Glossary for NYU Brightspace Tools
NYU Classes Tools |
NYU Brightspace Equivalent |
Description/Function |
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Profile | Profile & Notifications | Create an online profile with personal information such as name, tagline, and profile photo. Edit notification preferences to control how you receive information about course activity. |
Overview | Course Site Homepage | A course landing page that contains course activity updates, announcements, calendar, and Table of Contents displayed to students. |
Site Info | Course Offering Information | Course site administration tool for making changes to course site information. |
Announcements | Announcements | Post current, time-critical information for all students. |
Calendar | Calendar | Display class meeting dates, deadlines, assignment dates, special events, and more. |
Roster | Classlist | Allows instructors to view a site participant's name, username, and system profile photo. Allows students to view all course enrollments. |
Messages | Send emails to individuals, groups, or all students. Private messages are composed, contained, and managed here. | |
Syllabus | Syllabus | Post, upload, or link to the syllabus and course requirements. |
Resources | Content / Manage Files |
Upload and organize documents, electronic files, or external URLs for display or download. Content tool serves as the primary form of interaction with course materials. If courses were migrated from NYU Classes, existing Resources would appear by default as a hidden module. Manage Files tool serves as the file repository for the course site, and is not visible to students. |
Lessons | Content | Structure course content in sequenced learning events (weeks, units, or modules), and require the completion of prerequisites if needed. |
External Link | Weblink | Create a link in any content module that leads to a website. |
External Tool | External Tool | Add External tools that work with the learning management system, such as Gradescope, VoiceThread, and Poll Everywhere, etc, which support the IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability standard in your course site. |
Assignments | Assignments | Create, collect, and grade online assignments. |
Forums | Discussions | Post, view, and reply to online discussion topics. |
Blogs | Discussions | Post, view, and respond to online blogs. |
Test & Quizzes | Quizzes | Create and administer online quizzes and exams. |
Gradebook | Grades | Organize, calculate, and distribute grade information to students online for a comprehensive view of all assessments. |
Groups | Groups | Create group work areas for users to organize users’ work on projects and assignments. |
Chat Room | Chat | For synchronous (real-time) online discussion among instructors and students. |
Attendance | Attendance | Manually track attendance for the students. |
Statistics |
Class Progress/ Multiple Areas |
Track students' use of the site by user, event, or resource. |