Brightspace Text Guides & Video Tutorials for Faculty
Bite-sized learning is here - we have text guides and video tutorials for common topics. This page is a follow-up resource for our "Getting Started with Brightspace" workshop and is constantly being updated.
You can also watch a video playlist to go through all videos about a topic at one go.
What other topics would you like to see here? Tell us at atc.bentley.edu
| Course Navigation, Management, and Design | Text Guide | Video Tutorials |
|---|---|---|
| Logging into Brightspace | Text Guide | Coming soon |
| Navigating the Brightspace homepage | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Accessing and organizing your course sites in Brightspace | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Changing the start date / making your course available to students | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Creating announcements | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Designing your course in Brightspace | Text Guide | - |
| Managing course notifications from Brightspace | Text Guide | - |
| Sending an email to classlist | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Supported web browsers | Check browser | - |
| Taking attendance with Qwickly | Text Guide | - |
| Blackboard vs Brightspace terminology | Text Guide | - |
| Setting up Automatic Reminders for Late or Missing Work (Intelligent Agents) | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
Course Navigation, Management, and Design Video Playlist
| Content Management | Text Guide | Video Tutorials |
|---|---|---|
| Updating the 'Meet Your Instructor' page in Brightspace | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Uploading a syllabus | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Changing the image in the Visual Table of Contents | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Uploading Documents to Course Content | Text Guide | - |
| Editing and deleting content in a unit | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Embedding Power Points in Brightspace | Text Guide | - |
| (Pre)viewing content as a learner | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Adding an Excel file to a course | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Copying content from one course to another | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Copying course content within a course | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Organizing content | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Import/exporting course content in Brightspace | Text Guide | - |
| Managing Dates for your course content | - | Video Tutorial |
| Adding release conditions to content items | - | Video Tutorial |
| Linking/Creating new Gradescope assignments | Text Guide | - |
Content Management Video Playlist
| Assessments | Text Guide | Video Tutorials |
|---|---|---|
| Creating and managing assignments | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Grading assignments and providing feedback | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Creating quizzes | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Grading quizzes | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Creating a Kaltura video quiz | Text Guide | - |
| Creating a Turnitin assignment | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Using Respondus Lockdown Browser | Text Guide | - |
| Submitting a Quiz/Test in Progress on behalf of a student | Text Guide | - |
| Submitting a paper to Turnitin for a student who is not enrolled in your class | Text Guide | - |
| Brightspace Quiz Question Converter Tool | Text Guide | - |
Assessments Video Tutorials
| Grade Book | Text Guide | Video Tutorials |
|---|---|---|
| Setting up a Grade Book | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Managing grade items and categories (automatic grade calculations) | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Using alternative views (spreadsheet, standard, hide/unhide columns) | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Exporting my Grade Book into Excel | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Dropping the lowest grade from a grade category | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Importing Grade Book | Text Guide | Coming Soon |
| Example of a weighted Grade Book | External reference | - |
| Releasing Final Grade to students | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
Grade Book Video Tutorials
| Groups and Discussions | Text Guide | Video Tutorials |
|---|---|---|
| Creating groups | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Creating and managing discussions | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Setting up dates for discussions | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
Groups and Discussions Video Tutorials
| Media in Brightspace | Text Guide | Video Tutorials |
|---|---|---|
| Accessing My Media (Kaltura videos) | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Adding a Kaltura video to My Media/ Brightspace course | Text Guide | Video Tutorial |
| Editing a video in My Media | Text Guide | - |
| Getting links to videos to share outside of Brightspace | Text Guide | - |
| Adding collaborators to your video in My Media | Text Guide | |
| Downloading your video and transcript from Kaltura | Text Guide | |
| Recording class to Zoom cloud and adding recording to Brightspace course | Text Guide |
Media in Brightspace Video Tutorials
Academic Year Support Hours
Support for Brightspace is available Monday-Friday 7:30 am- 5:00 pm.
Brightspace Support Lounge
ATC offers open office hours for faculty every Thursday & Friday from 10-11AM to get quick answers on Brightspace.