As part of our migration from Blackboard to Brightspace we plan to turn off access to Blackboard on June 1 so that we can ensure we get the most up-to-date course archives and to pull data from the system that we want to retain. If you have a student in a spring 2021 course on […]

This summer will bring a few changes to the digital learning environment at Wentworth. Our recent shift in learning management systems has changed how often we will see changes in our environments. Brightspace is a SaaS (Software as a Service) deployment and updates every month. We review the announced changes at the start of each […]

You set up your grade book but the grades don’t look right. How can you find out where the problem occurred? Sometimes the problem may be settings. For example, I recently reviewed a problem grade book where the total points for a category were not what was expected. The category was made up of four […]

Most of the courses that instructors requested us to migrate were migrated using a bulk process developed by D2L for their Brightspace product. However, this process had limitations, namely that the course export package from Blackboard could not be larger than 1 GB. Before we tried converting courses, we ran a report from Blackboard to […]

We are making progress migrating content from Blackboard to Brightspace and anticipate completing all the course migrations requested by the March 22nd deadline complete by the end of March. The exceptions are Spring 2021 courses. We will migrate these starting about April 19th to capture as much content as possible. We will be reaching out […]