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Full integration of Atomic Learning tutorials is now available within BlazeVIEW D2L.  With the full integration you can incorporate Atomic Learning tutorials directly into your courses and your students can view them inside of BlazeVIEW without having to exit to Atomic Learning. This is another excellent tool that faculty members can utilize for BlazeVIEW face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses. For full instructions please visit the Atomic Learning web page.

NOTE: This integration will NOT be available in GoVIEW as it is a collaborative environment and we have students enrolled from other universities that may not have access to Atomic Learning at their home institutions.

A special thank you to Information Technology and Web Services for their assistance in this project.

If you have additional questions or would like one-on-one assistance, please contact eLearning at 229-245-6490 or email blazeview@valdosta.edu.

At the D2L Fusion conference this week in Nashville, D2L announced a re-branding of their product that emphasizes their new focus and pathway to learning. Brightspace is the new name for D2L’s product which includes all its components, e.g., the learning environment, Insights, Capture, etc. The company name, Desire2Learn, has been shortened to D2L. They are also changing the term Learning Management System (LMS) to Integrated Learning Platform (ILP).

So what does this mean to VSU faculty and students? VSU re-brands our product to BlazeVIEW and GoVIEW, so you will not see major changes and the Brightspace re-branding will be a gradual role out. For now, if a faculty member references Desire2Learn within their course, they should change it to D2L. Also, functionality within the ILP will not change.

If you have further questions, feel free to contact the Center for eLearning at 229-245-6490.

Our own Philip Bishop and Vincent King-Spezzo attended the conference. Vincent presented on Gamification at a well-attended and well-received session. Below are some pictures from the conference.

Philip on the right

Vincent checking the leaderboard during his Gamification presentation

Vincent handing out badges after his presentation