Westchester Community College, State University of New York

Brightspace Tutorials for Faculty

Learn how to use Brightspace by using the step-by-step guides listed below. As an alternative, attend one of our in-person workshops. Visit the Online Education Faculty Resources page for more information.

Getting Started

Recommended Steps to Export your Blackboard Course Assignments, Quizzes, & Discussion and Import into Brightspace

Download Course Files from Blackboard Tutorial (PDF)

Getting Started

Add a Module

Upload a File & Add a Content Topic

Create a File & Insert Stuff

Rearrange Topics and Modules

Communication Tools

Create an Announcement

Making Regular Announcements

Delete & Restore Announcements

Manage Notifications

Discussions – Create a Forum

Discussions – Create a Topic

Grade a Discussion in your Grade Book

Contact Learners

Understand & Modify Class Progress

Assignments

Create an Assignments

Add Restrictions to an Assignment

Associate an Assignment with a Grade Item

Grade Submissions in Assignments

Quizzes

Create a New Quiz with New Questions

Create a New Quiz with Imported Questions

Edit a Quiz Question

Associate a Quiz with a Grade Item

Preview a Quiz as a Learner

Manually Grade a Quiz

Grading

Understanding Grades

Create a Grade Item

Associate an Activity with a Grade Item

Delete Grade Items with Associations

Create a Category

Rubrics

Create a Weighted Rubric

Create an Analytic Rubric

Provide student feedback with rubrics