Using Pressbooks with Brightspace
18 Configuring and Adding Graded Activities
The CUNY instance of Pressbooks enables you to create graded activities that report directly to your grade book in Brightspace. These graded activities are created using H5P. In this chapter, you will learn about common purposes of H5P items and will be provided with links to information on Pressbooks Results, the tool that connects graded H5P activities in Pressbooks with the grade book in Brightspace.
Purposes of H5P Activities
H5P activities are commonly viewed as tools for stimulating student engagement as well as for giving students opportunities to check their understanding of course material. These self-checks are a kind of formative assessment, providing feedback on where students can feel confident in their understanding and where they might need to review the material or get additional help.
In many cases, these tools may be left for students to use on their own. But you might want to have insight into the areas where students might need extra help. For this reason, you might want to use Pressbooks Results, which displays information in Brightspace about student responses to H5P activities.
For more information on adding H5P activities to a book in Pressbooks, see H5P for Interactive Material in this guide.
Using Pressbooks Results
The video below provides an introduction to Pressbooks Results. Watch the video, and then if you are interested in learning more, read and follow the instructions in the section Use Pressbooks Results with your LMS for Grade Passback in the Pressbooks User Guide.
As noted above, for instructions on using Pressbooks Results, including a chapter of tips for students, go to the section Use Pressbooks Results with your LMS for Grade Passback in the Pressbooks User Guide.
a low-stakes evaluation, often ungraded, intended to identify what students have learned and what might require additional instruction
