Managing course materials for adaptability, sustainability, and refinement

With a new academic year beginning, many readers have already done various tasks to manage the course materials on their NYU Brightspace course site. These tasks might include: Carefully managing these tasks will help you effectively complete the setup work required each semester for building your course site. With this in mind, it is important […]

Brightspace Quizzes Enhancements for Summer/Fall 2023

Several enhancements have been made to the Brightspace Quizzes tool which will improve its overall usability and make it easier for you to run secure assessments. The overall interface for Quizzes has been updated to more closely match that of the Brightspace Assignments tool.  Settings that were formerly in separate tabs are now grouped into four […]

Ed Discussions: An enhanced online discussions tool for Brightspace

If you are using online discussion forums in your courses you may be interested in a new tool called Ed Discussions. Ed Discussions has been integrated into Brightspace so your students do not need to create and manage a secondary account to login. Creating, managing, and monitoring discussions in Ed is streamlined and intuitive. Importantly, […]