Brightspace - A Way to Integrate More Content to your Courses
June 19, 2018
Brightspace - A Way to Integrate More Content to your Courses
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Brightspace
Brightspace is used as the virtual or online component to classes, either as a blended class, as an extra form of communication to students, or as a completely online course. It's also used college-wide as a way for employees to remain up-to-date on different HR topics. It's very organized and, I believe, user-friendly. I've used it in the capacity as a student, as an employee, and have helped professors use it to create content for their students.
Pros
- It's very organized. From the moment you open it, you can see your courses taking up the majority of your screen. But you also have alerts for messages at the top, so that keeps you up-to-date on what you need to know right away, instead of digging through each course.
- It's very clear and easy to find what you're looking for.
- It's a great way to add content to a class, even if it is already a face-to-face course. You can use it to communicate with students, to allow them to see their grades as the semester is going on, or to give them supplemental information.
Cons
- If there was a way they could integrate the student's/professor's campus emails, that would be fantastic.
- I could see a video chat feature to be helpful, especially for online students.
- That's all I can think of for now, it's really pretty comprehensive and simple to use.
- It has helped with our Virtual Campus, which is our fastest growing campus.
- It has helped us to offer more blended courses.
- It's been helpful to ensure all employees participate in HR training.
I used Blackboard when I was in college, but that was very little. I just used it to register for classes and to view grades. Brightspace is leaps and bounds what Blackboard was when I last used it in 2010.
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