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# Brightspace User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.2/5
- Total reviews: 236

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.1/5
- Customer support: 4.1/5
- Value for money: 4.0/5
- Functionality: 4.2/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 120 reviews (51%)
- 4 stars: 85 reviews (36%)
- 3 stars: 18 reviews (8%)
- 2 stars: 5 reviews (2%)
- 1 star: 8 reviews (3%)

### Most mentioned pros

- This integration allows seamless synchronization of data and makes course and student management much more efficient, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy. Despite minor occasional issues, Brightspace remains a reliable and effective platform that significantly streamlines academic and administrative processes, making overall management much smoother.
- It makes course management simple by keeping assignments, grades, discussions, and learning materials easily accessible in one place for both students and instructors.
- Both students and instructors benefit from its simplicity and organized workflow.

### Most mentioned cons

- One of the main drawbacks of Brightspace is that it can occasionally experience minor bugs and performance issues, such as slow loading times or delays when accessing course content or submitting assignments.
- Zeros are entered automatically for quiz and test questions that must be manually graded, which causes my students to stress at their initial grades.
- It is a little wonky for programming wise, inconsistent with how it manages documents and assignments

## Brightspace customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 236 (page 1).

### A real review of brightspace

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Joe R.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: October 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall I'm very happy with Brightspace and would recommend it to anyone that may be looking for a web based learning platform

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Brightspace is a great tool for advancing online learning. It offers great value and has very good customer support.

#### Cons

Brightspace can be a little clunky and laggy at times. I have also noticed that sometimes it will not fully load causing you to have to manually refresh.

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### A Smooth and Integrated Learning Experience with Brightspace

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Kanika K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall, my experience with Brightspace has been very positive. It offers a smooth and well-structured learning management environment that makes it easy to handle courses, assignments, grading, and communication in one place. Both students and instructors benefit from its simplicity and organized workflow. A major advantage is its integration with Orbund, which is a real boon for institutional operations. This integration allows seamless synchronization of data and makes course and student management much more efficient, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy. Despite minor occasional issues, Brightspace remains a reliable and effective platform that significantly streamlines academic and administrative processes, making overall management much smoother.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It is very user-friendly and organized online learning environment. It makes course management simple by keeping assignments, grades, discussions, and learning materials easily accessible in one place for both students and instructors. The platform is also very easy for instructors to use when managing courses, tracking student progress, grading students and sharing learning content. Additionally, its strong security features and access controls help institutions manage student accounts safely. Overall, Brightspace provides a reliable and flexible platform for effective online and hybrid learning.

#### Cons

One of the main drawbacks of Brightspace is that it can occasionally experience minor bugs and performance issues, such as slow loading times or delays when accessing course content or submitting assignments. At times, the interface may also feel slightly inconsistent across different modules, which can affect the overall user experience. However, these issues are generally not frequent and do not significantly impact core functionality.

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### Lifesaver as a Student

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Catherine M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I still love Brightspace. I find it easier than Moodle or Canvas. The experience is user friendly that even an older adult could use.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Brightspace makes my life easier as a student. Everything I need for my class is right there. It is very easy to navigate.

#### Cons

Sometimes when you need a book like Connect, it is difficult to load the book. Also logs you out after inactivity.

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### D2L is a powerful Learning Management System

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Jean-Pierre N.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

D2L is a powerful Learning Management System with a powerful backend for experienced designers, and it is easy to navigate.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I like the fact that D2L is user-friendly, including mobile and PC users, and accommodates the accessiblity to all users. D2L has improved the HTML templates for the designers.

#### Cons

The graphic interface can be complex for instructors or new users. In addition, the customization of certain tools requires the help of the Technical Support.

#### Reasons for switching to Brightspace

It was very affordable and easy to learn.

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### Detailed yet easy to navigate!

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Erika B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Alternative Medicine
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I used Brightspace as an employee at an organization that implemented Brightspace for training and compliance purposes. As an employee it was annoying because you had to actually click through during the training and couldn’t fast forward or just let it play. However as someone who has also had compliance responsibilities in the past, as annoying as it may have been as an employee, from a training and compliance aspect Brightspace was an excellent platform.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The learning modules were well put together and clearly conveyed the information and knowledge that was important for each module. It was also easy to track and see what was or wasn’t completed.

#### Cons

It seemed like it was glitchy at times, my log in occasionally needed to be updated more than it seemed like it should because my credentials weren’t recognized. However that may have been more of an issue with our HR administrator and not actually any issue on the part of Brightspace.

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### Not recommended

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: Paulina S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: March 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Awful too many clicks to add anything to course . Course material is blunt and lacks the depth , difficult for students to navigate

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 1/5

#### Pros

Nothing , hard to find anything good about this platform

#### Cons

Everything . Such time consuming platform. Have used many but this is by far the worst most time consuming one. It does not make my already busy schedule less busy, too many clicks and not well through.

#### Reasons for switching to Brightspace

Because of my company what can I say other. You make it even worst I. This form so we don’t leave bad reviews

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### Brightspace (D2L)

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Claire S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mental Health Care
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Brightspace was a simple tool to use for course management when completing online courses. The courses were clear and detailed.

#### Cons

Brightspace had some bugs and functioning issues around discussion threads and boards. When going to post some threads would not allow you to respond due to and error.

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### D2L review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Ethan B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: December 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Good especially for a program that is so diverse in the amount of things it can support as a program

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I liked how it is able to be used not just for management but also in the eduction space for schools

#### Cons

It is a little wonky for programming wise, inconsistent with how it manages documents and assignments

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### Brightspace Review

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: October 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall Brightspace is a pretty good platform for course management. I really like that I can use it very easily without having to dive deeper into the specifics of the platform.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I like that D2L is a centralized place to keep all my courses and I can switch between courses very quickly. Anything posted on D2L by my professor can be seen pretty quickly. The quizzes I take on D2L are also in a good format

#### Cons

Its not for the website but the app does not show number grades or all the different days where the things are posted.

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### Please let us toggle the menu bar along the top

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Teresa C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

When used well it is great to have everything I need all in one place, course readings, assignments and lecture content is easily accessible

#### Cons

The bar along the top takes up so much space on IOS that it is difficult to read PDFs, I wish this was a feature I could toggle on and off.

#### Reasons for switching to Brightspace

My University made the switch to Brightspace

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### Very reliable

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Brittany P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

10/10 experience it was a helpful tool and very reliable

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Brightspace was useful tool while I was in college

#### Cons

It was difficult to navigate while I was trying to do easy tasks on the app

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### Complicated work made simple!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Steve W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Helps me keep a good grip on assignments my students have completed, as well as grades for the term at a glance. Easy to use and covers pretty much every function that a professor or instructor is likely to need.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Using the program means you don't have to re-invent the wheel. It's a great and well-designed educational program that I use as a university prof.

#### Cons

There are a few little things such as color coding for certain assignments that I still don't fully understand. But it's not critical.

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### Great for students on the go and online learners

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Elizabeth L.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I like it for when I am on the go and do not have my laptop on me. I can write on discussion boards, hand in assignments, check grades, among with more tasks.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I like that you can attend classes on your phone or on your computer using brightspace.

#### Cons

Viewing the instructor, power point , and the chat is not possible. You can only do either the chat view slides or the teacher.

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### An Educators Review of Brightspace

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Renata M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall Brightspace has allowed for easy and efficient course taking and an organized space for students and educators to communicate and work well together as a team.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Overall, Brightspace allows educators to design useful online courses that enable students to succeed and achieve a degree from the comfort of their homes if reaching a campus is not a possibility.

#### Cons

Brightspace has attempted to integrate a video feature where a course can be held online through a video platform however this feature is constantly lagging and still needs much work before it will function well.

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### A Good LMS Option

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

The school made the right choice in switching to Brightspace. It's quick and easy to understand

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

It has many of the same features of other LMS options, such as Blackboard and Angel. It has many advantages over a product such as Moodle. It's easy to understand and the cleanest user interface of all major college LMSs

#### Cons

It needs a video class option, similar to Blackboard UltraCollaborate

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### Brightspace Brightens my Class

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: David S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Brightspace is very easy to navigate and customize. It looks very nice and many uses familiar with something like Wordpress will have a pretty easy time. It is also in many ways similar to other popular social media platforms for students, I imagine, they are pretty comfortable with a platforms like this. Managing grades, assignments and embedding external links is very organic. There are some great tutorials too form D2L. It's also similar enough to other platforms that if you are migrating from another system, this shouldn't have too much of a learning curve. I love how easy it is to build a template course and transition various components or modules to a new one.

#### Cons

My only con is purely subjective, but I have had issues with embedded links like videos. I find it very hard to remove items from the Grades section (the gradebook). I constantly have to view a tutorial because it is so roundabout to remove an item from that section.

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### Brightspace user (Bigsky)

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Maria Victoria L.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I love using Brightspace (Bigsky). It is easy to learn, and I even volunteer to assist other faculty members. As a retired faculty member, I would look for the features I enjoyed with Brightspace when given the opportunity to use other LMS.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It has gamification, and once the course has been set up, everything is like clockwork.

#### Cons

Just the setting up at the start of every semester, BUT, it is worth the time.

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### A Powerful, Though Complicated, Online Teaching Platform

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Daniel F.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Primary/ Secondary Education
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: September 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Brightspace has a wealth of features I’ve found helpful when using it in my Pre-K through 5th grade classrooms, but I can’t help but feel that this is more focused for older students. The interface can be overwhelming for young students, and creating and accessing tools such as quizzes and assignments can have a steep learning curve. When compared to Google Classroom, Brightspace has more capabilities, but can take more effort to set up and use properly. In elementary schools, I don’t know if Brightspace outweighed Classroom, but I can see middle and high schools getting much more out of it!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Brightspace has tons of features and capabilities that teachers and students can use in learning! Through assignments with release conditions, video and audio recording for instructions and responses, homepage customization, and much more. There are few things that you are limited to with Brightspace.

#### Cons

Though there are many features in Brightspace, they can often be tedious and complicated to create and use. For example, creating tests/quizzes in brightspace is a very important tool for teachers to give formative assessments. The creation tool works, but takes many more steps and work when compared to other quiz creation tools, such as Google Forms. This applies to almost all features on Brightspace. When using this with younger students - Pre-K through 5th grade - that can take a toll on time and learning.

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### Great Online Learning Resource

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Reka V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Good, highly recommend for any online learner.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I love how user friendly this software is. As a daily user, I can easily navigate the different portals on this software and find all my class's resources quickly. It is very organized, and has great assessible features such as clear text, and high contrasting colours. Grades are easily accessible, and there offer all features necessary to succeed in your course, eg. discussion boards, class list, attendance, course content etc.

#### Cons

The notifications are quite overwhelming, every time any professor makes any adjustment to their course you get a notification that piles up throughout the day. Moreover, the notifications for upcoming assignments are sometimes inconsistent, as assignments not done through the D2L will not show up at all, causing confusion for upcoming work to be done for the student.

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### BrightSpace is amazing!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

My students (middle and high school) are able to become proficient in the navigation of the system in just a few days with minimal questions and challenges.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

BrightSpace includes all of the typical features of any LMS. However, D2L has improved the platform over time and has made the system more intuitive and user friendly. I also use CourseDen (the higher ed version of BrightSpace) for my college courses and the features are essentially the same with a few differences. However, the two platforms are enough alike that, once you know one system, learning to use the other one is a cinch. The features allow for very specific customization of assessments, discussions, and other features. I have built my own courses within the LMS, so I am familiar with a majority of the features and capabilities of the LMS.

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### Good LMS but not all-encompassing

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Brightspace by D2L was useful for implementing a live course's online material, but the program lacks important components that are necessary for online courses.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

This Learning Management System is GOOD but not the best. It is great that D2L and Brightspace have an easy-to-use portal that differentiates between student, instructor, and even TAs. However, the options that come with competitors like CANVAS are far superior...

#### Cons

CANVAS, a competing LMS, provides more external resource use, such as Virtual Office Hours during Conferences, and even grouping students into smaller groups to use MS Office through Collaborations. Brightspace is user friendly for students but more difficult to manage for administrators/teachers.

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### A platform for learning with its own learning curve

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Brightspace has allowed our students to access course information online and in hybrid environments. The LMS is powerful and can produce quality courses that are highly customizable and interactive. I have used it for around six months now as an instructor and have noticed that while it is powerful, you might want to trial it out alongside a couple of other competitors to find one that fits you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I like the complex features that are offered by this LMS. Course creators can embed external sources, create several nested modules and access plenty of documentation. Users can also access content on nearly all browsers and operating systems.

#### Cons

There is a steep learning curve, and it can be difficult to even access basic course information as a learner, or to even find out how to create a single module for students as an administrator. The issues related to mobile access, Safari, and flash are still present in this LMS as well. It will be difficult to access certain pages, and some external links do not allow you to access them either.

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### Simple for students, set up takes work

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Natalie S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Very happy with it from a student side when the faculty take time to set it up. But setting up a good classroom can be more work than teaching.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Have used Brighspace as a student and as a faculty. As long as the faculty sets it up well it is exceedingly easy to navigate. The features really benefit the educational experience.

#### Cons

Setting up the individual course takes time. I felt like I needed to be a coder to actually use to features. We have two full time hired staff to help keep the online classes in this running. Also, the email is ridiculously complicated.

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### Fantastic for everyone from beginners to people who want to do some unique activities and grading

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: July 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I was recently employed by Texas Christian University as an adjunct professor, and this was the first time I had ever taught a class at a different university. I had never used Brightspace before and to be honest I was a little bit overwhelmed with it at first. There are so many different functions and options that at first glance it seems like it will take months to learn. However, I think their help section is really user friendly and within a day I had my class pretty much set up. I love all of the more advanced grading features and automatic % calculations that this does, it saves so much time as I used to do this all in Excel. Also, I was only on campus once/week and was driving from over 40 minutes away on days that I was there. So, having office hours on days off was pretty much not going to happen. However, Brightspace has an amazing feature that can connect you to students over video chat from anywhere! This allowed me to have more personal 1-on-1 time with students who needed help while not having to drive all the way to campus!

#### Cons

There is quite a bit of a learning curve to get to the more complex stuff, but after you learn it your productivity skyrockets.

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### The BEST resource for school

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Audra W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

This resource carefully organizes all your school material. It allows for each class to have a separate section. It is like a virtual binder. Teachers can upload quizes, tests, and any additional material. Such a great resource for any age student. I have been using it for over 6 years now.

#### Cons

It sometimes glitches which makes it difficult to submit assignments, look up something, but that will happen with any software.

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