Brightspace for Instructors

This page contains resources beneficial to instructors teaching and developing courses.

November 13, 2025

Instructors - Make sure your gradebook is set up correctly.

November 20, 2025

Winter & Spring '26 Brightspace Course shells available for Instructors ONLY ! Brightspace courses for Winter/Summer are now cross listed.

November 25, 2025

Check out our top Brightspace Tips!

Access

Make your course available, add users and manage groups.

Build

Create course activities and add and/or copy content into your course.

Connect

Communication tools, discussions and groups.

Design

Set up, customize and manage your course.

Evaluate

Use assignments, quizzes/exams, discussions and reporting tools to assess your learners class progress.

Grade

Create and edit grade items and grade categories, reorder your grade book, and more.

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DoIT Workshops

View past (and upcoming, if applicable) DoIT workshops on Brightspace. For past workshops, access workshop resources, too.

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Brightspace (D2L) Help

View Brightspace Community page for documentation, tutorials and events.

For Help Please Contact


Brightspace Support via SUNY Helpdesk
Phone: 1-844-673-6786
Academic Technology Services

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