{"id":2539,"date":"2026-07-16T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/thelearningcurve\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:13:23","slug":"the-future-is-brightspace-panopto-voicethread-in-our-new-lms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/thelearningcurve\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"The future is Bright(Space): Panopto & VoiceThread in our new LMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog post is about German words and phrases, aversion to technological change, Panopto, VoiceThread, Brightspace, what to do to prepare for upcoming changes, and \u2013 first and foremost \u2013 <\/span>why you should get excited about the integrated tools in Brightspace LMS<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The German word <\/span>Technikfeindlichkeit <\/span><\/b>\u2013 when translated into English \u2013 literally means<\/span> “technology enmity” and serves as an apt description for human attitudes towards technological change in several historical examples: 19<\/span>th<\/span> century textile workers in the English midlands who fervently opposed automated looms and knitting frames out of fear of losing work (\u201cLuddites\u201d), Parisian revolutionaries of the July Revolution who smashed lanterns in 1830 out of fear of industrial shifts, the <\/span>Committee for Liquidation or Subversion of Computers<\/span><\/a> (\u2018CLODO\u201d) who attacked telecommunications companies for fear of losing personal freedom, and \u2013 much more recently \u2013 <\/span>formidable apprehension in 2014 Germany<\/span><\/a> over the ubiquity of Google.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is, however, another German phrase from an ad campaign for Audi – <\/span>Vorsprung durch Technik<\/span><\/a> (\u201cProgress through technology) – which became culturally and historically significant in the post-WWII era as a means of moving on from the past via technological change.\u00a0 More simply and obviously (and specifically in the context of higher education), technological change can be extremely beneficial for building an online course, organizing course content in multiple formats, and delivering a superior academic experience for students.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As of July 2026, ITS has made significant progress in the transition from Sakai to Brightspace LMS. This change has, inevitably, inspired a degree of anxiety in many members of the LUC community and prompted many faculty users to worry about delivering a quality product in their courses. Despite these fears, there are many reasons why this change is cause for excitement rather than concern. More specifically and concisely, it is about to get <\/span>MUCH EASIER<\/span><\/b> to use Panopto and VoiceThread in your classes.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Panopto in Brightspace<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a popular lecture capture tool with over fifty thousand hours of recorded content, Panopto plays an essential role in the LUC academic technology ecosystem. Faculty, students, and staff routinely create over three hundred recordings and watch over three thousand hours of content on a weekly basis. Nonetheless, the Panopto integration in Sakai requires several practices that display room for improvement: account authentication, locating content, sharing lectures from a previous term, reviewing analytics, and other practices that \u2013admittedly \u2013 have a learning curve for the non-technologically inclined.\u00a0 The following are some of the improvements to these processes (and more) that are coming with the move to Brightspace:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n