Announcements

A new tool called FeedbackFruits is now available in Vanderbilt’s Brightspace, giving faculty a new way to facilitate structured, interactive peer review activities directly within their courses. With FeedbackFruits, instructors can create peer review assignments that guide students through giving and receiving meaningful feedback. The tool is designed to support… Read More

Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, Vanderbilt’s Brightspace site will be updating to feature a new default look and feel for course Content pages. The New Content Experience (formerly called Lessons View) is a more modern and intuitive design for the Content area of Brightspace courses. Since… Read More

April 2026: D2L Lumi Pro, a suite of Generative AI features integrated into Brightspace, is now available across Vanderbilt University. The Office of Learning Innovation is excited to announce that Lumi Pro, a generative AI feature within Brightspace, is now live at Vanderbilt University! The D2L Lumi Pro… Read More

We’re excited to share an improvement coming to Brightspace at Vanderbilt University! Currently, there are a few select courses in Brightspace that allow users to sign up on their own via a self-registration process. These courses include offerings developed by AdvancED as well as other approved courses from various parts… Read More

In April of this year, Turnitin released an update to their product that reviewed submitted papers and presented their determination of how much of a paper was written by AI. As we outlined at that time, many people had important concerns and questions about this new tool,… Read More

Up until now, documents in Brightspace could only be annotated by utilizing the GradeMark function of the TurnItIn tool.  Brightspace has now rolled out a new optional annotation tool that is built directly into the Assignment tool. For an overview of the tool and how it can be utilized, refer… Read More

Harvested Repositories in the Learning Object Repository (LOR) are now available and a corresponding link has now been added to the Brightspace dashboard Navbar.  The LOR contains a number of repositories that can access harvested data from external databases. For information on accessing, searching for, and using material from these… Read More

From June 11th through 14th, Brightspace Support will only be offered at the following times: 6/11 – 7 am to 3 pm 6/12 – 7 am to 3 pm 6/13 – 7 am to 4 pm 6/14 – 7 am to 2 pm If you have any questions, please contact… Read More

On May 9th and 10th, Brightspace Support will begin at 9 am instead of 7 am.  Regular support hours will resume on May 13th.  If you have any questions, please contact Brightspace Support at brightspace@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

In June 2018, Kaltura released their own video creation tool called Kaltura Capture.  At that time, Kaltura also announced that their previous tool called CaptureSpace Lite would be going away in June 2019.  Therefore as of June 1st, 2019, CaptureSpace Lite will no longer be available in the Brightspace Kaltura… Read More

On May 2nd and 3rd, Brightspace Support will begin at 9 am instead of 7 am.  Regular support hours will resume on May 6th.  If you have any questions, please contact Brightspace Support at brightspace@vanderbilt.edu. Read More

Due to the expected heavy traffic in metro Nashville on April 25th and 26th from NFL Draft festivities, Brightspace Support will be amending its in-office hours for these days.  They are as follows: April 25th: Drop in support will be offered as normal from 10 am to Noon.  No in… Read More

by Derek Bruff, Director, Center for Teaching As we announced last month, Brightspace has been selected as Vanderbilt’s next course management system, replacing Blackboard. I’m writing now to update the campus on the planned implementation timeline, based on what we know as of this writing (February 13th). What… Read More

The Center for Teaching invites Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students to a series of product demonstrations by the three vendors under consideration for Vanderbilt’s next course management system (CMS). The demonstrations, along with feedback from those who attend them, will inform Vanderbilt’s decision to renew its contract with Blackboard, set… Read More

The CFT, as the administrative home for Blackboard, Vanderbilt’s primary course management system, is conducting an assessment in March to determine the extent to which Blackboard is meeting the needs of campus users. Results of this needs assessment will inform Vanderbilt’s decision to renew its contract with Blackboard, set to… Read More

OAK (Online Access to Knowledge), Vanderbilt’s course management system, is expanding current functionality to provide additional services and customizations.  Efficiencies in course delivery and management will also be attained. Several years ago, a proposal was prepared to enhance OAK that included a consolidated list of requests from the schools and… Read More

The dates when OAK will be unavailable for regular maintenance have been posted and can be found in the red box located on the lower left hand corner of the main OAK website. The dates are August 19, September 15, October 21, and November 18. Note about Regularly Scheduled Maintenance:… Read More

OAK was upgraded in June to Blackboard Learn 9.1 Service Pack 8 in early June.  A list of highlighted resolved issues and new features can be found in the “Training” section of the main OAK Website, or a PDF can be accessed directly here. Read More

The maintenance to the OAK databases is complete. OAK was unavailable this morning beginning at 6:00 AM and was restored at 10:00 AM as previously announced. Though we like to have our servers up 24/7, there are times when we need to take them down to perform regular maintenance. Please… Read More

OAK will NOT be down Sunday, August 21 for maintenance. Please visit the main OAK website for maintenance updates, OAK availability, and regularly scheduled maintenance dates. Note about Regularly Scheduled Maintenance: Though we like to have our servers up 24/7, there are times when we need to take them down to… Read More

OAK will NOT be down Sunday, July 17 for maintenance. Please visit the main OAK website for maintenance updates, OAK availability, and regularly scheduled maintenance dates. Note about Regularly Scheduled Maintenance: Though we like to have our servers up 24/7, there are times when we need to take them… Read More

OAK will NOT be down Sunday, April 17 for maintenance. Please visit the main OAK website for maintenance updates, OAK availability, and regularly scheduled maintenance dates. Note about Regularly Scheduled Maintenance: Though we like to have our servers up 24/7, there are times when we need to take them… Read More

OAK will NOT be down Sunday, March 20 for maintenance. Please visit the main OAK website for maintenance updates, OAK availability, and regularly scheduled maintenance dates. Note about Regularly Scheduled Maintenance: Though we like to have our servers up 24/7, there are times when we need to take them… Read More

OAK will be down Saturday, July 24 beginning at 2:00 PM through July 26 at 8:00 AM.  Though OAK Support does not anticipate the upgrade taking this long, faculty and students should refrain from accessing OAK until a notice is posted on the OAK website.  Please visit www.vanderbilt.edu/oak for… Read More

We will be upgrading to Blackboard Learn 9.1 Course Delivery on July 24, 2010. We anticipate a 2-day outage window beginning at 2PM on Saturday, July 24, with OAK being back up no later than 8:00 AM on July 26.  Though we do not anticipate the upgrade taking this long,… Read More

The implementation of the new student registration system caused a delay in creating Fall 2010 courses in OAK.  MIS has been working to connect the new system to OAK and hopes to have these courses (and instructor assignments) in OAK as quickly as possible, followed soon after by student enrollments. Read More

All undergraduate courses have duplicate courses in OAK that begin with “SYLLABUS.” These duplicate courses serve as a location for sample course syllabi that undergraduate students can review during the registration period. Students have been informed that the available syllabi are to be used as a guide only and can… Read More

OAK will be undergoing an upgrade in the summer of 2010; this upgrade will no longer have the “Digital Dropbox” tool. The Digital Dropbox has had many issues since Vanderbilt adopted Blackboard and Blackboard’s response was to create a new tool with additional features. Vanderbilt’s current version of Blackboard has… Read More