --> 00:54:18.840
what is the minimum and maximum I want to receive

1126
00:54:18.840 --> 00:54:21.033
per attempt to let them move forward.

1127
00:54:24.360 --> 00:54:27.330
Finally, you can choose to allow students

1128
00:54:27.330 --> 00:54:29.550
to retake multiple attempts,

1129
00:54:29.550 --> 00:54:31.650
but only take the one questions,

1130
00:54:31.650 --> 00:54:33.873
or several questions they got incorrect.

1131
00:54:35.100 --> 00:54:38.610
So lots of components,

1132
00:54:38.610 --> 00:54:41.040
lots of things to think about with the quiz.

1133
00:54:41.040 --> 00:54:43.620
Again today, we just wanted to introduce you

1134
00:54:43.620 --> 00:54:46.920
to a high level overview of some of the tools.

1135
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:48.690
We only have a couple of minutes left,

1136
00:54:48.690 --> 00:54:50.460
so hopefully we'll get a chance

1137
00:54:50.460 --> 00:54:53.550
to answer some of those questions that you had.

1138
00:54:53.550 --> 00:54:56.040
But I'm just gonna open it back up to you

1139
00:54:56.040 --> 00:54:57.453
to see how we're doing.

1140
00:54:59.490 --> 00:55:03.120
Lots of questions, great stuff.

1141
00:55:03.120 --> 00:55:04.860
Feel free to come off mute.

1142
00:55:04.860 --> 00:55:06.780
I know we do have quite a few questions,

1143
00:55:06.780 --> 00:55:08.430
so I'm gonna try and get back to the top

1144
00:55:08.430 --> 00:55:10.020
and work my way down.

1145
00:55:10.020 --> 00:55:13.893
But Darrell or Justin, any questions that really stand out?

1146
00:55:17.160 --> 00:55:19.673
<v Darrell>Yeah, I believe one of the questions was,</v>

1147
00:55:20.887 --> 00:55:24.090
"Can we make videos downloadable or lectures downloadable

1148
00:55:24.090 --> 00:55:26.677
to students that we upload to Brightspace?"

1149
00:55:27.990 --> 00:55:29.190
<v Jackie>That's a great question.</v>

1150
00:55:29.190 --> 00:55:31.590
And depending on the configurations, yes.

1151
00:55:31.590 --> 00:55:35.070
So if your administration team decides download is okay,

1152
00:55:35.070 --> 00:55:40.070
yes, we can make everything downloadable to them or not.

1153
00:55:40.470 --> 00:55:43.380
Again, depending on what administration chooses,

1154
00:55:43.380 --> 00:55:46.713
it's called something like a configuration that we can set.

1155
00:55:47.670 --> 00:55:51.030
So that could include a PowerPoint, a PDF, a video,

1156
00:55:51.030 --> 00:55:54.483
a media file, whatever you choose.

1157
00:55:55.620 --> 00:55:56.583
Great question.

1158
00:56:02.220 --> 00:56:05.643
I just see one very quickly, several actually.

1159
00:56:07.530 --> 00:56:08.850
<v ->There are a lot.</v>
<v ->Yes, you can.</v>

1160
00:56:08.850 --> 00:56:11.343
Yeah, let's see.

1161
00:56:12.450 --> 00:56:13.923
I want to answer them all.

1162
00:56:15.600 --> 00:56:18.160
Yes, you can have a quiz not account to a grade

1163
00:56:27.450 --> 00:56:29.940
Announcements can be stacked, it just depends on,

1164
00:56:29.940 --> 00:56:31.560
do you want to add Release Conditions,

1165
00:56:31.560 --> 00:56:33.480
do you want to add dates, or do you just want

1166
00:56:33.480 --> 00:56:36.300
them all to be available on the main landing page?

1167
00:56:36.300 --> 00:56:38.790
As you create them, if you're not restricting them

1168
00:56:38.790 --> 00:56:41.490
to dates or timeframes or Release Conditions,

1169
00:56:41.490 --> 00:56:42.990
they'll just continue to load,

1170
00:56:42.990 --> 00:56:44.820
and students will be able to see them

1171
00:56:44.820 --> 00:56:47.343
listed on this home course page.

1172
00:56:48.240 --> 00:56:51.480
You, as the instructor can reorder them.

1173
00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:55.710
You can also set notifications to be sent to a student.

1174
00:56:55.710 --> 00:57:00.710
Also, with the announcements, you can republish them out.

1175
00:57:01.650 --> 00:57:04.680
So when you go to an announcement and click Edit,

1176
00:57:04.680 --> 00:57:06.600
if you make an edit or a change,

1177
00:57:06.600 --> 00:57:09.150
or even if you just want to push this notification

1178
00:57:09.150 --> 00:57:12.330
back out to them, you'll notice in the edit screen,

1179
00:57:12.330 --> 00:57:14.910
there is this tab called Major Edit.

1180
00:57:14.910 --> 00:57:16.920
Once you select that and click Update,

1181
00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:20.310
it automatically pushes it back to all of the students,

1182
00:57:20.310 --> 00:57:22.080
regardless whether there's an edit,

1183
00:57:22.080 --> 00:57:25.534
or whether it's just something you want to reinvent,

1184
00:57:25.534 --> 00:57:30.360
but they can be managed by the instructor as well.

1185
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:33.690
<v ->The question I had on that is if a student dismisses,</v>

1186
00:57:33.690 --> 00:57:34.650
so I've been playing around

1187
00:57:34.650 --> 00:57:35.540
and had a bunch of announcements,

1188
00:57:35.540 --> 00:57:37.860
if they click out the X, it goes away.

1189
00:57:37.860 --> 00:57:40.647
And it's a little hard to find that announcement.

1190
00:57:40.647 --> 00:57:44.160
And I just worry, my students will X them out too quickly.

1191
00:57:44.160 --> 00:57:46.740
Is there a way to force them to stay?

1192
00:57:46.740 --> 00:57:48.870
<v Jackie>There's not a way to force them to stay.</v>

1193
00:57:48.870 --> 00:57:50.610
However, you, as the faculty

1194
00:57:50.610 --> 00:57:52.560
can see that it's been dismissed.

1195
00:57:52.560 --> 00:57:56.370
So you could go in maybe once a week, maybe once a day,

1196
00:57:56.370 --> 00:57:58.740
come back to each announcement that you want,

1197
00:57:58.740 --> 00:57:59.880
do that major edit,

1198
00:57:59.880 --> 00:58:02.820
and it will force it back on their homepage.

1199
00:58:02.820 --> 00:58:04.620
The reason we have that dismissed

1200
00:58:04.620 --> 00:58:07.020
is so that students can dismiss the announcement

1201
00:58:07.020 --> 00:58:08.883
once they've completed the task.

1202
00:58:10.020 --> 00:58:11.610
And again, I don't know,

1203
00:58:11.610 --> 00:58:14.220
there might be a configuration that we can turn off,

1204
00:58:14.220 --> 00:58:17.010
so they don't have that ability,

1205
00:58:17.010 --> 00:58:19.410
but that's something we'll have to check into.

1206
00:58:19.410 --> 00:58:21.240
But you're right, they can dismiss it,

1207
00:58:21.240 --> 00:58:22.983
and we can force it right back.

1208
00:58:25.350 --> 00:58:26.183
<v Keith>Joe, do you wanna ask</v>

1209
00:58:26.183 --> 00:58:27.750
about your question importing,

1210
00:58:27.750 --> 00:58:29.663
'cause that seems like kind of a big deal.

1211
00:58:32.160 --> 00:58:34.200
<v ->Yeah, I'll ask that as well.</v>

1212
00:58:34.200 --> 00:58:36.750
I mean, I'm sure we'll see this with later help,

1213
00:58:36.750 --> 00:58:39.930
but, so I actually took a course that I had in Blackboard

1214
00:58:39.930 --> 00:58:41.640
and fully uploaded it into Brightspace

1215
00:58:41.640 --> 00:58:42.473
to see what it looked like.

1216
00:58:42.473 --> 00:58:44.940
And I was surprised at how much actually came in

1217
00:58:44.940 --> 00:58:47.520
pretty nicely, one of my colleagues, Zach Ballard,

1218
00:58:47.520 --> 00:58:49.581
had encouraged me to try this.

1219
00:58:49.581 --> 00:58:53.490
But one thing I noticed is all of my test questions,

1220
00:58:53.490 --> 00:58:54.780
I mean, literally hundreds of them,

1221
00:58:54.780 --> 00:58:56.280
I teach in the math and stat department,

1222
00:58:56.280 --> 00:59:00.390
so very quantitative questions, moved from,

1223
00:59:00.390 --> 00:59:02.310
in Blackboard it's called calculated numeric.

1224
00:59:02.310 --> 00:59:05.973
I can give a numeric answer and actually I can give a,

1225
00:59:06.936 --> 00:59:09.033
if you want margin of error on it,

1226
00:59:10.410 --> 00:59:13.170
it switched all of those to free response.

1227
00:59:13.170 --> 00:59:15.060
It looks like text-based questions.

1228
00:59:15.060 --> 00:59:18.117
And I'm just concerned that, will I have to go back

1229
00:59:18.117 --> 00:59:20.790
and recode hundreds of questions.

1230
00:59:20.790 --> 00:59:23.163
I mean, that's weeks of work.

1231
00:59:25.350 --> 00:59:27.330
<v Jackie>Yeah, I don't have an immediate answer for that.</v>

1232
00:59:27.330 --> 00:59:29.160
We would work with our implementation team

1233
00:59:29.160 --> 00:59:32.250
because they have workarounds for some of that.

1234
00:59:32.250 --> 00:59:36.033
And we do have tools that might be of assistance to you.

1235
00:59:37.050 --> 00:59:39.420
They may be third party or built within,

1236
00:59:39.420 --> 00:59:43.110
but I don't have a lot of expertise with the calculations

1237
00:59:43.110 --> 00:59:45.780
and reconfiguring and scripting,

1238
00:59:45.780 --> 00:59:48.633
but we do have people that can certainly help you.

1239
00:59:49.680 --> 00:59:51.030
<v Wendy>And hi, this is Wendy here</v>

1240
00:59:51.030 --> 00:59:52.980
from on the implementation team.

1241
00:59:52.980 --> 00:59:55.350
Joe, can you please jot me an email,

1242
00:59:55.350 --> 00:59:56.820
and then we'll follow up directly with you

1243
00:59:56.820 --> 01:00:01.820
because we're gathering all those issues

1244
01:00:02.070 --> 01:00:04.599
that might be more labor intensive

1245
01:00:04.599 --> 01:00:06.240
for course migration process,

1246
01:00:06.240 --> 01:00:09.090
and we wanna identify them as quickly as possible.

1247
01:00:09.090 --> 01:00:10.803
That would be helpful, thank you.

1248
01:00:16.380 --> 01:00:18.610
<v Jackie>I know we're two minutes over time,</v>

1249
01:00:18.610 --> 01:00:21.240
but I do see quite a lot of questions.

1250
01:00:21.240 --> 01:00:22.790
And thank you, Wendy, for that.

1251
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:32.190
There's one about students.

1252
01:00:32.190 --> 01:00:35.640
They cannot create their own discussion topics,

1253
01:00:35.640 --> 01:00:37.590
but they can respond to topics.

1254
01:00:37.590 --> 01:00:39.480
So you could leave a free form topic

1255
01:00:39.480 --> 01:00:41.943
where they can reply to a thread and reply.

1256
01:00:43.560 --> 01:00:48.360
So we minimize the amount of topics that they can build.

1257
01:00:48.360 --> 01:00:50.640
We just leave it to threads and replies.

1258
01:00:50.640 --> 01:00:53.010
There are other ways for them to communicate

1259
01:00:53.010 --> 01:00:54.720
and create stuff.

1260
01:00:54.720 --> 01:00:58.500
So due dates, for the assignments,

1261
01:00:58.500 --> 01:01:00.960
if someone comes to you beyond the due date,

1262
01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:05.100
and says, you know, Jackie, I didn't get it in,

1263
01:01:05.100 --> 01:01:07.560
how can I resubmit?

1264
01:01:07.560 --> 01:01:11.730
With the assignments, we talked about that special access.

1265
01:01:11.730 --> 01:01:13.920
So if a student comes to you and says,

1266
01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:15.750
I have to submit beyond to that date,

1267
01:01:15.750 --> 01:01:18.690
you can utilize special access

1268
01:01:18.690 --> 01:01:21.300
and change the date just for that one student,

1269
01:01:21.300 --> 01:01:24.540
instead of changing your dates for everybody.

1270
01:01:24.540 --> 01:01:27.900
So you could go into Special Access after that date

1271
01:01:27.900 --> 01:01:31.800
and assign a new date to that one student who's late.

1272
01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:33.960
Again, preventing you from having to go through

1273
01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:37.020
and adjust the end date for all.

1274
01:01:37.020 --> 01:01:39.020
So hopefully that answers your question.

1275
01:01:41.130 --> 01:01:42.840
For the assignments on the calendar,

1276
01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:44.370
once you assign a due date,

1277
01:01:44.370 --> 01:01:47.100
it automatically connects to the Calendar tool.

1278
01:01:47.100 --> 01:01:48.840
So start date, end date.

1279
01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:50.940
Once it's here, it then automatically

1280
01:01:50.940 --> 01:01:53.043
connects to the calendar.

1281
01:01:53.940 --> 01:01:57.180
So if I were to say, this is due on the 22nd,

1282
01:01:57.180 --> 01:02:00.210
if I went to my Calendar tool, I should be able to see

1283
01:02:00.210 --> 01:02:05.073
this assignment on the 22nd in my calendar, so.

1284
01:02:06.420 --> 01:02:07.740
<v Wendy>And Jackie, this is Wendy again.</v>

1285
01:02:07.740 --> 01:02:09.270
Can you please clarify the difference

1286
01:02:09.270 --> 01:02:11.610
between due date and end date?

1287
01:02:11.610 --> 01:02:13.620
<v Jackie>Due date is a soft date,</v>

1288
01:02:13.620 --> 01:02:16.050
which means students will still have access to

1289
01:02:16.050 --> 01:02:18.030
and still be able to submit to.

1290
01:02:18.030 --> 01:02:21.870
The due date will turn red for a student after that date.

1291
01:02:21.870 --> 01:02:24.810
An end date is truly as it sounds.

1292
01:02:24.810 --> 01:02:26.490
It is the very last day

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that the students will have access to that activity.

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It is the end.

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So let me know if that was okay.

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<v Wendy>Deborah, did that clarify?</v>

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<v Deborah>Yes, it did.</v>

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I was wondering, while you're on the topic,

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is there any way to set the system

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so that there's, say, a 10% automatic, 10% penalty

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in the grade per day, so you don't have an end date

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and they can continue to submit,

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but there's a late penalty which is incremental?

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<v Jackie>That would be a lot of work in the Grade Book.</v>

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But when you do an assignment, per se,

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the instructor will manually enter the assignment grade.

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So it is up to the instructor

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to take away those percentage values.

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So for example, if I'm an instructor,

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and I'm grading an assignment,

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I don't have any submissions

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to share with you at this moment, but when you grade it,

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you can give it that grade.

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And once you allot the grade to the assignment,

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it automatically connects to the Grade Book

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with what you've allotted.

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So I don't know if that answers your question exactly,

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before the.

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<v Deborah>Yeah, that's what we do now.</v>

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I was just wondering if Brightspace

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had any different functionality, thank you.

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And there are rubrics that you can set up, which would,

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you could sort of fill out

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and that would automatically assign the grade?

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<v Jackie>Yes, so rubrics can be built</v>

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inside of the Rubrics tool.

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You could go to Course Admin and find Rubrics.

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Rubrics can also be built at the assignment level,

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but with the rubrics, you can have different criteria

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based on how the students are completing.

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Rubrics is a really great thing to build.

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It does automatically connect,

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so if you add this to an assignment, and you're grading it,

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once I click Level 4 in my assignment grading,

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it will give me that point value automatically.

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So it is a really neat tool, and we build it in Brightspace

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so that it's connected to the Grade Book

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and to the activity.

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We have three different types of rubrics

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that you can choose from

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depending on what the rubric purpose is.

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So lots to share with you.

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Great question.

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<v Wendy>Jackie, I know that one question</v>

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has not been addressed, and I'm trying to figure out

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which ones haven't been addressed.

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Laura Olmsted asked,

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"Is there a way to show students the answer for questions

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01:04:59.220 --> 01:05:02.877
when they finish a quiz without showing the grade?"

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<v Jackie>Yes, so you can show</v>

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correct and incorrect answers.

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You can show point value that they've received

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for question, one or all.

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So for example, with the Quiz tool,

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there's a couple of different ways that you can do that.

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In this example, I'll use Module 1,

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and I'm gonna click in Edit.

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One way to show the students different views

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is using something we call a Submission View.

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When we select a Submission View area,

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we can create different Submission Views

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for different results.

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So for example, if you had attempt one, two and three,

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you could create a Submission View

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for each of those attempts.

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01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:46.470
Now with a Submission View, this is where you can determine

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01:05:46.470 --> 01:05:48.510
what do I want my students to see?

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01:05:48.510 --> 01:05:52.122
So once they click submit, do I want them to see

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01:05:52.122 --> 01:05:56.700
the question answered incorrectly or answered correctly,

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01:05:56.700 --> 01:05:59.280
or show the responses that they had

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versus the correct or incorrect.

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01:06:01.864 --> 01:06:04.200
Do I want to show the score?

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Do I want to show the class average?

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01:06:05.970 --> 01:06:08.730
Do I want to show the score distribution?

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So you can create individual Submission Views

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01:06:11.610 --> 01:06:13.980
by quiz topic, by attempt,

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by score value that the student has achieved,

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and each Submission View you can then attach to the quiz.

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01:06:20.610 --> 01:06:22.620
So that you can layer out exactly

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what and when they'll see the results,

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01:06:27.690 --> 01:06:29.040
and what those results are.

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01:06:31.260 --> 01:06:33.330
So I know that was high level overview,

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01:06:33.330 --> 01:06:36.540
but it is extremely specific

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01:06:36.540 --> 01:06:38.190
as to what the students will see,

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and you have all the choices.

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So, Laura, I hope that answers your question.

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<v Laura>Yes, thank you.</v>

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<v Jackie>All right, I know we're over,</v>

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01:06:55.470 --> 01:06:57.840
but are there any other outstanding questions

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01:06:57.840 --> 01:06:59.643
that I can help with?

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<v Wendy>And I will add that Jackie is joining us next week</v>

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for a series of three other workshops.

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01:07:11.520 --> 01:07:14.280
I know that there were some problems with the HTML page

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that lived off the Brightspace implementation website,

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01:07:17.310 --> 01:07:20.370
but to register for these three events,

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01:07:20.370 --> 01:07:24.280
if you go directly to UVM ctl/events,

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01:07:27.270 --> 01:07:29.550
and just scroll down our events calendar

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01:07:29.550 --> 01:07:32.370
to the three Brightspace workshops next week,

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you'll be able to register there.

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01:07:34.530 --> 01:07:35.970
So just the typical way

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01:07:35.970 --> 01:07:39.330
that one would register for all CTL events,

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01:07:39.330 --> 01:07:42.813
just go to our calendar that lives off of the CTL website.

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01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:45.233
<v Jackie>All right,</v>

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01:07:45.233 --> 01:07:47.490
so we will take note of these questions.

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01:07:47.490 --> 01:07:48.660
We will, of course,

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01:07:48.660 --> 01:07:51.930
try and answer them in our best possible way.

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01:07:51.930 --> 01:07:54.090
I know we are 10 minutes overdue,

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but it's been a pleasure to work with you today.

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And I do look forward to more questions

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and more sessions soon.