Brightspace (LMS) Roles, Sites, Grade Scheme, and Outcome Requests

Brightspace (D2L) is UIndy’s Learning Management System (LMS), serving as the digital hub for teaching and learning. 

We provide comprehensive assistance to faculty to ensure a seamless digital classroom experience.  The services listed on this page are used to modify program or department use of Brightspace or for individual instructors to request advanced services.

Deans, chairs, program directors, and course builders can request specialized updates, including:

• LMS Role Changes: Request a Brightspace role change for a Department Head or support personal.
   
  • Department Heads (Deans/Chairs/Director)may update or change individuals in leadership roles who need visibility for entire programs or schools in Brightspace. This role can also be used to facilitate a person (e.g. coordinator, instructor, administrative assistant etc.) whose responsibility is to assist other faculty across several different courses and terms.
     
  • Department Heads (Deans/Chairs/Director) may request the role (e.g. Teaching Assistant or Instructor (Guest)) removal/change of a person who was manually added to a Brightspace course offering.
     
  • Instructors may request to ​change their student's Brightspace role from "Learner" to "Leaner (Incomplete)" allowing their student access to a recently closed Brightspace course in order to complete required course items.
     
  ℹ️ Information Instructors can add individuals to their instructional sites with the following roles: Teaching Assistant, Instructor (Guest), Site Developer, or Site Copier. 


• LMS Site Requests: Request a site in Brightspace that is not tied to official, for-credit, courses.
   
  • Parent Sites : To house uniform subject content and course structure for a specific course (ENGL-101) with the intent to insert (copy) that content into every course section (e.g. ENGL-101-01, ENGL-101-02 etc) each term.
     
  • ​​​​​Collaboration Sites : To house content for a specific group of people (i.e. cohorts) who need to retain access to the content outside term or course structures.
     
  • Non-Credit Courses : Sites must be requested with consultation by the Sease Institute.
     
  • Promotion & Tenure Sites :  To house faculty dossier materials required for official mid-tenure, tenure, and/or promotion review processes. 
    
     
• LMS Advanced Use Updates: Request new or updates to Grade Schemes or Learning Outcomes.
   
  • Grade Schemes or Learning Outcomes must be submitted by a program director or chair.  Submitting a request will result in a member of the Faculty Academy reaching out to schedule a conversation. 
    
     

Audience

• Faculty

Self-Help

• Incomplete Learner Access
• Adding a TA or Guest Instructor
• Existing Parent Sites
• Existing Grade Schemes and Program Learning Outcomes
• Brightspace Instructor Video Collection