1. What is Brightspace?
Eric Ferguson, Director of CTE and Instructional Technology
bellevue school district
12111 NE 1st Street
Bellevue, WA 98005
PHONE: |  FAX: | 
Bellevue School District Mission: To provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career and life.

2. What is Brightspace? Learning Resource Management system - LRM
Single place teachers, students and families can go to find out about BSD curriculum
Why now?
We needed to move from Global Scholar to a new platform and Brightspace was the best choice.
Who can access?
Only BSD teachers and students.
Parents need to access the site using their child’s username and password

3. How to access the site
Go to and look at the top of any page to see quick links to the popular sites.

4. The username is the student's network login of s- and the student's last name and first initial.
For example, Jane Doe would use: s-doej
John Doe would use: s-doejo
If you do not know your Username- Contact your office manager or classroom teacher.
At the Secondary level, the password is whatever the student has chosen to be their password.
At the Elementary Level, the password is s# and the student's ID. For example, s#123456

5. What is there? School information Course information Calendar Dropbox
Tasks
News feeds
Discussion boards

6. Course Information
Course Syllabus and Overview are posted on Brightspace
The district curriculum is on Brightspace

7. Newsfeed Check my newsfeed often to find: Class Updates Assignments
Handouts
Online book information
Upcoming events

8. Calendar Events are posted on the Brightspace Calendar
If your student is absent please check the calendar to get homework that was assigned
You can export this calendar to Outlook or Gmail.

9. Tasks
Each day students are provided with a list of tasks to add to Brightspace
This is a way we are helping students to stay organized
When they finish the task they can check it off

10. Discussions
We will occasionally be participating in course discussions
Students will sometimes do this in class and other times have to do it at home
They may also be asked to respond to a discussion