Part II: Implementing Your Plan in Brightspace

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Now that you have a sound plan for your course, you can begin setting up your Brightspace learning environment. Part II of this guide provides other tips and resources to help you build and facilitate your course in Brightspace. Again, a list of additional resources and QM standards are provided if you want to dive in and learn more.

NOTE

About six weeks prior to the start of the semester, a Brightspace course site is automatically generated for each credit course offering and access provided to instructor. This is the ‘live’ site that registered students will access. If you wish to prepare in advance prior to the generation of the ‘live’ site, you can submit a request to CITL’s Support Centre for a ‘sandbox’ or ‘development site with no student registrants added. You can copy content from a previous offering into the ‘live’ or ‘sandbox’ site. If you are starting from scratch, consider uploading the course setup kit into your Brightspace course site. The setup kit was designed to meet accessibility standards and can easily be edited using the HTML editor within Brightspace.

1. GETTING STARTED: WRITE WELCOME AND OVERVIEW

2. SET COMMUNICATION EXPECTATIONS

3. PROVIDE RESOURCES ON HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND GETTING HELP

4. MAKE SYLLABUS ACCESSIBLE

5. CREATE COURSE SCHEDULE

6. SETUP CONTENT MODULES

7. SETUP COMMUNICATION AND ASSESSMENT TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

8. FINALIZE AND ACTIVATE YOUR COURSE SITE

CITL, Phillips, P.; St. Croix, L.; Wicks, C.; & Beaton, N. (2020). Adapted from original Course Set Up Kit Guide by St. Croix, L. & Wicks, C. (2014).

Resource created by Pam P., Lisa St.C, Cathy W., & Nancy B.