Brightspace LMS: Built by educators, for educators
You love to teach. And you know what it takes to keep students engaged and on the right path. In fact, you don’t need technology to do what you love and what you do best. We agree. But as new education solutions emerge, why not explore the tools available to you? Brightspace is a learning management system (LMS) that’s designed to help make your job as an instructor and researcher easier, more efficient, and give you greater reach when it comes to engaging with your students. With D2L, switching your LMS isn’t complicated. You can even migrate courses and content with drag-and-drop simplicity to get up and running quickly.
Time-saving tools you’ll love
Plot the best course
Create and curate new and existing courses like a guru, even if you’re not. Drag-and-drop files from your desktop or from a database of commonly used content pieces. Watch the video.
Mobilize learners
Brightspace has a modern look that works on any browser-enabled device. Students will love the ability to do their work on the go – and so will you.
Keep an eye on progress
Monitor class progress in a beautifully laid out dashboard. You’ll have the insight needed to react to at-risk behavior and reach out with a quick click. Watch the video.
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Content is king
With a simple HTML editor and templates, you can build interactive, engaging, and exciting content pieces that are sure to get noticed by students.
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Automated communication
Release remedial content automatically, exactly when you decide. You can also reach out with automatic communication to keep your students engaged.
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Making the grade
Grade how you like, not how an LMS dictates. Like directly to a rubric. And you can work offline using the handy mobile grading app, because you know – technology.
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Accessibility – Check!
A built-in accessibility checklist helps ensure compliance. But the real bonus is that you can fix issues right inside the Accessibility tool. Save clicks, save time.
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Socialize with your students
Using a social media-style feed, you can easily send out messages, alerts, make comments, and interact with students in a way that’s familiar to everyone.
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Go viral with video
Upload videos, link to online external sites, or record yourself from right inside the LMS to provide a face-to-face experience to your students.
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Be flexible, be personalized
Create unique learning paths for your students to ensure they’re en route to success. Paths and content can be released automatically based on achievements or assessments.
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Get in the game
Set up game-based or story-based learning paths. You can also reward your students’ actions by assigning badges, points, and creating a leaderboard.
Create effective assessments
Quizzes, assignments, graded discussions and video-based assessments. You have many options when it comes to unique ways to assess evidence of learning.
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Brightspace gives me lots of capability to flexibly deliver things to students. We do things in units and the Grade book lets students know when they have completed something by releasing the next level of content. It has made my job as an instructor much more manageable.
– Deb McManimon, Business Faculty, Riverland Community College
Even traditional faculty are using the platform as a secondary model of communication
– How instructors at Texas A&M-Commerce are benefiting from Brightspace
OnDemand Product Tour: Building an Online Course in Brightspace
November 7th, 2018, 2:00-2:30PM ET
Host: Brad Ketelaars, Solutions Engineering Manager, D2L
In many ways, online teaching can provide the same results as a face-to-face course. In fact, there are many advantages to interacting with students in an online environment. But to get the most from an online course, it’s critical to understand the tools available in your learning management system (LMS).
Watch this brief demonstration of the course tools in D2L’s Brightspace platform. Your host, Mark Gierach, will highlight how these features can benefit instructors and students in their day-to-day learning activities.
Discover how to:
- Create and curate content quickly and easily
- Leverage video and social interaction to provide learner feedback
- Personalize learning paths and measure student progress