If you've got questions about working with Brightspace, chances are you'll find the answers at our FAQs!

The second edition of Optimizing AI in Higher Education: SUNY FACT² Guide is available now.

Join us before classes begin for Brightspace Bytes; a series of short (45-minute) focused workshops that will help you get ready for the start of the semester!

The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC), in collaboration with the Office of Disability Resources (ODR), and Digital Accessibility is seeking to increase awareness about three key accessibility features available in D2L Brightspace: Anthology Ally (formerly Blackboard Ally), Accommodations and Special Access, and the built-in Accessibility Checker.

SUNY is seeking feedback from all faculty who use D2L Brightspace. Please share your thoughts by completing the Fall 2025 SUNY DLE Brightspace Faculty Usability Survey. 

This semester (Fall 2025), the TLTC is launching a new Brown Bag Lunch Series - a casual opportunity for faculty to come together, share experiences, and talk about teaching and learning. Each session will highlight a timely topic or pedagogical question, but the real focus will be on conversation, connection, and collegial exchange.

The 2026 SUNY Online Summit will take place virtually and for free February 23-27, 2026 for anyone interested in online teaching and learning. Registration is now open! 

SUNY OER Summit 2025 - The Future is Open: Building the Next Chapter of OER - will take place virtually on Zoom on October 15 & 16, and will feature keynote speaker Dr. David Wiley, founder of Lumen Learning.

Join higher education colleagues on Fri, Sept. 26 for Pace University's Actionable AI Conference—a one-day event for faculty, staff, and thought leaders from across higher education. 

SUNY Online is excited to feature two webinars in September 2025 focused on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Other webinar topics include creating community in online courses, professional development opportunities through SUNY OER Services, and streamlining your grading process in Brightspace. These webinars showcase the expertise of our dynamic community of online practitioners.

Check out these quick tips to help you use Brightspace more effectively! 

Check out these quick tips to help you use Brightspace more effectively! 

Join us online on Monday, August 18, the first day of Welcome Week, for our first Brightspace Workshops of the Fall 2025 semester!

SUNY is pleased to announce the system-wide rollout of D2L Lumi Pro, the generative AI capability within Brightspace. SUNY Online is offering free Lumi training opportunities to all faculty during the Fall 2025 semester. 

The SUNY New Faculty Open Mic Program is designed to support the work of new tenure track colleagues in their first three years across the State University of New York. This Peer Mentoring Program offers new faculty an opportunity to talk about vital issues as teachers, scholars and advisors.

The Moodle Archives server will be taken offline soon. Now is the time to review your previous courses in Moodle and save any remaining course materials that you want to keep.

As you consider textbooks for upcoming semesters, please consider the following options that allow you to provide textbook access directly through your Brightspace courses.

Updates and SUNY faculty development opportunities from FACT2 Campus Representatives.

Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) GrantsOpen Educational Resources (OER) Impact Grants

Over one million dollars of competitive innovation funds will be open to all SUNY faculty and staff in a new two-stage process to support academic excellence and student success.

This semester, we will discuss "Unraveling Faculty Burnout" by Rebecca Pope-Ruark.

A Message from your Faculty Pedagogy Fellows...

Check out these quick tips to help you use Brightspace more effectively! 

Updates and SUNY faculty development opportunities from FACT2 Campus Reps to help faculty plan spring semester activities.

The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ) Curriculum Development Certificate Program is offered by SUNY Center for Professional Development.

The SUNY Online Teaching unit has developed a portfolio of resources in a variety of modes to best fit institutional or individual needs. The monthly webinar series will provide an overview of the various resources developed to support faculty through this semester and beyond.

Please join Jennifer ("Jennie") Uleman, 2024-2025 TLTC Faculty Pedagogy Fellow (and Chair of Law & Justice and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Critical Thought) for this fall's Faculty Pedagogy Reading group!

As part of our migration from Moodle to Brightspace, Purchase subscribes to Tier 1 support services provided by the SUNY Online Help Desk.

Welcome to the Fall 2024 semester and brand new academic year!

Check out these quick tips to help you use Brightspace more effectively! 

The SUNY Online Teaching Certificate Program consists of 2 (two) online asynchronous courses. The courses are 6 (six) weeks in length each, and they contain approximately 3-6 hours of work each week. The courses are interactive with instructor feedback to participants and capped at 20 registrants. Fall 2024 courses begin August 27.

This new, free course, currently offered in a hybrid format provides a more in-depth overview of Universal Design (UD) in higher education. Participants will learn more about the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, as well as how to apply UDL and UD to their work with students. Participants in this workshop will apply what they learn about Universal Design, Universal Design for Learning, and/or WCAG principles to create plans for projects to create a more accessible, usable, and inclusive experience for students on their campus.

The purpose of the Inclusive Teaching and Learning Certificate Program is to help faculty and others involved in teaching and learning in higher education develop new mindsets and strategies for more inclusive and equitable practices in classrooms and other learning environments. The certificate provides evidence that the participants have attained a basic set of essential skills and knowledge needed for teaching a diverse student population.

The SUNY New Faculty Peer Mentoring Program is designed to support the work of new tenure track colleagues in their first two years across the State University of New York. This Peer Mentoring Program offers new faculty an opportunity to talk about vital issues as teachers, scholars, and advisors. The Program is being offered at no cost to all 64 SUNY campuses.

Join us on Monday, August 19, the first day of Welcome Week, for a series of Brightspace workshops and virtual one-on-one consultation opportunities.

As part of Welcome Week 2024, please feel free to book a 20-minute Brightspace Basics virtual one-on-one consultation session for Monday, August 19, 1pm-4pm via Microsoft Teams.

The SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD) OTTER Institute is an opportunity for online practitioners, regardless of teaching modality or experience, to learn more about online education's innovations, trends, and challenges. The OTTER Institute is FREE to all SUNY campus members. The webinars will be recorded and shared with participants at the conclusion of OTTER 2024.

The SUNY Digital Learning Conference is free, virtual, two-day conference for faculty, technologists, librarians, teaching and learning support specialists, and students to engage in a conversation about how we teach the arts of digital citizenship. 

Upcoming SUNY, CUNY Faculty Development Opportunities & More!

Join SUNY Instructional Designers Rob Piorkowski and Alexandra Pickett for the Spring 2024 faculty webinar series on effective use of Brightspace!

The TLTC needs your input to make Brightspace the best it can be!

Check out these quick tips to help you use Brightspace more effectively! 

The SUNY Online Summit will be held in person February 28-29, 2024 at the SUNY Global Center in New York, NY. D2L Connection: New York will be held on Friday, March 1 at the Global Center.

Several new features have been added to our instance of Brightspace.

TLTC has received several inquiries from faculty about how we as an institution and a system are handling AI and what detection tools are available for faculty use. We understand that this is a loaded issue with many implications and a variety of potential consequences.

Fall 2023 SUNY FACT2 Campus Reps Updates & Professional Development Opportunities

We are thrilled to announce that Purchase College has partnered with SUNY Online Instructional Design Services to offer all Purchase College faculty and instructors access to tailored instructional design support!

Check out these quick tips to help you use Brightspace more effectively! 

Join SUNY Instructional Designers Rob Piorkowski and Alexandra Pickett for the next session in our webinar series on effective use of Brightspace!

Directions for moving courses from Moodle to Brightspace.

July 2023 Brightspace updates from the TLTC and Brightspace Migration Project Team as well as info about upcoming SUNY teaching & learning conferences.

SUNY Empire State University will host its 8th Annual Learning with Innovative Technology (LIT) conference on Thu, Aug 10, 2023. This is a FREE virtual conference focused on using technologies in education.

SUNY System Administration, SUNY University Faculty Senate, and SUNY Faculty Council of Community Colleges are hosting an academic conference focused on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ) in the Curriculum to take place in-person at SUNY Albany on Nov  3 & 4, 2023.

June 2023 Brightspace updates from the TLTC and Brightspace Migration Project Team as well as info about upcoming SUNY conferences.

The SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD) OTTER Institute (set to take place on August 14 - September 18) is an opportunity for online practitioners, regardless of teaching modality, to learn more about online education's innovations, trends, and challenges. Register now for free course design and delivery assistance from the SUNY DLE Trainers!

Faculty, as you plan courses for upcoming semesters, remember that you can adopt open textbooks from the extensive library available from SUNY OER Services!

We're packing up and moving from Moodle to Brightspace!

AI-assisted writing tools such as ChatGPT are a hot topic in academia right now. During this session, Turnitin will discuss what they've been doing to develop tools to help instructors and students, as well as the unique opportunities and challenges this time period poses.

Open Education Week (March 6-10, 2023) is an annual celebration of the people and activities that apply open practices to education around the world.

The SUNY Center for Professional Development (SUNY CPD) is offering two main types of Brightspace training. All trainings are free and available to all Purchase College faculty and staff!

Stay informed about the upcoming Moodle to D2L Brightspace Migration, available training opportunities, and additional help resources!

Targeted for larger audiences, these scaled webinars offer live demonstrations of the Brightspace learning environment and other training topics. Opportunities to ask questions of Brightspace experts during the last 30 minutes. "Illuminations" are advanced Brightspace workshops offered in the scaled webinar format that feature Brightspace tools and topics not covered in the Brightspace Fundamentals training.

The release of ChatGPT late last year was immediately hailed as a game-changer in the application of artificial intelligence to writing tasks. This webinar takes a "technology-positive" approach to the challenges posed by A.I. to both humanities and STEM disciplines. Join us for this timely and practical discussion about how A.I. is transforming the educational landscape.

This month's SUNY FACT2 update includes information on how to prepare for our move from Moodle to Brightspace, the SUNY Digital Learning Environment (DLE) website and all of its many resources, upcoming SUNY events including the SUNY Online Summit, FACT2 Inclusive Teaching Webinar Series, the 2023 Student Success Summit, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) workshops, SUNY's annual Conference on Instruction and Technology (CIT), and Technology Conference (STC).

Join the Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology (FACT2) Inclusive Teaching Task Force each Thursday in April for this 4-part Inclusive Teaching Webinar Series.

The SUNY Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Student Empowerment Initiative seeks to provide support for SUNY to be a model of excellence of inclusive pedagogy in higher education by training SUNY faculty and instructional designers in the Universal Design for Learning framework.

We've recently upgraded our connection to Perusall, which required a new integration between our Moodle system and the Perusall application. To use Perusall this semester, faculty and students will need to confirm and merge their Perusall accounts.

SUNY campuses increasingly recognize the importance of being student-ready and culturally responsive, thus meeting students where they are in order to facilitate the co-creation and attainment of personal, academic, and professional goals.

CIT 2023 will be a hybrid event with a separate schedule for our virtual and in-person presenters and attendees. Registration is now open!

The 2023 Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) program has just been announced. These competitive, peer-reviewed awards aim to demonstrate, communicate and replicate innovations developed at campuses across SUNY.

Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips for faculty to help you get organized for the new semester!

The SUNY Online Summit will be held online and in-person March 8-10, 2023!

Faculty / Instructors: Join a Moodle Basics Virtual Drop-In Session via Zoom, during Welcome Week, for live help with Moodle!

Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips for faculty to help you get organized for Summer  session!

Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips for faculty to help you get organized for the Spring 2022 semester!

The SUNY Online Service Level Agreement (SLA) provides a detailed list of the services, free and for a fee, provided by SUNY Online. These services range from support for online faculty and students to campus administrators focused on online learning and address challenges, provide solutions, and offer opportunities for campuses to partner with us or to just take advantage of open resources to improve online learning on their campuses. Plan to join us for a monthly webinar series that explores a different dimension of the SLA each month and helps address challenges and opportunities.

Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips for faculty to help you get organized as the Fall 2021 semester gets underway!

Faculty / Instructors: Join our Moodle Basics Virtual Drop-In Session Zoom room (please use your Purchase College-affiliated Zoom account; room login details below) for live help with Moodle any time from 10am-12pm and 1pm-4pm on Thursday, August 26, 2021.

Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips to help you get organized as Summer sessions get underway!

Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips to help you get organized as the semester draws to a close!

SUNY Online is pleased to host and showcase several presentations from our SUNY campuses in celebration of Open Education Week March 1-5, 2021. Open Education Week is an annual celebration, and an opportunity for actively sharing and learning from each other.

As of Fall 2020, Student Projects (i.e. Senior Projects, Capstone Papers, and Master's Theses) are no longer be submitted to the Library via Moodle. All Student Projects are submitted in MyHeliotrope.

SUNY Online is committed to supporting campuses as they plan for an uncertain and unprecedented fall semester. The SUNY Online Teaching unit has developed a portfolio of resources in a variety of modes to best fit institutional or individual needs. SUNY Online is offering a monthly webinar series that will provide an overview of the various resources developed to support you through this semester and beyond. Register here for "Back to School" Teaching Webinar Series.

In the event of an emergency, the ability to teach courses on campus may be affected. The COVID-19 Remote Teaching Resources Guide and workshop series will help you identify and become acquainted with alternatives to face-to-face instruction for use during situations when teaching must take place remotely.

New and returning faculty/instructors: please join the TLTC and Library for our Fall 2019 Teaching & Learning Day workshop series on Wed, August 21 and Thu, August 22 at 1:00pm-4:00pm at the Purchase College Library.

Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips to help you get organized as summer sessions get underway!

If classes are cancelled and/or there is a weather emergency that prevents access to campus, there are a number of tools and resources available to engage students using Moodle!

Anthology Ally (formerly Blackboard Ally) is available in Brightspace to help faculty improve the accessibility and usability of course materials. We encourage instructors to use it as a guide for improving the quality of existing and new course content.

This only affects faculty who have had courses on the original Moodle server (Spring 2009 through Spring 2012).