Spring 2025 – ED Tech Digest
April 28, 2025
Creator + and H5PCreator+ and H5P authoring tools have been added to Niagara College’s Brightspace environment. These additions add a variety of easy-to-use tools that will allow faculty to better organize, design, style, and customize their content, as well as providing many new ways to make it more dynamic and engaging for students. Together, Creator+ and H5P offer faculty a range of tools for designing and organizing more interactive content, including: – Callouts, jumbotrons, and stylized quotes...
Winter 2025 – ED Tech Digest
January 10, 2025
Brightspace Course Deactivation In response to student feedback, beginning at the end of the Fall 2024 Term Niagara College will automatically deactivate courses in Brightspace 90 days after course completion. Courses and their content will remain visible and available to faculty but students will not have access to courses from previous terms after deactivation. This procedure will simplify students’ course widget and access to current courses. If faculty need to reactivate courses for any reason, they can...
Ed Tech Digest (Fall 2024)
January 10, 2025
Starting March 28, 2024, changes (detailed below) were made to new Brightspace courses that faculty should continue to be aware of. While these changes will continue in the Fall 2024 semester, keep in mind that copying courses from older semesters may preserve some of the original settings. Please verify that all settings are as you would like them to be. Course Template The Brightspace course template that was automatically applied to all new courses in winter...