Many courses, programs, and instructors make use of external tools and applications to enhance the teaching and learning experience. The CPI takes pride in doing our best to integrate these tools into a usable form in Brock’s Brightspace environment.If you’re interested in requesting CPI looks into integrating a particular tool, please reach out to edtech@brocku.ca 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.
Tool 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 | ||
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 | |
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 |
Echo360/YuJa
Brock’s video platform tool. Allows instructors to create, store, and upload various media (learn more from YuJa)
Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity | ||
Allows instructors to link to Evolve learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more. | Accessible via |
Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity | ||
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 | Accessible via |
Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity | ||
Peer-assessment tool that gamifies peer-evaluation. | 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 > 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. | In Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics courses: Accessible via |
Office 365 - File Picker
Order Textbooks
Direct link to Campus Store textbook orders for a specific course.
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 Pearson 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 |
Turnitin
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 |
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. | Accessible via Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity | |
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. |