D2L Brightspace
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Great platform to organize educational information within courses of a program (student perspective)
What do you like best about the product?
(I use D2L as a student) I love the overall UX/UI and the features D2L offers (from the user perspective). I've been using it as a student for the past couple of years and it allows for the professors to create and manage the courses, course materials, assignments, and quizzes, in a very structured and organized way. Also, it allows for discussions with other students, delivering assignments, etc. Finally, it's great to be able to access past information as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
(I use D2L as a student) To be honest, I don't have anything to complain about it right now. My experience with the platform as a student has been great and once you get ahold of how to use it, it's amazing. And the learning curve is not that steep, it's actually pretty easy and straightforward to learn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
(I use D2L as a student) D2L helps me be a more organized student overall. It makes it easier to access information about any courses I'm taking at the university. Of course, it depends on the professors being organized, but if they are, it makes the students' lives easier. It centralizes the information, which is great.
LMS that really generates Desire to Learn
What do you like best about the product?
D2L Brightspace is one of the best learning management systems I have ever used. It is surprisingly easy to use. The graphics, layout, and interface are comparatively more motivating. Educators and trainers can enjoy the freedom of controlling various options to customize the assignments according to the learning levels and needs of the students and the trainees. It's an integrated competency-based system capable of tracking the performance of the learners from the beginning till the end in terms of achieving learning objectives. The learners on their part feel at ease while doing various assignments and quizzes. Everything is well synchronized. The course contents and the course materials are systemically uploaded, and the learners have the option to download the required files for their personal use. One of the engaging tools is a blog where not only can the students demonstrate their creative potential but also share them with their fellows for their valuable comments. The mining of these blogs often surprised me with amazing ideas from the content and comments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Aligning learning outcomes is somewhat complicated. The users sometimes are not able to get the final product as intended. It would be better if something is done to simplify the process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
D2L Brightspace is helpful in many ways. Creating and setting quizzes has always been a challenge for beginners, but D2L has made it surprisingly easy with its simple steps. A variety of subjective and objective questions can be developed in multiple ways. Then, a rubric can be set or created without much fuss. Last but not least, the grade book is automatically updated in consonance with the progress of the students. Even the students can easily complete all the quizzes, assignments, discussions, and other activities like blogging and chatting in an interactive way.
Lots of options and visually appealing
What do you like best about the product?
I like that there are many choices we have to create restricted assignments/discussions/quizzes by date, group, and many other details. There are also release conditions that allow the instructor to pace the course and automatically reward the learners.
What do you dislike about the product?
The attendance tool is pretty much useless as it does not connect to the grade book. Although I like the updates we receive, I do have a hard time keeping up with the MANY updates that happen monthly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our institution wants consistent course design, so being able to edit the main navbar and course home pages to include many learner oriented tools is really helpful. D2L also has good tech support that our faculty rely on as we are a small organization and do not have a large IT staff.
Continually Improving
What do you like best about the product?
D2L is continuously looking to make improvements. The UX has come a long way since I began using the system 4 1/2 years ago. When making these improvement, they seek the input of users. The team of D2L staff we work with seek to help improve the experience our team has within the system. There is an active product idea exchange that helps to get customer voices heard.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation is light or out of date on quite a few systems. This can cause an issue when trying to figure out how something works. A up-to-date standard operating proceduces manaual would be beneficial not just to the clients but also internally. We often do a lot of testing and investigating on our own. The are inconsistencies between how different functions work. What should work sometimes doesn't. There have been several instances where features have not been fully developed when deployed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The first is the new Brighspace Community is helping to organize information. Previously, much of the information was scattered. UX seems to be front of mind. The changes to UX help to reduce time spent on a task.
D2L Brightspace offers a robust learning platform
What do you like best about the product?
I like how robust Brightspace's platform is and how they keep working to support users to create visually appealing and pedagogically sound material.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are times when it can be a bit confusing to set up certain elements, for example quizzes, so they run as you would like them because the language for creator choices is not always intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ease of creating dynamic learning with plug & play elements and practices with Creator+ is amazing and will make me more efficient and benefit my students
Brightspace is a robust tool that needs UX improvement.
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of D2L-Brightspace is that it is very robust-- anything that you can imagine accomplishing is possible. The conditional releases, intelligent agents, and many many different feedback options make it possible to create complex and engaging interactions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Simple operations often take too many clicks. The main examples of this that come to mind are setting up a grade item, linking a grade item to an assignment, and reordering assignments in THREE different places if a change is made: the gradebook, the assignments section, AND the content area. A simple adjustment can take many minutes, and it's often not obvious how to do these.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
D2L Brightspace is currently solving the problem that links can appear as long lists and create text-heavy pages. In the new content experience, the company is creating an improved UI that chunks information and presents modules in a more aesthetically appealing way.
User friendly and easy to learn
What do you like best about the product?
I can find all information at the same time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Refreshing the site sometimes takes time, but it rarely happens.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have not encounter any specific problem
Powerful and Flexible LMS Experience
What do you like best about the product?
The extensibility and flexibility to integrate our own applications in the the workflow has been a boon to our internal processes as well as to our user's experience with the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
Given the number of configurations and options, getting comfortable/familiar with the inner workings can take some time, especially for those administrating or developing the content. Lucy consumers of that content have a much easier experience and can start using the system effectively without much hand holding.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The responsiveness and growth in the APIs allow us to modify our processes and workflow, broadening our options and increasing efficiency in all areas, including administration and pedagogy.
Making an impact at speed
What do you like best about the product?
D2L Brightpsace has a great design so it's easy for students and teachers to use. We have had to upskill a lot of teachers at speed and the design really makes it simple for teachers to understand the course structure and work within it to make some great courses quickly!!
What do you dislike about the product?
Because D2L isn't open source it means that you might have a simple idea on how to make it better but it has to go through their processes and be put on their road map. But when it is released it works and has been tested 100% so you can trust the developers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had a large number of issues with our Chinese students using scorm activities and their grades pulling through, their support team was straight on the case and helped us identify the issue and resolve it. They made our students the focus of their support.
New User Review
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is exceptionally easy - even a new user has little effort in finding what you need. Intuitive and effortless for the most part.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are features/tools scattered throughout that seem to accomplish the same purpose (in different areas). While this is probably useful to highly savvy users, it might be beneficial to narrow processes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It seems that updates and improvements are implemented frequently, and they respond to feedback.
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