Instructor and TA Guides – USC Brightspace Help

Check out the Blackboard to Brightspace Guide! This guide was created to provide how terminology used in Blackboard translates to Brightspace.

Help Guides by Semester Timeline

Before the Semester

Prepare for Brightspace

Prepare Your Students for Brightspace

Getting a Brightspace Course

Organize Your Course Materials

Enable Zoom in Brightspace

Using the USC Libraries’ ARES Course Reserves System in Brightspace

Activate and Publish Your Course

Copy Content from One Course to Another

Adding People to Your Course

Why aren’t my Zoom class meetings in Brightspace?

Merging Courses

During the Semester

Evaluating Assignments

Entering Quizzes

End of Semester

Make a Past Course Available to Students

Course Evaluations

Help Guides by Category

Course Management

Accessing Brightspace

Browser Checker

Why isn’t my course in Brightspace? (Instructors)

Why can’t I log into Brightspace?

Navigation and Basic Functions

Grouping My Courses

Navigating Brightspace

Why aren’t my Zoom class meetings in Brightspace?

Course Management

Getting a Brightspace Course

Activate and Publish Your Course

Adding People to Your Course

Download Course Photo Roster

Merging Courses

Change a Branding Template

Quiz Activity Preview

Submit an Assignment as a Learner

Adding Course Materials

Organizing Content

Organize Your Course Materials

Manage Files

Adding Content

Edit Course Homepage

Make Content Visible

Using Brightspace Editor

USC Libraries’ ARES Course Reserves System

Copying Content

Importing a Course Template

Access Another Instructor’s Course Contents

Add a Module

Course Tools

Assignments and Quizzes

Assignments

Creating Assignments

Evaluating Assignments

Turnitin

Assignment Integration, Student Submission and Grading

Viewing Turnitin Originality Reports

Rubrics, Grading, and Providing Feedback for a Turnitin Assignment

Quizzes

Create and Configure a Quiz

View Quiz Statistics

Surveys

Question Library

Automatic “0” on Quiz Help Guide