Teaching Your Course

Now that your course is fully built-out, it's time to cover some common tasks you'l need to know about, including pre-semester prep as well as communicating with your students.

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Preparing for a New Semester

The Term Cycle

Copying All or Part of a Course to Another

Updating Your Syllabus

Activate Your Course So Students Can See It

Creating Announcements

Grading & Feedback

Releasing Grades & Feedback

Submission Icons

Grading Via the Grades tool

Choose the Strategy that Works for You

Preview How Students Will See their Grades

Grading Via the Individual Activity Tools

Grading Assignments

Grading Discussions (Whole Topic)

Grading Discussions (Individual Posts)

Student View of Graded Discussions

Grading Quizzes & Exams

Reset a Student's Quiz/Exam Attempt

Grading Via QuickEval

Releasing Final Course Grades

Releasing a single student’s final grade

Releasing the final grade for all students

Accessibility in Brightspace

Creating Accessible Courses

Setting Special Access Options

Edit a Student’s Accommodations for All Quizzes/Exams

Edit Special Access for a Single Quiz/Exam

Creating Group Activities

How Group Activities Work in Brightspace

Workflow Overview

Creating a Group Category

Manually Assigning Students to Groups

Creating a Group Assignment

Creating a Group Discussion

Grading Group Assignments

To give all members of a group the same grade

To grade students in a group individually

Grading Group Discussions

Filtering the Discussion view by group

Help Your Students Self-Enroll

Create a Replacement for Blackboard’s “Journal” Feature

Group Enrollment Types

# of Groups

# of Groups – No Auto Enrollments

# of Groups - Self Enrollment

Groups of #

Groups of # – Self Enrollment

Single user, member-specific groups

# of Groups, Capacity of # - Self Enrollment