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Get to Know the Brightspace LMS

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 Brightspace's 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.com staff) 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

Navigate the Brightspace Learning Environment - for Learners

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