Upcoming changes to Brightspace this Winter!
Starting December 23rd, based on instructor and student requests our Brightspace platform will have additional tools and functionality.
New Course Materials
OpenStax is the world’s largest publisher of open education resources. Instructors who are interested in OER resources are encouraged to contact the library
Sage Vantage will be available after 1/3/25. In order to use this tool, Instructors must have a Sage account and students are required to purchase Sage textbooks.
New Features in Brightspace
Advanced Assessments help instructors manage courses with large class sizes and multiple evaluators, delegate and manage evaluator workflows, and reduce bias in marking. If you used Blackboard previously, it’s similar to delegated grading. Read more
View Grade Schemes in real time! Instructors have the ability to view the grade scheme that is applied to learners in real time, based on the grade they enter during the evaluation process. You can also choose to Hide/Show Learner View of Grade directly from the evaluation experience.
Course Overview widget
is now available for Instructors. Realtime visibility of activity including # of visits to the course, class engagement, course access & tools access for ONLY instructors. In order to see results, Instructors must add the widget to their course homepage. Read more
Interested in learning more? As we kickoff 2025, our team will be developing KB articles, blogging and offering Minibytes based on questions (& feedback) we receive from instructors & students
Turnitin is available in Brightspace
In October, we renewed our contract with Turnitin. Our contract includes access to PeerMark, Feedback Studio & plagiarism detection. Detailed information as well as upcoming webinar information can be found on our Turnitin Service Page
Congratulations Graduates!
As our semester comes to an end, we hope that we made your semester a little bit brighter !
Congratulations to recent graduates: Jake & Joe. We will miss you!
We are recruiting!
If you know of any students who would be an asset to our team, please share our Student Leaders in Academic Technologies Internship posting with them. Applications are due by 1/10/25.