This guide shows instructors how to customize quiz submission views in Brightspace, allowing students to see more than just their grade. Options include displaying correct answers, class averages, and question-specific feedback to enhance learner understanding and support post-assessment review.
This guide provides instructors with a clear, step-by-step process for using release conditions in Brightspace to manage student access to course content.
This article provides faculty with a step-by-step guide to using the Class Progress tool in Brightspace. Learn how to monitor student engagement, track assignment completion, view login activity, and identify learners who may need additional support. With customizable views and detailed metrics, Class Progress helps instructors stay informed and proactive in supporting student success.
This article guides faculty through the process of copying course content from one Brightspace course to another. Learn how to efficiently transfer materials such as assignments, quizzes, modules, and files using the Copy Components tool. Whether you're preparing for a new semester or reusing content across multiple sections, this step-by-step guide ensures a smooth and accurate setup.
This article outlines course templates available in Brightspace.
This guide explains how instructors can manage attendance in Brightspace, including creating registers and sessions, setting attendance schemes, entering data, modifying visibility, and restoring deleted registers.
Instructors learn how to create group categories for their Brightspace courses and enroll students into those groups.
Instructors can create and organize content in Brightspace by building units, lessons, and pages. They can also add weblinks, upload files, and link to existing tools like assignments, quizzes, and discussions. Using these tools effectively ensures students can easily find and engage with course materials.
This support article goes over the process of creating private student blogs using Discussions.
This guide explains how instructors can export student quiz attempts into a spreadsheet (CSV format) from Brightspace. The export includes each student's responses along with identifiers such as names or ID numbers—ideal for grading, analysis, or record-keeping purposes.
This guide explains how to create grade items directly within Brightspace tools like quizzes and discussions, so that grades are automatically recorded in the gradebook.
This article helps instructors configure recommended grade calculation settings in Brightspace at the end of the semester. It outlines how to set up final grade release preferences, treat ungraded items as zero, and enable automatic grade updates to ensure accurate and fair final grade reporting.
Learn how to access and navigate the Brightspace Insights Portal to view powerful analytics and reports that support student success. This guide walks instructors through the steps to open dashboards, interpret data, and leverage insights on engagement, performance, and course activity. Whether you're tracking learner progress or evaluating course effectiveness, this article will help you make the most of Brightspace’s reporting tools.
The Event Log in Brightspace Quizzes lets instructors view each student’s detailed quiz activity, including time stamps, navigation actions, and submission records. This tool is useful for verifying technical issues, reviewing quiz behavior, and confirming academic integrity concerns.
This article goes over the process of adding questions from a pool.
This guide helps instructors create group-based discussions in Brightspace using either the Discussions tool or the Groups setup workflow. It outlines step-by-step instructions for both methods, explains restriction options, and includes tips for managing group-based collaboration effectively. Troubleshooting and FAQ sections help resolve common setup issues and clarify best practices.
This guide walks instructors through the process of deleting a student’s assignment attempt in Brightspace, including how to remove single or multiple attempts and when to adjust special access for resubmissions. Troubleshooting tips and FAQs are also provided to ensure smooth assignment management.
This support article outlines the process for deleting externally linked assignments in Brightspace.
This support article provides clear, step-by-step guidance on embedding videos from various Library sources, such as Alexander Street, Kanopy, and Films on Demand, into your Brightspace course.
Brightspace offers several options for awarding extra credit and allowing grades to exceed 100%. This guide outlines the different methods and how to set them up in your course.
This article goes over the steps to regrade a Quiz after adjusting the total number of point values.
This article explains how to update quiz points, regrade affected attempts, and ensure the Gradebook reflects the correct total.
This guide walks instructors through how to release final grades in Brightspace, including selecting the correct final grade column, adjusting grade visibility, and confirming release status. Tips and FAQs are provided to troubleshoot common issues with grade display and calculation.
This article explains how to request a Learner (Student) account in Brightspace. Faculty members at UTRGV can request a Learner (Student) account in Brightspace to preview their courses from a true student perspective.
This guide explains how instructors can reset or reopen student quiz attempts in Brightspace. It covers navigating to the Grade view for a quiz, deleting an attempt, and reopening an attempt with optional extra time. It also provides troubleshooting tips and FAQs for common issues.
This guide explains how instructors can adjust the number of students displayed per page in the Enter Grades view. It includes steps for increasing the page size, tips for collapsing or hiding grade items, and troubleshooting common display limits caused by too many visible columns.
HTML Page Templates are designed to enhance your online teaching experience. These templates were created to help you seamlessly integrate essential course components into your Brightspace courses.
This article provides a general overview of the Import/Export/Copy Components.
This guide helps instructors efficiently view, filter, and update availability and due dates across their Brightspace course. The Manage Dates tool allows bulk editing and offsetting of content and activity dates, with flexible filter options to target specific items by tool, date range, calendar visibility, and more.
This article explains what the Question Library is and how it serves as a place to save and organize questions for later use in quizzes, surveys, and self-assessments. You can create separate sections within the library to organize your questions by type or topic.
This guide helps instructors understand and configure the Evaluation & Feedback settings in Brightspace quizzes. It covers how to manage auto-grading, synchronize grades with the Grade Book, and customize what students see after submitting a quiz using submission views
This article explains how instructors can update quiz questions after students have submitted attempts in Brightspace. Whether correcting an answer key, awarding full points, or regrading a flawed question, this guide walks through the proper steps to ensure updates are applied fairly and accurately across all attempts.
This article explains what content can be restore by instructors or the Brightspace support team.
Learn how to export a Brightspace quiz as a QTI file and import it into Respondus 4.0. This method is helpful when direct LMS retrieval fails. The guide includes step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting tips, and FAQs for a smooth transfer process.
This guide helps instructors access and interpret Rubric Statistics in Brightspace. It explains how to view overall trends, analyze student performance by criterion, and review individual assessments to support grading consistency and instructional improvement.
The Rubrics tool can be used to create rubrics easily and efficiently within a course. You can associate rubrics with assessments and grade items; and during assessment, rubrics can standardize the evaluation of learner work and facilitate the ability to provide feedback.
This guide helps instructors check and control whether their Brightspace course is visible to students, including how to manage course availability for specific dates or terms.
Learn how to change the course availability dates in Brightspace to give all students enrolled in your course early or extended access to the entire course.
This article outlines the process for setting special access accommodations that will apply to a specific assignment in a course.
This guide explains how instructors can use Completion Tracking to see which course content students have accessed. It helps identify engagement patterns and supports content improvement, while also allowing students to track their own progress.
This guide walks instructors through the basic steps to create and manage a gradebook in Brightspace, including setting up categories, adding grade items, and linking course activities for streamlined grading.
This article outlines the steps to reduce your course size and provides best practices to follow, helping you avoid issues accessing content.
This article outlines the process for uploading a custom banner for your course.
This article explains what replace strings are and how they can be used by faculty to personalize information, such as their name or user ID, in various elements, including announcements, content, and intelligent agent templates.
This guide shows instructors how to create and insert Video Notes using the Brightspace Editor. It explains how to record or upload short videos to enhance course content, provide feedback, and increase instructor presence across your course.
This guide explains how instructors can use Brightspace content reports to track student engagement, including how many learners viewed course materials and the average time spent on each module or topic.