LaGuardia Community College is transitioning from Blackboard to Brightspace in the Fall 2025. This section provides information and resources to help you get started, navigate, and use the platform successfully in your courses.

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Getting Started with Brightspace

For more information check out the Brightspace Tutorial Video on how to set up your User Profile.

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Brightspace Course

If you are interested in learning more about Brightspace and how to use it for your courses, you can complete the Brightspace Basics for LaGuardia Faculty course. This course covers essential topics, including navigating Brightspace, creating course content, and assessing students.

Follow these steps to access and self-enroll in the course:

1. Log into Brightspace using your CUNYfirst credentials.
2. Click on “Discover” in the navigation bar.
3. In the search bar on the Discover page, type: Brightspace Basics for LaGuardia Faculty.
4. From the list of results, click on Brightspace Basics for LaGuardia Faculty.
5. On the course page, click “Enroll in Course.”
6. A confirmation message will appear stating “Successfully Enrolled.” Click “OK.”
7. You will then see the course page with an option to “Open Course.”
   
   

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Brightspace Resource Hub

The Resource Hub is here to support you as you continue exploring Brightspace. Below, you will find resources organized by topic and subtopic.

If you would like download the full Blackboard to Brightspace: Comparing Features and Tools

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Brightspace Training for Faculty

As part of our transition to Brightspace, optional training sessions will be offered to faculty and staff. The transition team will offer campus-wide training for faculty and staff. Additionally, faculty will offer department-based training support. All training sessions will cover Brightspace basics and focus on specific tools and features you may use in your courses. Sessions will begin in the Spring semester and will continue through the Summer 2025, with flexible dates and modalities.

You can find a list of faculty trainers by department below, along with access to training topics and participant agendas for these sessions.

Business and Technology: Jennifer Arroyo, Sada Hye Jaman

Community Health & Wellness: Jasmine Edwards, Cynthia Vazquez

Education & Language Acquisition: Jose Fabara, Givanni Ildefonso-Sanchez

English: Lalit Bajaj, Md Rezaul Haque

Health Sciences: Philip Gimber, Lisa O’Donnell

Humanities: Arianne Fernandez, Jaime Riccio

Library: Ann Matsuuchi, M. Anne O’Reilly

Mathematics, Engineering & Computer Science: Nana Osei Bonsu, Shaoshao Yang

Natural Sciences: Daniel Capic, Marta Kowalczyk

Social Science: Janet Michello, Miguelina Rodriguez

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Training Handouts

See the list of training topics below, and click on the topic name to download the participant agenda for that particular topic. Note: Best Practices, and Assessment training packets will be linked once they are available.

Brightspace Training Session Descriptions

For additional opportunities, feel free to sign up to a remote training session offered by CUNY Central. For general information about our transition to Brightspace, check out the Brightspace LaGuardia homepage.

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Training Schedule

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Note: Capacity limit for E255 is 20 participants; E273 is 30 participants.

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For on campus support, go to room B-127. For email support, email [email protected]

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Acknowledgements

This Brightspace Resource Site has been developed to support faculty, staff and students in the transition from Blackboard to Brightspace. This site would not be possible without the dedication and commitment of the transition team who gathered and created resources for this site.

Please note that we are continuously updating this site to better serve the needs of the LaGuardia community. If you have feedback or suggestions, please reach out to [email protected].