Tag: Brightspace

Toolin’ Around: How do I upload my syllabus to Brightspace?

Welcome to another CTLE Toolin’ Around!

Brightspace makes it easy to upload a PDF or Word Document syllabus into your course. Use this guide to get your syllabus online and to your students in just a matter of minutes. 

For information on writing your syllabus, you can view the syllabus template which can be found under resources and tools on the internal CPCC website (login required).  

Uploading Your Syllabus:

We recommend you upload your syllabus to the content area of your Brightspace course. Below are steps to upload your syllabus!

Note: These steps assume that you have uploaded the RCE pack into your course.

Steps:

    1. Enter your course and select Content Tab.
    2. Select “Syllabus and Course Information” on the side menu.
    3. Select “Add Existing.”
    4. Drag/Drop your syllabus from your computer into the designated area in your course. 
      • If you’d like to browse for your syllabus, select Browse, and select “Open.” 
    5. Be sure to move the “visibility” toggle at the top left from “Hidden” to “Visible” so that students can view your syllabus. 

View the video below to see the steps in action!

Toolin’ Around: Create an EVA Assessment with Release Conditions

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: It is important to create a user friendly layout for our course content to make sure our students succeed. The Enrollment Verification Activity (EVA) is a federal requirement to make sure students are officially counted in our courses. All online students must submit an assignment or quiz by a specific date in order to be officially counted in the course. Let’s take a look at creating a proper EVA assessment (quiz or assignment) while also making it as user friendly as possible for our student’s success with Brightspace’s Release Condition feature.

Benefits?

  • Using Brightspace’s Release Condition, we (the instructors) can make sure that students must complete the EVA assessment before they are able to venture into the rest of the course content.
  • The Release Condition helps prevent a scenario where your students may accidentally go directly to their course content (missing the EVA) and end up being removed from the course because they did not complete their Enrollment Verification Activity assessment.
  • The Release Condition feature can be used in many different ways than just the EVA, keep this in mind while you are designing your course!
  • The video playlist showcases both types of EVA assessments (Quiz or Assignment) so you can study how each assessment is created.

Learn How Now!

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