Manage Dates
The Manage Dates tool can help you to adjust most of the dates in your course in one place. Start, End, and Due dates for Calendar items, Checklists, Content modules and topics, Discussions, Grades, Announcements, Quizzes, and Surveys presented here and can be edited individually or can be bulk edited.
The Locking dates for Discussions can be adjusted here as well. The Manage Dates tool also shows you if the activity is visible to students and if it is displayed in the calendar. The Manage Date tool provides a method for quickly reviewing dates set in a course; the tool offers a sortable table view, which can be filtered by tool type.
Managing Dates
You can find the Manage Dates Tool by going to your course in Brightspace, selecting Course Admin, and then clicking on Manage Dates from the list. Depending on how you sort your list, it can be alphabetical or it will be under the Site Resources section.
Calendar Options
If you make the dates available in the Calendar, students will be able to see the dates on the Calendar widget located on the Homepage of the course and in the Pulse mobile app.
Filter By Tool to sort Items by Dates
You can narrow down your choices by using the Filter by Tool option. For example, if you have dates only associated with Quizzes and Assignments, select only them under Specific Tools selection on top of the page. Click the Apply Filter button
You can group the events on the top of the page by clicking on the Start Date or End Date columns names.
Bulk Offsetting Dates
Select all the items (Content items, Discussions, Assignments, Quizzes, etc.) that have the dates associated with them
Click the Bulk Offset Dates button and the Bulk Offset Dates window will pop up
Select the dates type that you need to offset, usually, you want to select all the options available: Due Date, Start Date, End Date, and Other activity dates
Bulk Updating All Dates in Courseroom
Click the checkbox next to “Bulk Edit Dates” and “Bulk Offset Dates” to select all items
Click on “Bulk Offset Dates”
Leave all boxes checked
Click on the “Calculate range between two dates” radio button and enter the old and new start dates/times in their respective fields
Click on the “Save” button
Bulk Edit Dates
Select all the items (Content items, Discussions, Assignments, Quizzes, etc.) that have the dates associated with them
Select Bulk Edit Dates
Enter new dates and select Save
From there, all of the selected items will have the same dates.
Editing Dates for a Single Item
Locate the item to change the date in the Manage Dates tool’s table and select the dropdown arrow next to the item name
Select Edit Dates and the Edit Dates window will open
Enter new dates and select Save
FAQs
Should I add Start and End Dates to the Content Module or the Content Items?
When you are setting dates for Content, try just setting dates on the module itself, not on every content item in the module. This helps simplify management of the dates, and based on the volume of calls we receive about it, setting dates on individual content items tends to create access issues for students later. It also makes managing dates easier in the future if you’re only changing the dates at the module level instead of individual files.
In Manage Dates, you can filter by Tool and select Content, then sort the results by Type to see just the modules. Then you can manage the dates for the modules rather easily.
How do I change my course's Start and/or End Dates?
By default, each Brightspace course automatically opens to students at 12 a.m. three days before the official start date of the course for that term in Colleague and closes to students at 11:59 p.m. seven days after the last day of the term in Colleague.
Sometimes you may need to change the date of a course. Students may need to access the course before the actual official start date or extensions might be required at the end of a course.
In the navbar, click on Course Admin and select Course Offering Information.
Scroll down until to the Start Date and End Date headings and adjust the dates and times accordingly
Note: Do not remove the checkboxes for Start date and End date. Do not remove the check box for Course is active or students won’t be able to access your course
Click on the Save button