NYU Brightspace (Learning Management System)

NYU Brightspace is the university’s learning management system (LMS) for online teaching and learning. This LMS is a cloud learning platform that enables NYU faculty to use web-based collaborative and assessment technologies to enhance the teaching and learning experience. Instructors can use this service to design full-featured online course environments for the participants of their class. Students may access course materials, collaborate with others, engage with interactive assessments and assignments, and track their progress in a course gradebook.

Emerging Instructional Technologies

The Emerging Instructional Technology service provides instructors and school-based instructional technologists with information about and consultation on tools in support of teaching and learning.

Instructional Tools for Coding

The Instructional Tools for Coding service manages contracts and provides access by request to NYU-managed tools that help instructors teach coding. This service also provides instructors, instructional technologists, and students with assistance on using this service's tools, or with investigating similar tools for coding and coding-involved courses.

Learning Analytics

The Learning Analytics service supports the Brightspace Insights Portal, which contains faculty learning analytics dashboards to support teaching and curriculum review. Our service also supports requests for data from Instructional tools.

NYU Zoom for Classrooms

If you’re an instructor using NYU Brightspace and Zoom in a Zoom Classroom, you can request to have the course and the room paired if the classroom (as noted in Albert) appears on the NYU Zoom Classroom Locations and Support list.

The SPARK Lab @ The Digital Studio

The new SPARK Lab (Studios for Prototyping, AI, Research, and Knowledge) is taking shape at The Digital Studio on the fifth floor of Bobst Library in New York. This reimagined space will provide access to emerging technologies for teaching and research. The SPARK Lab will serve as a hub for GenAI, virtual reality, creating/making, digital storytelling, and Instructional tools for coding. In addition to access to the technology, the SPARK Lab team is available to consult with faculty on how to integrate these technologies into your curriculum, how the SPARK Lab can support your students in using these tools, and how to provide opportunities for your students to become digitally fluent.

The SPARK Lab has been under renovation throughout the summer and will be open Monday through Friday, from 10am–5pm, starting in fall 2025. In the meantime, if you're looking to rethink your curriculum, try out some new technologies, or just "spark" some new ideas, please stop by the SPARK Lab on the fifth floor of Bobst or email digital.studio@nyu.edu.