Brightspace by D2L (D2L) is the official learning management system of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (HSC) and Tulsa HSC campuses. It is cloud based and has the capacity to store your teaching materials for access by students (based on enrollment), and for faculty and staff to whom permission was granted by you.
Login to D2L:
To ensure you are able to login to D2L from a different computer (laptop or home computer), go to learn.ou.edu to ensure your OUHSC credentials work.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Safari. You will not be able to login using Internet Explorer.
Special course requests:
Visit the Special Request Forms webpage to find the right form for your needs.
Contact the Academic Technology Team:
If you have any login issues, email web-courses@ouhsc.edu. The Academic Technology Team will respond to your issue within 24 hours.
Add Content
Need to post a syllabus, or add a power point presentation to the course?
Review this YouTube video by D2L to get it done in 55 second!
Add Instructions using the HTML Editor
This tool helps you add videos, images, and style to your content without having to know any HTML at all. You just need to "insert stuff."
If you have less than 5 minutes to spare, review the D2L video about the Content tool.
Create an Assignment
Use Brightspace to create an assignment folder for students to submit assignments.
Instructions on creating assignments can be found in a D2L YouTube video.
Checking for Plagiarism
D2L refers to plagiarism detection as “originality checking.” If this option is selected within an Assignment folder, D2L will check submitted files for matches in Turnitin.
To learn how to enable Turnitin on assignments, click here.
Activate a Course
Once course content is built and organized, activating a course makes the course appear in the learner’s “My Courses” widget.
Simply go to your course, go to Course Admin, the Course Offering Information, then scroll down to the option "Course is active" and check the box to the left of that. Then scroll down the page and click Save. Now your students will see your course when they log into Brightspace.