Brightspace is being fine-tuned to best serve the SPS community. As part of this customization please see below the mockups of the Brightspace environment, including the home page and navigation menu for the School, and the home page and navigation menu for courses. You can expect that this first pilot attempt will be followed by iterative development as needed in the future.

Thank you for your feedback on the draft Brightspace environment. We are working to incorporate your input and will release the final draft shortly. We will then re-open the form if you wish to provide further feedback.

College Home Environment

College Home Page

The College Home Page is the landing page for CUNY SPS students, faculty and staff. Below the banner you will see My Courses, with school Announcements to their right. Below the My Courses list are the Events and Browse Aloud modules. Below Announcements on the right is Work To Do and Calendar. At the bottom are College Resources. 

Screenshot of draft SPS college home page with widgets highlighted

College Navbar

The blue bar is called the navigation bar, or navbar for short. The following images display views of the navbar with the menus expanded. Please note that the CUNY links must be included. 

Screenshot of college home navbar with the college resources menu open.
Screenshot of college home navbar with the Student Resources menu open and the Help menu open.

College Home Page and Navbar - Faculty

Please note these differences for faculty:

  • An additional link to Quick Eval (similar to Blackboard’s Needs Grading) appears on the navbar. 
  • The QuickEval module (for faculty) replaces Work To Do (for students). 
  • A link to the SPS Faculty Community Hub appears in the Help menu group.
Screenshot of the College Navbar for faculty. Help and Quick Eval menus are highlighted.
Screenshot segment of the college home page for faculty with the Quick Eval widget highlighted

Course Environment

Course Home Page

The course home page is the landing page that opens after a course is selected. Below the course banner, the course Content appears on the left and course Announcements to the right. Below Announcements is the Instructor Info module. Below the course Content on the left is the Work to Do (students) or Quick Eval (faculty) module, and at the bottom are Program Contacts.

Screen shot of a course home page. Five different widgets highlighted

Course Navbar

We have drafted 2 slightly different versions of the navigation bar, or navbar for short, for courses. Following are views of the navbar1 with the menus expanded. You will see that the most common activities and tools have been grouped into Activities.

screenshot of the Course Navbar with the menus for Activities, Tools, Help, and Academic Resources open. The Activities menu is highlighted
A truncated screenshot of the course navbar with the More menu expanded.

In navbar2, instead of the Activities menu group, Discussions are placed at the top level, Assignments and Quizzes are placed in an Assessment menu group, and Groups are placed in Tools. All else remains the same as in navbar1.

A screenshot of the second version of the course navbar. Discussions and Assessments are highlighted. The Assessments and Tools menus are open

Course Navbar - Faculty

The navbar for faculty has the following additions. 

  • The Tools menu group provides access to additional tools. 
  • The Quick Eval (similar to Blackboard’s Needs Grading) link appears on the navbar.
  • A link to the Faculty Community Hub appears in the Help menu group (not shown)
Screenshot of the course navbar for faculty. The Tools menu is open and highlighted. Quick Eval and Help are also highlighted.