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The Discussions tool helps students share thoughts on course materials with their peers.

Use the Discussions tool in your course to encourage users to share thoughts on course material with their peers. You can set up forums and topics for users to ask questions, discuss course content and assignments, and work together in assigned groups and sections.

This article covers setting accommodations and special access.

This article lists the main roles in Brightspace and gives a short description of the permissions associated with the role within a Brightspace course.

Respondus Lockdown is an additional tool connected to Brightspace quizzes.

Respondus Lockdown is an additional tool connected to Brightspace quizzes.

Use the Content tool to post and organize course content so that users can use information about course expectations, syllabus, lecture notes, and important dates.

Course materials you post in Content can include documents, images, media files, URL links, and existing course activities. You can add release conditions, grade items, and learning objectives to topics to ensure users navigate through course materials while fulfilling specific course requirements and learning expectations.

This article includes a summary of the features and functions of the Brightspace Content Tool, including adding modules and content reporting.

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that protects the privacy of student records. Prior to age 18, parents have rights pertaining to their child’s educational records. Once 18, individuals have rights to their records. Students have the right to review their records, to request a correction to records, and to consent to the disclosure of their records. Schools can only share educational records with written permission (with some exceptions).

The OCDC tool can be used as a road map for designing new courses, a guide for revising existing courses, or as a rubric for a formal course review. It was created specifically for WSU with guidance from faculty and TLT staff and is available at no cost to WSU faculty.

Brightspace includes a simple email messaging tool that allows instructors to compose and send messages to individual students, sections, groups, and classlists. These messages are sent to students' WSU email addresses. Brightspace does not receive email. If students reply to messages sent from Brightspace, the reply is sent to the instructor's WSU email mailbox.

Brightspace supports two styles of home pages: the Brightspace home page and the course home page. Both of these styles of home page are widget based.

The Brightspace Assignments (formerly Dropbox) tool is an electronic storage space where students can submit documents and assignments. Assignments will take most file formats including Word, Excel, PDF, and PowerPoint. For multimedia files, use MediaSpace. Submissions are date- and time-stamped. Students will get an email once they have submitted a file to the Assignments folder.

Instructors can use Brightspace Assignments to to gather and evaluate student work and track the completion of on-paper and in-person activities.

This article provides a list of approved D2L Brightspace integrations.