As users of the Brightspace by D2L learning management system (LMS), we have access to the Brightspace Community, which is a community of practice to support instructors, LMS administrators, learners, and more. A few highlights on the Community website are Topics, Help, the D2L YouTube channel, and the Product Ideas Exchange (PIE). Faculty will be glad to know the webpages are extensive yet easy to navigate and have a similar layout to the Daylight interface.
Topics for instructors dedicates resources to usability and features that are sometimes underutilized in the online classroom: common troubleshooting, interacting with learners, and class progress. Upon visiting the webpages and opening resources like New Best Practices for Rubrics in Grading and How to fix broken links in Content, faculty will discover tools in your online courses that will be simple to access and easy to use. Grading, correspondence, and student progress become a pleasure, or at least sustainable, by using some of these tools.
You may be familiar with the D2L YouTube channel because we link to it from Instructor Videos in both Help menus in your course navbar and the Falcon Online home page. The Brightspace Tutorials page has videos for many of the tools within the LMS, and they are an excellent resource for instructors and students alike.
Finally, the Product Ideas Exchange is a place for you to submit suggestions for improvement to the LMS. Perhaps a student provides feedback on the usability of the system or you identify an area that you believe needs improvement; you can submit the idea to D2L via the PIE. In addition, you can see current ideas and "promote" them using the Up vote feature. 
The more promotions an idea receives, the more likely D2L is to implement it. You can share your idea on currently posted ideas with your peers and ask them to promote them too. It is an excellent approach by D2L to provide the PIE for us to improve the product and ultimately the classroom.
You can use your Daytona State College email address to register with the D2L Community and gain access to the content. I hope you check out some the items because they are excellent resources from your peers throughout higher education.
Aaron Sunday
Instructional Designer, Division of Online Studies
aaron.sunday@daytonastate.edu | 386-506-3209
This article about the Product Idea Exchange (PIE) and how to register and access it may be helpful: https://community.brightspace.com/s/article/Product-Idea-Exchange-Overview.
Happy upvoting!
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