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Brightspace for Students: FAQs

Quick Tips for Using Respondus Lockdown Browser

  • ** Chromebooks are not recommended for Respondus Lockdown browser. If you have a Chromebook, please review the tutorial on the UMFK Tutorials-Videos-PDFs page.**

  • Download Respondus Lockdown Browser onto your computer.

  • If already downloaded, make sure to have the most up to date version.

  • Make sure to close all windows and browsers.
  • Ensure that camera and microphone are both functional and enabled.
  • Go to the exam that you need to have proctored.
  • Launch the Lockdown Browser to access the exam.
  • Once finished taking the exam, click Done to submit the exam and exit the Lockdown Browser.
  • For further assistance, contact Leslie Kelly at lesliek@maine.edu.

Uploading assignments

Students can’t upload assignments to Brightspace that have special characters in the filename such as:

\     /     :     *     ?     "     <     >     |     ~     #     %     &     +     {     } –

 

Supported File Types

Extension File Type Notes
HTM, HTML, MHT, MHTML Web Document Brightspace Learning Environment strips the <title> tag and text within the tag from user created web documents
RTF, PPT, PPS, PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPTX, XML, XLS, TXT, WPD Text document  
JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TIFF Image  
SWF, MPG, MPEG, RM, MP3, MP4, M4V, M4A, AVI, WAV, RAM, ASF, MOV, RA Media The extensions MP4, M4V, and M4A allow users to drag entire albums, video podcasts, and movies from iTunes

There is a 2GB file size limit to assignments that are uploaded. 

Accessing Quiz Attempts, Answers, and Feedback

  1. Select Quizzes from the navigation bar.
  2. Select the name of the quiz for which you would like to see question answers and feedback.
  3. At the top of the screen you will see “Summary – [Name of Quiz].” Select the small arrow to the right of this header.
  4. Select Submissions from the drop down menu.
  5. Select Attempt 1.
  6. You will be able to review your answers to the questions, and can see your instructor’s feedback for each question by selecting View Feedback.