About Engage

URI Engage is a second LMS instance of Brightspace without third party plugins. Engage directly supports URI’s land grant mission to serve as a community resource. It gives URI continuing education and extension programs the ability to market themselves and their programs, offer new and unique learning opportunities to the public, and generate revenue for their programs and departments.

• External Learning Management – Supports training, certification, and non-credit courses.
• Public Access – Designed for learners outside of URI, including professionals and community members.
• Flexible Course Delivery – Offers self-paced and instructor-led training options.
• Credentialing & Certification – Enables digital badging and completion tracking.

Access

Eligibility

• URI departments or programs may use Engage to offer non-accredited for-profit or non-profit classes, lectures, or seminars to external participants. Engage is used for non-credit continuing education or extension learning opportunities only. Alternatively, accredited degree-granting courses are offered via Brightspace, which is synced with eCampus.

How to Access URI Engage

Hosting & Development

• Faculty and departments interested in offering courses or certification programs can consult with the ITS Teaching and Learning team. The process will look like the following:
• After submitting an IT ticket the TLS department will begin the process with you:
  1) TLS chats with you about what program or continuing education (CE) course(s) you’ll run, and helps you determine which system you’re supposed to be in.
  2) If approved to use Engage then you choose a program admin who will be granted a sub-system-administrator account in Engage.
  3) Your program sys-admin will receive training on creating course shells and adding enrollments in Engage.
  4) You may work with ATL on the instructional design of your CE course.
  5) You may obtain support from TLS on the integration of educational technologies [submit an IT ticket].
  6) You proceed to offer the ready and finalized CE course to the public.

Engage in Action

URI Master Gardeners – Educating communities in environmentally-sound gardening practices.

Home Horticulture – From URI Cooperative Extension.

Food Recovery for RI – Exploring the intersection of the food system and the environment.

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Support

TLS offers guidance for setting up and managing courses on URI Engage.

TLS provides assistance with course design, digital credentials, and assessment tools.