Brightspace Templates
What is Brightspace Templates?
It is a course shell located on Brightspace that is intended to save faculty time by jumpstarting the design of Brightspace sites. It not only provides best practices to ensure students have a seamless experience navigating Brightspace, but also contains elements to engage and motivate students.
The site is continually updated to include new tools and interactive features. Below is a list of contents and a video tour.
Contents of the Site: 听
- Interactive elements that can be imported into any course and showcase information:听听Slides, sliders, hotspots, accordions, tabs etc.听
- Interactive knowledge checks that can be imported into any course:听听Flip cards, matching items, ordering items, fill in the blank etc.听
- Effective strategies to design announcements, assignments, discussions, and homepages听
- How to design and organize content in the New Content Experience听
Site Tour:
How to Access Brightspace Templates听
Instructions:听
- 听Log in to Brightspace听
- Click Discover (not Follet Discover) on the top Navbar听听
- Scroll down to find Brightspace Templates or type it into the search box听
- Click on the course, and click on Enroll听
Online Course Requirements and Training
To improve learning experiences for students and maintain consistency across programs,听 all OLA/OLS courses need to adopt the following four elements:
- New Content Experience turned on
- A Homepage Template with functional Start Here and Syllabus buttons
- An Introduction, Lesson Objectives, and Task list for each module
- A Visible Gradebook
While the training listed below target online faculty, I encourage all faculty to utilize the templates to efficiently upgrade Brightspace courses.
Online Asynchronous Tutorial
If you haven’t worked with the ID to implement the four requirements, you can do so on your own with the .