Evaluate in Brightspace

Certain files types submitted as Brightspace assignments allow for inline annotations, including .docx, .rtf, .ppt, .pdf

See File types supported by Annotations for a complete list.

If you have an assignment that you would not like students to see just yet, there are two different ways that you can hide it:

• Hiding Assignments Indefinitely
• Hiding Assignments Until a Start Date

Hiding Assignments Indefinitely 

By default, assignments are set to hidden when you create them. However, if you make your assignment visible, and wish to set it back to it's hidden status, you can hide it using any one of these three ways:

1. When editing the assignment, you can select the hidden button at the bottom of the screen which will hide it from learners
   
2. In the main assignment area, select the arrow next to the assignment you wish to hide. Then select Hide From Users.
   
3. In the main assignment area, select the assignments you wish to hide. Then select More Actions, and then choose Hide From Users. This option allows you to hide multiple assignments at once. 
   

Please Note!

If you hide your assignments indefinitely, you must remember to manually make your assignment visible when it's ready, otherwise your students will not be able to view it. You can make the assignment visible by either:

1. Create/edit the assignment and at the bottom, switch the Hidden button to Visible.
   
2. In the main assignment area, select the arrow next to the assignment you wish to unhide and select Make Visible to Users.
   
3. In the main assignment area, select the assignments you wish to make visible. Select More Actions and then choose Make Visible to Users. This option allows you to make multiple assignments at once visible. 
   

Hiding Assignments Until a Start Date

If your assignment was created, but you don't want students to access it until a specific date, you can set a start date for the assignment. To set a start date, follow these steps:

1. When creating or editing your assignment, go to the Availability Dates & Restrictions section. Then enter your desired Start Date and Time for this assignment to be available to students.
2. Under the Start Date, look for the option that says Before Start. By default next to it will say Visible with access restricted. If you click this link you will have the option to choose how this assignment will appear to students before the start date.
   

Options include:

• Visible with access restricted: Students will only be able to see the title of the assignment, as well as when it is available
  
• Visible with submission restricted: Students will be able to see the title of the assignment, when it is available, and a description of the assignment. However they cannot submit anything until the start date and time. 
  
• Hidden: The assignment will not be visible until the start date and time

The Turnitin® LTI (add-on for Brightspace) contains a tool for instructors to create and manage assignments that allow students to read, review, and evaluate one or many papers submitted by their peers called PeerMark™. 

Learn more about setting up PeerMark™ assignments from Turnitin documentation.

Also, check out what our emerging technologist posted about PeerMark:  "Using PeerMark in Brightspace"

You can set up Turnitin® to detect plagiarism within the Assignment Tool in Brightspace.  

1. Create an Assignment
2. Select Evaluation & Feedback
3. At the bottom of the Evaluation & Feedback area, select Manage Turnitin

4. On the Turnitin® Integration Page:

• Enable Similarity Report for this folder
• Click More Options in Turnitin® to specify:
  • Allowed File Types
  • What sources you want to compare against
  • Exclusions from Similarity Reports, etc.

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Student Submissions:

Once assignments are submitted, students will receive an email that looks like this:

Viewing Student Submissions:

You can view Turnitin® Similarity Report (results) in two places in Brightspace:

1. In the Assignment area
2. In Grades

To learn more about Turnitin® similarity reports, please click here. 

Additional Resources:

• For additional information on enabling Turnitin® for assignments, please click here. 
• For a guide on Assignments and Turnitin®, please click here. 
• File types and sizes

Discussion Order

Discussion Forums:

When creating Discussions, your Discussion Forum must be created first. Discussion Forums allow instructors to organize their Discussion Topics however the instructor wishes. For example, an instructor could organize their Forums by each week or unit of the course. Instructors are also able to add descriptions to Forums for students to reference as well. 

Forums are able to be copied from one course to another. 

Discussion Topics

Discussion Topics are assigned to Discussion Forums. Topics should be used by instructors to add in questions/instructions for students to reply to. Simply add a title to your topic and provide instructions in it's description. 

If you would like to associate your Discussion to your Grades, it must be done through the Discussion Topic. For more information on linking your Discussion Topics to Grades, check out this article. 

Topics are able to be copied from one course to another. 

Discussion Threads

Discussion Threads are used to reply to Discussion Topics. When a student clicks on the title to a Discussion Topic, they will see a button where they can start a new Thread to reply to the Topic. 

Please note! Instructors are also able to create Threads, however these Threads are not able to be linked to Grades. Only Discussion Topics can link directly to the Grade Book.

When evaluating your student's work, you can grade the Thread they submitted, and you can also respond to their thread directly by clicking on it's title to continue the conversation. 

Because  Discussion Threads are used to reply to Topics, they will not copy from one course to the other. 

As of May 18th, 2023, we have transitioned to the New Discussion Experience in Brightspace. This new experience has changed the appearance of the Discussion creation area to be uniform with the area to create an Assignment. While this Discussion creation area may look different, this new experience will not effect the following:

• Discussion Settings
• Replying to Discussions
• Grading Discussions
• Creating Forums from the main Discussion menu. 

Overview:

What Has Changed?

• The Design
• Creating a Forum in a Discussion Topic
• Creating a Grade Item
• Categorizing a Grade Item
• Linking a Topic to an Existing Grade Item
• Hiding Discussion Topics

What has Moved?

What Has Changed?

The Design

When creating a Discussion, the creation area will now resemble how it appears when creating an Assignment in Brightspace. The old experience had various tabs at the top of the screen that would allow instructors to customize their Discussions; these have now moved to the right of the screen in the new experience and they are given new titles.

Creating a Forum in a Discussion Topic

In the old experience, when creating a Discussion Topic you had to either assign the topic to an existing forum, or create a new forum in the Discussion creation area. In the new experience, by default, a forum will be created automatically. This forum will have the same name as the topic. 

To assign a topic to a specific forum, select the Change Forum link, then choose to either Create a Forum or Choose an Existing Forum to assign the topic to a forum that was already created.

Creating a Grade Item

In the old experience, when creating a topic, you would have to go to the Assessment tab and either link the Discussion to an existing grade item, or click a link to create a new grade item. In the new experience, this works differently. Instead of going to a separate tab, you will have access to a box that says Grade Out Of from the main topic creation area.

This area will allow you to type a value to score a discussion topic out of. Once a number is typed, it will automatically create a grade item for this discussion in Grades. Please note that this grade item will not be categorized. If you have a weighted gradebook, you will not be able to set the weight of the grade item from here, this must be done in Grades. 

Categorizing a Grade Item

To assign a Grade Item you created from the Discussion Topic creation area to a Grade Category, select the button that says In Grade Book, and then choose Edit or Link to Existing.

Once clicked, make sure you have the option Create and Link to a New Grade Item selected, and then you can then click a button titled Choose Grade Category.

Once selected, you can choose the applicable category to assign this grade item to. 

Linking a Topic to an Existing Grade Item

In the new Discussion experience, if you would like to link your topic to an existing Grade Item, you can do so by selecting the In Grade Book button, and then choose Edit or Link to Existing. 

Once clicked, you can choose the option titled Link to an Existing Grade Item. Then choose the drop down selector to find the grade item you wish to link the topic to. 

Hiding Discussion Topics

When creating or editing a topic, you are now able to hide the topic from learners at the bottom of the screen by selecting the eye icon.

What Has Moved?

All customization options that existed in the old Discussion experience still exist in the new one. These features have been moved to three new areas in the topic creation screen:

• Availability Dates & Conditions
• Post & Completion
• Evaluation & Feedback

Availability Dates & Conditions

In the Availability Dates & Conditions section, you can find the following:

• The option to include the start or end dates for a Discussion Topic
• Release Conditions
• Group and Section Restrictions for the Topic

These options were previously available in the restrictions tab of the old experience.

Post & Completion

In the Post & Completion section, you can find the following options:

• Default participation (default discussion setting)
• Allow learners to hide their name from other learners (previously titled: allow anonymous posts)
• Learners must start a thread before they can view or reply to other threads
• Posts must be approved before they display in the topic

These options were previously available in the properties tab in the old experience.

Evaluation & Feedback

In the Evaluation & Feedback section, you can find the following options which were located in several different areas of the old experience:

• Adding a rubric (formally in the assessment tab)
• Allow evaluation of individual posts (formally in the assessment tab)
• Mange learning objectives (formally in the objectives tab)
• Allow learners to rate posts (formally found in the properties tab)

If your student has a quiz attempt in progress, but was kicked out of the quiz before they had a chance to submit, they should be able to return to their quiz attempt to submit it once more. 

However, if there is an end date on the quiz, or a time limit, students will be unable to access that attempt to submit. In this scenario, the instructor has the ability to find the attempt in progress and submit it on behalf of the student. 

Finding Quiz Attempts In Progress

To find a quiz attempt in progress, select the arrow next to the specific quiz and choose Grade.

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Then select the Attempt tab and then choose Show Search Options.

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In the Restrict to drop down box, select Attempts In Progress. Once you do this, select the magnifying class icon in the search field.

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Once you do this, you will find the attempt in progress.

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Submitting an Attempt on Behalf of a Student

Once you locate the students attempt, you can choose the icon of two people under the attempt to impersonate that student.

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Here you can view the students attempt, and at the bottom, you will have the ability to Submit the Quiz on behalf of the student so that it can be graded. 

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The Question Library is a central repository that stores and archives questions which you can reuse within a course. You can create multiple collections within the Question Library to organize your questions by type and topic, making it easier for you to find questions for your quizzes, surveys, and self assessments.

As a best practice for storage, organization, and easy access, we recommend that you create all your questions using the Question Library. You can also consolidate questions created within the Quizzes, Surveys, and Self Assessments tools by importing them back into the Question Library.

To access and use the library, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Exams/Quizzes tool
2. Select Question Library
   
3. From here, you can create questions and sections, however it is recommended to create a section first. Sections allow you to organize your questions in a folder. To create a section, click new, then section.
   
4. In the section creation section, you can do the following:

• Add a title to your section, and optionally, hide the title from learners
• Add a text description to your section, and optionally, hide the text description from learners
• Shuffle questions in this section
• Save your section you created
  

5. Now you will see your section in the Question Library and if you choose the select box next to it, you can do the following:

• Place your section within another section using the Move button
• Delete your section using the Delete button
• Reorder your sections using the Order button
• Edit your section using the Edit Values button
• Upload your section to the Learning Object Repository using the Publish to LOR button
  

Adding Questions to Sections

Questions can be added to Sections directly from the Question Library. These questions can either be created from this area, or, they can be imported into the library from previous exams/quizzes that you have created. 

To create questions directly from the Question Library, follow these steps:

1. From the Question Library, select the New button and select your desired question type
   
2. Create your questions
3. Once your questions are created, they will be present in the Question Library. To move them into a section, choose the select boxes next to them and choose the Move button.
   
4. Select a section you wish to move your questions into
   

To move questions from existing exams/quizzes into the Question Library, follow these steps:

1. From the Question Library, select the Import button
2. Choose Browse Existing Questions
   
3. Choose a source to pull questions from. This will bring up a list of any exams/quizzes that you've previously created in your course. 
4. Once your source is selected, choose the questions you wish to import
5. Select Import
   
6. Once your questions are in the Library, you can move them into a section by choosing the select boxes for each question and choosing the Move button
   
7. Select a section you wish to move your questions into
   

Create a Question Pool

1. When editing a quiz, click the grey Create New button (1), then select Question Pool (2)

   

2. Enter a title for the question pool. Here we can configure how many questions will be selected from the section of questions (highlighted yellow) and the number of points per question (highlighted green). Once done, click the grey Browse Question Library button.
   
3. By default, you will see questions and/or sections of questions from the Question Library. If you would like to change where you are pulling questions from, you may click the Source button and select a different location (1). Check the box to the left of a section and/or individual questions (2). Once done, click the blue Import button (3).
   
4. Click the blue Save button
   
5. If needed, please fill out the remaining details of the quiz. Once done, click the blue Save and Close button.

Creating a Time Limit

1. When creating or editing a Quiz or Exam, go to the section labeled Timing & Display
2. Select the checkbox for Set Time Limit
   
3. Type the time limit you wish to provide in the Time Limit box
   

Timer Settings

After you set the time limit, you will notice a button below titled Timer Settings. This will allow you to choose one of three options to decide what should happen in the student's attempt when the time limit expires

After selecting this button, you have these options to choose from: 

Automatically submit the quiz attempt (Default Setting)- When the time limit expires the student's attempt will automatically be submitted, preventing them from continuing or making further edits to their submission.

Flag as "exceeded time limit" and allow the learner to continue working- This will allow the student to continue working on their attempt, however when they finish, the instructor will be able to see the amount of time the student exceeded the limit by when reviewing attempts. 

Do nothing: the time limit is not enforced- This provides a recommended time limit to students when taking an attempt, however the student will not be flagged or penalized for exceeding the limit. 

By default, students will not be able to see any answers to exam/quiz questions when results are published. If you would like students to see answers, follow these steps:

1. When creating or editing the quiz, go to the Evaluation & Feedback area
2. Choose Attempt grade under the section titled When published, display to learners.
3. Under the attempt grade checkbox, use the dropdown to decide which questions will display to learners when results are published. Your options are:

• Incorrect questions only, with correct answers
• Incorrect questions only, without correct answers
• All questions, with correct answers
• All questions, without correct answers
  

Optionally, you can further customize the option you selected by choosing the Customize Quiz Results Displays button below the drop down.

Once you select, this option, choose Edit View.

Under the Questions section, you can see what settings are currently enabled based on which option you chose. You can change these settings by using the drop down, and by using the checkboxes for each option you chose. Please note! You must hit the Update button to finalize your changes. 

If you notice that the potential answers for some questions in your Brightspace exam/quiz are incorrect, and students have already completed their quiz attempts, then it is important to understand that even if you update the question's answers, it will not automatically change the student's grades. To change the answer to a question, and to have this change reflect the student's score, please see the information below.

Changing the Correct Response for a Question

Updating Scores After a Question Was Updated

Changing the Correct Response for a Question

To change the correct response for a question, follow these steps:

1. Select the arrow next to your exam/quiz and select Edit
   
2. Click on the question that needs to be updated
   
3. Correct the question response and when you're finished, select Save. Please note: As indicated in the screenshot below, this edit will only impact future attempts by students. This means that students who already completed an attempt before the change will not have their score automatically updated. 
   
4. If this question already exists in another location (IE: The Question Library), then Brightspace will ask you if you would like to update the question in each location where it exists. Once you choose where it will be updated, select Save.
   

Updating Scores After a Question was Updated

To update the scores that students received after a question was updated, please follow these steps:

1. Select the arrow next to your desired quiz and select Grade
   
2. Select the Questions tab
3. Choose the option that says Update all attempts
4. Find the section that says Questions that are not in the quiz anymore. Here you can see the incorrect version of the question that was updated. Click the link to that question.
   
5. View the question responses by your students. Any arrow showing next to a response option indicates that this was listed as the correct response at the time students took the exam. However because this is an older version of a question that was updated, this answer is incorrect. Locate the correct response in the question, and see if students selected this response as an answer. If so, they will need to receive credit for selecting the correct response.

For example, in the image below, option 3 was the correct answer at the time students took this exam. However the actual correct response is option 4. Because 5 students selected option 4 as their response, they need to receive credit for answering the question correctly. 

6. Under Grading Type, select the option titled Give to attempts with answer, and choose the actual correct response for this question. Then type the amount of points that this question was worth, to give students who chose that option credit. When you are finished, select Save.

In this example, we would select "Give to attempts with answer 4, 1 point". This is because option 4 is the actual correct response for this question, and the question is worth 1 point.

7. Optionally, if you would like to take away points from students who received credit for selecting the incorrect response, you can choose Give to attempts with answer (choose the incorrect answer option) 0 points, and then hit Save.

For example, in this case since 2 students received credit for choosing option 3 which is incorrect, we would enter "Give to attempts with answer 3, 0 points".

8. At the bottom of the page, you will see the modification history showing which actions you took on the question.
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Once finished, students should see the change reflected in their grade. 

Brightspace has many question types you can use in quizzes. 

We recommend adding all questions to a question library - rather than to a specific quizzes. This allows you to re-use questions within that course.

Note: Some questions types from Blackboard are not supported in Brightspace because they are not accessible. 

Question types are

• True / False
• Multiple Choice
• Multi-Select
• Written Response
• Short Answer
• Multi-Short Answer
• Fill in the Blanks
• Matching
• Ordering

See Creating questions library questions for more information on question types.

When creating an exam/quiz in Brightspace, by default, quiz grades should publish attempts automatically to students and also show their results in Grades (so long as the quiz is linked to Grades as a grade item). However, if these settings were changed, then grades will not auto publish to students or display in Grades. 

See each section below to learn more.

*To allow students to see answers to each question, see here.

Show published exam/quiz results in grades

Automatically publish quiz results upon completion

Manually publish quiz results

Note: If students still can't see their grades, check the Grade Items to be sure they don't have restrictions.

Show Published Exam/Quiz Results in Grades

If you would like for your students to automatically see their exam/quiz results in Grades once they're published, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Exams/Quizzes tab from your Navbar, or from the Course Admin menu
2. Select the downward facing arrow next to the desired exam/quiz and select Edit
   
3. Go to the Evaluation & Feedback Section
4. Check the box for ☑︎ Synchronize to Grade Book on Publish
   Tip: You need to add a grade item for the quiz before you can select to Synchronize it with Grade Book
   
5. Select Save and Close
6. Either automatically or manually publish students quiz grades and those published results will show in Grades for students

Automatically Publish Exam/Quiz Results

If you would like for your students to automatically see their exam/quiz results upon completion of their attempt in both Exams/Quizzes and Grades, follow these steps:

Notes:

• Any question that needs to be manually evaluated by the instructor (e.g., written response questions) will be scored as 0 until manually evaluated.
• This setting only applies to quiz attempts made after you change select Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion. If there are any existing attempts, you will need to publish those manually (see below)

1. Go to the Exams/Quizzes tab from your Navbar, or from the Course Admin menu
2. Select the downward facing arrow next to the desired exam/quiz
3. Choose Edit
   
4. Go to the Evaluation & Feedback section
5. Make sure the Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion and Synchronize to Grade Book on Publish checkboxes are selected
   
6. Hit Save and Close

Manually Publish Exam/Quiz Results

To manually publish results for exams/quizzes, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Exams/Quizzes Tab of the Navbar or in the Course Admin menu
2. Find the exam/quiz you wish to publish results for and select the downward facing arrow next to it
3. Select Grade
   
4. Choose the students you wish to publish results for (note that if you are only viewing a subset of the total number of students in your class, those are the students who will see published results.  Either choose to view more students per page, or remember to page forward for the additional students if you have a class greater than 200.)
5. Select Publish
   

As of May 18th, 2023, we have transitioned to the New Exam/Quiz Experience in Brightspace. This new experience has changed the appearance of the Exam/Quiz creation area to be uniform with the area to create an Assignment. While this new experience may change the appearance of the Exam/Quiz creation area, this new experience will not effect the following:

• Exam/Quiz Settings
• Taking an Exam/Quiz
• Grading an Exam/Quiz

Overview:

What Has Changed?

• The Design
• Creating a Grade Item
• Categorizing a Grade Item
• Linking an Exam/Quiz to an Existing Grade Item
• Enabling Respondus
• Displaying Questions After an Attempt
• Adding a Due Date
• Question Paging
• Previewing Your Exam/Quiz
• Hiding an Exam/Quiz

What Has Moved?

What Has Changed?

The Design

When creating an Exam/Quiz, the creation area will now resemble how it appears when creating an Assignment in Brightspace. The old experience had various tabs at the top of the screen that would allow instructors to customize their Exam/Quiz; these have now moved to the right of the screen in the new experience, and they have been given new titles. 

Creating a Grade Item

In the old experience, if you wanted to create a grade item for your Exam/Quiz, you would have to go to the Assessment tab and either create the grade item, or link it to an existing one in the gradebook. In the new experience, this works differently. Instead of going to a separate tab, you will have access to a section titled Grade Out Of, directly in the main Exam/Quiz creation area. 

In this area, select the box that says Not In Grade Book, and then choose Add to Grade Book, this will create a grade item for your exam/quiz. Please note! This grade item will not be categorized in your gradebook. If you have a weighted gradebook, you will not be able to set the weight of the grade item from here, this must be done in Grades. 

Categorizing a Grade Item

To assign a grade item you created from the Exam/Quiz creation area to a Grade Category, select the button that says In Grade Book, and then choose Edit or Link to Existing.

Once clicked, make sure you have the option Create and Link to a New Grade Item selected, and then you can click a button titled Choose Grade Category.

Once selected, you can choose the applicable category to assign this grade item to. 

Linking an Exam/Quiz to an Existing Grade Item

In the new experience, if you would like to link your Exam/Quiz to an existing grade item, you can do so by selecting the In Grade Book button, and then choose Edit or Link to Existing.

Once clicked, you can choose the option titled Link to an Existing Grade Item. Then choose the drop down selector to find the grade item you wish to link the exam/quiz to. 

Enabling Respondus

In the old experience, you had the ability to enable Respondus when creating a specific exam. This feature has been removed in the new experience, however you may still enable Respondus from the main Exam/Quiz menu. To learn how to enable Respondus for your exams, click here.

Displaying Questions After an Attempt

When Exam/Quiz results are published, by default, students cannot see which questions they answered correctly or incorrectly. In the old environment, instructors needed to go to the submission views tab and change default view settings in order to display these questions. The new experience however, has made the process of displaying these questions much simpler.

To do this, go to the Evaluation & Feedback area, and then find the section titled When published, display to learners.  Under this section, select the checkbox for Attempt Grade, and below the checkbox, click on the dropdown selector and choose one of the following options to display questions:

• Incorrect questions only, with correct answers
• Incorrect questions only, without correct answers
• All questions, with correct answers
• All questions, without correct answers

If you would like to further customize displayed answers, you can do so by selecting the Customize Quiz Results Displays button.

Adding a Due Date

The Due Date feature is now available from the main Exam/Quiz creation page as opposed to being located in a separate tab. 

Question Paging

In the old environment, you could type in any amount of questions that you would like to display on each page of the Exam/Quiz. In the new environment, you are limited to choosing either 1, 5, or 10 questions to appear on each page, or to display all questions at once. This paging option can be found in the Timing & Display section when editing your Exam/Quiz.

Previewing Your Exam/Quiz

In the new environment you are given an additional location to preview your Exam/Quiz directly when creating or editing it. This can be found in the Questions section of your Exam/Quiz.

Hiding an Exam/Quiz

When creating or editing an Exam/Quiz, you are now able to hide it from learners at the bottom of the screen by selecting the eye icon.

What Has Moved?

All customization options that existed in the old Exam/Quiz experience still exist in the new one. These features have been moved to four new areas of the Exam/Quiz creation screen:

• Availability Dates & Conditions
• Timing & Display
• Attempts & Completion
• Evaluation & Feedback

Availability Dates & Conditions

In the Availability Dates & Conditions section, you can find the following:

• Start and End Date
  • Add your dates to the Course Calendar
• Release Conditions
• Managing Special Access
• Adding a Password
• Creating IP Restrictions

Timing & Display

• Time Limits
• Question Paging
  • Prevent learners from going back to previous pages
• Shuffling Questions
• Allowing Hints
• Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace
• Adding a Header and Footer

Attempts & Completion

• Attempt Amounts
  • Overall grade calculations for multiple attempts
• Assigning Quiz Categories
• Notification Email for Attempt Completions

Evaluation & Feedback

• Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion
• Synchronize to grade book on publish
• Display Attempt Grade when Published
• Display Questions when Published
• Customize Quiz Results Displays
• Manage Learning Objectives

The Class Progress tool helps track your student's progress in a course by measuring the completion of different progress indicators. To access the class progress tool, select Class Progress in the Navbar of your course:

This will direct you to the Class Progress dashboard. By default the dashboard will display four dashboard indicators which include:

• Content Completion Summary: This shows how many required content topics each student has completed.
• Objectives Completion Summary: Illustrates each student's progression through the assigned objectives.
• Login History (Last 30 Days): Displays the number of logins to the system (not the course) for the last 30 days.
• Grades Performance Summary: Presents the current final grade for the student, as well as a visualization of the scores of the last 15 grade items. Hovering over each bar provides additional details for the grades.

You can choose to add any of these additional dashboard indicators in lieu of a default indicator:

• Assignments Performance Summary: Indicates the current average on all submission folders as well as a visualization of the scores of the last 15 items. Hover over each bar for additional details about the folders. 
• Checklist Completion Summary: Displays how the learner is progressing through the assigned course checklists. Highlighted items indicate items that are due within the next 7 days. 
• Content Visited Summary: Shows how many content topics each student has accessed by navigating within the Content tool. If users navigate to an activity outside of the Content tool (for instance, by using the navbar), it does not count as a visit. 
• Discussions Participation Summary: Presents user statistics for reading, posting, and responding to discussions. 
• Quiz Performance Summary: Presents the current average on all quizzes as well as a visualization of the scores of the last 15 items. Hovering over each bar provides additional details for the quiz. 
• Survey Completion Summary: Displays the learner's progression through the assigned surveys in the course (anonymous surveys will display no result)
• System Access (Last 30 Days): Indicates each time the learner accesses Brightspace using a web browser or the app. System access begins when the user logs in, launches the app, or returns after 30 minutes of inactivity. It ends after 30 minutes of inactivity within the website or app. 

You can also click on a student's name to view all indicators for that student, including Course Access, for how often the student has accessed your course.

Change or reorder the four progress indicators in the Class Progress dashboard

1. Select "Settings" while in the Class Progress tool
   
2. Select the downward facing arrow next to the performance indicator you want to remove or reorder
   
3. Select "Move Up" or "Move Down" to reorder the progress indicators, or "Replace" to change this progress indicator with another
   
4. If you selected "Replace", choose the progress indicator that you want to appear in the Class Progress dashboard
   

View all progress indicators for each student at once (including Course Access)

Clicking into an individual student shows the Class Progress Summary for that student (the same view that student will see when accessing Class Progress). Instructors can also modify which indicators and additional options appear in this view (learn how to adjust the individual student progress summary settings here)

1. Click on a student's name
   
2. Select the progress indicator you wish to view on the left side of the page.
   Tip: An additional progress indicator available in this section is the Course Access indicator. This will show you how often a student is logging into your course. 
   

If you would like to see statistics on which of your students viewed each module in your course, follow these steps:

1. Go to the "Content" area of your course
2. Select the module titled "Table of Contents"
3. Click the dropdown for "Related Tools" and choose "View Reports" to view the report table
   
4. In the "Content" tab of the report table, you will see how many users the modules are available to, the amount of users who visited each module, and the average time spent viewing each module. To export this data, click the "Export Statistics" button above the content tab. Additionally, if you click the number under the "Available To" or "Users Visited" column, you'll see reports on which of your students has access to the module, and who has accessed it. 
   
5. In the "User" tab of the report table, you will see how many content topics are available and how many were visited by specific students. If you would like specific data for each student, click the students name. Once clicked, you will have the ability to export this data above the users tab by clicking the "Export Statistics" button. 
   
   
   
   

Class Progress shows various indicators on how students are progressing in a course. As an instructor, you can change which indicators and additional information you and students can see in their own view of Class Progress.

• Instructors can see progress for all learners in the class for whichever progress indicators the course instructor has enabled
• Students only see their own scores for whichever progress indicators the course instructor has enabled

As an instructor, you can change which indicators and additional information you and students can see in their own view of Class Progress. Possible progress indicators include these (all are enabled by default):

• Assignments
• Checklist
• Content
• Course Access
• Discussions
• Grades
• Login History
• Objectives
• Quizzes
• Surveys
• System Access History

Instructors can also choose to include this additional information (both are enabled by default):

• Display box plots of the class grade distribution for graded items
  
• Display potential final grade range as minimum and maximum final grade
  

Instructors: Change Which Progress Indicators You (as Instructor) and Students See in Class Progress

1. In a course you are instructor of, in the Navbar select Class Progress (or select Course Admin and then Class Progress)
2. On the left, select a learner's name
   
3. On an individual student's Progress Summary, near the top right select Settings
   
4. Check the progress indicators you want to see and you want students to see; uncheck those you don't want to see/students to see (you and students will see the same indicators)
5. Scroll down and check/uncheck Progress Report Information Settings as desired and/or change the % that will show as On Track (blue) and Some Concerns (yellow)
   
6. Click Save and Close