How Use the CUNY Demo Student Tool in Brightspace

Using the Demo Student tool, instructors can create a demo student to view their course

as a student would. As a demo student, instructors can interact with the course by

completing quizzes, viewing content, submitting assignments, and checking grades and

feedback.

Important Notes –

A demo student is associated with an individual course. A new demo student is
needed for each course.
Only one demo student account can exist in a course at one time.
Demo students should be deleted once instructors have finished previewing the course so as not to affect report functionality or grade data.
Students do not see the CUNY Demo Student listed on your course navbar.
The demo student will not work with some third-party LTI-linked tools. The account will work with the Turnitin LTI and the Brightspace Turnitin Integration (v2).

The CUNY Demo Student link will show in all courses that currently use the default Queens College navbar. If you do not see the CUNY Demo Student link under “More” or have created a custom course navbar, you will need to add the CUNY Demo Student link manually to your navbar.

In the course, select “Course Admin” on the course navbar.
Select “Navigation & Themes”.
Click on the NavBar name in blue that is set as Active.

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On the Edit Navbar page, select “Add Links” button.
Scroll down to CUNY Demo Student > Select the box to the left of the link name and select “Add”. Select Save and Close to hold changes.

Creating a Demo Student

In the course click on CUNY Demo Student, if you cannot see it, click on More, then select CUNY Demo Student from the drop down menu.

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Click on “Create Demo Student”

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When the pop-up box appears, the demo student has been created, click on “OK”

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Using the CUNY Demo Student

From the course Navbar, click on “Classlist”

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Note: If you have removed the Classlist tool link from the course navbar, select “Course Admin” > “Learner Management” > “Classlist”. If you do not see the “Classlist” on the “Course Admin” page, this means the tool has been turned OFF. To turn this tool ON, select “Tools” under Administration on the “Course Admin” page. Toggle the “Classlist” tool to ON and return to the “Course Admin” page to access the link.

On the “Classlist” page, click on the grey chevron next to “Student, Demo” and then select “Impersonate” from the dropdown menu

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Click “Yes” to continue from the pop-up box

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You will see your profile picture on the upper right replaced by the demo student one when in use

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Once you have completed your testing, you can select the Demo student from the top right then click on the X to the right of “Impersonating: Demo Student”. This will return you to your normal view

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Deleting the Demo Student

Select “CUNY Demo Student” from the course navbar

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Select “Delete Demo Student"

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Select “Delete Demo Student” from the confirmation pop box

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Select OK from the next pop up to complete the Demo Student deletion

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