Waymaker Support For SUNY Brightspace Faculty

This article contains information on how to import and set up your Waymaker course, set up or hide assessments, how to copy your course, how to create and manage quizzes, how to copy specific items, and support resources for students.

Importing a Waymaker course into Brightspace

This video will show you how to import a Waymaker course package into your Brightspace course.

Here are written instructions on how to import Waymaker into Brightspace.

Setting Up Your Waymaker Course

Deleting and Hiding Content and Grade Items in Brightspace

This video walks you through how to delete and hide content and grade items that you do not want to use in your course. 

Permanent Deletion of Content and Grade Items

This video walks you through how to permanently delete a Waymaker course that was imported into a Brightspace course shell. The reason you may want to do this is if you accidentally imported the wrong course into your course shell or you did multiple imports of the course into your course shell.  

Study Plans and Quizzes Frequently Asked Questions

This video is a more in-depth look at the Waymaker study plan and quizzes and the student experience, frequently asked questions and how you, the instructor, can manage the study plan grading and questions from your students about that grading.

Copying an Entire Course

This video walks you through copying a Waymaker course that has already been integrated into Brightspace to a new course shell for a new semester. In other words, this is how you copy your course from term to term.

Note: You want to start with your new blank course and go to Course Administration.  

Copying Selected Content to a New Course Shell

This video covers how to copy select content from Waymaker course that has already been integrated into Brightspace into a new or different course shell. For example, you only want to copy one or two modules and not the entire course. 

Question Bank Import and Quiz Creation

This video covers how to download question banks from a Waymaker course and import them into Brightspace. You will also learn how to create assessments from the imported question banks.

Special Access to Quizzes

This video covers how to grant special access to a Waymaker quiz in Brightspace. For example, your quiz in Brightspace is past its due date so students will not be able to click into it and take the quiz because you put an end date on it and they've missed it. 

Recreating Study Plan and/or Quiz Grade Items

In this video, we walk you through the process of recreating an external learning tool grade item for a Waymaker study plan or quiz. We demonstrate how to create a new grade item and link it to the external tool. 

Support For Students 

Waymaker Students: How to Complete Self-Checks in Brightspace

This video for students who are using a Waymaker course in the Brightspace Learning Management System. We explain some tips on using Brightspace and the Waymaker study plan. 

Additional Videos For Students

You can find more information about Waymaker using our searchable knowledge base here.

If you need technical assistance, you can submit a support ticket here.