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Brightspace is the Course Management System used by the University for instruction and course organization. Brightspace provides a number of tools, options, features, etc. that instructors can use to customize courses and experiences for students.
Go to https://my.sjf.edu/
Login with your Fisher credentials
Select Employees
Select LaunchPad
Look for Brightspace
Pre-Semester Prep: Helpful guide for common tasks to prepare your course for the semester.
Adding Users To A Brightspace Course and Brightspace User Types.
Attendance Tracking: Using the built-in attendance tracking tool within Brightspace.
Brightspace Basics: About the default course view, customizing course navigation, managing users, and content areas.
Brightspace Building: Building content in Brightspace including the content page, building modules, and setting dates/restrictions.
Brightspace Assignments: Set up, organize, and grade assignments.
Brightspace Discussion Boards: Set up, engage, and grade discussion conversations.
Brightspace Grade Book: Set up and organize grades to calculate course grades.
Brightspace Groups: Set up groups for students discuss together and submit group assignments.
Brightspace integration with LinkedIn Learning: Integrate LinkedIn Learning courses in your Brightspace course.
Brightspace Rubrics: Evaluate students based on pre-determined criteria.
Brightspace Quizzes: Set up and grade quizzes or exams.
Lumi: Utilize Brightspace AI to brainstorm ideas or create questions with this time-saving tool.
Creator +: Include engaging resources in your course to enhance the learning experience.
Intelligent Agents: Create automated messages that you can send to your students.
Video Note: Record up to 30 min of video content and post it to announcements, content, assignments, etc.
Please note that there is currently a bug with VideoNote that prevents users from recording more than 3 minutes on an iPad. If you need to record for more than 3 minutes, please use a computer.
Release Conditions: For creating custom learning paths or controlling visibility based on certain actions.
Class Progress: Check up on how your learners are doing in your course on a whole-class or individual basis.
Explore the Brightspace FAQs page for common questions we receive from faculty about how to use Brightspace most effectively.
Getting Started: An overview of the Brightspace homepage, Brightspace courses, submitting assignments, submitting discussion threads, and checking your grades.
Changing personal settings (i.e. profile photo, notifications, and account settings)
There are a number of tools that integrate with Brightspace. Find resources and support by clicking on the links below:
Google Drive: Google Drive documents can be uploaded in the following areas: Content, Discussions, Assignments, Email, and Announcements