Brightspace

Don't miss out on the valuable workshops offered by The Hunter College Center for Digital Learning & Online Pedagogy throughout the semester! Enhance your skills and knowledge by participating in these engaging sessions.

• Blackboard vs. Brightspace
• Sneak Peak at Brightspace Courses
• Working with Migrated Courses

Brightspace Training

• Getting Started in Brightspace
• The ABCs of Learning
• Engaging Learners
• Assessing Learners
• Quizzes
• Gradebook

To start, you need to either attend six real-time CUNY Faculty Workshops or review the recordings of those workshops.

Log into Brighspace with your CUNY credentials.

Connect with fellow educators and explore innovative teaching strategies within the Desire-to-Learn (D2L) Brightspace Learning Community. Collaborate, share insights, and access valuable resources to enhance your teaching effectiveness. Whether you're a seasoned instructor or new to online learning, this community provides a supportive environment for professional growth and development.

Join today and be part of a vibrant community dedicated to advancing education with D2L Brightspace!

• Explore Brightspace Guided Training Courses
• View Instructor Video Tutorials

Yes, see a document with the list of tool equivalents.

Yes, the LMS admin team can merge courses for you. Make the request through LMS@hunter.cuny.edu.

No, but the LMS admin team can do it for you. Please complete the form and send it to LMS@hunter.cuny.edu.

Yes, Ally, Turnitin, VoiceThread and Hypothesis are integrated into Brightspace.

No, but you can embed Padlets in Brightspace. Watch a video or contact edtech@hunter.cuny.edu.

Yes, Brightspace has a tool to “view as learner.”

On your Brightspace homepage, you will see a dropdown menu (underneath the CUNY Brightspace banner) titled “CUNY Colleges”. Select a college/university from the drop-down menu to access your homepage for that specific institution.

Note: You will notice you are on the correct homepage when the CUNY logo and banner reflects that of the selected institution.

Brightspace is the Learning Management System (LMS) of record as of January 2025.

Yes, if they are active in CUNYfirst. They can log in from cuny.edu or brightspace.cuny.edu.

Yes, after December, 2025.

Expect Summer shells in April and Fall shells in early June.

Semester course shells for Winter/Spring and Summer 2025, and migrated courses from Winter 2022 through Fall 2024.

Yes, if they have been accessed during the last 3 years. The content gets migrated; the membership does not. Organization leaders should work with LMS admin team to add appropriate members.

You can find the transition timeline for other CUNY colleges on the CUNY transition site.

If you are teaching a Summer 2025 course, but don't see your course site, you may not be listed as the instructor of record on CUNYfirst. Please contact your department if you are not listed. If you are listed as the instructor of record and still do not see your courses, please email LMS Team at LMS@hunter.cuny.edu.

A course previously taught in Blackboard with all its content (files, links, quizzes, discussion questions). No student work or enrollment will be migrated.

Courses taught in 2022-2024.

Yes, you can copy course content from one Brightspace course to another. Use the Course Admin > Import/Export/Copy Components tool.

No, but you can copy the content of a migrated course to a semester course shell.

No, a migrated course only includes course content.

The document Working with migrated courses has recommendations. Faculty can also attend one of the Center for Digital Learning & Online Pedagogy workshops.

The instructor is responsible for making the class active for students. Once they do, you can see and access the course listed in Brightspace.

To communicate in Brightspace, all emails are associated with @login.cuny.edu and are generally linked to your @myhunter.cuny.edu account, depending on the preferred email you have set in CUNYfirst. Please make sure that your preferred email in CUNYfirst is set to your @myhunter address to receive communications from Brightspace.

To change your preferred email to your Hunter email, select 'Profile' in CUNYfirst Student Center, then select 'Contact Details'. From there, you may choose your Hunter email.

We also recommend checking your notification settings by following the steps below:

1. Log into Brightspace and scroll down until you locate Notifications Review on the right-hand side of the screen.
2. Once located select Update Your Notification Settings.
3. On the pop-up page, select which notifications you would like to receive an email for.
4. Once complete, select Save and your notification settings will be updated.

Unless you are staff or have multiple affiliations, your primary affiliation will take precedence, and Brightspace emails will go to that account.

It is up to your instructor when to make each course active on Brightspace to students. Please reach out to your instructor directly. For any further inquiries, please contact studenthelpdesk@hunter.cuny.edu.

Yes. Brightspace has a mobile app named Pulse, available in the Apple Store or Google Play.