Brightspace Ambassadors are here to help!

A team of Brightspace Ambassadors is fanning out across Algonquin College this month to help students become familiar with Brightspace, the College’s Learning Management System (LMS).

All students can readily acquaint themselves with the LMS using the digital training course, the Brightspace Essentials (Student) course, inside their Brightspace accounts. This course provides students with tutorials and video content to help them learn every function of Brightspace. Read more >


Algonquin College buries time capsule for 50 years

Algonquin buried a 2017 time capsule in a wall of the DARE District on Thursday. It is slated to be opened 50 years from now when the College celebrates its 100th anniversary.

The College community of the future will uncover everything from a Coat of Arms pin to the president’s Blackberry cell phone. Read more >

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Hoop Dreams: Dan Stoddard shoots for diploma – and baskets, of course

When Dan Stoddard became Algonquin College’s most famous student last fall, he wasn’t prepared for the attention.

The local media arrived first, then the Globe and Mail. Soon he was getting inquiries from Sports Illustrated and the Washington Post, as well as from newspapers in Europe and India.

Okay, Stoddard thought, I’m a 38-year-old first year business administration student and I made the Algonquin Thunder basketball team. Cute story, but why so much fuss? Read more >