These guides are created for Geneseo faculty and staff to use with Brightspace. Please use the "Provide Feedback" button on your right to offer suggestions or ideas for this collection.
Visit this handy system checker from the browser you will be accessing Brightspace from to help ensure compatibility with Brightspace.
You can access Geneseo's instance of Brightspace from brightspace.geneseo.edu
Use your full Geneseo username and password to login.
For assistance with your username and password or multi-factor authentication contact the HelpDesk at helpdesk@geneseo.edu or during business hours at 585-245-5588
Email Geneseo's Instructional Design Team at brightspace@geneseo.edu
A member of our team will respond to the Jira Request created as soon as possible; please, be aware that members of our team are generally available 7:30AM-4PM M-F
To schedule a meeting with the Instructional Designers, choose from the following:
Meet with Becky
Meet with Donald
Brightspace Instructor FAQ (Getting Started)
How to Navigate Brightspace
Customize the Brightspace Dashboard
Adding Users or Changing the Role of Users in Your Brightspace Course
Course Merge by Instructor Request
Brightspace Attendance Registers
Set up a Course (Video)
Create an Announcement Item
How to Create Modules in Brightspace
How to Make a Course "Active" (visible to students; formerly "Published" in Canvas)
Create a Brightspace Community account (required to access Brightspace self-help documentation)
How to import course content into Brightspace
Copy Existing Content into a New Course (Video)
Which components from Brightspace can be imported, exported, or copied between courses?
About Course Content Organization
How to Make Brightspace Content Visible/Hidden
Course Workload Estimator (Rice University)
Adding Files to Your Course (Video)
Create Graded Item (Video)
Creating Grade Items and Categories
Associate an Activity With a Grade Item (Video)
How to create an Assignment (Video)
Create Discussion Forum (Video)
Create and Manage Discussions
How to create a Discussion Topic (Video)
Subscribe to a Discussion
Create a Quiz (Video)
Creating and Configuring Quizzes
Submit an in-progress quiz on behalf of a learner
Reset Quiz Attempts
Editing Quiz questions after the Quiz has taken place (regrade)
Setting up the Respondus LockDown Browser for a Quiz
Allowing Special Access for a Quiz
Creating and Viewing Quiz Reports
Viewing Quiz Statistics
Microsoft Teams and Brightspace
TopHat Brightspace Integration & Grades Sync
WeBWorK - Brightspace Integration
Deleting Items in Brightspace
Embedding Media from an External Source into Brightspace
Grades Tool Overview (Video)
Set up Your Gradebook (Gradebook Wizard)
How to set up your Brightspace Gradebook (Video)
Manage Grades in the Grades tool
Importing Optical Scanning Data into Brightspace
Hide the Final Calculated Grade in Brightspace
Hide a Single Grade Item or Grade Category from Students
Entering all grades for a specific Grade Item in Brightspace
Creating Extra Credit Grade Items
Delete a grade item or category
Dismiss Activities from QuickEval
Managing an Incomplete Grade
Familiarize yourself with Brightspace's course content organization
Notifications can (and should!) be enabled from your profile- accessed by clicking on your name in the upper right-hand corner in Brightspace
You may also see the full Brightspace Video Playlist for Instructors here
Student Guide for Brightspace at Geneseo
Installing the Brightspace Mobile App (Pulse)
Managing Your Notifications
Click on links below to view the video for each topic.
Navigating Brightspace
Accessing Course Content
Submitting an Assignment
Taking a Quiz or Exam
Participate in Discussions
Using the Calendar and Tasks
View Grades and Instructor Feedback
To help campuses ensure that their online courses are learner-centered and well-designed, a team of Open SUNY staff and campus stakeholders has designed the OSCQR rubric, a customizable and flexible tool for online course quality review.
Course Reviews at Geneseo
Geneseo's Course Readiness Checklist
The Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR)
When developing your course, it's important to think about how to make your course inclusive and accessible to all learners, regardless of physical or learning disabilities.
Closed Captions in Brightspace
Improving Course Document Accessibility
Uploading Lecture Slides and Recorded Videos to YouTube for Captioning
SUNY Geneseo Accessible Syllabus Checklist
Special Access in Brightspace for Students
Excellent self-paced tutorials for increasing digital accessibility are available through Deque University. Request access to their full collection of courses here: Deque University Accessibility Training
If you are interested in earning a certificate and badges for accessibility and Universal Design for Learning, register for the public self-paced course "Accessibility: Designing and Teaching Courses for All Learners" that was created by SUNY Buffalo State & SUNY Empire State through a SUNY IITG grant.
Data Management Policy (When courses are added and removed)
Instructional Modes at SUNY Geneseo (definitions and practices)
Making Files Accessible (US Dept. of Health & Human Services Resource)
Copyright for Teachers and Scholars (Library Resource)
OpenSUNY Online Teaching Resource Videos
To explore guides created by D2L, visit the Brightspace Help Site. Note that you will need to create an account to access content within the Brightspace Community.
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