Agenda
• Introductions:
• Any questions or concerns about Brightspace?
• What do you like best about MyGraceland?
• Top Ten Reasons To Switch Now!
• Also: small stumbling blocks and things I haven’t
figured out yet . . .
• Quick tour of my course . . .
• Resources and Timeline
• Q&A
• Work Session?
Top Ten Advantages of
BrightSpace (IHMO)
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Cleaner, more familiar interface
Fewer clicks/drag-and-drop content creation
Easily embed video, images, and links
Announcements feed (as alternative to email)
Embedded Turnitin
Quizzes are pretty easy to create . . .
More easily track individual students’ progress
(see what sections students have visited,
clicked)
8. Easily import/export gradebook to Excel
9. Distribute Cool Awards and Badges
10. You can use the back button!
Minor Stumbling Blocks
• Setting Up Attendance
• Email Function Not Intuitive
• Adding My Student Worker (Fixed!)
• Extra step to “publish” quiz grades
• Surveys (better than MyG, not as good as
SurveyMonkey)
• The discussion forum interface isn’t as welldesigned as everything else
Things That Seem Intriguing,
But That I Haven’t Figured Out Yet . . .
• Scaffolding Coursework (Unlocking Sections)
• The mobile app (“Brightspace Pulse”) and Ipad assignment
grader app
• “Intelligent Agents”
• Virtual Classroom
• Integrated Rubrics
• The LOR . . .
• Binders?
Resources For Making The
Switch
• You can access your fall courses now . . . just no
students yet!
• “Sandbox” Course?
• “Brightspace Tutorials” Youtube Channel
• Transition Team:
• Peggy Mothershead and Joyce Lighthill, Office of the
Registrar
• James Mueller and Jim Collins, Information Technology
• Ron Ellis, Instructional Technology
• Nicole Briell, Student Retention
• Dan Platt, Humanities Faculty
• Future: Division Liaisons?
Timeline For Transition
• April 2017:
• These CETL info sessions!
• Faculty LMS survey
• Info/Training session at Spring Faculty Meeting
• Summer 2017:
• Full-day online training from Brightspace for a small group of faculty from different departments, TBD
• Ongoing transition support from Instructional/Informational Tech . . .
• August 2017:
• Info/Training session at Fall Faculty Meeting;
• Training for provided for new faculty at new faculty orientation sessions
• Fall 2017:
• First wave of MyCourses folks make the voluntary transition to Brightspace
• Ongoing faculty Brightspace support drop-in office hours, hosted by different folks who have made the switch
• Spring 2018:
• Workshops and trainings for the second wave of MyCourses transitions . . .
Questions?
Concerns?
Suggestions?