D2L Brightspace
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Review of Brightspace
What do you like best about the product?
It has a phenomenal online format when going through iPhone.
It has a clean and simple look to it, but still allows for personalization with photos.
It is user friendly and you receive announcements like any other social media notification.
Check boxes to see what is complete and not complete/reviewed.
It has a clean and simple look to it, but still allows for personalization with photos.
It is user friendly and you receive announcements like any other social media notification.
Check boxes to see what is complete and not complete/reviewed.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be slow and show up odd depending on what browser you use to open bright space. It can also be a bit irritating that downloading something does not "check the box," but that you still have to click on the link to have it complete.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business problems solved include ability to communicate between multiple constituents on the same platform and with speed. Benefits are ability to create and submit assignments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it some time. Once you figure out the techniques, it is quite a helpful tool.
Great System
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy it is to learn to use!..
What do you dislike about the product?
When starting out it can be difficult to understand
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My students are understanding more
Full Featured but Very Limiting
What do you like best about the product?
D2L Brightspace is now responsive so that it looks much better on Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet. For the most part the modules (Content, News, Quizzes) make sense to the end users of the training. Discussion Forum and Topic features are robust.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you don't do things the D2L Brightspace way, it can be a real pain. That is, if you don't use the tools the way the developers expect them to be used, you usually end up having a problem with the training modules. It's difficult to have robust critique of peer work in Discussions, and good grading tools, and good file collection in Dropbox without the end users having to visit all three modules and figure out how they work together. That is, unless you're just dealing with text or Word files, the features are limiting. Rubrics are a pain to implements because of competency features. You can't have a mixed holistic and analytic rubric. Getting your content back out of rubrics or quizzes modules can be a fight. Sometimes you're just better off posting PDFs of that type of content rather than trying to decode what the developer expected you to do while using the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows students to learn.
SurveyMonkey
What do you like best about the product?
I love being able to easily poll my students on various options.
What do you dislike about the product?
The advertisements get annoying! I wish you could do free surveys without them!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Majority polls within the classroom
Nice Features
What do you like best about the product?
I like the interface and its flexibility. It's clean and user-friendly. I also like how easy it is for developers to use. Editing content is very simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, there are glitches. For example, the other day, there were a few hours when I was unable to open PDF files in the viewer. It resolved itself within hours, but it was still inconvenient.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's great for non-traditional students. It makes online courses easier to navigate.
Intuitive & Robust Learning Management System
What do you like best about the product?
You can really customize the environment from an administrative standpoint, and from an instructor standpoint. There are so many possibilities and opportunities to facilitate effective teaching and learning.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes there are many ways to do the same task. While this is helpful for a tech-savvy person, it can be confusing for those that are not as familiar with technology. Additionaly, there are many features and functions that exist in multiple tools and some are not fully fleshed out. As an example, the learning outcomes tool and portfolio tools are available and have been available for quite awhile but they are not fully implemented. This means there are multiple tools that do the same thing instead of just one rock-solid tool that does it all. It gets pretty confusing to administer because of that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using the LMS across the entire College. We have been very impressed with overall dependability of the platform and the variety of ways that instructors use it to facilitate teaching and learning.
It is easy to navigate, both as a student and as a teacher.
What do you like best about the product?
Lots of possibilities for organization, easy to enter grades and grade papers
What do you dislike about the product?
Easy to make a privacy setting mistake; can be confusing about which privacy limit applies to which file
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Good for collaboration
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great to use with students in higher education
D2L keeps my students on their toes!
What do you like best about the product?
I've used Blackboard, Moodle, and D2L, but I much prefer D2L. It's easier to use, and it looks cleaner. I really like being able to customize the looks of my classes so that it's easier for me to tell them apart in case I click into the wrong one. (It happens.) I have very few problems with D2L, but if I ever have a question, my university has a whole team that's dedicated to helping faculty with our D2L sites. I feel supported both by D2L and my university. In fact, my university has even offered extensive D2L training as part of an online teaching training program. 6) It would be great if students could download assignment deadline to their iCalendars.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have a few items for my wish list: 1) I would love to have a D2L smartphone app. If there is one, it doesn't come up in my search. It would be even better if it were part of my university's app. 2) I wish that I could set up my "News" announcements so that students would get automatic emails every time I post an update or reminder. I know that they can subscribe, but try getting them to do that! As it is now, I send an email out to my class. Then, I copy and paste the content of the email into a "News" announcement so that it sticks to the homepage of my class. That's double the effort. 3) I loathe accepting late work from my students, but I've been urged to do so. Thus, I have dropboxes set up for the paper assignments, and I have late dropboxes set up for the same assignments as well. I wish I could have both dropboxes linked to the same grade column in the "Grades" area of my D2L site. 4) I wish I could merge files in the "Manage Files" area. Also, I wish I could see what the files are without downloading them. For example, I've uploaded a few creative commons images that have nonsensical file names. Yes, I should've just named them properly before I uploaded them, but it would still be nice to be able to see what items are before I download or delate them. 5) I wish I could create a test bank of questions and that my students could take a quiz that draws randomly from this pool, not just in terms of the order of the questions or the order of the multiple choice answers, but also in terms of the questions themselves. For example, I'd like to create a test bank of 50 questions, and I would my students to take a quiz that would feed them 10 of these questions randomly. I would like the questions to be presented to them in a random order, and I would like the multiple choice answers to be presented to them in random orders as well. In other words, I would like each student's quiz to be unique so that they can't share their answers so easily with each other. Part of the benefit of D2L is that it helps minimize and catch breaches of academic integrity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I don't solve "business problems" with D2L Brightspace. I'm an adjunct instructor at a private university. I didn't teach in the days before learning management systems, but I can't imagine teaching without them. Some of the things I love about D2L is having my students submit their papers by a specific deadline. They can't try to tell me that they submitted their paper if it's not in the dropbox. They can't say that they met the deadline if the dropbox is closed either. I also love the interface with Turnitin. What a fantastic tool! Overall, I'm a big fan of D2L. P.S. I didn't realize that D2L was D2L Brightspace. I don't see the "Brightspace" part of the brand when I log in from a computer, but I see that part of the brand when I log in via my smartphone.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
D2L is only slightly more challenging to use than Facebook and YouTube. It's pretty intuitive, and it's very customizable. Take the time to play around with it. There are so many ways to use this tool to organize course content, make content attractive, and streamline assignments to minimize the impact grading has on our own time.
D2L - Brightspace LMS
What do you like best about the product?
When we started using Brightspace, it was still called D2L. I liked the simplicity of the name; however, this is not a simplistic product. I worked on both the admin and the user side; however, I will discuss only the teacher/student user side on this review. When logging into the system, there are several options for the landing. Our district chose to have a district landing page. The widgets were easy to navigate if set up correctly. When moving into a course, the user would land on the homepage of the course where another set of widgets were available. This providing an area for students to gain important information and navigate to additional links. I also liked the drag and drop feature to add content. This made content curation easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest challenge for this product is the navigation for the user experience. Students and teachers would have to click multiple times to access content. In addition, the process for organizing and presenting content was sometimes difficult if you didn't know what level you were on when modules, sub-modules, and even additional sub-modules were created.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing an LMS for integrated teaching and learning for a K-12 school district.
Easy to use from a Student Perspective
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use; can communicate well with professors and other students, and can easily find assignments, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Discussion pages can be hard to navigate. It would be helpful to use keywords instead of deciphering titles only. It can sometimes be difficult figuring out how to read the question vs opening the series.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
N/A
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The instructor makes the page. Most instructors organize their page well, making it easier for students to use.
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