Brightspace
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Joe R.
Verified UserEducation Management · 11-50 employees
A real review of brightspace
Overall I'm very happy with Brightspace and would recommend it to anyone that may be looking for a web based learning platform
- Brightspace is a great tool for advancing online learning
- It offers great value and has very good customer support
- Brightspace can be a little clunky and laggy at times
- I have also noticed that sometimes it will not fully load causing you to have to manually refresh
Geeta T.
Verified UserE-Learning · 1001-5000 employees
Functional & Aesthetic
Daily usage, it is such a pleasure to work with as it is a well designed interface that is very easy to navigate
- So user friendly, easy to navigate, aesthetic but also functionally designed
- Email system is a little archaic, could be changed to a chat system
Switched From
Ease of use and functionality, so much easier to navigate, great design, not overwhelming or "boring"
Catherine M.
Verified UserGraphic Design · Self-Employed
Lifesaver as a Student
I still love Brightspace. I find it easier than Moodle or Canvas. The experience is user friendly that even an older adult could use.
- Brightspace makes my life easier as a student
- Everything I need for my class is right there
- It is very easy to navigate
- Sometimes when you need a book like Connect, it is difficult to load the book
- Also logs you out after inactivity
Louis A.
Verified UserHigher Education · 201-500 employees
Worst LMS ever
It wastes so much of the instructor's time as well as the students. All my students hate BS. Canvas was much easier to navigate, setup and use.
- There is nothing that I like about Brightspace
- It is poorly designed, non-inuitive, and a general mess to get anything done
- D2L Brightspace is the worst LMS that I have ever used
- As an instructor it is not intuitive
- Everything I need to do takes way too long, too many clicks and then it makes such a mess on the student end of things because it is full of bugs and no one at D2L cares
- There is no reason why in 2025 I would need to contact our BS administrator every week for help
- Their Help manuals make no sense and use a word-salad of vocabulary to describe something any normal person can say in 3 words
- It is like they are desperately trying to sound smart; or they are so out of touch with the real world that they don't care how confusing and obtuse it all is
- I would say to anyone considering using it, don't
Switched From
School decided to switch, it was not my decision
Carol R.
Verified UserE-Learning · 1001-5000 employees
User friendly!
Logical and easy to use, especially coming off of programs like Canvas and Blackboard.
- It's easy to add content and grade
- Organization of a course is logical, and it doesn't require a lot of training to use, whether from an instructor or student standpoint
- Zeros are entered automatically for quiz and test questions that must be manually graded, which causes my students to stress at their initial grades
- Keeping the initial grade hidden until those questions can be addressed would be nice
Switched From
My college chose to move from Blackboard to Brightspace due to better functionality and features.
Paulina S.
Verified UserEducation Management · 501-1000 employees
Not recommended
Awful too many clicks to add anything to course . Course material is blunt and lacks the depth , difficult for students to navigate
- Nothing , hard to find anything good about this platform
- Everything
- Such time consuming platform
- Have used many but this is by far the worst most time consuming one
- It does not make my already busy schedule less busy, too many clicks and not well through
Switched From
Because of my company what can I say other. You make it even worst I. This form so we don’t leave bad reviews
Teresa C.
Verified UserE-Learning · Self-Employed
Please let us toggle the menu bar along the top
Verified reviewer
When used well it is great to have everything I need all in one place, course readings, assignments and lecture content is easily accessible
The bar along the top takes up so much space on IOS that it is difficult to read PDFs, I wish this was a feature I could toggle on and off
Switched From
My University made the switch to Brightspace
Brittany P.
Verified UserRestaurants · 2-10 employees
Very reliable
10/10 experience it was a helpful tool and very reliable
- Brightspace was useful tool while I was in college
- It was difficult to navigate while I was trying to do easy tasks on the app
Verified Professional
Education Management · Self-Employed
Brightspace Review
Overall Brightspace is a pretty good platform for course management. I really like that I can use it very easily without having to dive deeper into the specifics of the platform.
- I like that D2L is a centralized place to keep all my courses and I can switch between courses very quickly
- Anything posted on D2L by my professor can be seen pretty quickly
- The quizzes I take on D2L are also in a good format
Its not for the website but the app does not show number grades or all the different days where the things are posted
Amy S.
Verified UserHospitality · 2-10 employees
Great product
It was good.. I have been in school for years so I have a lot of experience with then
- The ease of use
- it was so simple
- Everything was in good placement too
- It was hard to get back toy college page
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