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Currently on Brightspace, students Students do not have access to the Classlist tool ( for privacy reasons), which and safety reasons. This makes facilitating communication between students within Brightspace a bit trickiercomplicated. Outlined below are some ways we have found to help students get connected for group assignments and other moments of collaboration.

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Export & Share Classlist

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Please note that the export from Brightspace’s Classlist contains students' numbers, names, and emails, therefore the email addresses. The sharing of this information needs to must be done so cautiouslycautiously and students should be made aware of this in advance.

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titleSteps to export and share the Classlist

Exporting the Classlist is a straightforward comprehensive way to share student contact information to the the class.

Print link on the Classlist toolSteps:

  1. Go to Classlist select the Print option.

  2. On the print page select any of the tabs to filter the user list (i.e., Student, Instructor, TA etc.)

    1. Use the tab Student to get a list of the student accounts only.

  3. Select Print on the Print Page and on the confirmation dialogue box.

  4. On the PDF viewer page review the Classlist, and change print directions to Save as PDF.

  5. Once the PDF is downloaded upload the file to the course for sharing with students

    1. Upload to announcements , or on a content page for student access.

PDF view of the Classlist for printing and to save as a PDF

Discussions

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This method may work best for smaller courses as the forum topic discussion thread may become very unruly for large course types.

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titleHow to use Discussions for student communication

Instructors can create a Forum Topic in the Discussion tool to give students the opportunity to offer their contact information to the class directly.

Options to leverage Discussions:

  • Instruct students to share their name, and their preferred contact method to the discussion thread

  • Instruct students to use Discussions to organize their group projects throughout the term

Please see the Discussions articles below for further instructions.

Create New Discussion Forum

Create New Forum Topic

Instant Messages

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Students will only be able to add students to Instant Messages by name or email, which requires them to have this information, thus this method is likely best used in tandem with other peer-to-peer communication methods.

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