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What is the Learning Center?
The Learning Center is a version of Brightspace available to all D2L Clients who are members of the Brightspace Community.
This area of the Brightspace Community is where you'll find Premium (paid) content like Certificate and Subscription Training Courses, as well as FREE Courses, Downloads and Teaching Tools!
The Brightspace Learning Center is where you can connect with [BROKEN LINK]Brightspace Guided Training, and our [BROKEN LINK]Product Idea Exchange (PIE) too!
Learn more about the [BROKEN LINK]New Learning Center Homepage
Access the Brightspace Learning Center
You must be logged into the Brightspace Community to access this Course
Select the link to the Learning Center or the School Bus to access. 
*Learning Center Access is provided to Instructors and Administrators who are currently using Brightspace. You must be signed into the Community with your School or Organization's email address to verify your access to freemium and premium Learning Center content.
Registration
Access to the Learning Center requires that you are a verified Brightspace Community Member.
To become a member, [BROKEN LINK]register online using your Institution's email address. This login will allow you to access the Learning Center's Freemium Resources.
Once you've completed the registration form, you will receive an email to activate your account.
Note: Verification of account and access to Learning Center and PIE may take up to 48 business hours. Please check your junk folder if you do not receive this email in your inbox.
Connect
When you have registered, login to the Brightspace Community to access the Learning Center from your Navigation Bar.
You can also search the Brightspace Community for "Learning Center." Every Freemium Learning Center Resource has an article in the Community which describes it. These articles include a quicklink to the resource inside of the Learning Center. Simply select the link or school bus, to access the exact location of the offering in the Learning Center.
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CoursesIntroduction to Brightspace Community and Support
Description: Learn how to connect your place of learning to the Brightspace Community, and how to access some of it's most valuable resources! A module for Approved Support Contacts offers Support specific information. Complete the first module to unlock an award that can be shared with your professional network!
[BROKEN LINK]Brightspace Guided Training (New: Early Access)
Description: D2L's Guided Training Program includes access to self-guided content and opportunities to attend instructor-guided training webinars. This program is recommended for anyone designing, building, teaching, or facilitating courses within the Brightspace platform (and for those who support them).
Getting Started With BrightspaceDescription: This short course is designed for new Brightspace Instructors and Administrators. Learn how you can take your first steps with Brightspace.
[BROKEN LINK]Brightspace Success Toolkit Description: This is an in-depth course that provides detailed information about how to plan for your success with Brightspace including the teams you can connect with for help, how to use different Brightspace tools, and client case studies too!
[BROKEN LINK]Obtendo sucesso com o BrightspaceDescrição: Acesse este curso gratuito Learning Center Course ele está disponível para professores e administradores! Você aprenderá como se conectar com os times da D2L, gerenciar mudanças, planejar o sucesso de uso, conhecerá as ferramentas do Brightspace (quando e como usá-las), saberá como e quando concluir uma verificação de saúde de sua organização e cursos, e como dimensionar seus casos de uso.
[BROKEN LINK]Brightspace Success Toolkit (Español)Descripción: ¡Acceda a este curso gratuito del Centro de aprendizaje disponible para profesores y administradores que usan Brightspace! Aprenderá cómo conectarse con D2L, la gestión de cambio y la planificación del éxito, sobre las herramientas de Brightspace (cuándo y cómo usarlas), cómo y cuándo completar una verificación de estado de su organización y cursos y cómo ampliar sus casos de uso.
[BROKEN LINK]Learn Postman with Paul
Description: This short course is intended for the Brightspace Developer who is looking for more information on how to connect with Brightspace APIs.
3 Keys to More Accessible Written Communications Description: These 3 short lessons (each no longer than 3.5 minutes) is designed to show you a quick and easy way to improve the accessibility of your written communications in and outside of Brightspace! This course includes audio and examples of what a screen reader says when encountering dos and don'ts of written communication.
Customer Spotlight: 3 Video Note Workflows with New York University Description: Access 3 quick tutorials demonstrating the use of Video Note for both Instructors and Learners at New York University with Instructional Technologist and Adjunct Faculty, Clea Mahoney.
Building Your Learning Strategy Roadmap Description: Guide alignment and change management processes with the help of your organization's Learning Strategy Roadmap. You'll build this roadmap and share it with your D2L Team in 6 units that you can complete at your own pace. Submit your roadmap to gain access to an invitation only webinar facilitated by the D2L Learning Strategy Consulting Team.
Supporting Students with Low Vision
Description: This short course is intended to assist instructors in supporting students with low vision but can be used by anyone interested in understanding what low vision is and how assistive tools help those with low vision see better. It introduces Brightspace features and other design tips that help create course content accessible to students with low vision.
Customer Spotlight: Creating Custom Widgets with the University of Suffolk
Description: Create interactive, custom widgets for your Brightspace Classroom Homepages using either branded or free HTML Templates. Follow along with Olly Fayers, Senior Learning Designer, at the University of Suffolk to learn how!
[BROKEN LINK]IPSIS D2L Standard CSV Course
Description: D2L Standard CSV is a simple, flexible method to get basic information from an outside information source into Brightspace. This course has been designed to cover topics ranging from initial development of your integration to ongoing maintenance.
[BROKEN LINK]Accessibility Lab (NEW)
Description: This short course is intended for anyone using Brightspace as an introduction to disabilities, assistive technologies, and Brightspace accessibility features. It includes hands-on exercises that provide practical experience in using some accessibility features and tools.
Supporting Screen Reader Users
Description: This short course is intended to assist instructors in supporting students who use a screen reader due to blindness. It introduces Brightspace features and other design tips that help create course content accessible to screen reader users.
Customer Spotlight: Metacognitive Teaching and Learning Strategies with University College Dublin (NEW)
Description: Metacognition is our own thinking about our thinking. In this course you'll get to create a Learning Design Sequence for an subject area that integrates metacognitive teaching and learning strategies PLUS connect with strategy champions from UCD in each scaffolded task via Discussions
[BROKEN LINK]SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language Course) (NEW)
Description: SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language Course) is an open standard used for authentication, which enables end users to securely access one or more web applications using a single set of login credentials. This course will cover everything you'll need to know to configure, troubleshoot, cut-over, and maintain SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) between your IdP and Brightspace.
Learning Through Story (NEW)
Description: In Learning through Story, D2L Instructional Designer Amanda Darling will demonstrate the value of storytelling in online learning, break down the components of a successful story, explain how stories can be connected to course content, and provide learners with examples of how to apply storytelling to their courses while making full use of the Brightspace Learning Environment tools.
Accessible Virtual Presentations (NEW)
Description: Ensure your virtual presentations are accessible for all by experiencing the content in this course. Easy to digest short videos that are content specific ensure you maximize your time learning exactly what you want. Available to all Brightspace Clients, this free resource offers knowledge and tips to create and deliver virtual presentations that are accessible.
[BROKEN LINK]Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups (NEW)
Description: Explore the value of Manager Dashboard and Learning Groups and find out how they can help save you time! Discover how these tools can help you to assign and track learner progress and how to set up and operate these tools. The video tutorial walk-throughs of important workflows is an added bonus!
Resources and Inspiration HTML Templates Version 3.0 Classic Content Experience Description: Build beautiful, visually consistent content with the course templates. The download file is included in the linked article, and you can see what they really look like, and how they interact in the Learning Center.
[BROKEN LINK]Creator+ (NEW)
Description: Creator+ is D2L’s next evolution of our Engagement+ package and is currently in Early Access. This package of: ready-made content templates and consistent styling, interactive elements, easy screen recordings, and practice exercises allows educators to craft beautiful and instructionally sound content using seamless and familiar Brightspace workflows. Remove the friction between experts getting their content to their audiences with Creator+.
[BROKEN LINK]New Content Experience Description: Build beautiful, visually consistent content with the course templates. The download file is included in the linked article, and you can see what they really look like, and how they interact in the Learning Center.
[BROKEN LINK]Learner Experience: New Content Experience Description: Build beautiful, visually consistent content with the course templates. The download file is included in the linked article, and you can see what they really look like, and how they interact in the Learning Center.
[BROKEN LINK]Customer Spotlight: Customizing HTML Templates with Minnesota State College Description: Customized by Minnesota State College Southeast, these templates offer a great example of how you can create your own layouts with HTML Templates. Access the free download from the article page, and see each page layout in the Learning Center.
[BROKEN LINK]Higher Education Sample Module OutlinesDescription: This resource is part inspiration, part free download resource! HTML Templates V2 are designed and grouped under course types that you may teach. The content pages provide helpful guidance on how you might structure your online learning, as well as which tools you may incorporate in your course design.
Corporate Leadership Showcase
Description: Are you looking for a bit of course design inspiration? Try different learning interactives presented in the context of a corporate leadership course, and see how the Learning and Creative Services Team might partner with you to co-create a branded, engaging learning experience.
[BROKEN LINK]Quiz Question ConverterDescription: This tool can be downloaded from the linked article or used from inside of the Learning Center. The Quiz Question Converter Tool helps you to import lots of questions into your Quiz Question Library in Brightspace, so that your can use a full bank of questions in the Quiz Tool, Survey Tool, and Self-Assessment Tool.
[BROKEN LINK]Product Idea Exchange OverviewDescription: Do you have ideas for the future of Brightspace? Contribute ideas for new products or features, and vote for ideas others have submitted. Every month, ideas from the Product Idea Exchange (PIE) are released into our product and announced in our Release Notes.
Online Escape Room (NEW)
Description: Looking for gamifications inspiration? Try the Escape Room asynchronously or register for a live event with D2L's Instructional Designers (IDs) to try it out as a group. Complete the Escape Room to win a spot in an invite only Webinar with D2L IDs to learn how you can make your own Brightspace Escape Room!
