Steve Race: One Widget at a Time

2025, Day 1, Day1-2025, Sessions

DAY 1: February 26, 2025
Time 2:30PM – 3:30PM

Solving Problems Creatively in Brightspace (One Widget at a Time)

Ready to unlock Brightspace’s full potential for your campus? In this session, Campus Administrators will learn strategies for creating custom widgets that place tools right at instructors’ fingertips, making it easier to navigate and manage tasks efficiently. They will also explore how to build specialized navbar links that enable specific users to perform essential tasks in just a few clicks, reducing time spent on repetitive processes. The session will delve into leveraging user roles, replacement strings, and other administrative strategies to streamline workflows and solve complex challenges with creative, tailored solutions. Whether new to these capabilities or looking to refine an existing setup, Campus Administrators will walk away with practical insights, proven techniques, and innovative strategies to optimize Brightspace, save time, and enhance the teaching and learning experience at their institution.