Written By: Alex Lowes, Customer Success Specialist
Welcome to the Brightspace Community! We hope you are excited about your new role as a Brightspace administrator. We want to help ensure that you have the resources and support to be successful in your new role so we have compiled a list of Community Resources and recommend course in our Learning Center to help you get started.
Brightspace Resources
Learning Centre Resources
Description: Learn how to connect your place of learning to the Brightspace Community, and how to access some of it's most valuable resources! Complete the first module to unlock an award that can be shared with your professional network!
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📝Note: The content within this Learning Center resource is specific for users who are in the Approved Support Contact (ASC) role. The information here does not apply to those who hold alternate roles.
Within this resource you will find the following topics and free printable job aids to help support you in the ASC role.
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Description: D2L's Guided Training Program 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 within the Brightspace platform (and for those who support them).
- You'll Love: The activities that help you test out how to do something in Brightspace, before you start to implement changes in your own Brightspace Learning Environment.
- Check Out: the downloadable Brightspace Guided Training Workbook to help guide you through the course while learning about your own Brightspace Instance.
Description: This short course is intended for anyone using Brightspace as an introduction to disabilities, assistive technologies, and Brightspace accessibility features. It includes hands-on exercises that provide practical experience in using some accessibility features and tools.
- You'll Love: The hands-on exercises to provide practical experience using some of Brightspace's accessibility features & tools.
Description: This is an in-depth course that provides detailed information about how to plan for your success with Brightspace including the teams you can connect with for help, how to use different Brightspace tools, and client case studies too!
- You'll Love: The client case studies that show how other places of learning are using Brightspace in their educational programming
- The overviews of Brightspace Tools that help you pick and choose the ones that are right for your teaching and learning goals
- The change management strategy module that help you plan for success
Description: Build beautiful, visually consistent content with the course templates. The download file is included in the linked article, and you can see what they really look like, and how they interact in the Learning Center.
- You'll Love: Seeing a familiar resource (HTML Template v3) demonstrated in the New Content Experience
- Handy linked resources about enabling this experience
Description: The start to a new term/semester doesn't have to be something to dread! Within this Learning Center resource, learn how to successfully manage users, create courses, and recycle existing learning materials for a new term/session/semester, while understanding key considerations and best practices for creating these courses.
- You'll Love: The downloadable checklist for administrators and facilitators to help ensure your organization is ready for rollover.
Description: SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language Course) is an open standard used for authentication, which enables end users to securely access one or more web applications using a single set of login credentials. This course will cover everything you'll need to know to configure, troubleshoot, cut-over, and maintain SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) between your IdP and Brightspace.
Description: D2L Standard CSV is a simple, flexible method to get basic information from an outside information source into Brightspace. This course has been designed to cover topics ranging from initial development of your integration to ongoing maintenance.
Description: Build beautiful, visually consistent content with the course templates. The download file is included in the linked article, and you can see what they really look like, and how they interact in the Learning Center.
- Download: Eleven unique HTML templates to help build engaging course content for your learners.
Getting Started with Analytics Builder
Description: This course was developed to provide detailed instructions, resources and best practices for both Authors and Readers within Analytics Builder. It aims to lay a solid foundation for individuals eager to expand their proficiency in data analysis and visualization through Analytics Builder, leveraging their understanding of Brightspace Data Sets (BDS).
We hope you are excited to get started on your journey with Brightspace as an administrator! Reach out to your account team if you would like to talk about private training options with our talented Training Services team.
