List of External Tools in Brightspace
- Stuart McCulley
- Melanie Elliott
- Marc Breschuk
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
Name | Description | Location in Brightspace |
|---|---|---|
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 | |
Library 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 |
|---|---|---|
Etherpads | Similar to Google docs, a collaborative, textual workspace. | Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity |
Peer-assessment tool that gamifies peer-evaluation. | 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. |
Publisher Tools
Name | Description | Location in Brightspace |
|---|---|---|
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 | |
Allows instructors to link to Pearson learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more. | Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity | |
Allows instructors to link to Wiley learning materials such as textbooks, quiz banks, assessments, and more. | Accessible via Content → Add Existing → External Tool Activity |
Limited Release Tools
Name | Description | Location in Brightspace |
|---|---|---|
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 |
|---|---|---|
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. |
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