Whether you are new to Brightspace or just need a refresher, the Getting Started session is designed to walk you through the basics for preparing your course site for the start of term. Instructors are encouraged to come prepared to discuss issues or challenges they experienced when teaching with Brightspace. The facilitator will aim to provide suggestions to address the particular situations presented.

Topics include:

• Overview of CITL’s Support team
• Logging into Brightspace and accessing your course site
• Adding content to a site, including the Course Set-up Kit for Remote Instruction
• Using course mail and announcement to contact your students
• Setting up a discussion forum
• Creating an assignment folder for submissions
• Setting up the Gradebook to track and return grades to students
• Activating your site
• Introducing online rooms

This session will be hosted in Online Rooms: https://ysu-na.youseeu.com/sync-activity/invite/1349818/06aafa6496314ad9e37425e3ec7c61ba?lti-scope=d2l-resource-syncmeeting-list

The room will open 15 minutes before the start of the session.

It is recommended that you access the room using either of the following internet browsers:  Chrome, Microsoft Edge (Chromium) or Firefox.

Please note that this session will be recorded.