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BPS Student Blended Learning Portal

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Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 12:52 AM

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Welcome Page

Welcome Page

Welcome to the BPS Student Blended Learning Hub. Here you will find a nice collection of "access" and "tutorial" videos which support you with BPS digital tools that are approved for district use. The infographic below helps you to learn navigation of the page, and how to access each video. 



Navigation

Interact with the image below for tips on how to navigate the Blended Learning Portal.



Student Blended Learning Portal Introduction

Welcome to Bismarck Public School's Blended Learning Resource Center. Here you will find a collection of videos showcasing the various tools that you may be asked to use by your teacher. The videos are sorted based on 3 tier system. Tier one are quick (mostly under 1 minute) videos that focus entirely on getting you to a tool and logging in. Tier 2 digs in a little deeper with tool usage. These videos are a couple minutes in length and will show you how to perform basic operations within a tool. Tier 3 takes a deep dive, not into tools, but instead into what tool what might be best given a certain situation. Click the Next: Navigation button to advance to the next page.


BPS Student Blended Learning Portal Icon

BPSAPPS Portal

BPSAPPS Login Portal
BPSAPPS Login Portal Navigation Guide

Destiny

Destiny

Destiny
Destiny Navigation and Login

BrainPop

BrainPop
BrainPop How to Login

GMail

GMail for Students
Access - Gmail

LearnBPS

LearnBPS Guides and Resources

This H5P iconInteractive video explains Moodling with Lear nBPS by using an analogy with modular LEGO bricks.
Use the to access the  highlighting the different functions of Moodle.

moodling with learnbps icon

Enrollment key: E-Learning 

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Set up your teaching course in LearnBPS

Easy! Log in to PowerTeacher, and follow the simple steps below to automatically create lear nbps course shells from your powerschool schedule (it takes about a day). lear nbps students are enrolled into courses from PowerSchool, so if you are teaching a class and have students enrolled in your PowerTeacher gradebook, then the same students will automatically be enrolled in your l earnbps class. Each semester, new le a rnbps courses will be created from your PowerSchool schedule, until you choose to switch this off. It is also school specific, so if you teach at multiple schools and would like courses created at each school, change your school and follow the same steps below.

Log in your PowerSchool account

  1. Select the School you want to enable for the sync
  2. From the left panel (Navigation) click Personalize (Step 1)
  3. Click on the LMS Preferences (Step 2)
  4. From the LMS Course Preferences select Yes (Step3)
  5. Click Submit (Step 4)

Steps 1-2
Steps 3-4


learnbps image How to monitor who has accessed your course and to message students to access your course:

Instructions:

Step 1 Select the Course Management cog from the top NavBar

Step 2 from the Course Management Setting in the User Links column select Participants.

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Participants Screen:

Step 3 Click on the 'Last access to class' twice to organize by descending order who has accessed the course.


 
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OPTIONAL

If you want to send a reminder to those who have not accessed the class recently. Scroll through the list or click show all students.

Step 4 Select which students you want to send a message.

Step 5 From the 'With selected users... choose ... 'Send a message'.

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Message:

Step 6 Type your message to send to the recipients. Check your message for spelling errors.


Step 7 Check the number of participant the message will be sent.

Then click to send message .

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Note: When you send the message, the student gets both a message in the LearnBPS messenger and an email.

learnbps image Use LearnBPS Atto Editor to add and edit text similar to a word processor.

Click the info  icons in the image below to learn more about the function of the Atto Editor.
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learnbps image Add materials for your learners to LearnBPS using the Drag and Drop method.

  1. Log in and go to the course you want to add materials
  2. Click the Turn Edit On button in the top NavBar
    Adding Material Turn Edit on Note the button turn indicating editing and a blue message appears shortly indicating you can drag and drop files from your desktop
  3. To add files such as documents or presentations,
    drag and drop from your desktop



learnbps image Use LearnBPS Course Management to setup and manage (track) activity in your course

Activities
View All Activities in Course
Question Bank
Create and organize quiz questions
Course Settings
Manage your entire course
User Linkss
Manage your students

Click the info  icons in the image below to learn more about the function of that management tool.
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learnbps image Teachers use these LearnBPS tools to help you manage your activities and time

Messaging
Completion Progress
Upcoming events
Unread posts

Click the five info  icons in the image below to learn more about how that can help you find what is due and what to do next.
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learnbps image Use LearnBPS Quiz  Action menu to setup and manage (track) activity in yourquiz iconquizzes

Editing
View all settings in quiz activity
Preview
Provides a student view of the quiz
Results
Look at various reports and how to manual grade essay questions.

Click the info  icons in the image below to learn more about the functions/reports of the Quiz IconQuiz Activity.
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How can I notify students about new assignments, tasks, etc. when using LearnBPS/Moodle?  First, we've already heard a few concerns about the number of emails students are getting (some had ~50 in their inbox on Monday).  How effective is that type of email blast is going to be?  How does a middle/high school student know which are the most important?

If teachers really want to notify their students (via email, web interface, or app (limited)), there are some options, but remember that a student controls their own notification settings, they can change it to a digest mode, web only, or turn notifications off completely.

Here are a few suggestions, one or more can be employed:

  1. Organize information into topics and use due dates, availability dates, and completion tracking with the Completion Progress block. This gives both students and teachers the ability to see engagement in activities and resources.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8hpakwfn2o
  2. Use an announcements forum with forced subscription, if you want the email to go out "immediately", choose Advanced when creating the post and choose "Send Forum post notifications with no editing-time delay".  Otherwise there is a 15 or 30 minute delay which allows the poster to edit before it is sent/posted.  If you're planning ahead, posts can be scheduled with a Display Period start date/time.
  3. Teachers can view engagement with their course by looking at the Participants link in their gear menu for the course.  there is a Last Access to Class field which shows the last time the student viewed your course.
  4. As a last resort, if we really want it, there is a "Reengagement" plugin that can be added. If added, it can be set up by the teacher to notify about specific activities before the due date.  It is far more useful if activities are planned out, so it may not help much in this situation.  



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