1. Please navigate to https://brightspace.cuny.edu 2. You will be directed to the CUNYfirst login page  

 Cleaning up Your Copied Course in Brightspace  Your course has been migrated from Blackboard to Brightspace. Now it is time to review it to ensure it is organized, easily navigable, and accessible for your students. Now that the content and structure of your Blackboard courses has been copied to Brightspace, you may be wondering what to do next. Please remember that the courses you are seeing do not represent the course shells for future offerings of the course. They are simply your courses that have been copied to the new environment. You will use these copied courses to edit, revise and store your assignments, content, rubrics and quizzes until the actual course shell is available. This will help you learn the new environment while ensuring that your course is organized and easily navigable, incorporates high-quality course design elements, and utilizes Brightspace features and tools efficiently Once the course shell for the next offering of your course appears in your course list, you can copy your migrated (copied) course components into it. The information presented here will help to guide your review of your new Brightspace course to make sure it is in good shape to be copied into the new course shell.  Best Practices for Preparing Your Copied (Migrated) Courses  It is important that you review all content in your migrated course. Below are five recommendations that will help you clean up your copied course. Please consider using the course cleanup checklist to help you with the review process. It is highly recommended that, at the very least, you delete all unnecessary content and review and update all inaccessible content within your migrated course. The course cleanup checklist and recommendations below will help guide you through this initial and essential course review process. Five Course Review Recommendations Review, identify and delete content. First review your course content to identify which items you want to keep, edit, or delete. Next, delete any content you have decided not to use in your course. This can include duplicate files or modules, outdated content, undeployed quizzes and inaccessible documents. This will help to minimize any clutter within the course and will allow you to identify essential course materials with ease. See below for detailed instructions on how to delete various content items. Organize, update or create content. Now that you have selected the items that you will keep in your course, consider organizing them into a logical order if they are not already. Create or revise any essential content and assessments that are missing or need some attention. Some content may not have migrated to Brightspace from Blackboard. If you used journals, blogs or wikis in Blackboard, for example, you will need to change these activities. Now is the opportunity to redesign and rebuild this content within Brightspace. Check settings, rules, multimedia content and third-party applications. You may have used settings for availability, plagiarism, submission attempts, group activities, grading methods and so forth in Blackboard. These settings will need to be reviewed and updated in Brightspace. If you used SafeAssign, for example, you will need to use TurnItIn as SafeAssign is only available in Blackboard. Taking time to review these settings is essential since the settings you used in Blackboard may not have converted in the migration process. There are many integrations and links that will need to be reviewed. Check the links to make sure that they are correct or make note of adjustments that you will need to address.  Review and ensure content accessibility. Make sure your content is accessible and inclusive for all your students’ learning preferences. Brightspace has several built-in tools to create an accessible learning environment. Plus, the third-party app, ALLY, will help assess the accessibility of your course content. Review and clean up the gradebook. Use the Grades tool to set up your grade book. Delete any unnecessary grade items and grade categories or create new grade categories to ensure optimal organization within your grade book. Another essential component is to review grading methods such as rubrics, grade book categories and settings. Grade settings  (e.g. grading schema) and rubrics may not have converted during the migration process and will need to be addressed.  Learn more about the Grades tool, grade settings, and rubrics on the webpage. 

1. On the minibar, click your username. 2. Click Log Out.

To edit your user profile 1. On the minibar, click your username. 2. Select Profile. 3. From the Edit my User profile page, do any of the following: Click Change Picture to upload a profile picture. Notes: The recommended size for profile pictures is 100 by 100 pixels. Uploading a differently sized image could result in loss of quality, stretching, cropping. The maximum file size allowed for profile pictures is 1MB. If you attempt to upload a larger file size, it will fail to upload a larger file size, it will fail to upload. Accepted file formats for profile pictures are JPG, JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Your profile picture displays in all your courses in areas such as Discussions and Classlist. If you do not upload a profile picture, the navbar displays your initials in the user-profile badge. This displays in the Brightpsace navbar and Activity Feed.  Enter a Social Network link. Enter your Personal Info, including your Tagline and Interests/Hobbies Note: All long text fields under Personal Info are limited to 4000 characters each. Click Save and Close.

1. On the minibar, click your username. 2. Click Notifications. 3. Download Brightspace Pulse app to assist you with up to date. information on your courses. 4. Under Contact Methods, do any of the following: Click Change your email settings to set the default system email address. Click Register your mobile to set a mobile phone number. 5. Under Summary of Activity, select how often you would like to receive an email summarizing all activities for each of your courses. 6. Under Instant Notifications, set individual notifications for activity in specific course components such as announcements, course updates, and when you are tagged in discussion posts and threads.  7. Under Customize Notifications, select from the following: Include my grade value in notifications from Grades. Allow future courses to send me notifications. 8. Under Exclude Some Courses, click Manage My Course Exclusions to set which courses you do not wish to receive notifications from. 9. Click Save. 

1. On the minibar, click your username. 2. Click Account Settings. 3. From the Account Settings tab, do any of the following: Under General Settings, change the system email and password. Under Pronouns, allow others to see your pronouns, and set your personal pronouns. Under Font Settings, select the default font size for your account. Under Reading Content, if you use assistive technology such as screen readers, select. Do not automatically mark items as read as the page scrolls. Under Video Settings, to ensure assistive technologies can detect videos, select. Optimize video presentation for programmatically driven assistive technologies. Under Locale & Language, select a preferred locale and language for your account. You can also set the default clock, day of the week, date, number format, and percentage format. Under Time Zone, select the default continent and time zone. Under Signing In, select whether you want to appear online or offline when signed into Brightspace. Under Applications Settings, manage OAuth 2.0 applications, and manage access to ID Key Authorization. 4. From the Discussions tab, do any of the following: Under Personal Settings, select: Always show the Discussion List pane. Include original post in reply. 5. Click Save and Close.

1. The Home Button - Easily return to your Organizational Homepage from anywhere in Brightspace. 2. The Minibar- Quickly access any course you are enrolled in or teaching, global notifications, and your profile settings. From your username on the minibar, you can make changes to your profile settings. From your username on the minibar, you can make changes to your user profile, notifications, account settings, and log out. 3. The Navbar - Configurable by your administrative team, the Navbar is a list of tools surfaced on your page for convenient access to powerful Brightspace features.  4. Widget-Based Homepage - Homepages can be customized with Brightspace Widgets. Widgets, such as Announcements, Quick Eval, Calendar, and access to any courses you are enrolled in with the My Courses Widget, are powerful tools that augment and enrich the user experience.

At the course-level, the homepage navbar changes to reflect the tools that are available within your course. You will spend most of your time managing and editing your course within Content. Figure: Course Homepage, highlighting the course title, Content, Announcements widget, and Course Admin menu. Your Course Homepage has similar features to the Organizational Homepage. There are a few key points of navigation to optimize your time in your course: Course title: Select the course title to return to your Course Homepage. Content: Content is your all-in-one tool for creating and managing all your course materials. We recommend using this tool as the most efficient way to link to the various tools throughout the course. Announcements widget: This widget helps you stay connected with your learners by making it easy to access and create announcements. Course Admin: If you cannot find a tool at any point, Course Admin provides a list of all the tools enabled in your course.

Brightspace Virtual Assistant appears on the login page for your organization, but you must log in to Brightspace before you can access its full functionality. It is recommended to display contact information for available support resources if users experience Brightspace authentication issues. Open Brightspace Virtual Assistant by clicking Get Help at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. Type a Brightspace-related question into the text box and click Send. Read the articles suggested based on the question asked; you can toggle between the two to preview what information is included in each. Click Read Article to read the resource(s) in full screen within the widget. Click the arrow button to return to the search results. Click the Open in new tab button to view the resource in Community. 4. Do one of the following: 5. Select Yes, I have another question to ask another question and receive additional help articles. 6. Select Ask the Community to be directed to Brightspace Community to post your question in a discussion forum and receive answers from other Community members. 7. Select Contact Support for further assistance. The following options appear: Call us: users will be given the correct phone number for their organization.  Email us: a case will be created from the tool and will be sent to the D2L end user support team. Chat with us: users can chat with a live D2L support agent while navigating through different areas of Brightspace.