Explore the Anne Arundel County Public Schools – AACPS Brightspace, a new learning management system (LMS), Brightspace by D2L, will be the new online teaching and learning platform this fall. With seamless integration of Google Suite tools, Brightspace allows for a more customized and intuitive experience to deliver instruction and communicate with students and families.
After testing by AACPS teachers throughout the winter of 2021 and districtwide professional development in the Spring semester of 2021, Brightspace is primed to offer a practical, dynamic learning and communications hub to make successful and meaningful home-school connections.
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AACPS Implementation Timeline
- Cohorts of educators across multiple disciplines begin testing and providing feedback.
- Training begins for cohort leaders who have volunteered to train their colleagues.
- All courses are taught via Google Suite with Blackboard curriculum tools.
- Large-scale training sessions begin to be completed prior to the end of the school year.
- Blackboard courses are converted and transferred.
- Blackboard communities are transitioned.
- Courses are taught in Google Suite with Blackboard curriculum tools, except for a select number of courses that are taught in Brightspace.
- Brightspace slowly and smoothly merged as the primary learning management system for course teaching.
- Blackboard is still available to instructors to gather old material.
- Some courses are taught in Brightspace, and some are taught in Google Suite.
- Families receive information and online tutorials about Brightspace.
- In September and October, all students and teachers will familiarize themselves with Brightspace. Teachers will be populating their Brightspace folders with resources and assignments.
- In November (beginning Quarter 2), all families – parents and guardians – will be invited to join the Brightspace communities of their students.
How to Access the AACPS Brightspace
The following is a step-by-step guide that may be used to access the Brightspace at the Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
- Explore the AACPS Website
- Locate the Navigation Tap on top of the AACPS Homepage
- Locate and Tap on Student and Employee to Proceed
How to login AACPS Brightspace
In the next part of the post, you’ll find information on how to login to the Brightspace portal at the Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
- Access the AACPS Brightspace
- Enter your Email, Phone. Skype
- Tap on the Next Button to Proceed
Contact
Address:
2644 Riva Road Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone:
410-222-5000
