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Your new semester’s classes have been created, and they are active and set to start on the first day of classes–but perhaps you are interested in opening your class earlier for students, to acclimatize to your course structure or expectations.  You can adjust the opening date to reflect that practice, following a couple of easy steps:

  1. On the UMPI Home Page, where you see your course tiles, in the desired course, hover in the top right corner until you see 3-dots appear.
  2. Click on those 3 dots and select Course Offering Information from the menu.
  3. This will take you to the Course Offering Information page within the course itself (also accessible in the Course Admin panel).  From here you will scroll down to the Start Date section.  You can update the date and time that the course opens from here–as long as the course is ‘Active’, it will open for access when this date is set.  Note: if the box is ‘unchecked’ with no start date, the course will be accessible right away.

Note: do not uncheck the active box, as this will look to the student as if their course has disappeared (or that they are no longer enrolled).  If you have any questions about how your start dates appear to students, please give CTL a call.

Brightspace allows users to opt-out of receiving emails. If you want your student to receive an email when you make an announcement you will need to prompt them to select to receive emails on announcements in their Notifications in their Mini-Bar. If they do not select to receive announcement emails they will not see them until they either log in to Brightspace, where they will be alerted of messages with an orange dot above the Notification bell, which (when clicked), will open access to Announcements across all of their classes–or enter your class, to view your announcement on your course home.

You have several options for where to grade student work.

  1. Quick Eval (recommended)
    • Quick Eval offers instructions a single location to view all learner submission that are awaiting evaluation. Submissions made to Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussion are displayed in a sortable list and can be selected to take you directly to their assessment page.
    • Instructors can sort, filter, and search submission to prioritize their evaluation work. Sorting can be done using the first or last name of the learner, Activity Name, Course Name, and Submission date. Filtering can be done using one or more of the following categories: Activity Name, Course Name, and Submission Date.
    • When accessing Quick Eval from a specific course, the list of activities to evaluated is prefiltered to only show items from that course.
    • Note: When Accessing Quick Eval from the UMPI home page NavBar will allow you to view submissions from all available courses.
  2. The Grades Tool
    • The Grades tool is a good tool to record grades for assessments that you observed, were handed in, in person, or to adjust for revisions. The ENTER Grades panel in the Grades tool allows instructions to see, enter, and modify the greades for students in the course in one of two ways:
      • The Standard view, by grade item. You can click on the assessment icon individually, or open the assessment panel for that item to grade multiple or all students at one time.
      • The Spreadsheet view, which enables modification of grades for all students and all assignments on one page; however, this view will not allow for text-based feedback.
      • Or, by synching your grade book using the import via CSV, you can export your grade book, manipulate grade data in Excele and import back ino the grades tool, to synch
  3. In the Assessment Tool(ie: Assignments, Discussion, Quizzes)
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