Posts related to the Import tool in Brightspace. This tool is used to Import content from previous course offerings
Each semester, a course space is created for every course offering listed in the timetable. Course sites are empty and inactive by default, allowing flexibility in case they will not be used. Instructors can import content from a previous course offering, provided they have access to the previous course site. While student data is excluded from the import process, all course materials, including resources, gradebook, and assessments, are included.
Importing Content [PDF]
Feedback from students during the Fall term has demonstrated that course planning/mapping is an essential step in preparing to offer a course online. Many instructors (and their students) benefitted significantly from taking the time, before beginning development, to map out how the course will be structured, how learning outcomes will be assessed, and what content & activities will guide student learning within each module/unit. By planning the contents of each unit or module, we can ensure that we are only including essential content and avoid overloading students with too many items to view or too many assessments to submit.
A Course Plan Template document (Course Plan Template) is one way to map out how you will organize your course and what resources you plan to include in each unit or module. This will help provide a clear picture of what the course will include from start to finish and will help simplify things when it comes time to create content. The first page of the template document provides an example of a completed plan for a module/unit and the subsequent pages have blank placeholders to fill in. You should feel free to use another template or method if you wish – this document is only one way of doing it.
Once you’ve created a course plan or updated course outline, the ETD office can assist in creating placeholders for your content within a Brightspace template. Email your documents to etd@dal.ca and we can help get your course space set up.
The use of Panopto has grown steadily since becoming available on our campus in 2016. In the time since its introduction, we’ve determined which workflows work best with our unique instance of Panopto. If you are planning to reuse videos from a previous course offering, it’s important that your videos are linked as recommended, and critical that when importing a previous Brightspace course offering, that you import “All Components”.
