D2L Brightspace
Toronto Metropolitan University’s Learning Management System (LMS) is Brightspace by D2L.
TMU uses Brightspace to provide online courses, supplemental course materials, work spaces for research, professional development courses and much more. Brightspace includes a collection of tools that facilitate the online delivery of learning materials, quizzes and assignments, communications and grading.
Features
- Content: post your presentations, documents, web links, etc.
- Assessments: assignments, quizzes, assessed discussion boards, gradebook
- Communication: email students, post announcements, discussion boards, groups (for discussions or assignments)
Support
- Instructor Guide
Instructors can also email our team, at courses@torontomu.ca
- Student Guide
Students should contact their instructor for most problems, and the main Help Desk at help@torontomu.ca for technical issues.
Instructions
Getting Started
Instructors
For information on creating your course shell, please visit our Getting Started guides.
- Before you get started with BrightspacePage Description:If you're new to teaching at TMU, there are a few things that need to happen before you can request your D2L Brightspace course shells.
- Getting Started: Teaching with D2L BrightspacePage Description:The first things you should do when preparing to teach using Brightspace at TMU.
- Reusing coursesPage Description:These steps will assist an instructor to get your Toronto Metropolitan University D2L Brightspace course ready for teaching, when copying content from a previous term.
Things to consider
Configurable course content space: instructors can upload different types of content for students to access at any time. The materials uploaded into D2L must be your own intellectual property, or must be copyright checked. The Library can help check copyright and have the materials available as course readings in D2L. See One-Stop Course Readings.
Note: For courses which are delivered completely online or distance education, please contact the Digital Education Strategies at The Chang School.
Students
Most of the time, your instructor is the best person to assist you with problems in your course in Brightspace, because they control all settings for availability, quiz and assignment details, grades, etc..
