To help you prepare your Brightspace courses for fall, the Center for Distance and Online Learning will be offering training sessions during August. Please review the following training information that includes registration links.
Brightspace Basics
This training prepares faculty to use the D2L Brightspace Learning Management system and Grade Book to enhance their Web-Remote (Online via Zoom) and In-Person (F2F) courses.
The training is offered either remotely or in person for rwo hours. You will be working on developing and building your course outside of training time.
Open Labs
Open labs are for faculty looking for assistance with Brightspace. Staff will be available to answer questions, review tools and settings (including grade book), and help with configurations and integrations in your specific course. Please note that this is not Brightspace training.
Qwickly Course Tools
A new tool has been added to use with Brightspace. Qwickly Course Tools allows faculty to add content items, create assignments, post announcements and update course availability all from one location. For more information on using Qwickly please see: Qwickly Course Tools.
YuJa Video Platform
YuJa is an easy-to-use video creation and sharing platform with robust accessibility support for video content. It also has features for student engagement with quizzing, analytics, and more. Use the HVCC YuJa platform to create your multimedia content or add existing video content to your courses using either video creation, video uploading, YouTube Importer. YuJa is integrated into Brightspace and can be accessed through your Brightspace course. You can also share video content without using Brightspace.
VoiceThread
VoiceThread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables users to add images, documents, and videos. Other users can add voice, text, audio files, or video comments. VoiceThread is integrated within Brightspace so you can create and access VoiceThread materials easily from your Brightspace course.
Brightspace Document Templates
Document templates allow you to customize the look of a Brightspace file/web page. The document templates allow you to create consistent formatting throughout the course by helping you organize text elements to make it visually easier for students to review information. In this workshop you will learn how to apply document templates within your course.
Brightspace Grade Book Training
This training is designed for faculty who teach remote classes, web-enhanced face-to-face classes, or online/hybrid classes and need to enter grades in the Brightspace Grade book for final grade record retention.