D2L Brightspace
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Slim and Trim for Corporate/Enterprise Learners
What do you like best about the product?
D2L offers a clean, customizable experience for the Corporate/enterprise environments. While they do have dozens of widgets, dropdowns, and apps for a wide range of learning needs and functions, the ability to hide a large portion of them sets D2L's Brightspace platform apart from other LMSs in this Corporate space. This, combined with the ability to integrate easily with other information systems through APIs and other tools, makes Brightspace a leader in the space for both customization and functionality. My learners can get into a course and begin learning either on their own or in a blended (online/offline) classroom. It takes very little explanation to get my class up and learning as a facilitator or very few (primarily intuitive) clicks if they are ready to learn independently.
Brightspace's Learning Groups and Learning Paths have been a real game-changer for our organization, taking the guesswork out of our learners' (and maybe more importantly, their managers') hands. We have integrated our payroll system to automatically generate logins for users in nearly 100 locations across the USA. This has taken a huge time burden off multiple business areas, both on-location and at the corporate level.
Brightspace's Learning Groups and Learning Paths have been a real game-changer for our organization, taking the guesswork out of our learners' (and maybe more importantly, their managers') hands. We have integrated our payroll system to automatically generate logins for users in nearly 100 locations across the USA. This has taken a huge time burden off multiple business areas, both on-location and at the corporate level.
What do you dislike about the product?
In the nearly three years I have been using D2L's Brightspace, it has seemingly grown in functionality daily. However, it does suffer from some legacy issues of feeling like it was built for K-12/HigherEd which rarely translates to the Corporate space. It took quite a bit of customization and testing to get the site as streamlined as we had envisioned when first joining with D2L. The most glaring issue is two separate metadata "systems": user profiles and attributes. If D2L were able to marry these two systems, it would streamline our ability to filter our pertinent reporting data for my L&D stakeholders.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have pivoted from nearly 100% of our training in the classroom or on-location before D2L/Brightspace to doing 100% of training online/blended during the pandemic. Further, we have begun to execute more reliable Compliance Training tracking and remove some of the guesswork and administration from our in-store employees, so they can get back more time doing business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For us, even considering D2L at the time (three years ago) was a shot in the dark. We knew they were big in the K-12/HigherEd space, but they clearly showed the initiative to grow in the Corporate space, and we wanted to grow with them. Their platform was clearly very robust, but it was the early support and discussions with their technical team that made us choose D2L. Every future benchmark that they discussed with them at the time, they hit.
Wonderful LMS
What do you like best about the product?
I love the analytics and ability to engage learners through discussions, self-quizzing with immediate feedback. I love the exam analytics. D2L revolutionized education by staying up to date with educational needs of various learner types. The addition of tools to enhance learning for those with disabilities is definately one of the tools that I love the most. I am speaking from the voice of a professor and a student who has dyslexia.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike not being able to build questions with case study base with a group of questions to answer questions that corresponds to the case (i.e., chart review case display with tabs features that are clickable). I would love the ability to create drag and drop and other next-generation exam questions (test higher-order critical thinking/evaluation of data and info). I would love to be part of the team that works on improving this feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Exam review and question analysis are more manageable. Group assignment management and student participation are easy to track and monitor.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It would help if you tried it for yourself to see the benefits of the platform.
Listens to customers' ideas
What do you like best about the product?
I like the Brightspace Community and PIE
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that I can't associate the attendance with the gradebook.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use D2L as our content delivery method for all of our classes. It helps us to have all content in one place for the students.
Our go-to learning hub
What do you like best about the product?
Our program appreciates that D2L is the place where learning begins for our students. Students know exactly where to find resources and learning modules.
What do you dislike about the product?
As D2L is a learning management system, we sometimes have to use third-party tools to accomplish our learning goals. Still, because we can place a link within the D2L environment, students are able to access those resources easily.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use the Competencies program within D2L to track accreditation learning outcomes and instructional objectives. We link specific rubric criteria or quiz questions to our objectives. From there, we can export the data to Tableau, where we are creating dynamic visualizations to track student learning and anticipate problem areas.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
D2L is an excellent hub for learning. It functions well as an LMS. Having used Blackboard, Moodle, and Canvas, D2L Brightspace is one of the best. Each has its own intricacies, but overall, D2L does everything we need it to do.
The D2L Brightspace LMS provides users with all the expected features plus some advanced options.
What do you like best about the product?
I like that their product releases incorporate suggestions submitted by customers in a product idea exchange and that applying the continuous delivery releases does not require downtime for end-users.
What do you dislike about the product?
The built-in attendance feature is greatly lacking in comparison to another LMS that I've used. It is also challenging to find/get to activity logs for users compared to another LMS used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The video note feature and the virtual classroom integration were of great help to our institution during the period of remote operations last year and will continue to be used.
D2L BrightSpace Review from Long-time User
What do you like best about the product?
I love the collaboration they've built in as a company supporting teaching & learning for all users, from tools created to the training and professional development. Their support systems run from personalized communities and affinity groups, blogs and webinars, to larger regional and international conferences. Those experiences have helped me learn and grow as an instructor. Although I've been teaching online for 15 plus years, I always learn something new from attending their annual "Fusion" conference.
I also appreciate the fact that inclusion and accessibility are values in mission and practice. I know they've won awards for the accessibility features. I look forward to seeing how this is integrated even more in the future.
Finally, I appreciate that D2L is continually asking for, gathering, and using feedback to make even more improvements to BrightSpace. Team members and executives understand and value relationships and involve themselves in community engagement.
I also appreciate the fact that inclusion and accessibility are values in mission and practice. I know they've won awards for the accessibility features. I look forward to seeing how this is integrated even more in the future.
Finally, I appreciate that D2L is continually asking for, gathering, and using feedback to make even more improvements to BrightSpace. Team members and executives understand and value relationships and involve themselves in community engagement.
What do you dislike about the product?
I know they are working on some "consistency" elements across the various BrightSpace tools, which I believe will strengthen the user experience for instructors and students. They have worked on renaming functions so that different tools would have common names throughout the LMS. However, I would also like to see some of the sub-functions be used more consistently (end due dates for discussion boards and surveys) as well as their location on the different tool pages to reduce scrolling and promote ease. These steps would reduce confusion for the newer users and help ease the design process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an instructor at a Community and Technical College, many of my students juggle school, work (often multiple jobs), and family life. Teaching courses with D2L Brightspace allows me to offer classes that are still engaging, flexible, and meaningful to them and their academic journey. I use various tools to help achieve a richer experience for them (discussion boards, assignment folders, surveys, content, announcements, and of course, "quizzes").
User-Friendly Platform with Amazing Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
The platform is so user-friendly for learners, instructors, and administrators and has amazing capabilities in both reporting and integration with other tools and platforms.
What do you dislike about the product?
The new Content Experience is lacking in some of the features that were taken away (checkmarks for learner completion, release date access).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Brightspace has made hybrid and online delivery of courses so much easier and more efficient.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the community! The Brightspace Community is invaluable when learning about tools and best practices in the platform.
D2L Review
What do you like best about the product?
It is so easy to use. And easy to manage
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it is hard to find good documentation to share with Students and Faculty
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making it easier for colaboration with students and faculty
Excellent collaborative tool for engaging students in the online environment!
What do you like best about the product?
I love the flexibility of the product, and especially love the feedback loop in the product development life-cycle. D2L listens to its customers and is working on constantly improving the product for the benefit of all its users! They have a Product Idea Exchange (PIE) where users can submit ideas for improvement as well as vote on other people's ideas. D2L is constantly reviewing the ideas and frequently implements a few PIE ideas with each update to the system (which occurs every month)!
What do you dislike about the product?
Like any product out there, there are always drawbacks. However, as a state school in Georgia, we're hosted remotely at the main system office. So the issues I might have maybe more due to our hosting environment and the security precautions put in place, than with the product itself. The way our set up is, we're also frequently a month behind on the newest updates, as the main office runs numerous tests, including loading the update to our sandbox environments which allows all of the institutions in the system a chance to test the newest updates and provide feedback to the group and the main office. If any major issues come up, the main office takes those issues straight to D2L who typically addresses the issues quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I love that I can import and export from courses. This means we can develop master templates that we can pull into courses we're developing so that we maintain our brand and have consistent look & feel through our courses. This also helps with student learning as we can reduce the cognitive load on them by making sure they always know where to find specific pieces of material, such as the syllabus, tutoring information, institution links (such as calendars), as well as institutional policies.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do not hesitate to reach out to the D2L team! They are extremely friendly and open to hearing all of your questions and concerns. If the person you are talking to isn't sure how to answer your question right away... they WILL find out the answer for you! They are an awesome team to work with!
A great LMS with lots of potential to be even better
What do you like best about the product?
I like how versatile and customizable D2L can be. You can make the pages be almost anything you want. Faculty have an easy time learning how to building courses and students are able to find everything they need to be successful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I sometimes feel that new features are pushed out too soon to end-users without enough testing beforehand and without a super clear direction for why the new tool or layout is beneficial. Occasionally there can be some bugs that cause issues for our faculty and students, but often there is a sound reporting system to address those.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Brightspace gives us a platform to create engaging and meaningful courses for both in-person and remote learning. It is easy for faculty to learn how to build pages, and students can find the information they need quickly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have a team of people at your institution that can make the most of what D2L has to offer and can train others to build excellent courses.
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