What is the transition?

The City University of New York (CUNY) is transitioning from our current Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard, to D2L Brightspace. Beginning in the Fall of 2023, CUNY Office of Academic Affairs (CUNY OAA), CUNY Computing and Information Services (CUNY CIS), and staff across CUNY campuses will launch a multi-phase process to transition to the new platform and introduce it to the community university-wide. 

What is Brightspace?

Desire to Learn (D2L) Brightspace is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) that is modern and easy to use for faculty, staff, and students. D2L is the company and Brightspace is the product. Brightspace will be replacing our current LMS Blackboard.

It offers capabilities to support teaching and learning across different modalities, supports growth in online learning, provides advanced analytics that contribute to student success, and lays a foundation for engaging learning experiences that facilitate Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) in online course.

Timeline

As of January 2025 – All courses will be taught in BrightSpace

Blackboard will be deprecated/retired by Dec. 2025

What is available now?

Courses that have already been migrated to Brightspace include: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Winter 2024, Fall 2023, Summer, 2023, Spring 2023, Winter 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Winter 2022, and Fall 2021.