New! Pre-Built Starter Course

New! Pre-Built Starter Course

What is the Brightspace Starter Course? The Brightspace Starter Course is a pre-built course outline designed to give you a jump start on building your course. It contains pre-built Modules, Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes, and Gradebook. All you need to do is personalize it and add your course materials.   Get the Brightspace Starter Course Check […]

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Where to Find Brightspace Support

What is Changing We are transitioning the consultations to a by-request model. Instead of having a calendar with pre-set times, you now email Faculty Support at citl@maine.edu and ask for a consultation. By doing this we hope to provide more flexibility in our available consultation times and be able to support more people.聽   Who […]

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New Faculty Orientation coming soon!

New faculty full- and part-time are welcome to attend the upcoming New Faculty Orientation in August! This year new hires from last year are welcome to join as well for any or all of the events. To learn more about the schedule and register, please CLICK HERE.

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For Graduate Students: Creating a Diversity Statement

Institutions of higher education are becoming more deliberate at targeting future faculty who can meaningfully contribute to diversity and inclusion initiatives. More often job ads are requiring separate statements, in addition to a teaching philosophy that specifically address these issues. We will work to help you navigate this topic and develop a strategy for writing […]

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Upcoming event! Inclusive Pedagogy: Privilege Matters

The College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Communication and Journalism, Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexuality Studies, CITL, and the Department of English will be hosting an interactive workshop exploring how and why privilege is relevant to inclusive pedagogy.聽 To learn more and register, CLICK HERE!

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New Feature

New! Grant Extra Time on Quizzes Faster

91福利 this New Feature Up until now, when you got an accommodation request from a student for extra time, you needed to go into each of your quizzes to grant that student extra time through 鈥淪pecial Access鈥. This new feature now lets you define an accommodation through Classlist once. Granting an accommodation through Classlist will […]

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Quiz Setup Quick Resources

Setting up your first quiz of the semester? Finding yourself a little lost in all the settings? Check out these tutorials!   Building Question Banks In general, we recommend building your questions in the Question Library and then importing your questions into your quiz. This is because it makes using the other tools, such as […]

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New Assignment Experience!

One of the biggest differences between Blackboard and Brightspace is that we are going to see occasional Brightspace updates. Don’t worry though! These updates are to designed to make it easier for you to use Birghtspace and are done gradually. The latest update brought us a new Assignment Experience! If you are not ready to […]

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