What is Brightspace? Eric Ferguson, Director of CTE and Instructional Technology bellevue school district 12111 NE 1st Street Bellevue, WA 98005 PHONE: 425.456.4226 |  FAX: 425.456.4178 |  Fergusone@bsd405.org Bellevue School District Mission: To provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career and life.

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

How to access the site Go to www.BSD405.org and look at the top of any page to see quick links to the popular sites.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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