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Bye-bye Bridges!

Bye-bye Bridges! Students at RWU have frequently complained about the learning management software since it was implemented in the early 2010s. The university plans on implementing the alternate learning management software D2L’s Brightspace. Brightspace has already been implemented on the Providence campus and is used to organize the University’s Remote extension classes. The university plans on launching the site in the fall of 2025 to a few volunteer professors and hopes to fully implement the software in the spring of’ 26. Due to this staggered change, some students will be required to use both Bridges and Brightspace.
”I know that’s not ideal, but that’s just kind of how this goes when you change from one system to another, to get all of the courses moved over to the new system. So by spring, I expect we’ll be pretty much done”, said Everett.
Everett hopes that staggering the implementation of Brightspace will allow professors to get comfortable with using all the tools the system has to offer. Met with concerns from the student senate over the current lack of faculty’s knowledge of how to use Bridges, Everett assured the assembly that there would be continued training exercises for Brightspace even after the pilot launch.