Brightspace

Don’t miss out on the valuable workshops offered by The Hunter College Center for Online Learning 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

Attend six, real-time courses at Brightspace Training.

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

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

Brightspace will be the Learning Management System (LMS) of record beginning January 2025, starting with the Winter and Spring 2025 terms.

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

Yes, after December, 2025.

In mid-November, 2024.

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

Yes, they are scheduled to be migrated in mid-Feb. 2025.

Yes, if they have been accessed during the last 3 years. The content gets migrated, the membership does not. Blackboard organizations will be migrated in December 2024.

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

If you are teaching a Winter or Spring 2025 course, but don’t see your course by mid-November 2024, 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 2022-2023. 2024 courses are being migrated now. Fall 2024 courses will be migrated in mid-February 2025.

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 Online Learning workshops.

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.

A practice course is an empty course shell only available to the professor who created it. It is a sandbox for experiments with tools and course design. Professors can design a course in a practice course and copy its contents to a semester course shell.

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.

Practice materials for Brightspace are now available, and Hunter College courses will officially begin using Brightspace in Winter/Spring 2025.

To help students prepare, several resources are offered:

• Students can review the Hunter Brightspace Student Tutorial.
• They can watch the video titled “Getting Started with Brightspace for Students.”
• Additionally, there is an online course called “Getting Started in Brightspace for Students” where students can practice uploading assignments and taking quizzes.

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.