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Get to Know the D2L Brightspace LMS

D2L Brightspace offers a modern, flexible, highly customizable, and personalized teaching and learning experience to faculty and students. Here are key features of this platform and a few videos that provide a quick introduction to some of the LMSs' capabilities.

  • Easy navigation to both current and previous courses.
  • An intuitive interface and built-in templates make it easy for instructors to design courses, create content, and grade assignments.
  • Drag and drop functionality to add content.
  • Intuitive mobile-first design.
  • Course activity feed for centralized announcements, notifications and student engagement.
  • Integration with external content repositories such as Microsoft OneDrive.
  • Quickly assess work and provide feedback across courses from one location with Quick Eval.
  • Rubrics for assessment and feedback.
  • Flexible adaptive release conditions for course activities.
  • Access to learning analytics to allow granular analysis of learners’ performance.

Overview

The brief videos below produced by D2L provide a quick introduction to some of the LMS's capabilities.

D2L Brightspace - The Flexible, Personalized and Powerful Learning Innovation Platform

Brightspace for Instructors - Engaging Students

An Instructor’s View of Brightspace for Higher Education

Navigate the Brightspace Learning Environment - for Learners

The collection of videos in this D2L Brightspace playlist provide an introduction to the student experience in this LMS.  The video displayed here is one example from the playlist.

D2L Brightspace Training

Workshops

Beginning in Spring 2023