D2L Brightspace
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User friendly but needs more features
What do you like best about the product?
Brightspace is a easy to use cms with many built in features such as attendance, grade book, discussions, and drop boxes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is lacking true integration with our student information system. The built in eportfilio tool is cumbersome at best and difficult for students to utilize. Built in surveying is adequate but it is impossible to extract usable raw data!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows faculty to efficiently share content and collect assignments from students
Brightspace for teachers
What do you like best about the product?
The part I like best about Brightspace is the Gradebook, you can easily set up assignments that will auto-grade and post grades directly into each student's gradebook.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only part I don't like is that some of the formatting is rather fixed in nature and I would prefer more modifcation options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business problems include teaching online students without meeting face to face in classes. The benefits have been improved class organization, accurate grading, and good communication with students.
A strong LMS that makes it easy for the user harder for the IT dept
What do you like best about the product?
I love that Brightspace has a lot to offer. The ease of view for the student and using it on a non-administrative side allow for a smooth experience. You can easily integrate other products like you SIS, textbooks, or use their analytics to help provide a better experience for students and classes.
What do you dislike about the product?
The gradebook feature needs additional help as does their solution for scalability. We had many waves of implementation and the company did not realize the massive amount of work required to transition our material from blackboard to brightspace. We had to re-work every single class and manually preserve gradebooks. (Over 300 classes, 500, 000 users)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The best part are the analytics and the power it hold.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ensure you have a long time to implement depending on your size.
Test many packages of courses.
Test many packages of courses.
Good functional platform, but slightly outdated
What do you like best about the product?
The system works well in every way I’ve noticed, from instructor and student viewpoints.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface could definitely benefit from an updated ux design
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instructor/student interaction, grading and information storage at the university level
The best of the available options
What do you like best about the product?
As an instructor or administrator, the drag and drop features are extremely helpful. It makes designing a course much simpler than before. In addition to increased usability, the over all design of the user interface for all levels of user (admin, instructor, student) are almost unparalleled. Before Brightspace, instructional designers had to pay attention to coding and HTML5 to make the content available across all platforms, but with Brightspace, they've done all the work for you. Whether you or a student are on mobile, tablet, or desktop, the content is presented exactly how it was intended.
What do you dislike about the product?
Much like Adobe products, D2L has several iterations of their LMS. With Brightspace, while making it easier to do some things, they've kept the old methods to do the same thing. This has resulted in several redundancies that can be confusing for less experienced users. For designers and trainers, it makes it challenging to teach new users the right strategy and creates inconsistencies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it for our students and teachers! We put our content online to increase student engagement and hopefully increase enrollment as students don’t have to come to campus. It’s more convenient and we can allow students to do more than we can in the classroom.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Brightspace is not perfect, so there should be no preconceived notions that it is going to fix poor design skills, poor understanding androgogy or pedagogy, or poor leadership. However, Brightspace has the most well equipped toolbox with a very high level of support to create the right digital environment for nearly anyone's needs.
D2L Brightspace
What do you like best about the product?
The D2L Brightspace Learning Environment is up to date and fresh looking. They implement new updates every month. It uses Responsive Design to allow users the same experience when moving from Desktop/Laptop to Tablets to Cell Phones. The system is extremely easy to use and navigate. Great community of users to work with. Great/fast help desk response time. Unbeatable Up time.
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of the tools in the system have the same features, but you access them from different dropdowns or pages. The system would be much better if all features were accessed the same way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating fun and interactive courses for students. Informing students of the progress in the course.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Brightspace is easy to configure and their help desk and community of learners can help you do just about anything you want to do with the system.
Brightspace for Online Teaching
What do you like best about the product?
Brightspace is an attractive interface with intuitive features that are easy to use. Brightspace also allows organizations to integrate the use of other educational learning management systems (i.e. MindEdge) for a more complete online learning experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the grading processes require the user to open multiple tabs or to toggle between different screens just to grade one assignment type.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Brightspace offers the flexibility and convenience of online education.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend Brightspace. It seems to be the newer, more up-and-coming LMS for educational institutions.
In the Middle
What do you like best about the product?
It is a full learning management system with the usual interaction tools. It has a fairly clean, modern look. It is better than Blackboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not intuitive and buggy. It is much more difficult to learn and teach others to learn than Canvas.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Delivering online, blended, and hybrid courses.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get Canvas
Brightspace review
What do you like best about the product?
The overall layout is easy to navigate through, especially for college students.
What do you dislike about the product?
The inability of correcting a submitted PDF in the "assignments tab" For instance, in order to mark up homework students submit on the assignments tab, the homework file (PDF or word only), must be downloaded, then re-uploaded.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to have students submit work online (saves paper), grade easily, email easily, and overall improved communication with students.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The grading area can be improved so be prepared to spend time getting used to what D2L has to offer.
Stepping up and moving ahead.
What do you like best about the product?
D2L is a leader in accessibility, in education - this is key.
What do you dislike about the product?
The older style of the dropbox and discussion board vs. the new responsive daylight experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Running 90+ courses via D2L.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Switching LMSs takes time. Course packages will have issues no matter the LMS. Make sure you have enough time.
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