Student Engagement Tools

Brightspace Announcements

This guide teaches you how to use announcements to put clear communication front and center in your course. Announcements are used to share course information, updates, and upcoming activities, introduce yourself and the course, and can be customized to inform students when they have completed (or not completed) an activity or milestone.

Brightspace Activity Feed

Learn how the Activity Feed can act like a social media feed for your course. When added to your course homepage as a widget,  it can serve as a front and center communication hub for you and your students.

Brightspace Discussions

This guide will show you how to manage discussions in your course. Discussions allow you to give your students the ability to share knowledge and experiences with one another and to apply what they have learned in your course. They also serve as a valuable assessment tool for you as an instructor.

Content Completion Tracking Options & Student Progress Summary

This guide will show how Brightspace tracks student interaction with content and how to access a summary of their progress.

Brightspace Intelligent Agents

This guide will show you how to harness the capabilities of Brightspace Intelligent Agents (IAs). IAs can monitor course activity, automatically act upon learner-based criteria in your course, and send targeted alerts to you and your learners. This document will describe what IAs are and how you can manage them in your courses.

Emailing from the Classlist

This guide will provide an overview of how to email students and instructors via the Brightspace classlist.