Brightspace is YC’s Learning Management System (LMS). All courses, whether online, on campus, or anything in-between, are required to have the course syllabus posted and gradebook regularly updated in Brightspace, with more required for online and hybrid courses and more usage strongly recommended for on-campus courses. Brightspace helps students and instructors access and navigate their courses through quick access to elearning materials, online file submissions and grading, virtual discussion forums, and all kinds of other tools and features.
The Center for Teaching Excellence can help you leverage Brightspace to its full potential for your courses, but for general Brightspace guidance and technical issues explore resources or use the chat feature of Brightspace Community.
The first thing you’ll notice when viewing the new creation screen in Assignments is an updated look and feel. The classic tabbed view has been transformed into a new, fully immersive page layout.
The primary panel on the left contains common, frequently used fields that are always displayed. These fields are most relevant to learners and are the core details instructors want to add like a due date, instructions, and attachments.
The panel on the right organizes additional, more advanced options such as start and end dates, rubrics, annotation tools, and Turnitin. These options have been logically grouped and labelled in a way that resonates with instructors and makes them easily discoverable. While these options are collapsed, summary text provides details about which settings are active and subtle hints that aid in the discovery of additional settings. As a result, you can see everything at a glance with little to no scrolling, and without having to navigate through any tabs.