• Supporting Unit: MacPherson Institute
• Avenue Homepage: https://avenue.mcmaster.ca/

Nearly all courses at McMaster use a web-based learning management system as a communication tool, for sharing course resources, and for assessments.

Avenue to Learn, a rebranded instance of Brightspace by D2L, is McMaster’s primary institutionally supported web-based learning management system. While some faculties and/or programs use their own systems, Avenue to Learn (“Avenue” for short) is the system you’ll likely make use of in your teaching.

While there is no mandate to use a course site through Avenue or otherwise, it is considered an effective and accessible practice to create and maintain a course site. You can use a course site to post course materials, share announcements, create online discussions, administer quizzes, collect student assessment submissions, and even post grades.

Logging into your Avenue account

You will need your MacID to log in to your Avenue account.

Please note: Your MacID is not your employee or student number rather it is typically the same username and password you will use to log into your McMaster email account.