I think it's a clunky platform that feels like it is was made in 2003.
Updated October 11, 2023
I think it's a clunky platform that feels like it is was made in 2003.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with D2L Brightspace
We use D2L Brightspace to teach online courses. I think in comparison to CANVAS it is very clunky and counter intuitive. Grading an assignment, for instance, requires you to manually open the grade book, find the ungraded assignments one by one, open them as pop ups, and choose the attempt number. I don't understand why there isn't a simple 'to-do' list like in Canvas. Part of the problem might be my institution randomly restricting user abilities to prevent people from messing up their course pages, but I spent hours trying to streamline my page and nothing works well. I will quit my job primarily because I hate working with this platform.
- Make you click a thing to click a thing to click a thing to get what you are looking for.
- Make you click a thing to click a thing to click a thing to get what you are looking for.
- Make you click a thing to click a thing to click a thing to get what you are looking for.
- Create a to-do list.
- Let users customize course page layouts.
- Embedded videos take forever to even appear on a page when you get there. This gives me the false impression that content is missing.
- I think Gradebook sucks. It has question marks and weird icons all over, but there is no tooltip explaining what they mean.
- In my experience, grading is clunky and takes a lot of clicks to get to an assignment.
- Online teaching
- Course design
- Course delivery
- Instructional media hosting
- It will make me quit my job
- Canvas, Blackboard Assessment & Accreditation Solution, Blackboard Collaborate and Blackboard Learn by Anthology
In my opinion, D2L Brightspace is inferior to CANVAS and Blackboard. I didn't choose it. It was selected by my employer.
Do you think D2L Brightspace delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with D2L Brightspace's feature set?
No
Did D2L Brightspace live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of D2L Brightspace go as expected?
No
Would you buy D2L Brightspace again?
No