{"id":10870,"date":"2017-08-01T13:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=10870"},"modified":"2017-08-01T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:18:32","slug":"brightspace-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.d2l.com\/products\/package\/core\/\">Brightspace<\/a> was selected to be our new Learning Management System (LMS)?  <\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.stcloudstate.edu\/attn\/files\/2015\/04\/Brightspace_logo_Stacked_RGB_300x275-1lrzg50.png?ssl=1\" title=\"Brightspace logo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.stcloudstate.edu\/attn\/files\/2015\/04\/Brightspace_logo_Stacked_RGB_300x275-1lrzg50.png?resize=300%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brightspace logo\" height=\"275\" width=\"300\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Brightspace (formerly called Desire2Learn or D2L) will replace Blackboard as our LMS starting spring 2018.  Brightspace has an intuitive design that makes it easy to accomplish tasks quickly. There are a number of features that faculty and students will find useful, including drag-and-drop file management, a mobile friendly interface, virtual classrooms, student portfolio tool, and built-in analytics.<\/p>\n<p>All faculty will get an opportunity to attend Brightspace training sessions that will be offered during the fall semester. Stay tuned for an upcoming announcement about the Brightspace training sessions. In the meantime, you can visit the D2L website for more information about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.d2l.com\/products\/package\/core\/\">Brightspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard that Brightspace was selected to be our new Learning Management System (LMS)? Brightspace (formerly called Desire2Learn or D2L) will replace Blackboard as our LMS starting spring 2018. Brightspace has an intuitive design that makes it easy to accomplish tasks quickly. There are a number of features that faculty and students will find <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-is-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Brightspace is Coming!\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403],"tags":[402],"class_list":{"0":"post-10870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"tag-brightspace","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2Pk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10969,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/moving-from-blackboard-to-brightspace\/","url_meta":{"origin":10870,"position":0},"title":"Moving from Blackboard to Brightspace","author":"Janice Florent","date":"August 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, it\u2019s true! 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