A BRIGHTSPACE
MINUTE
In this Brightspace Minute, we have a few tips for finishing up the semester.
April 26: Tips for the End of the Semester
It's hard to believe, but the end of the semester is coming up fast!
Here are a few tips to help review your course, close it, improve it for next time, and more.
- Course Evaluations
Just an FYI: When evaluations become available for students, they will all be accessed from the "Course Evaluation module" (text box) on the Brightspace home page, beneath the course list.
- Make your course inactive
This is optional, but if you want to close a course so students will no longer have access to it, follow these steps:
- Go to Course Tools
- Course Availability
- uncheck "Course is Active"
- Save
- Recent Tips
In case you missed them, these recent Brightspace Minutes also have end-of-the-semester tips:
- Grade Book tips include steps for revealing and adjusting final grades.
- Analytics give insights into how your students are doing. For instance, Quiz reports show whether there are identifiable trends in confusion or miscomprehension.
- Bulk-grading assignments is helpful if you want to enter 0s for incomplete work.
- Anthology Ally helps you consider how to increase accessibility in your course the next time you teach it by providing a report that identifies what can be improved.
- Tips for getting your course ready can be useful if you like to get an early start on preparing the next iteration. In particular, read about bulk-managing dates.
To learn how to get Brightspace help from the CTL, see this page.
Center for Teaching & Learning
www.uvm.edu/ctl
ctl@uvm.edu