Minimum Computer Skill Needed to Successfully Use a Learning Management System
Basic Computer Literacy:
- Ability to operate a computer and use basic software applications (e.g., word processors, spreadsheets, email).
- Ability to organize and manage digital files
- Understanding of Internet browsing and online navigation.
Technical Troubleshooting:
- Basic troubleshooting skills to handle common technical issues.
- Knowledge of where to find help resources or how to contact support.
Data Privacy and Security
Brightspace Resources
Getting Started
Instructors can easily make changes to their settings for their user profile and notifications. This can be done within their Personal Settings.
Edit User Profile
If instructors need support while using Brightspace, they can easily access the Brightspace Virtual Assistant. This tool allows them to ask questions that will be answered by an AI-based tool that is always available to them.
Creating and Activating Courses
After creating a course, an instructor must activate it to allow students to access course materials.
Making Courses Available to Students
To edit or add content to a course, an instructor must use the Brightspace Editor.
Brightspace Editor: An Overview
Overview of Tools
Instructors have access to various tools to create and edit content, grade students' work, and more.
Visual Tour of the Assignments Tool
File Types Supported by Assignments Tool
Announcements Tool
Quizzes Tool
Discussions Tool
Grades Tool
Classlist Tool
Class Progress Tool
Media Library
Calendar Tool
Instructors can save quiz questions to reuse later on. These questions are saved to the Question Library.
Visual Tour of the Question Library
Instructors can create rubrics to use for grading assignments. This is done with the Rubrics tool.
Visual Tour of the Rubrics Tool
About Rubric Types
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