BeaconLearning Faculty
Guides for faculty members.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Accessibility - Basics/Online Course Content
- Accessibility - Quiz User Overrides for Extra Time
- Adjust Course Upload Size
- Annoucements - Basics
- Assignment - Basics
- Assignment - How to attach a feedback file
- Assignment Needs Grading
- Attendance Module
- BeaconLearning Notification Preferences
- BigBlueButton - Basics/Creating a Meeting
- BigBlueButton - Breakout Rooms
- BigBlueButton - Guest Access/Guest Speakers & Moderators
- BigBlueButton - Recordings and Downloads
- BigBlueButton - Set Your Status/View Student Statuses
- Blocks - Basics (Add/Delete)
- Completion Tracking
- Contingency Prep - Face-to-Face Course to Online
- Course - Basics
- Course Eval
- Create an Event - Reminders or due dates for things besides assignments
- Embed YouTube Video in Course
- Engagement Analytics - Course Content Access Graph
- Engagement Analytics - Participants & Last Access to Course
- Engagement Analytics - Reports by Assignment (no graph)
- Feedback Basics - How to use the Feedback Activity in Beacon Learning
- Font Adjusting
- Forum - Announcements
- Forum/Discussion Posts - Basics
- Forum/Discussions - Grade Error
- Grade Me Block
- Gradebook - "Exclude Empty Grades" Explained
- Gradebook - Changing Aggregation Styles
- Gradebook - Changing & Rescaling a Grade
- Gradebook - Course total not displaying
- Gradebook - Drop Lowest
- Gradebook - Extra Credit
- Gradebook - Gradebook Wrap Up (end of term)
- Gradebook - Hide/Visible
- Gradebook - How do I move/rearrange activities in my gradebook setup?
- Gradebook - Manual Grade Item & Categories
- Gradebook - Overridden Grades & In-Activity Grading
- Gradebook - Settings for a Percentage-Based Syllabus (Weighted Categories)
- Gradebook Display Type - Percentage, Letter, Real
- Gradebook Due Dates - Mass Updates
- Grading - How to grade an assignment
- Grading - How to grade in Forums
- Hide/Visible - Course Settings
- How to unenroll a student in a BeaconLearning Course
- Importing a class
- Moving items between tabs
- Moving tabs
- Navigation Bar - How to Locate Your Courses
- P103 Lecture Capture Pilot
- Personalization in BeaconLearning
- Questionnaire - Feedback suggestions
- Quiz - Basics
- Quiz - Importing Quiz Questions with the Aiken Format
- Quiz - Insert Random Questions
- Quiz - Manual Grading (Essays)
- Quiz - Minimize cheating
- Record - Intro Video Tips
- Record - Options for Recording Video
- Record - Screencast-o-Matic Team Plan
- Room and Equipment Event Reservation
- Rubrics - How to Create and Edit Rubrics for BL Assignments
- Tab Format/Onetopic Format
- Tech Snacks & Tech Talks Outline Database
- Turnitin Assignments - Basics
- Upgrade YouTube Videos in BeaconLearning from old embed code to new
- What is BeaconLearning?
- Where do I access my Course Evaluation Reports? (faculty)
- Where do I access my departmental Course Evaluation Reports? (Deans)
- YouTube - How to upload a video