Resources for teachers and instructional support staff in the Brightspace Community
Help for schools, institutions and companies looking to rapidly adopt a new learning platform
Free Courses to Support Learning
Partner Solutions to take online learning to the next level
Resources to help make teaching from home easier for K-12 teachers
Learning and Creative Services to easily develop and elevate your course content
Resources to support you
This page will continue to be updated with resources to help during this time.
Corporate
Blog: D2L is committed to ensuring the continuity of learning through this challenging time
Playbook: 4 strategies for building a vibrant culture of learning with a remote team
Article: The Transition From Face-To-Face To Online Learning: Maintaining An Engaging Experience
Article: Adoption Change Management Strategy Guide For Corporate: Communication Planning
Blog: 6 Tips for Transitioning Your Association from In-Person to Online Learning
Webinar Series: Digital Transformation for L&D
Blog: Online Learning Strategies to Keep Your Members Engaged During a Pandemic
Higher Education
Blog: D2L is committed to ensuring the continuity of learning through this challenging time
Customer story: Empowering students and staff with e-learning innovation
Blog: Online learning can help weather the storm of the COVID-19 pandemic
Resource: Continue Learning off Campus with Brightspace
Webinar Series: Come together to learn together–Transition to remote instruction with D2L
Blog: D2L is making it easier to collaborate during self-isolation and quarantines
Resource: Best Practices: Web Cam Recordings
K-12
Brochure: Continue learning outside the classroom with Brightspace
Blog: Together we can save the school year
Blog: Online learning can help weather the storm of the COVID-19 pandemic
Article: Creating A Brightspace Course For The First Time
Webinar: Educator Webinar Series
Blog: D2L is making it easier to collaborate during self-isolation and quarantines
Guide: Brightspace Quick Start Guide for Teachers
Current Client
Blog: D2L is committed to ensuring the continuity of learning through this challenging time
Article: Digital Learning Days — How Your Organization Can Cope During a Pandemic
Article: Leading Successful Virtual Classroom Sessions
Webinar Series: Come together to learn together–Transition to remote instruction with D2L
Resource: A Letter to Our Customers
Video: We’re committed to you. A message from April Oman, SVP Customer Engagement.
As we work to overcome the challenges of COVID-19, one positive outcome is that more and more of our educators are discovering the power they have to leverage distance learning as a valuable way to reach students.
– Vanessa Cox, Director of Online Learning, University of Dallas
Thank you @D2L for helping @GwinnettSchools be prepared for unscheduled multiple digital learning days! http://ow.ly/3iY350yLo3r - we at @gwinnettonline are ready because of our partnership with you!
Without Brightspace this would have been a bloody nightmare - with Brightspace staff are well up for it. The feedback from the kids and parents has been fantastic. Virtual Classrooms are driving learning and progress … but much more importantly the impact on their mental health of hearing their teacher, speaking to each other and instead of having a wall of written work, having loads of great interactive activities - it’s just super-cool and is making them happy.
In a few weeks we are already 100% in Brightspace in response to the contingency and we will be super enriched. Surely teachers and students will return to support the platform even in face-to-face format, but supports them with research, opinion, tasks, and rubrics and they love that they have so many multimedia options.
– Carmen Tamez Muñoz, Academic Vice-Chancellor, Metropolitan University of Monterrey (UMM) in Mexico
Shout out to @JohnBakerD2L and the @D2L team for offering support to, and advocating on behalf of, #PSE in our efforts to support faculty and students during this challenging time. With sincere appreciation, @myNBCC
With the help of Evanza and D2L we migrated all the courses and trained the faculty, about 4500 courses were uploaded in a week or less.
– Carmen Tamez Muñoz, Academic Vice-Chancellor, Metropolitan University of Monterrey (UMM) in Mexico
To my fellow faculty members at @AlgonquinColleg, I am here. I am volunteering as a peer mentor during these times to support the incredible team at @LTSAlgonquin. I can help you with: Brightspace Support, Online & Group Assessments, and #EDtech Tools
– Danielle Allard, Public Relations Professor, Algonquin College
Online Learning tip of the day for those forced to teach online due to #COVID19: Instructor presence is huge in keeping students engaged online.
– Kevin Cormier, LMS System Administrator, New Brunswick Community College
Been toiling away in the background for @LTSAlgonquin @AlgonquinColleg to help faculty move online, and it's been humbling to see how hard everyone is working on this. Truly loving my work right now and excited for my @D2L workshop through @zoom tomorrow. Take care, folks 💙
– Rob Kershaw, eLearning Training Specialist, Algonquin College
When we were told, in early March, that next week we were going virtual, I was worried. I still had three weeks of course content to deliver, and I couldn’t just call it a class and be done with it. There was too much still left to teach. I decided to give Virtual Classroom a shot, despite having zero experience with delivering anything virtually. What amazed me was that it worked so easily. It was seamless, and I used it to deliver all the remainder of my lectures, so we didn’t miss a single class. It really saved my class.
– Tamas Dobozy, Professor and Chair, Dept. of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Quick Start Care Package
Prepare your learning strategy for COVID-19 disruptions.
D2L is offering a Quick Start Care Package to help you move online as rapidly as possible. This supports organizations, colleges, universities, and schools that may not have a learning platform to scale quickly enough.