D2L Brightspace
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What do you like best about the product?
I love 💙 the "especial access" feature. This makes way easy to let a quiz or any other activity available for just one student or a specific amount of students. No worries about letting it available for everyone. It's better and safer.
I like that the grade center helps you keep the grade records directly in D2L.
I like how it looks. It' s much nicer and friendlier.
I like that the grade center helps you keep the grade records directly in D2L.
I like how it looks. It' s much nicer and friendlier.
What do you dislike about the product?
OMG
1- Making a writing quiz is impossible in quizzes. The rubric never connects to the actual quiz. (yes, we did create a learning objetive - step that makes it way too complicated) Hence, the rubric is not available as in an assignment. Even when you are able to open the rubric and click on it to grade, it never connects the student to the grade.
2- Assignments don't have a time limit/clock like in a quiz. The fact that is an assignment does not mean students can take hours doing it. It should have the same feature as quizzes.
3- The fact that I have to create a category or an item in the grade center, and then, having to link the activity/quiz, etc. to it. It is tiiiiiime consuming in addition to the thousands of settings that have to be set ahead of time.
4- Why can't all questions includes feedback box to leave general feedback when creating the anquestion? Additionally, Why isn't that box called that way "feedback"?
5- Your website used to have a chat where one could talk to a human being, even there was an email with the summary of everything. Since the university began working fully with this LMS, that chat never works. You can stay forever waiting for a human to reply.
6-Let people know that audios must be compressed in order to make them lighter. Heavy audios do not run well in this LMS. They may take a long time for them to upload so that some students cannot hear it immediately but after quite a while or never.
1- Making a writing quiz is impossible in quizzes. The rubric never connects to the actual quiz. (yes, we did create a learning objetive - step that makes it way too complicated) Hence, the rubric is not available as in an assignment. Even when you are able to open the rubric and click on it to grade, it never connects the student to the grade.
2- Assignments don't have a time limit/clock like in a quiz. The fact that is an assignment does not mean students can take hours doing it. It should have the same feature as quizzes.
3- The fact that I have to create a category or an item in the grade center, and then, having to link the activity/quiz, etc. to it. It is tiiiiiime consuming in addition to the thousands of settings that have to be set ahead of time.
4- Why can't all questions includes feedback box to leave general feedback when creating the anquestion? Additionally, Why isn't that box called that way "feedback"?
5- Your website used to have a chat where one could talk to a human being, even there was an email with the summary of everything. Since the university began working fully with this LMS, that chat never works. You can stay forever waiting for a human to reply.
6-Let people know that audios must be compressed in order to make them lighter. Heavy audios do not run well in this LMS. They may take a long time for them to upload so that some students cannot hear it immediately but after quite a while or never.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working towards focursing on learning obkectives rather than thinking on just the numerical result.
It is effective because information can be kept in just one place.
It is effective because information can be kept in just one place.
Great LMS with friendly interface
What do you like best about the product?
The intuitive interface which makes it easier to configure and also to navigate
What do you dislike about the product?
In the computer version, sometimes buttons an interface seems too big, and there is no option to configure that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been able to configure my course in a very structured way with units and folders, which at the same time have different kinds of content. Also, I can easily copy a course structure to a new one, saving a lot of time
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You will love the ease of use, the intuitive interface, and configuration.
Review of BrightSpace
What do you like best about the product?
BrightSpace is a very intuitive piece of software. There are quite a few features, all of which are outstanding and easy to use. Recent new reporting tools have also made it easier for instructors to gather data and investigate student activity within the course.
What do you dislike about the product?
At times support turnaround is slow. Our biggest frustration occurs when our more challenging support tickets do not get escalated in a timely manner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With our installation, we are providing a way for course material to be readily available to our students on 24/7 basis. This allows our students to study and review material on their own time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give a lot of thought before creating your roles for the system. Too many similar roles can cause confusion on which to use
Great LMS for Post-Secondary institutions
What do you like best about the product?
Brightspace provides users with easy to use tools that require little training. Because of this, we are able to support the tool better and also provide extra or deeper levels of training.
What do you dislike about the product?
We encounter a lot of bugs when major tools get redeveloped. This causes our instructors to become frustrated. The monthly updates cause this frustration as our instructors typically teach 4 month terms meaning they need to check the updates 4 times a term.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Since the pandemic, we moved to a more online/blended style of teaching. This product has allowed us to easily move to this type of teaching and has allowed students the ability to learn synchronously/asynchronously.
It is a powerful tool, very manageable and intuitive.
What do you like best about the product?
All the possibilities of integration with other platforms, their own tools, and in my case, the administration seems simple to me.
What do you dislike about the product?
not being able to carry out your own developments within the Brightspace environment, such as adding new native modules in the application. I don't like the Pulse application because in practice, for the contents or own tools, what it does is open the browser and I consider that the transition from the app to the browser is not very pleasant.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For the university community, the versatility and usability of the tool are very important, having the feature of being able to access from any device and being able to use any tool.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
be able to access product certifications for your clients, in my case as the platform administrator.
Brightspace K-12
What do you like best about the product?
Rolling out D2L Brightspace has been much easier than expected due to the support of our Brightspace success team. Having such strong, responsive connections at Brightspace has taken a lot of the pressure off of our IT/Ed Tech team. Our Brightspace team has offered advice and has been willing to create resources for our teachers, ensuring that the transition to our new LMS is smooth. The frequent check-ins are greatly appreciated.
What do you dislike about the product?
D2L Brightspace is an extensive resource. At times it has been challenging to locate the appropriate documentation for our specific integration questions. Responses to support tickets sometimes takes longer than we would like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Brightspace is providing more consistency in our teaching approach. It is also going to be a vehicle for sharing and streamlining our sharing of new curriculum resources.
Nice design easy to use interface
What do you like best about the product?
I like the look and feel of D2L and the ease with which contents are created
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the HTML templates are awkward and, if changed in the HTML editor, may produce disastrous results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem I'm solving is straightforward and efficient communication with my students.
I am very happy with the platform.
What do you like best about the product?
It is an intuitive and easy to use platform. It has many tools for the development of face-to-face and virtual classes. Forums, assignments and quizzes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Does not have the journaling tool.
Integrate more LTI applications
Integrate more LTI applications
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is an agile platform when uploading content.
Excellent platform, agile and intuitive.
What do you like best about the product?
Usability. It is a user-friendly platform that invites teachers to create content thanks to its simplicity and its connection with other applications. Its implementation has meant a motivating change.
What do you dislike about the product?
The jargon used is a bit complicated. Thus, building assessments, assigning them grades, and connecting them with rubrics is somewhat complex. I see a lot of potential, but it is not so easy to reach for the entire teaching community.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The evaluation/grading with rubrics is dynamic, once the teacher has prepared the connection between assignments/grades/rubrics. The main benefit is the direct feedback that students receive and the consequent record of evidence for accreditation processes (such as ABET).
One year experience
What do you like best about the product?
The user experience is the best thing about Brightspace, far from Blackboard learn orgininal experience and more complete than the ultra experience. For instructors and learners from this intitution, it has been a smooth transition from Blackboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
The mobile app Pulse should be more consistent with the platform. Instructors and Learners can´t perform some features as well as they do in the web browser version of Brightspace. Some LTIs are not available for integrating with brightspace. It seems to be more options than their competitors Canvas, Blackboard even Google Classroom.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The recovery options that offer Brightspace are different than Blackboard. One benefit is that instructors can recover parts of their courses without creating a case.
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