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2 Brightspace Learning Environment 10.6+Contents Contents DOCUMENT CHANGE HISTORY...3 CALENDAR...4 Calendar interface overview...4 Subscribe to a calendar...5 Import a calendar from your computer...5 Change Calendar settings...5 CONTENT...6 Content tool overview...6 Print a content topic...7 Access content using ReadSpeaker docreader integration...7 View overdue Content topics...8 VIDEO NOTE...8 Create and insert a video note in HTML Editor...8 Reuse video notes...9 Create a video note attachment...9 ABOUT D2L by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 2

3 Document change history Brightspace Learning Environment Document change history This version of the document replaces all previous versions. The following table describes the most recent changes to this document. Revision Date Summary of Changes November 3, 2016 Updated formatting for consistency. July 2, 2015 Added ReadSpeaker and View Overdue Content topics. May 7, 2015 Initial release. The content in this guide is applicable to the most recent version of Brightspace Learning Environment unless otherwise noted by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 3

4 Calendar Brightspace Learning Environment 10.6+Calendar Calendar interface overview Figure 1: An overview of the Calendar user interface 1) Use the calendar views area to toggle between different event display layouts. Use the Agenda view to group your course events by Date, Course, or Category - events display in chronological order, and all-day events display at the top of each grouped listing. Use the Day, Week, and Month views to group your events in daily, weekly, or monthly increments. Use the List view to filter your events by Assignments, Checklists, Discussions, Grades, Materials, Modules, Quizzes, and Surveys. 2) Use the calendar content area to navigate through your content. Navigation will vary depending on the view you select. 3) Use the calendar menu to select multiple calendars to display, change the color scheme associated with individual calendars, and add new calendars. 4) Use the mini calendar to navigate quickly to a specific day, week, or month by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 4

5 Brightspace Learning Environment 10.6+Calendar 5) Use the task pane to create, track, and maintain personal tasks. Subscribe to a calendar Use ical feeds to access your Calendar events outside of the learning tool. With ical feeds, you can view your course events in external calendars such as Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar, and on mobile devices such as iphones, BlackBerry smartphones, and Android phones. Subscribing to an ical feed syncs your external calendar application or device with the Calendar tool, keeping you updated without logging in to Brightspace Learning Environment. Refer to your device or application instructions for adding an ical feed, as each application can have a different method for managing ical feeds. 1. On the navbar, click Calendar. 2. In the Calendar views area, click Settings. 3. Select the Enable Calendar Feeds check box. 4. In the Calendar views area, click Subscribe. 5. From the drop-down list, select which calendar you want to subscribe to, or select All Calendars and Tasks, or Tasks Only. Import a calendar from your computer You can add new events and update existing events by importing them from an external ical file into your Calendar. 1. On the navbar, click Calendar. 2. From the calendar menu, click the course you want your events to be grouped under. 3. Click Import Events. 4. To search for the ical file containing your events, on the Import Events page, click Browse. If you want to import the events into a specific group or section, in the Attendees drop-down list, select the group or section. 5. Click Open > Import. Change Calendar settings 1. On the navbar, click Calendar. 2. Click Settings. 3. Make your changes. 4. Click Save by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 5

6 Content Brightspace Learning Environment 10.6+Content Content tool overview Figure 2: The Content tool interface 1) When you access a course's Content tool for the first time, the first page you land on is the Overview, which instructors might use to post the course syllabus and introductory material. If your instructor has left the Overview blank you will not see it listed and you will land on the Table of Contents. 2) Topics you bookmark appear in a list on the Bookmarks page. The number beside the Bookmarks link indicates how many bookmarks you have. 3) The Course Schedule page lists course material due dates, start dates, end dates, overdue course activities, and all events within the course from the Calendar tool for the next seven days. The number of overdue items in the course appears in red. Course events are also listed in the Calendar tool. Note: Adding a due date to a content item that is associated to an assignment submissions folder will override an end date that is also set on the same Assignments by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 6

7 4) The Table of Contents panel lists all modules available in your course. If numbers appear beside each module name in the Table of Contents panel it indicates that topics are being tracked for completion, and that you have a number of topics you have not accessed. 5) The course content options located on the Table of Contents page allow you to download your course content in zip file format or send it to your Brightspace Binder account to review offline, depending on the permissions given to you by your organization. 6) Print your course outline, or navigate to a module's landing page to print a module's outline. Print a content topic The print function may not be available for all file types. 1. Click on a document topic. 2. Click Print or click Download and print from your computer. Brightspace Learning Environment 10.6+Content Access content using ReadSpeaker docreader integration The ReadSpeaker docreader integration provides audio rendering of supported document types in the Content tool. If your organization has enabled this feature, you can hear audio playback of the following document types: epub (.epub) Microsoft Excel (.xls,.xlsx) Microsoft PowerPoint (.pps,.ppt,.pptx) Microsoft Word (.doc,.docx) OpenOffice/OpenDocument Presentation (.odp) OpenOffice/OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) OpenOffice/OpenDocument Text (.odt) Portable Document Format (.pdf) Rich Text Format (.rtf) When you select ReadSpeaker docreader, a new content viewer appears with volume and playback controls. Within a Content topic, on the Content viewer page, click Open with docreader in the topic context menu or on the page by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 7

8 Video Note View overdue Content topics Brightspace Learning Environment View a list of all overdue content topics within a course in the Overdue tab in the Course Schedule area. The topics on this list are sorted from most to least overdue. You can click the topic to immediately access and complete the topic. Only topics with a set due date but no end date or an end date later than the due date appear on this list since you must have time remaining after the due date to access and complete the topic. The Overdue tab only appears if you have content topics that are not complete by the set deadline. Figure 3: The Overdue tab appears in the Course schedule area as soon as the due date passes The number of overdue topics in the Overdue tab appears in red beside Course Schedule in the Content menu. When you access an overdue topic, it disappears from the list in the Overdue tab. When you complete all overdue topics, the Overdue tab disappears from the Course Schedule area. Video Note Create and insert a video note in HTML Editor 1. In the HTML Editor, click the Insert Stuff icon. 2. Click Video Note. 3. When the Flash player prompts you to allow camera and microphone access, click Allow. 4. Click Record and record your video. Click Stop when you finish recording. 5. To preview your video note, click Play. 6. If you want to re-record, click Clear. If you are satisfied with your recording, click Next by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 8

9 Video Note 7. Enter a title and description of your video note. Text you provide in these fields becomes searchable if users have permission to search and insert other people's video notes. 8. Click Next. After this step your video note saves to Video Note Search. If you have permission to search and insert video notes, you can reuse this video in the future. 9. You can preview the video note before you insert it. 10. Click Insert. Reuse video notes If you have created previous video notes, and if you have permission to search and insert video notes, you can reuse video notes. 1. In the HTML Editor click the Insert Stuff icon. Brightspace Learning Environment Click Video Note Search. 3. Enter your search terms in the Search Notes field, then click Search. You can also perform a blank search to see all search results. 4. Select the video you want to insert and click Next. 5. You can preview the video note before you insert it. 6. Click Insert. Create a video note attachment 1. From the Attachments area of the tool you are in, click Record Video. 2. When the Flash player prompts you to allow camera and microphone access, click Allow. 3. Click Record and record your video. Click Stop when you finish recording. 4. To preview your video note, click Play. 5. If you want to re-record your note, click Clear. If you are satisfied with your recording, click Add. 6. Enter a title and description of your video note. Text you provide in these fields becomes searchable if users have permission to search and insert other people's video notes. 7. Click Add. After this step your video note saves to Video Note Search. If you have permission to search and insert video notes, you can reuse this video in the future by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 9

10 About D2L Brightspace Learning Environment About D2L A global leader in EdTech, D2L is the creator of Brightspace, the world s first integrated learning platform. The company partners with thought-leading organizations to improve learning through data-driven technology that helps deliver a personalized experience to every learner, regardless of geography or ability. D2L s open and extensible platform is used by more than 1,100 clients and almost 15 million individual learners in higher education, K 12, healthcare, government, and the enterprise sector including Fortune 1000 companies. The company has operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Singapore. ( ( Contact Us Phone: Toll Free: (Worldwide) (North America) (United Kingdom and Europe) (New Zealand) (Australia) (Brazil) Fax: Twitter: Web: ( ( D2L Corporation. The D2L family of companies includes D2L Corporation, D2L Ltd, D2L Australia Pty Ltd, D2L Europe Ltd, D2L Asia Pte Ltd, and D2L Brasil Soluções de Tecnologia para Educação Ltda. Brightspace, D2L, and other marks ("D2L marks") are trademarks of D2L Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries. Please visit d2l.com/trademarks for a list of other D2L marks by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 10

11 About D2L Brightspace Learning Environment ical and iphone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft and Outlook are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Google Calendar and Android are trademarks of Google Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. BlackBerry is the registered trademark of BlackBerry Limited, the exclusive rights to which are expressly reserved. D2L is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or otherwise authorized by BlackBerry Limited. Flash is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective trademark holders by D2L Corporation. All rights reserved. 11

Brightspace Learning Environment Course Planning - Instructor Guide

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