Case Study: Queen’s University achieves greater faculty engagement and reduced administrative burden with D2L Brightspace

Smith School of Business re-engaged faculty & cut back on administrative burden

Queen’s University’s Smith School of Business was spending too much time maintaining its in-house learning management system, leaving little room for innovation or faculty-requested improvements. With D2L Brightspace, the school needed a more flexible platform that could reduce administrative burden and better support a high-touch student experience.

D2L Brightspace, including its Valence API, enabled the IT team to build custom tools that automated major workflows such as assignment cover-page creation and bulk photo uploads. The results were significant: tasks that once took hours were reduced to minutes, one process saved up to two days of administrative work, faculty re-engaged with IT for new ideas, and the solution was so successful that all academic programs in the School of Business adopted Brightspace within two years.

Queen’s University

Troy St. John

Associate Director of IT For Learning Technology and Application Development