What is Brightspace?

Eric Ferguson , Director of CTE and Instructional Technology

BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT 12111 NE 1 ST STREET BELLEVUE, WA 98005 PHONE: 425.456.4226 | FAX: 425.456.4178 | [email protected]

Bellevue School District Mission:

To provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career and life.

What is Brightspace?

• Learning Resource Management system - LRM • Single place teachers, students and families can go to find out about BSD curriculum • Why now?

• We needed to move from Global Scholar to a new platform and Brightspace was the best choice.

• Who can access?

• Only BSD teachers and students. • Parents need to access the site using their child’s username and password

How to access the site

• Go to www.BSD405.org

and look at the top of any page to see quick links to the popular sites.

• The username is the student's network login of s- and

the student's last name and first initial.

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For example, Jane Doe would use: s-doej John Doe would use: s-doejo

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If you do not know your Username- Contact your office manager or classroom teacher.

• At the Secondary level, the password is whatever the student has chosen to be their password.

• At the Elementary Level, the password is s# and the student's ID. For

example, s#123456

What is there?

• • • • • • • School information Course information Calendar Dropbox Tasks News feeds Discussion boards

Course Information

• Course Syllabus and Overview are posted on Brightspace • The district curriculum is on Brightspace

Newsfeed

Check my newsfeed often to find: • Class Updates • Assignments • Handouts • Online book information • Upcoming events

Calendar

• Events are posted on the Brightspace Calendar • If your student is absent please check the calendar to get homework that was assigned • You can export this calendar to Outlook or Gmail.

Tasks

• Each day students are provided with a list of tasks to add to Brightspace • This is a way we are helping students to stay organized • When they finish the task they can check it off

Discussions

• We will occasionally be participating in course discussions • Students will sometimes do this in class and other times have to do it at home • They may also be asked to respond to a discussion