D2L Brightspace
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Brightspace trainer and user
What do you like best about the product?
the responsive design, how user-friendly it is for students, how easy it is to grade and create assignments, content, customer service.
What do you dislike about the product?
gradebook is rich, but so complicated! first thing we train faculty on and it's intimidating. An OPTION to simplify for those who don't need the depth?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We set up an asynchronous course to teach remote pedagogy and used ALL the Bsp tools. Double benefit--faculty learning pedagogy and Bsp. They can now teach remotely more effectively, so better student learning.
Excellent Customer Service
What do you like best about the product?
D2L Brightspace has excellent customer service. The employees work well together to get the answers quickly back to clients. We have dedicated support contacts who assist as needed. D2L Brightspace is easy for faculty to learn and use compared to other systems I've used. While they make changes to the platform, they are often minor and an easy transition for faculty to learn. When a significant change is coming, information and training are provided ahead and admins have the opportunity to select a good time to make the changes available to faculty. Some system changes are guided by the users which is helpful too.
What do you dislike about the product?
With the new visual editor released in 2021, the HTML code button is more hidden which doesn't impact most faculty but is an extra step for instructional designers. There are some other minor quirks like any other tech system but most are minor and manageable. D2L Brightspace does offer consulting for various integrations which usually are easy on the D2L side (usually costs extra). However, on the other software side, there can be some challenges finding consultants familiar with D2L Brightspace to help with the integration. Generally speaking, consultants/tech support staff are needed for both systems so those costs need factoring into any project plans and service upgrades.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My current institution recently partnered with D2L Brightspace DOMO Analytics consulting. We had a great experience working with very knowledgeable staff help to build reports. The new reports will help with monitoring incoming network traffic, campus training initatives and accreditation reports. We will be able to assess and review aspects of our teaching and learning strategies as well as contribute to campus network safety monitoring. These new reports put valuable data information at our fingertips each term and export to Excel easily. We also have the majority of our students taking online courses regularly through D2L Brightspace.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend getting a demo of the D2L Brightspace products and talk to the knowledgeable staff. There are some great features worth seeing for yourself.
Educational Platform: one in all
What do you like best about the product?
Great educational platform with lots of options that fit most of the needs. Very easy to operate and has the ability to integrate external software. Love the flexibility of use. You can create your own page, upload slides, lectures, etc. Create surveys, assignments, exams, quizzes, etc. Many features that you can think of.
What do you dislike about the product?
Designing a web page is not easy as it looks. Also, I do not like the fonts and font size options. I mean you can not the correct content is in which font and what is the size.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Teaching, sharing documents, taking quizzes, exams, assigning assignments, collecting assignments, email, announcements, and so on. My teaching mostly relies on this platform. More importantly, my students love this platform.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great platform for educational need.
Very friendly to end users, limited to admins
What do you like best about the product?
Clean interface, easy to navigate through courses and their elements.
What do you dislike about the product?
For teachers, in grades, the configuration needs is quite long and with a lot of details.
For admins, bulk tasks are restricted to D2L support team even if we receive a super admin role.
For admins, bulk tasks are restricted to D2L support team even if we receive a super admin role.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to use for students and faculty members.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Deal with other LMS course migration very carefully.
Platform with quite a few tools
What do you like best about the product?
It has many settings and quite a lot of material to know how to use it. In many aspects, it is intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
That within the user, it is not possible to access their subjects. They can be seen, but there is no link to directly enter the subject.
The language in some reports.
That it is not possible to send a notification to the teacher when a student enrolls in one of their subjects.
The language in some reports.
That it is not possible to send a notification to the teacher when a student enrolls in one of their subjects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has tools that are attractive to the students.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Carefully review all the settings, it takes a lot of time because there is a lot of information.
Love the tools and ease of use
What do you like best about the product?
I like when I have a question. I can quickly contact a support team member to ask a question. I also like being able to see what others are asking and use the information to help others.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are so many ways to gain access to features that sometimes it is not as intuitive as I would like it to be.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving issues with grade book population, Broken links, Intelligent agents, submission views, and other helpful features. These tools benefit our learners by giving them easy to access content as well as excellent feedback.
D2L has worked for us!
What do you like best about the product?
It's stable and we are able to construct courses for fully online asynchronous graduate programs that even our non-traditional students are able to quickly become comfortable and confident working in.
What do you dislike about the product?
At the moment? Notifications from discussion boards in a merged course aren't working, so I'm not able to keep up with student problems or questions unless I'm logged into D2L - much prefer getting those notifications so i can decide when i need to log in during evenings and weekends to address student needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It enables our primarily non-traditional graduate students to balance their family, work and personal lives with their ability to continue their education and obtain the necessary degree to progress in the workplace via a fully online fully asynchronous program that fits into their lives!
D2L
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use User interface, good lokking design
What do you dislike about the product?
Gradebook items can be overly complicated. When you create an assessment, it should automatically create a grade item.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving all faculty issues which vary
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Training
Cumbersome and outdated
What do you like best about the product?
It saved us during the pandemia, and I guess it was cheap for the University
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes a lot of time to do things that I can do much faster on my own. It is full of useless tabs and functions. Entering grades, for instance, is unnecessarily complex, compelling you to go back and forth all the time. A simple spreadsheet approach is missing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Used during the pandemic to teach online, but I won´t use it after it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Better than email, but if you can use your own homepage or Google sites, it is not needed
Easy to use platform for online learning
What do you like best about the product?
Layout, integrations, overall functionality
What do you dislike about the product?
The email function is not the greatest. It just doesn't work as well as I'd like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
online learning platform for online learning and technology-enhanced courses
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Utilize the Brightspace learning community!
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