D2L Brightspace
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Effortless Content Creation, Minor Upload Hiccup
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of creating content for people using D2L Brightspace. I also love the way you can use it for content development; it stands out to me. Additionally, the initial setup was very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
The way you bulk upload content as far as SCORM for content use. I would like to be able to add different content more than once at a time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to create content for training our customers and employees easily. I love the way D2L Brightspace supports content development.
Flexible and Powerful LMS with Great AI Tools
What do you like best about the product?
I like the constant updates and the ability to be a power-user, which lets me really fine-tune the environment for different roles, permissions, and organizations. The AI tools are pretty useful, helping to speed up content development, and the built-in tools are a standout feature for me as a developer. D2L Brightspace provides a flexible environment to deliver both digital and ILT training, which is invaluable for our network of construction equipment dealerships.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think it can be hard to share content and standards across courses, and it's hard to have SMEs go into the system and review content.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
D2L Brightspace helps us deliver and track training content, offering a flexible environment for digital and ILT learning. The AI tools speed up content development, and the built-in tools provide great distributive admin capabilities.
Highly Efficient for Course Management, Despite Dated Design
What do you like best about the product?
I like D2L Brightspace for its clean layout, especially the announcements from my instructor, because I don't have to search for them. I find everything neat and functional, and I appreciate that it notifies me quickly whenever there is a change in grades or assignments. I also enjoy using the Virtual Classroom, preferring it to Zoom or Google Meet because there's less lag. The initial setup was quick, and I got the hang of it in a few days. Overall, it's very comfortable to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The design of the site looks dated at times, and I don't like how inputting an email doesn't bring up all the options for a name's email immediately / doesn't send to the right person.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
D2L Brightspace alleviates my panic by clearly showing where I stand grade-wise. I like having everything laid out neatly, and it quickly notifies of any changes in grades or assignments. The clean layout makes it easy to find announcements from my instructor.
Easy to Use, High-Performance Platform with Strong AI, API Integrations, and Support
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and performance stand out, along with the AI features and API integrations. I also appreciate the support teams available over chat, as well as our direct teams. The customizations are helpful too, especially since they’re role-based.
What do you dislike about the product?
With the API-specific rules, if a user doesn’t have permission to access certain materials, those items can’t be pulled through the API. In stricter situations, it would be helpful if users could retrieve data even when it falls outside their role permissions. Creating an API role dashboard could make that possible and give us a clearer way to manage access. Also, we’re not fans of the discussion boards; that area feels clunky and is hard for students to navigate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At this time, we’re solving many of our own problems through API calls. One area we haven’t been able to address is API-controlled course merging. Since we have Ellucian ILP, we’ve exhausted all other ideas, but this remains unresolved.
Robust Features with Community Engagement, Needs Mobile App Improvements
What do you like best about the product?
I like how customer-focused D2L is. They have a product idea exchange where you can submit your ideas and vote on other people's ideas. D2L does actually look at these ideas and I have seen ideas be implemented in the platform. It feels nice to be listened to. They also facilitate a robust user community website and community-focused events.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would love it if the mobile app allowed students to submit activities (assignments, discussions, quizzes) or allowed the instructors to author content and grade. There are places where the platform is inconsistent across tools. For example, deleting a grade item is a different workflow from deleting an assignment. It makes it harder to train our instructors on how to use the tool when workflows are different across tools for a similar task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
D2L Brightspace provides a hub for each course, allowing instructors to share materials, collect submissions, and give feedback. Students can easily view course materials and notifications on mobile devices.
User Feedback - Continually Improving
What do you like best about the product?
Its willingness to ask for and act upon suggested changes from users.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Changes get made without notifying users unless they subscribe to certain D2L community groups. 2. There does not seem to be cogent reasons for some suggested changes made by users to be ignored while lesser, more esoteric changes are worked on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Recently, D2L changed the horizontal movement capability in Grades. That has made a difference. But only because I participated in a community discussion did I learn of another, more effective way to scroll left and right in Grades. It might be advantageous to make available mini ("chunked up"_ videos of Brightspace features.
Modern, Easy-to-Use Platform with Smooth Performance and Helpful Support
What do you like best about the product?
Clean look (modern)
Easy to navigate
Can integrate different tools (Study Forge, Integrity Advocate etc)
Runs smoothly (I don't think we have ever had an outage)
Tech support has been good.
Intelligent agents are super helpful!
Easy to navigate
Can integrate different tools (Study Forge, Integrity Advocate etc)
Runs smoothly (I don't think we have ever had an outage)
Tech support has been good.
Intelligent agents are super helpful!
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't really think of anything. Sorry!
We were with moodle before and I find Brightspace so much easier to use.
We were with moodle before and I find Brightspace so much easier to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Makes our courses more modern. Love how we can make groups in your courses, and also add enrichment opportunities or extra review for students based on how they score on an assignment
Relevant, Timely YouTube Tutorials That Truly Help
What do you like best about the product?
the recorded YouTube tutorials are relevant, timely and helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
As is true of many software platforms, modifications and preferences are presented too early in the training- it becomes overwhelming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asynchronous learning platform with cross course tracking of competencies and communication directly with students is really helping meet our accreditation standards.
Efficient, Customizable, and Intuitive
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate D2L Brightspace's better analytics compared to other systems and find it easier to upload content. The gradebook is also a lot better. I like the user progress tool, which allows both learners and faculty members to see exactly what students have visited and completed in the course. It's been a great tool to show students what they've completed when needed. Additionally, the initial setup was made easy by the wonderful implementation team. Shelby kept us on track, and Derrick did a fantastic job of customizing the system to fit our needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
One limitation we have found is it's confusing that every class creates a template.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I find D2L Brightspace provides better analytics, simplifies content uploads, and offers an improved gradebook. The user progress tool is particularly helpful for tracking student activity and completion, providing both learners and faculty a clear view.
Powerful Learning Analytics, but Transparency Needs Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
Some of the biggest upsides to using Brightspace are the opportunities to gather super meaningful learning analytics. From the programmatic perspective, this is incredibly useful to identity patterns in student learning, which can help inform course iterations. When set up strategically, a learning design team can find areas in the content students are struggling with. That information can, in turn, lead to the creation/revision of additional exercises to help future students avoid that struggle.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the least helpful aspects of Brightspace is the way its tools communicate with each other. For some workflows, it feels like the Assignments and Grades tools live on different planets. In order to make the two tools talk efficiently to each other, a person really needs to be SUPER familiar with them. Users new to Brightspace (i.e. a new adjunct) might make assumptions about how these tools talk to each other - which are likely incorrect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
D2L continuously work on updates to many of its internal tools, which is always promising. For instance, they recently rolled out a much-needed updated to include the option to set a due date on the Discussions tool. Great!
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