Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use every day with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: Faculty Developer Kristin Randles covers how to Drop the Lowest Item in a Grade Category in Brightspace. Did you know you can drop the lowest grade item in a category for a points and weighted grade system?  Watch the video below to learn how! 

Learn more about the Brightspace Grades Tool by attending Building a Brightspace Foundation: Understanding the Basics and/or the Gaining Ground: A Brightspace Grade Tool Deep Dive sessions. Available session dates can be found on the Parr Center Calendar of Events!

For questions, reach out to the Parr CTLE!

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Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use every day with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: Faculty Developer Kristin Randles covers the basics of granting Special Access in Brightspace. For more information on Brightspace Special Access be sure to sign up for the Getting Savvy with Availability, Visibility, and Special Access in Brightspace workshop. Available workshop dates can be found on the Parr Center Calendar of Events!

Description for. Getting Savvy with Availability, Visibility, and Special Access in Brightspace workshop:

The Availability, Visibility, Special Access Workshop is designed for those who have some familiarity with the Brightspace LMS learning environment. The purpose is to give participants a better understanding of how to make content visible and available to students. Since visibility behaves differently depending on the Brightspace view (New Content Experience vs Classic Experience), this session will address visibility for both experiences.

For questions, reach out to the Parr CTLE!

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Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use every day with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: Faculty Fellow, Jennifer Perkins, shares her Tips and Tricks to Wrapping Up Your Semester!  Watch the video below to learn some of Jennifer’s best tips! 

Be sure to check out the available and upcoming sessions from the Parr CTLE. All events can be found on the Parr Center Calendar of Events! Visit the calendar to register! 

For questions, reach out to the Parr CTLE!

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Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use every day with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip:  Faculty Developer Kristin Randles deftly covers the quickest way to locate Enrollment Verification Activity (EVA) quiz submission dates. A great way to quickly take attendance for online or hybrid/blended delivery methods for the Census period.

Benefits?

• Quick way to take attendance (you need to know the EVA submission dates for any online component attendance for the Census period).

For questions, reach out to the Helpdesk!

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Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use every day with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence’s events are constantly being added to with new events, popular training with content for Panopto, Brightspace, course design, attendance training, office hours, and PLENTY more. To make sure you don’t miss out on what events are happening, we want to show you how you can subscribe to our events calendar. Now you have a way to instantly check at-a-glance view of what is going on at the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence.

Benefits?

• You can easily stay up-to-date on all upcoming events and programs.
• Allows users to register for events and plan ahead weeks and months in advance.
• Subscribe to the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Event’s Calendar to learn about this event and more!

For questions, reach out to the Helpdesk!

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Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use every day with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: Panopto, the college’s recording/hosting software for your multimedia content has a great feature when compiling multiple videos together into a playlist. The ability to create and utilize playlists allows you to create one share link (or embed code) that won’t change even if you update/edit the playlist with other videos. This helps streamline your Brightspace course and make it more visually appealing. Watch as the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence’s Faculty Fellow Lindy Hues walks you through this amazing feature to help integrate your playlists into your course.

Benefits?

• You can easily rearrange and edit all the videos in your playlist.
• Once the share link/embed code for your playlist is created, the link doesn’t change, allowing you to update the playlist without replacing any links or code in your course!
• Playlists help consolidate and clean up your layout so you don’t have a long list of videos in your LMS, while keeping each video at a click’s length away.
• Want to learn more about Panopto? Check out “Perfecting Your Panopto: A Best Practices Session 🎥 🤩”.
  • Subscribe to the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Event’s Calendar to learn about this event and more!

For questions, reach out to the Helpdesk!

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Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use every day with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: The Course Administration Webtools is the place where faculty and staff can create, combine, rename, and delete personal models; incorporate their live course into a new personal model; and check on their course information and important dates. These features will help streamline your development process to help make it easier to focus on your course content.

Benefits?

• You can create new Personal Models to develop in (you can also copy your latest live course into your Personal Model).
  • You can also delete any Personal Models you don’t need.
• You can combine your course (or uncombine) as long as you submit it before the course start date.
• You can now see all of your course’s important dates in one place!
• As long as you have your Course Prefix and Course Number, then you can use the Course Administration Webtools to find dates specific to your course and section.
• Check out the Course Administration Webtools FAQs document for more information and videos!

For questions, reach out to the Helpdesk!

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Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use everyday with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: Knowing the important dates for each course can be a hassle to find, especially if you have multiple courses and different start dates for each course (you want to make sure you provide the correct dates for your students). The Course Administration Webtools have released a new feature “Important Dates” that alleviates this issue. 

Benefits?

• You can now see all of your courses important dates in one place!
• As long as you have your Course Prefix and Course Number, then you can use the Course Administration Webtools to find dates specific to your course and section.

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Enjoyed this? Tried it out? Have another idea we can share among teachers at Central Piedmont? Let us know in the Comments section below.

Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use everyday with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: Brightspace’s special access feature allows you to set permissions for a set of students to give them a different set of availability dates and times. This feature streamlines your quizzes/assignments so that you do not have to create a new quiz or duplicate the original to allow students special access to it.

Benefits?

• For example, you could extend the deadline for users who require extra help, or users who are submitting work beyond the original scope of the assignment. You can also add special access after an assignment’s end date has passed for users who have a legitimate excuse for missing the deadline (or just to add extra materials to the assignment).
• This feature also allows you to have specific availability and due dates for each student in the special access list, so you can adjust the dates to meet the needs of each of your special access users.

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Enjoyed this? Tried it out? Have another idea we can share among teachers at Central Piedmont? Let us know in the Comments section below.

Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use everyday with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: Brightspace’s Question Library is a central repository that stores and archives questions which you can reuse within a course. You can create multiple collections within the Question Library to organize your questions by type and topic, making it easier for you to find questions for your quizzes, surveys, and self assessments..

Benefits?

• Import questions into Question Library to consolidate questions created with the Quizzes, Surveys, and Self Assessments tools. Consolidating questions within Question Library enables you to efficiently transfer questions to new courses using the Copy Course Components feature.
• You can also import questions from a CSV file, another quiz, or a learning object repository.

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Enjoyed this? Tried it out? Have another idea we can share among teachers at Central Piedmont? Let us know in the Comments section below.