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The D2L logo. Stony Brook will be switching over from Blackboard to D2L Brightspace for courses. D2L, CC BY-SA 4.0

SUNY switches from Blackboard to D2L Brightspace

Lori Saxena April 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.
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A laptop sitting next to some notebooks. AMY CHEN/STATESMAN FILE

SBU is considering changing its virtual workspace from Google to Microsoft

Alek Lewis December 11, 2020
Stony Brook University is considering changing the academic and research side of the university’s virtual workspace from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, an idea which caused immediate backlash during the Faculty Senate meeting on Dec. 7.
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Zoom is a video chat service many Stony Brook University students are using to learn remotely. Inappropriate content has interrupted class meetings during the first week learning remotely.SCREENSHOT OF ZOOM HOMEPAGE

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

Brianne Ledda April 13, 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.
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The Zoom option appears on Stony Brook Blackboard.  SCREENSHOT OF ZOOM

Stony Brook University implements Zoom ahead of online classes

Brianne Ledda March 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.
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