Brightspace Guides for Instructors

This guide will help you access Brightspace, identify, and navigate its global settings and features.

The microlevel layout and organization of your course can enhance the teaching and learning experience. These guides will help you create modules and add materials to your course.

Brightspace offers a variety of formative and summative assessment tools. Choosing the appropriate assessment method and tool is an important step which can benefit the students as well as the instructor.

UB Learns powered by Brightspace is a very powerful tool that helps promote student learning and success and helps instructors efficiently manage the administrative aspects of teaching. The following best practices address aspects related to instructor usage of UB Learns and augment course design best practices.

Effective engagement and communication can go a long way toward building strong relationships between students and instructors.

Learn more about the different third-party integrations for Brightspace, including Panopto, Respondus and Zoom.

Find answers to the most commonly asked questions about UB Learns Powered by Brightspace.

Brightspace Guided Training, developed by D2L, includes access to self-guided content and opportunities to attend instructor-guided training webinars. This program is recommended for anyone designing, building, teaching or facilitating courses in Brightspace.