Instructor Documentation

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Use this area to learn about the fundamental steps needed to navigate Brightspace, set up your course, create basic course activities, engage with your learners, and evaluate your learners.

The Announcements widget can help you to boost engagement by scheduling announcements for frequent and regular communication to all learners enrolled in a course. Learners can also set notification preferences to be made aware of important updates.

Assignments

Attendance

The Attendance tool enables you to create registers that track attendance for activities within your organization or course. You can track attendance for any number of activities and customize your registers to suit your needs.

Awards

The Awards tool enables you to provide merit-based awards to learners. There are two types of awards: Badges, and Certificates.

Blog

Brightspace Editor

Brightspace Editor is the default editor across Brightspace. You can find Brightspace Editor nearly everywhere you create content in Brightspace.

Calendar

Checklist

Class Progress

Classlist

The Class Progress tool tracks your learners' overall progress as a course and individually.

Competencies

Competencies help track information about the knowledge, skills, and abilities learners acquire as they participate in courses or other learning experiences.