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| ====== What Can Avenue Do? ====== | ====== What Can Avenue Do? ====== | ||
| - | ====Get Started==== | + | ===== Get Started ===== |
| Are you looking for the basics to help you get started with building fully online or blended courses in your Avenue to Learn site? | Are you looking for the basics to help you get started with building fully online or blended courses in your Avenue to Learn site? | ||
| - | ===Navigation=== | + | ==== Navigation ==== |
| knowing where to find the things you need to build your course site: | knowing where to find the things you need to build your course site: | ||
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| Navigate Brightspace Learning Environment for Instructors (video tutorial) | Navigate Brightspace Learning Environment for Instructors (video tutorial) | ||
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| - | === Content === | + | ==== Content ==== |
| Use the content tool to build the framework for your course site. Set up folders and sub-folders (modules) to organize your learning materials. You can import/export course components from previous versions of a course, drag and drop content from 3rd party tools like Google Docs, create new content with the HTML editor, and create learning activities like assignments, discussions, or quizzes etc. | Use the content tool to build the framework for your course site. Set up folders and sub-folders (modules) to organize your learning materials. You can import/export course components from previous versions of a course, drag and drop content from 3rd party tools like Google Docs, create new content with the HTML editor, and create learning activities like assignments, discussions, or quizzes etc. | ||
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| Semester Start for Instructors (video tutorial) | Semester Start for Instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Assessment === | + | ==== Assessment ==== |
| Be aware of the various assessment options available to you in your Course site. When planning a course site in Brightspace, it is important to know how to set up assessment for the activities/assignments/discussions/quizzes you have included in your course site. | Be aware of the various assessment options available to you in your Course site. When planning a course site in Brightspace, it is important to know how to set up assessment for the activities/assignments/discussions/quizzes you have included in your course site. | ||
| - | === Assess and grade learners === | + | ==== Assess and grade learners ==== |
| Pulse – students love the ability to access their Brightspace site on their mobile devices, but faculty and instructors need to be aware of what kinds of things must be included when setting up the course site for Pulse to perform effectively. Help students succeed by making sure your courses are optimized to perform effectively with the Pulse App. | Pulse – students love the ability to access their Brightspace site on their mobile devices, but faculty and instructors need to be aware of what kinds of things must be included when setting up the course site for Pulse to perform effectively. Help students succeed by making sure your courses are optimized to perform effectively with the Pulse App. | ||
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| Brightspace Pulse effective practices for instructors (video tutorial) | Brightspace Pulse effective practices for instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | ==== Engage your learners through communication ==== | + | ===== Engage your learners through communication ===== |
| If you’re looking for ways to make it easier for faculty to communicate with students, and make sure students are engaged with their peers and instructors, consider these tools/features. | If you’re looking for ways to make it easier for faculty to communicate with students, and make sure students are engaged with their peers and instructors, consider these tools/features. | ||
| - | === Announcements === | + | ==== Announcements ==== |
| A formal way to make course-wide official announcements (no interactive elements) | A formal way to make course-wide official announcements (no interactive elements) | ||
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| - | === Activity Feed === | + | ==== Activity Feed ==== |
| An informal, interactive, social-media like way to share information in a course (faculty and students can author activity feed posts and write comments on posts) | An informal, interactive, social-media like way to share information in a course (faculty and students can author activity feed posts and write comments on posts) | ||
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| Activity Feed widget for Instructors (video tutorial) | Activity Feed widget for Instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Discussions === | + | ==== Discussions ==== |
| A place for students to discuss course materials in an organized way, moderated by an instructor (faculty or student creates a discussion post with instructions, and other students reply). It is possible to assign a grade and a rubric to discussion posts so that students receive credit and feedback for their participation in discussions. | A place for students to discuss course materials in an organized way, moderated by an instructor (faculty or student creates a discussion post with instructions, and other students reply). It is possible to assign a grade and a rubric to discussion posts so that students receive credit and feedback for their participation in discussions. | ||
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| Assessing Discussions | Assessing Discussions | ||
| - | === Calendar === | + | ==== Calendar ==== |
| Add the calendar widget to your course homepage so students can see what’s coming up in the course. The calendar will display anything that you have assigned availability dates to when you added it in content. | Add the calendar widget to your course homepage so students can see what’s coming up in the course. The calendar will display anything that you have assigned availability dates to when you added it in content. | ||
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| Calendar – Create an Event – Instructor (video tutorial) | Calendar – Create an Event – Instructor (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Virtual Classrooms (Not Currently Available in Avenue; suggested alternatives: Webex, Microsoft Teams) === | + | ==== Virtual Classrooms (Not Currently Available; suggested alternatives: Webex, Microsoft Teams) ==== |
| A space for interactive video discussions with faculty or between students. Can be used to hold virtual office hours with faculty/ instructors. | A space for interactive video discussions with faculty or between students. Can be used to hold virtual office hours with faculty/ instructors. | ||
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| Virtual Classroom and Video Assignments for Administrators (video tutorial) | Virtual Classroom and Video Assignments for Administrators (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Pulse === | + | ==== Pulse ==== |
| Students love the ability to access their Brightspace site on their mobile devices. Help learners succeed by making sure your courses are optimized to perform effectively with the Pulse App. | Students love the ability to access their Brightspace site on their mobile devices. Help learners succeed by making sure your courses are optimized to perform effectively with the Pulse App. | ||
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| Brightspace Pulse effective practices for instructors (video tutorial) | Brightspace Pulse effective practices for instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | ==== Evaluate and Monitor Learner Progress ==== | + | ===== Evaluate and Monitor Learner Progress ===== |
| If you’re looking for an easy way to monitor student activity in your course or looking for ways to make the assessment experience easier for faculty and students, consider these tools/features. | If you’re looking for an easy way to monitor student activity in your course or looking for ways to make the assessment experience easier for faculty and students, consider these tools/features. | ||
| - | === Class Progress === | + | ==== Class Progress ==== |
| View, compare and track learner performance at a glance. | View, compare and track learner performance at a glance. | ||
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| Class progress tool for instructors (video tutorial) | Class progress tool for instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Tool Statistics === | + | ==== Tool Statistics ==== |
| Dig deep into the statistics of how some of the tools you’re using in your course site are being accessed to get a better picture of how your students are accessing and engaging with various components of your course, ex/ view quiz statistics to understand student performance issues, view content statistics to see how much time users spent viewing content items. | Dig deep into the statistics of how some of the tools you’re using in your course site are being accessed to get a better picture of how your students are accessing and engaging with various components of your course, ex/ view quiz statistics to understand student performance issues, view content statistics to see how much time users spent viewing content items. | ||
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| Course Content Statistics (how to access the statistics for content specifically) | Course Content Statistics (how to access the statistics for content specifically) | ||
| - | === Quizzes === | + | ==== Quizzes ==== |
| Build quizzes from a question library or from scratch. The quiz tool allows for many question types including equations, multiple choice, short answer etc. | Build quizzes from a question library or from scratch. The quiz tool allows for many question types including equations, multiple choice, short answer etc. | ||
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| Quizzes tool for instructors (video tutorial) | Quizzes tool for instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Rubrics === | + | ==== Rubrics ==== |
| Create or use existing rubrics to evaluate an activity or item based on a predefined set of criteria. Rubrics help ensure that activities and items are evaluated fairly and consistently and deliver effective feedback for students. Using rubrics as part of your course assessment options streamlines the grading workflow for faculty/instructors. | Create or use existing rubrics to evaluate an activity or item based on a predefined set of criteria. Rubrics help ensure that activities and items are evaluated fairly and consistently and deliver effective feedback for students. Using rubrics as part of your course assessment options streamlines the grading workflow for faculty/instructors. | ||
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| Rubrics Tool for instructors (video tutorial) | Rubrics Tool for instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Gradebook === | + | ==== Gradebook ==== |
| Set up a grading system for your course and connect it to your course assignments, discussions, tests etc. It takes a bit of effort to set up the grade book for your course, but once you’ve done so, the grades tool looks after recording the grades you assign students for any of the associated learning activities in your course site and calculating how they contribute toward the student’s final grade. The grades tool can even record the grades you’ve assigned to students through Rubrics (as long as those rubrics have been set up in the grade book). | Set up a grading system for your course and connect it to your course assignments, discussions, tests etc. It takes a bit of effort to set up the grade book for your course, but once you’ve done so, the grades tool looks after recording the grades you assign students for any of the associated learning activities in your course site and calculating how they contribute toward the student’s final grade. The grades tool can even record the grades you’ve assigned to students through Rubrics (as long as those rubrics have been set up in the grade book). | ||
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| Grades Tool for Instructors (video tutorial) | Grades Tool for Instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Quick Eval === | + | ==== Quick Eval ==== |
| View all ungraded student submissions in one place. In Quick Eval, you can see a summary of what grading work is waiting for you to complete. You can sort submissions by course, student, assignment etc. so that you can grade student work in whatever way suits you. You can evaluate submissions and publish feedback and grades right from within the quick eval tool so you don’t need to navigate all over the place to get your grading done. | View all ungraded student submissions in one place. In Quick Eval, you can see a summary of what grading work is waiting for you to complete. You can sort submissions by course, student, assignment etc. so that you can grade student work in whatever way suits you. You can evaluate submissions and publish feedback and grades right from within the quick eval tool so you don’t need to navigate all over the place to get your grading done. | ||
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| Quick Eval - Grade Submissions Using Quick Eval - Instructor (video tutorial) | Quick Eval - Grade Submissions Using Quick Eval - Instructor (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Brightspace Assignment Grader App === | + | ==== Brightspace Assignment Grader App ==== |
| If you are looking for a way to evaluate student assignment submissions on-the-go (online or offline), consider using the Brightspace assignment grader app that can be used on your computer, tablet, or mobile device. | If you are looking for a way to evaluate student assignment submissions on-the-go (online or offline), consider using the Brightspace assignment grader app that can be used on your computer, tablet, or mobile device. | ||
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| Brightspace Assignment Grader for Android – Instructor (video tutorial) | Brightspace Assignment Grader for Android – Instructor (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Annotation tools for assignment grading === | + | ==== Annotation tools for assignment grading ==== |
| Use built-in annotation tools to mark-up assignment submissions and give meaningful feedback using highlighting, freehand drawing, shapes, and associated commenting. | Use built-in annotation tools to mark-up assignment submissions and give meaningful feedback using highlighting, freehand drawing, shapes, and associated commenting. | ||
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| Assignments (Dropbox) Tool for Instructors (video tutorial) | Assignments (Dropbox) Tool for Instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | ==== Personalize Learning ==== | + | ===== Personalize Learning ===== |
| If providing your students with a personalized learning experience is important to you, consider using these tools in your courses. | If providing your students with a personalized learning experience is important to you, consider using these tools in your courses. | ||
| - | === Awards / Badges (Requires Consultation to Enable, Contact Support for Further Information) === | + | ==== Awards / Badges (Requires Consultation to Enable, Contact Support for Further Information) ==== |
| Provide merit-based awards to motivate and engage students as they progress through your course. There are two types of awards: Badges, and Certificates. Badges and Certificates can be automatically awarded based on release condition criteria or can be manually awarded. | Provide merit-based awards to motivate and engage students as they progress through your course. There are two types of awards: Badges, and Certificates. Badges and Certificates can be automatically awarded based on release condition criteria or can be manually awarded. | ||
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| Awards Tool for Instructors (video tutorial) | Awards Tool for Instructors (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Intelligent Agents === | + | ==== Intelligent Agents ==== |
| Gain insight into student’s involvement in your course so you can automate and personalize how you interact with them. The intelligent agents tool finds an activity that matches predetermined criteria, and then automatically (and proactively) triggers an action – ex/ emailing users that have not accessed your course in a week or have missed an assignment submission due date. | Gain insight into student’s involvement in your course so you can automate and personalize how you interact with them. The intelligent agents tool finds an activity that matches predetermined criteria, and then automatically (and proactively) triggers an action – ex/ emailing users that have not accessed your course in a week or have missed an assignment submission due date. | ||
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| Teaching tips – Use Replacement Strings for Personalization (video tutorial) | Teaching tips – Use Replacement Strings for Personalization (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Release Conditions === | + | ==== Release Conditions ==== |
| Use release conditions to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course. When you attach a release condition to an item, users cannot see that item until they meet the associated condition, ex/ attach a release condition to the second topic in your course’s content area that would hide that topic until users viewed the topic before it | Use release conditions to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course. When you attach a release condition to an item, users cannot see that item until they meet the associated condition, ex/ attach a release condition to the second topic in your course’s content area that would hide that topic until users viewed the topic before it | ||
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| Teaching tips – Use Replacement Strings for Personalization (video tutorial) | Teaching tips – Use Replacement Strings for Personalization (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Special Access === | + | ==== Special Access ==== |
| Add special access for learners who require different access to content and/or quizzes in your course, ie/ use special access to allow a student to submit an assignment after the due date, or take more time to complete a quiz | Add special access for learners who require different access to content and/or quizzes in your course, ie/ use special access to allow a student to submit an assignment after the due date, or take more time to complete a quiz | ||
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| Assignments – Add Restrictions to an Assignment – Instructor (video tutorial) | Assignments – Add Restrictions to an Assignment – Instructor (video tutorial) | ||
| - | ==== Use data to improve student success and inform decisions ==== | + | ===== Use data to improve student success and inform decisions ===== |
| Data analytics is an exciting area of the Brightspace platform that allows your school to create reports and data visualizations to analyze what people (students and faculty) are doing in Brightspace. Typically, these data-related tools are used by your school’s Brightspace administrators, not by individual faculty and instructors. To learn more about data and your school’s Brightspace site, speak to your school’s Brightspace administrators. | Data analytics is an exciting area of the Brightspace platform that allows your school to create reports and data visualizations to analyze what people (students and faculty) are doing in Brightspace. Typically, these data-related tools are used by your school’s Brightspace administrators, not by individual faculty and instructors. To learn more about data and your school’s Brightspace site, speak to your school’s Brightspace administrators. | ||
| - | === Brightspace Data Sets (Available to Avenue to Learn Administrators Only) === | + | ==== Brightspace Data Sets (Available to Avenue to Learn Administrators Only) ==== |
| Brightspace Data Sets are intended to be downloaded regularly and loaded into a data warehouse for use with a Business Intelligence tool by joining them together. | Brightspace Data Sets are intended to be downloaded regularly and loaded into a data warehouse for use with a Business Intelligence tool by joining them together. | ||
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| Data Hub – Set up Brightspace Data Sets – Administrator (video tutorial) | Data Hub – Set up Brightspace Data Sets – Administrator (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Data Hub (Available to Avenue to Learn Administrators Only) === | + | ==== Data Hub (Available to Avenue to Learn Administrators Only) ==== |
| Combines Brightspace data sets and Advanced Data Sets to provide a fuller picture of all your data from Brightspace. Advanced data sets give a slice of the overall data and a more complete report. Brightspace Data Sets are intended to be downloaded regularly and loaded into a data warehouse for use with a Business Intelligence tool by joining them together. | Combines Brightspace data sets and Advanced Data Sets to provide a fuller picture of all your data from Brightspace. Advanced data sets give a slice of the overall data and a more complete report. Brightspace Data Sets are intended to be downloaded regularly and loaded into a data warehouse for use with a Business Intelligence tool by joining them together. | ||
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| Data Hub Tool for Administrators (video tutorial) | Data Hub Tool for Administrators (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Insights Portal (Not Available at this time) === | + | ==== Insights Portal (Not Available at this time) ==== |
| Contains 3 dashboards: adoption, engagement, assessment quality. Each dashboard was built for mid-level to administrative roles who need to have data visualized across courses or across the entire organization. | Contains 3 dashboards: adoption, engagement, assessment quality. Each dashboard was built for mid-level to administrative roles who need to have data visualized across courses or across the entire organization. | ||
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| Brightspace Insights – Manipulate Data in Engagement Dashboard – Administrator (video tutorial) | Brightspace Insights – Manipulate Data in Engagement Dashboard – Administrator (video tutorial) | ||
| - | === Student Success System (S3) (Not Available at this time) === | + | ==== Student Success System (S3) (Not Available at this time) ==== |
| Use this predictive analytics tool to be proactive in identifying and making interventions with students who might be at risk in your course. S3 uses historical data to make weekly predictions about student performance. | Use this predictive analytics tool to be proactive in identifying and making interventions with students who might be at risk in your course. S3 uses historical data to make weekly predictions about student performance. | ||
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| Student Success System – | Student Success System – | ||
| - | ===== Vendor Documentation ===== | + | ==== Vendor Documentation ===== |
| https://community.brightspace.com/s/article/Mapping-Brightspace-Functionality-Higher-Education | https://community.brightspace.com/s/article/Mapping-Brightspace-Functionality-Higher-Education | ||
