After selecting a course on the Home Page, you will be brought to the course’s home page:

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On the course home page you can find announcements made by the instructor, a table of contents, and a calendar that the instructor may put important dates on.

While in a course, the Nav Bar changes and adds new options, outlined below.

Navigation Bar

Home

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In the Home drop-down, you can find Course Home and Announcements.

• Course Home: returns you to the course’s home page

• Announcements: brings you to a page showing all course announcements

Content - Content

Select Content to view all of the learning modules in the course. Content includes reading assignments, supplemental documents, discussion boards, quizzes and more. You can also find a copy of the syllabus and other important course information here.

Assignments - Assignments Drop-Down

Under the Assignments drop-down you’ll find Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes, and the Plagiarism Checker.

• Assignments: this is where you’ll find what needs to be completed and submitted for the course.

• Discussions: this is where you’ll find discussion boards (similar to forums) where classmates can engage in conversation related to the course.

• Quizzes: this is where you’ll find any quizzes that the instructor has assigned.

• Plagiarism Checker: you can use this tool to check an assignment for plagiarism before submitting it.

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Under the Communications drop-down you’ll find email, virtual classroom, chat, and the classlist.

• Email: You can compose and send emails in this tab, however KVCC does not recommend the use of Email within Brightspace, and instead recommends using Microsoft Outlook for all campus-related email.

• Virtual Classroom: If your instructor chooses to host a virtual class session you may find it here.

• Chat: If your instructor (or classmates) choose to have a real-time chat discussion it may be found here.

• Classlist: You can find a list of your classmates here

Grades - Grades Drop-Down

Under the Grades drop-down you’ll find Class Progress and Grades.

• Class Progress:

• Grades:

Resources - Resources Drop-Down

• Academic Support Request (Tutoring): Use this link to schedule an appointment to obtain tutoring services.

• Library Resources: Use this link to be brought to the Library’s LibGuides site where many support resources can be found.

• Calendar: Use this link to access Brightspace’s built in calendar to keep track of your due dates.

• Brightspace Help: This link will bring you to Brightspace’s official Community Forums where you may be able to find answers to questions about Brightspace.

• ePortfolio: Use this link to access Brightspace’s built-in ePortfolio tool.

• Course Evaluations: Towards the end of each semester you can use this link to fill out course evaluation surveys to provide feedback to your instructors.

• BoLTS Brightspace Support: Use this link to access this knowledge base to lern more about how Brightspace works here at KVCC.