D2L Brightspace
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Love it
What do you like best about the product?
I love all of the features that are available on BrightSpace. My school switched from another LMS about a year ago, and I like BS much more.
What do you dislike about the product?
I cannot think of anything that I do not like about BS as a program. However, I think that the way that particular schools set up their LMS could improve. The school I attend and the school I work at have it set up different, and the school I work at is not utilizing some of the features I use as a student.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
BrightSpace gives students many more options than our old LMS.
D2L's Review
What do you like best about the product?
D2L's Brightspace is a very user-friendly, and interactive Learning Management Platform. I enjoy the built in HTML Editor, as well as the built in content templates. Additionally, you are able to create rubrics to easily evaluate activities based on a predefined set of criteria.
What do you dislike about the product?
The customer service is not ideal. If you require support with an issue, they make you sign a "ticket" and THEY will rate your priority from high to low on how important they make this it is. Often takes weeks for them to fix issues. Furthermore, you cannot put accents on people's names when adding them to the LMS - which is not great when you work in a bilingual association and several of your student's have accents in their names!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it is a way better host-site for our content then the previous company we used. I've received good feedback, however there are still many glitches that need to be solved behind the scenes.
Great, simple to use
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that this software, Brightspace, is very user friendly. Took me no time at all to figure it out when I started working here!
What do you dislike about the product?
If you sign in from a mobile device, the mobile platform looks different enough, it can throw off a new user until they get used to it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It keeps everything in one spot, and I feel like it helps me stay organized and efficient.
D2L Review
What do you like best about the product?
It is a catch-all system, allowing instructors both to assign and grade work and to place lectures and other course material onto an integrated platform. Once you have learned whatever the current iteration of D2L actually is, you're set to go - your focus is on course materials, not learning how to use the LMS that should be facilitating your learning. On the student side, the system is extremely user-friendly; D2L for students is entirely what they make of it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Renovations with D2L cause people to have to relearn their learning management software, which is time that could be better spent actually learning course materials. D2L doesn't change its interface often, but when it does, it's usually a major revamp that requires a lot of retraining or relearning. Additionally, the system isn't entirely user-friendly on the instructor's side, which means that a lot of potential out of the system in its current iteration is often not realized in practice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
D2L provides a solution to an important education problem: how do you combine course materials, assignment submission, and grading into one platform? That solution is well-integrated. Even as significant training in how to use the LMS may be required, nonetheless D2L meets the needs of both teachers and students, to the benefit of the learning process as a whole.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be prepared to relearn this system if you intend on using it for an extended period of time.
Useful for secondary
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to upload documents into organized folders and create assignment dropboxes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up homepages for new courses can be overly time consuming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Teacher-student communication.
Good tool for education
What do you like best about the product?
It is simple enough but often features used are not fully compatible with powerschool that holds our reporting database
What do you dislike about the product?
Not super user friendly and not very seamless
No use of tags for student names
No use of tags for student names
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
report cards
marks
forum
marks
forum
10/10 for online learning
What do you like best about the product?
I like the simplicity of navigating throughout Brightspace. It is a clear and a consistent layout with great functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is much clearer than navigating on other sites. I've taken classes using both Blackboard and Brightspace, and Brightspace is by far superior.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The benefits of Brightspace are endless, but my success using it has been the biggest benefit.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely worth switching over to Brightspace. The layout options alone are worth it.
Not as great as competitors. Wish we had not transitioned into this product
What do you like best about the product?
It is great to have all of the features housed in one platform. I really appreciate being able to see if the students have accessed the materials and how many times.
What do you dislike about the product?
Grading is incredibly difficult. You have to go through so much in order to get to a students' work, and click through to the next one. Engrade was a much easier platform to grade papers and written assignments on.I also find the user experience quite challenging and not intuitive. There are a lot of "rabbit trails" one must go down in order to get to the place that they want to get to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One stop shop for grading, collecting class data, viewing student experience and activity and engagement. Benefits seeing the correlation between grading and if students have accessed the information on bright space
Recommendations to others considering the product:
See my former comments but I really believe that the user interface is way too complicated and takes too long to get to a specific element on the site. it is trying to cover too much. As a side note, some of my students have mentioned that it is a frustrating color scheme! They too prefer working with blackboard over brightspace.
Great alternative to BlackBoard
What do you like best about the product?
D2L is like Blackboard used to be - responsive to customers, customization, and user-friendly. It's like Moodle, but turn-key so it works and is rock-solid.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it was a bit better at grouping users into cohorts that could be added and removed from courses and eventually deactivated automatically.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hosing online courses. It's been great, better than Moodle and just as good but cheaper than BlackBoard. It's easy to use on the student-end and has pretty good tools for the admin to manage courses and students.
Great LMS that keeps making advances
What do you like best about the product?
The mobile app. New Brightspace is fully responsive and easier to use on mobile than ever
What do you dislike about the product?
Entering grades can be difficult at times. Setting up integrations can be harder than expected.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use brightspace for course management. We are using the integrated tools to great capacity, adapting teaching methods to new learning modes and keeping students engaged with their learning
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