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Brightspace is a big downgrade from Blackboard

Jennifer OjilereOpinionsFebruary 16, 2023

OPINION: Brightspace is not the “user-friendly” platform it makes itself out to be.

Brightspace garners mixed reactions from Stony Brook students and professors

Daniel PariseauNews Student LifeOctober 17, 2022October 27, 2022

Students and professors at Stony Brook University have mixed feelings about using D2L Brightspace to access their assignments this Fall 2022 semester.

SUNY switches from Blackboard to D2L Brightspace

Lori SaxenaNewsApril 17, 2022

Stony Brook University, in collaboration with SUNY, is moving from Blackboard to D2L Brightspace. In an email on April 13, Charlie McMahon, interim senior vice president and enterprise chief information officer, informed students about the transition.

Zoom University is cheating students out of a proper education

Sam LauriaOp-edsSeptember 19, 2020September 20, 2020

#OPINION: Virtual schooling seems like a perfect solution that will allow students to continue their education while facing a global health crisis. Although online schooling provides students with an education, it is cheating them out of a proper one.

‘Professor? Can you hear me?’: Universities adapt to online learning

Brianne LeddaAdministration News Student LifeApril 13, 2020April 14, 2020

“Zoomiversity” — an SBU-student run Instagram account — documents student antics during online classes and demonstrates some of the unique circumstances that have come with moving most of the country’s universities online.

Stony Brook University implements Zoom ahead of online classes

Brianne LeddaAdministration Faculty News Student LifeMarch 17, 2020March 17, 2020

Stony Brook University officially implemented the web conferencing platform Zoom, according to a March 16 email from the university’s Division of Technology.

SBU preparing online classes in case of coronavirus outbreak

Rabia GursoyAdministration NewsMarch 8, 2020March 8, 2020

Stony Brook University has instructed professors to prepare to offer online classes as soon as the week following spring break “in the light of the quickly evolving situation surrounding COVID-19.”

The Onion Bagel: “The semester’s already going great, really…” students say

Mike AdamsOpinionsFebruary 13, 2019February 13, 2019

“I see demons in my textbooks and I lost my sense of taste,” Ludgate said. “I am not even close to fine.”

The Onion Bagel: Holly Melancholy’s jolly Thanksgiving

Gabby PardoOpinionsNovember 25, 2018November 25, 2018

Five-day break, two holidays (if you’re counting Black Friday) and there is still stress running through the mind of sophomore biology major Holly Melancholy. Class starts tomorrow and none of her assignments or papers or projects are done for the week.

Cut out the computer

Rawson JahanOpinionsMarch 29, 2017April 2, 2017

I love reading the news, creating media and writing a good story–but that means I’m on the Internet or behind a computer screen for more than four to five hours everyday.