Summer is a great time to enjoy some well deserved rest and relaxation. However, if we want to avoid the panicked feeling of “I can’t believe it’s that time of year already” at the end of August, summer is also a great time to refresh our courses and improve our use of Brightspace and other […]
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 […]
Benefits of the Brightspace Rubrics Tool
Do you have assignments or projects that use rubrics? If so, have you had the opportunity to use the Brightspace Rubrics tool? If not, there are 3 key benefits to using the Brightspace rubrics tool. Consistent Grading Well-constructed rubrics can be invaluable in supporting you to provide consistent grading to your students. When you apply […]
Contract Grading, Generative AI, and the Quest for Authentic Assessment
Contract Grading is an alternative grading format in which course grades are based on students’ fulfillment of a predetermined set of learning activities rather than solely on their performance on those activities. Two good examples of Arts & Science faculty use of contract grading can be found in Angela Zito’s Course Exemplar Design Gallery and […]
Update on Turnitin
Have you ever used Turnitin? Turnitin is NYU’s licensed plagiarism detector, which is fully integrated into Brightspace. The way the tool works is that Turnitin is first enabled on an assignment in the Brightspace Assignments tool. While there are a number of custom settings that can be configured in Turnitin, the general function of the […]
Exciting Update for Perusall
Perusall, for anyone who hasn’t had the opportunity to use it yet, is a social annotation tool that’s fully integrated with Brightspace. With this tool, instructors can provide articles, videos, and/or podcasts to students who can then annotate and otherwise mark-up the material. Social annotation exercises are wonderful to enable students to construct knowledge with […]
Have you checked out PowToon?
During the spring 2022 semester, NYU’s User Advisor Group (UAG) published a report that pointed to the need for a self-service animation tool. Then, early on in the fall 2022 semester, NYU licensed PowToon, which is fully integrated with NYU Stream. PowToon is available for use by all members of the NYU community. PowToon allows […]