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Brightspace How-To Guides & Tutorials

We have compiled a number of guides and video tutorials to help you in getting started with Brightspace (D2L). The guides are divided in correspondence with the names of the major tools in your Brightspace course site navigation bar:

  • Course Content
  • Communication
  • Assessment
  • Grades
  • Course Admin

Please use the menu to your left to navigate to the page you are interested in.

©David Howells 2016.

New & Updated Resources

  • What’s New in Brightspace? (monthly updates)
  • Brightspace Media Library (07/24)
  • ScreenPal (03/24)
  • Using the Discussions Tool (03/24)
  • Creating Accessible Content (02/24)
  • NEW: Synchronous Quizzes (09/23)
  • Class Progress Tool (06/23)

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