Use Brightspace sandbox courses

Instructors can use Brightspace sandbox courses as working copies of their official courses. Sandbox courses are never purged, are not associated with a specific semester, and do not contain student data. Instructors can copy components from their sandboxes to their official Brightspace courses as needed. They can also add colleagues to their sandboxes to facilitate collaboration.

Request a sandbox course

To request a sandbox course, send an email message to TLT (tlt@winona.edu) that includes the name you wish to assign to the course. TLT will create the sandbox by the end of the next business day and send a confirmation email. You will then see your sandbox course listed under the Sandbox tab in your My Courses list in Brightspace (Fig 1).

Fig 1. Select the Sandbox tab to find sandbox courses

The Sandbox Instructor role

When creating a sandbox course, TLT will add the requesting instructor to the class list, granting that instructor the Sandbox Instructor role. This role includes all the usual Instructor permissions plus the ability to add additional people to the sandbox class list manually. Sandbox teachers can then add others to their sandbox, granting either the Sandbox Instructor, Teacher, Teaching Assistant, Grading Assistant, or Student role.

Add people to a sandbox

Open your sandbox course in Brightspace and select Classlist from the Communication nenu.
Select the Add Participants button and select Add existing users.
Enter the person's last name or another piece of identifying information into the Add Existing Users search box (Fig 2.1). Press Enter or select the magnifying glass icon in the search box (Fig 2.2).
Select the checkbox to the left of the user you wish to add to the sandbox (Fig 3.1).
Select the role you wish to assign to the user (Fig 3.2). This role will only apply to this person's permissions in this sandbox.
Select the Enroll Selected Users button (Fig 3.3).