Many courses, programs, and instructors make use of external tools and applications to enhance the teaching and learning experience. The tools listed below are currently integrated with Brightspace and can be added directly to your course site through Content > → Add Existing > → External Tool Activity or More.
If you’re curious about whether a tool you want to use already has a Brightspace integration available, this is the best place to check the status of that integration: Brightspace Integrations Status.xlsx
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Tools integrated into Brightspace
Below is a list of tools that have already been integrated into Brightspace, as well as a brief description of their function.
Brock Department Tools
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Allows instructors to link to Cengage learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more.
Accessible via Content > Add Existing > More
Brightspace |
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In Faculty of Mathematics and Science courses:
Accessible via Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity
Evaluation tool for students to have the opportunity to reflect and review a course upon completing it. | Available via Course Surveys on the navbar of the Brightspace homepage. | |
Direct integration with Ares (Brock course readings tool). Contact Brock University Library staff at reserves@brocku.ca to learn more about setting up a course readings list and integrating it into your course site. | Accessible via Content |
→ Add Existing |
→ External Tool Activity |
Allows instructors to link to Evolve learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more.
Elsevier support documentationLibrary Research | Integrate subject-specific research guides provided by the Brock library. | Accessible via Content |
→ Add Existing |
→ External Tool Activity | ||
A direct link to the Campus Store where students can see all course materials they need to acquire for the term. | Available via My Course Materials on the navbar of the Brightspace homepage. |
Classroom Assessment and Engagement Tools
Name | Description | Location in Brightspace | ||
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Etherpads | Similar to Google docs, a collaborative, textual workspace. | Accessible via Content > → Add Existing > → External Tool Activity | ||
A tool used for collaborative or individual annotation of readings. Hypothesis 1.3 allows for the grading (individual and group) of annotations. Learn more from Hypothesis Group Annotation | Hypothesis Peer-assessment tool that gamifies peer-evaluation. | Accessible via Content > → Add Existing > → External Tool Activity | ||
Peer-assessment tool that gamifies peer-evaluation. Kritik TopHat | Direct integration with Top Hat, an engagement tool that fosters real-time participation via quizzes, surveys, attendance, and more. | Accessible via Content > → Add Existing > → External Tool Activity | ||
Virtual lab tool. Only available for Biology courses. | Accessible via Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity | |||
Library Research | Integrate subject-specific research guides provided by the Brock library. | Accessible via Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity | ||
Tool used to assist with asynchronous language-learning. Only available to Italian courses. | Accessible via Content > Add Existing > TurningPoint/PointSolutions | TurningPoint (clickers) was recently acquired by Echo360 (Brock’s legacy video platform) and offers live polling features for in-person, hybrid, or remote classes. | Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity | |
Similarity checker. Learn more from Turnitin Similarity Checker | Can be activated in the Submission and Completion sub-menu when editing an Assignment. |
Publisher Tools
Name | Description | Location in Brightspace |
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Allows instructors to link to Cengage learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more. | Accessible via Content → Add Existing → More | |
Allows instructors to link to Evolve learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more. | Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity | |
Allows instructors to link to McGraw Hill learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more. | Accessible via Content |
→ Add Existing |
→ More | ||
Trains students in Microsoft Office, file management, and computer concepts. It offers ease of use, career readiness, and robust support for instructors and students. | Accessible via Content |
→ Add Existing |
→ More |
Mobius (previously Maple TA)
A mathematical tool used to create and employ complicated arithmetic and scientific questions/equations. Only available to Math and Physics departments.
Allows instructors to link to Pearson learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more. | Accessible via Content |
→ Add Existing |
→ External Tool Activity |
A direct link to the Campus Store where students can see all course materials they need to acquire for the term.
Available via My Course Materials on the navbar of the Brightspace homepage.
Allows instructors to link to |
Wiley learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more. |
Accessible via Content |
→ Add Existing |
→ External Tool Activity |
Direct integration with Top Hat, an engagement tool that fosters real-time participation via quizzes, surveys, attendance, and more.
Accessible via Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity
TurningPoint (clickers) was recently acquired by Echo360 (Brock’s legacy video platform) and offers live polling features for in-person, hybrid, or remote classes.
Accessible via Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity
Similarity checker. Learn more from Turnitin Similarity Checker
Can be activated in the Submission and Completion sub-menu when editing an Assignment.
Allows instructors to link to Wiley learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more.
Limited Release Tools
Name | Description | Location in Brightspace |
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Crowdmark is an online tool integrated into Brock’s Brightspace for the Faculty of Math and Science to facilitate administering, collecting, and grading handwritten assessments. | In Faculty of Mathematics and Science courses: Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity | |
A tool used for collaborative or individual annotation of readings. Hypothesis 1.3 allows for the grading (individual and group) of annotations. Learn more from Hypothesis Group Annotation | In selected courses: Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity | |
Virtual lab tool. | In Biology courses: Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity | |
Tool used to assist with asynchronous language-learning. | In Italian courses: Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity | |
Mobius (previously Maple TA) | A mathematical tool used to create and employ complicated arithmetic and scientific questions/equations. | In Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics courses: Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity |
Other Tools
Name | Description | Location in Brightspace |
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The Teams Connector will create a new Teams site that includes all students, TAs, and instructors as they are listed in the Brightspace site’s Classlist. It can use the entire site roster or create a Team for each section. | At the bottom of the default course site homepage or any homepage that includes +Teams. Bottom of Course Home → three dots (…) → Manage Homepages → change Active Homepage | |
Brock’s video platform tool. Allows instructors to create, upload, and share various media. | Can be found via the Insert Stuff button in any text-editor, or from Course Tools on a course navbar. |