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Are you ready for Brightspace?

All students, faculty, and staff are invited to join us for Brightspace Day on Thursday, August 15th, 2024!

The OFDIT Team will facilitate activities to ready you for a smooth transition to our new learning management system, Brightspace. Drop by and take the opportunity to log in, explore the environment, and ask us anything!

CUNY has been issued a dedicated toll-free D2L/Brightspace End User Support phone number:

1-888-895-2511

This toll free number is to ensure that all users will get support from trained specialists familiar with CUNY and CUNY-specific integrations across the university.

OFDIT will be offering Brightspace support sessions during Spring Break.

You can join us for:

• Teaching in Brightspace: basics of communication and grading
• Preparing your Course: bring your questions while getting your course ready
• Open Office Hours: ask us anything

Morning, Midday, and Afternoon sessions will be available. See the schedule and registration links here.

Additional sessions will be offered through May if you can’t make Spring Break Camp.

Dear Faculty & Staff,

Welcome to 2024! With the new year, we are delighted to announce the launch of “Brightspace Essentials,” a series of self-paced mini-lessons crafted to equip you with the fundamental skills for using the Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS).

Brightspace Essentials is your first step in mastering the basics. The first few lessons will help you:

• Get familiar with the fundamental navigation and functions of Brightspace
• Create content modules
• Learn about the great features in the Brightspace Editor
• Become familiar with communication tools
• Manage discussions

Start today! Dive into these 15-minute lessons as a launching point for your Brightspace explorations. Please also check out our regularly updated LMS Transition Training page for demos and other resources.

The CUNY LMS Transition Team conducted a live demonstration of the Brightspace learning environment.  All are welcome to view this 55-minute session detailing the following topics:

• Accessibility
• Accessing Brightspace
• Basic Navigation
• The Student Experience
• The Instructor Experience

Viewing Tip: The video player below allows you to watch the entire demo or navigate to specific content sections. To see the table of contents, click the caret icon or click the arrow pointing right .