D2L Brightspace
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D2L Review
What do you like best about the product?
It is a catch-all system, allowing instructors both to assign and grade work and to place lectures and other course material onto an integrated platform. Once you have learned whatever the current iteration of D2L actually is, you're set to go - your focus is on course materials, not learning how to use the LMS that should be facilitating your learning. On the student side, the system is extremely user-friendly; D2L for students is entirely what they make of it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Renovations with D2L cause people to have to relearn their learning management software, which is time that could be better spent actually learning course materials. D2L doesn't change its interface often, but when it does, it's usually a major revamp that requires a lot of retraining or relearning. Additionally, the system isn't entirely user-friendly on the instructor's side, which means that a lot of potential out of the system in its current iteration is often not realized in practice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
D2L provides a solution to an important education problem: how do you combine course materials, assignment submission, and grading into one platform? That solution is well-integrated. Even as significant training in how to use the LMS may be required, nonetheless D2L meets the needs of both teachers and students, to the benefit of the learning process as a whole.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be prepared to relearn this system if you intend on using it for an extended period of time.
Useful for secondary
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to upload documents into organized folders and create assignment dropboxes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up homepages for new courses can be overly time consuming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Teacher-student communication.
Good tool for education
What do you like best about the product?
It is simple enough but often features used are not fully compatible with powerschool that holds our reporting database
What do you dislike about the product?
Not super user friendly and not very seamless
No use of tags for student names
No use of tags for student names
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
report cards
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10/10 for online learning
What do you like best about the product?
I like the simplicity of navigating throughout Brightspace. It is a clear and a consistent layout with great functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is much clearer than navigating on other sites. I've taken classes using both Blackboard and Brightspace, and Brightspace is by far superior.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The benefits of Brightspace are endless, but my success using it has been the biggest benefit.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely worth switching over to Brightspace. The layout options alone are worth it.
Not as great as competitors. Wish we had not transitioned into this product
What do you like best about the product?
It is great to have all of the features housed in one platform. I really appreciate being able to see if the students have accessed the materials and how many times.
What do you dislike about the product?
Grading is incredibly difficult. You have to go through so much in order to get to a students' work, and click through to the next one. Engrade was a much easier platform to grade papers and written assignments on.I also find the user experience quite challenging and not intuitive. There are a lot of "rabbit trails" one must go down in order to get to the place that they want to get to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One stop shop for grading, collecting class data, viewing student experience and activity and engagement. Benefits seeing the correlation between grading and if students have accessed the information on bright space
Recommendations to others considering the product:
See my former comments but I really believe that the user interface is way too complicated and takes too long to get to a specific element on the site. it is trying to cover too much. As a side note, some of my students have mentioned that it is a frustrating color scheme! They too prefer working with blackboard over brightspace.
Great alternative to BlackBoard
What do you like best about the product?
D2L is like Blackboard used to be - responsive to customers, customization, and user-friendly. It's like Moodle, but turn-key so it works and is rock-solid.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it was a bit better at grouping users into cohorts that could be added and removed from courses and eventually deactivated automatically.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hosing online courses. It's been great, better than Moodle and just as good but cheaper than BlackBoard. It's easy to use on the student-end and has pretty good tools for the admin to manage courses and students.
Great LMS that keeps making advances
What do you like best about the product?
The mobile app. New Brightspace is fully responsive and easier to use on mobile than ever
What do you dislike about the product?
Entering grades can be difficult at times. Setting up integrations can be harder than expected.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use brightspace for course management. We are using the integrated tools to great capacity, adapting teaching methods to new learning modes and keeping students engaged with their learning
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.
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