Assessment and Grading in Brightspace

Grading is used to provide feedback and evaluate student work. This page provides information on how to use the Brightspace Grades Tool and Setup Wizard to ensure your course has a solid grading system in place.

Create assignments in Brightspace to promote student interaction and learning progress in your class.

Learn how to grade assignments directly within the Assignments tool in Brightspace.

Assess student progress in a low-stakes setting through Surveys and Self Assessment in Brightspace. Surveys and Self Assessments are excellent tools that enable learners to provide feedback on how well they think they are doing with course material.

The Quizzes tool enables you to create and manage points-measured assessments, evaluate users' learning progress and learning outcomes, as well as create and manage quiz questions from the Question Library or the Quizzes tool.

Learn how to grade assignments directly within the Quizzes tool in Brightspace.

The Brightspace Question Library allows you to create an organized central repository that stores and archives questions within a course, allowing you to easily reuse them and import them into other courses.

Learn how to grade assignments directly within the Grade Book in Brightspace.

Create rubrics to establish specific criteria and performance expectations for assignments and discussions to make your grading expectations and criteria transparent and consistent.

Quick Eval is a tool that is available on the Navbar on the Brightspace landing page that allows for easy access to all submissions from all courses being taught.